Build collaborative leadership practices that transform outcomes for multilingual learners
The landscape of education is shifting, and multilingual learners now make up a growing portion of classrooms nationwide. Yet too many of these bright, capable students struggle to reach their potential because the adults around them arent working together effectively. This updated guide shows exactly how to create the collaborative culture multilingual learners need to thrive.
Drawing from extensive research and real-world success stories, bestselling authors Andrea Honigsfeld and Maria Dove present a comprehensive roadmap for transforming your schools approach to supporting multilingual learners. This practical resource meets you where you are and guides you toward where you need to be. The authors understand that creating lasting change requires more than good intentionsit demands strategic leadership, shared vision, and sustained collaboration among all members of the learning community.
This essential guide provides:
A clear framework for collaborative leadership that moves beyond individual teacher efforts to create school-wide systems of support Research-based program models that integrate language development with academic content across all subject areas Practical tools and templates for coordinating services, developing shared curricula, and implementing effective assessment practices Professional learning strategies that build capacity among all staff members to work effectively with multilingual learners Real voices from the field featuring authentic examples and reflections from successful educational leaders
The time for isolated approaches to multilingual learner education has passed. This guide empowers educational leaders to create collaborative, inclusive environments where multilingual learners dont just survivethey flourish alongside their peers while developing language and literacy skills.
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A Leaders Guide to Collaboration and Co-Teaching for Multilingual Learners is a school leaders must have if you want to provide meaningful access to MLLs. The approaches mentioned in the book and the recommendations to create collaboration opportunities are more than just suggestions; theyre guidelines to live by! -- Luz E. Rivera * Achievement First * A must-read! Their second edition provides critical information for co-teaching and collaboration, complemented by the addition of professional development and leadership support required. -- Margarita Calderon * Johns Hopkins University * Its more important than ever that instructional leaders set the tone for and exemplify collaboration so that it permeates every facet of school life. The Leaders Guide continues to be a tribute to all educators who facilitate collaborative practices and advocate for multilingual learners during rapidly changing times. Sprinkled with leadership voices from the field, this 2nd edition offers new insights into the value and strength of collaboration in upholding the dignity of linguistically and culturally sustainable pedagogies. Protocols and resources offer additional opportunities to build a shared knowledge base to unify a school or program. As Honigsfeld and Dove so aptly profess, its only with a shared mission and unified vision that, in community, we can be forward thinking to advance teaching and learning for our multilingual learners. -- Margo Gottlieb * WIDA * A Leaders Guide is a tool like no other educational book I have ever encountered. The book supports the busy, instructional leader who wants to grow all of their students knowledge, but may not have the background to know best practices to ensure that all students are growing at high levels. The book provides an entry point for readers, regardless of their current context, with feedback from those in the field and ready-made tools to engage stakeholders in honest, best practices. The book serves as an engaging guide to support leaders of all levels in developing and implementing a plan to ensure that multilingual learners acquire on-grade-level content and grow their English language skills. -- Christie Shealy * Anderson School District One * This is the book I wish I had when I first stepped into school leadership in a district with more than 1,000 multilingual learners. It blends solid research, real stories from the field, and practical tools that leaders can use right awaywhether youre making decisions about programs, professional learning, curriculum, or assessment. Accessible, energizing, and genuinely useful, A Leaders Guide is a must-read for new & veteran school leaders alike. -- Pamela Schwallier * West Ottawa Public Schools * As someone who supports co-teaching teams, I find this book to be an essential resource for school leaders. Honigsfeld and Dove continue to lead the way in this work, providing research, models, and actionable guidance for designing collaborative, integrated service models for multilingual learners and creating a culture that values shared responsibility and shared expertise. -- Rob Greenhaw * EducationPlus * The second edition of A Leaders Guide draws upon the latest research and the expertise of current practitioners to provide a roadmap for administrators seeking to attain, grow, or refine their knowledge for leading collaborative, culturally responsive school communities where multilingual learners and the educators who serve them can thrive. Honigsfeld and Dove provide ample examples from the field, along with practical tools and activities to equip readers with the resources they need to be effective leaders of multilingual and multicultural school communities. This is a must-read for any administrator committed to educational equity and multilingual learner success! -- Faith Tripp * East Williston UFSD *
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Chapter 1: Why Do Collaborative Services Make Sense for Multilingual
Learners?
Chapter 2: What Are Collaborative Program Models That Support Multilingual
Learners?
Chapter 3: How Do You Support Curriculum Development and Implementation for
the Sake of Multilingual Learners?
Chapter 4: How Do You Support Collaborative Instructional and Assessment
Practices for Multilingual Learners?
Chapter 5: What Are the Nuts and Bolts of Coordinating Collaborative
Services for Multilingual Learners?
Chapter 6: What Type of Professional Learning Is Needed to Work With
Multilingual Learners Effectively?
Chapter 7: What Type of Leadership Is Needed for a Collaborative School
Community?
References
Index
Andrea Honigsfeld, EdD, is professor in the School of Education at Molloy College, Rockville Centre, New York. Before entering the field of teacher education, she was an English-as-a-foreign-language teacher in Hungary (Grades 58 and adult) and an English-as-a-second-language teacher in New York City (Grades K3 and adult). She also taught Hungarian at New York University. She was the recipient of a doctoral fellowship at St. Johns University, New York, where she conducted research on individualized instruction. She has published extensively on working with multilingual learners and teacher collaboration. She received a Fulbright Award to lecture in Iceland in the fall of 2002. In the past 22 years, she has been presenting at conferences across the United States, China, Denmark, Japan, the Philippines, Sweden, Thailand, the United Kingdom, and the United Arab Emirates.
She coauthored Differentiated Instruction for At-Risk Students (2009) and coedited the five-volume Breaking the Mold of Education series (20102013), published by Rowman and Littlefield. She is also the coauthor of Core Instructional Routines: Go-To Structures for Effective Literacy Teaching, K5 and 612 (2014), Growing Language and Literacy (K-8 and 6-12, 2019, 2024 respectively) published by Heinemann. With Maria G. Dove, she coedited Coteaching and Other Collaborative Practices in the EFL/ESL Classroom: Rationale, Research, Reflections, and Recommendations (2012), Co-Teaching for English Learners: Evidence-Based Practices and Research-Informed Outcomes (2020), Portraits of Collaboration: Educators Working Together to Support Multilingual Learners (2022), and coauthored Collaboration and Co-Teaching: Strategies for English Learners (2010), Common Core for the Not-So-Common Learner, Grades K5: English Language Arts Strategies (2013), Common Core for the Not-So-Common Learner, Grades 612: English Language Arts Strategies (2013), Beyond Core Expectations: A Schoolwide Framework for Serving the Not-So-Common Learner (2014), Collaboration and Co-Teaching: A Leaders Guide (2015), Co-Teaching for English Learners: A Guide to Collaborative Planning, Instruction, Assessment, and Reflection (2018), Collaborating for English Learners: A Foundational Guide to Integrated Practices (2019), and Co-Planning: 5 Essential Practices to Integrate Curriculum and Instruction for English Learners (2022). She is a contributing author of Breaking Down the Wall: Essential Shifts for English Learner Success (2020), From Equity Insights to Action (2022), Digital-Age Teaching for English Learners (2022), Collaboration and Co-Teaching for Dual Language Learners: Transforming Programs for Multilingualism and Equity (2023), Breaking Down the Monolingual Wall: Essential Shifts for Multilingual Learners Success (2024), Collaboration for Multilingual Learners With Exceptionalities: We Share the Students (2024), Collaborative Assessment for Multilingual Learners and Teachers: Pathways to Partnerships (2025), and Nine Dimensions of Scaffolding for Multilingual Learners (2026). Ten of her Corwin books are bestsellers.
Maria G. Dove, EdD, is professor in the School of Education and Human Services at Molloy University, Rockville Centre, New York. She teaches preservice and inservice teachers about the research and best practices for implementing effective instruction for English learners, and she supports doctoral students in the EdD program in Educational Leadership for Diverse Learning Communities. Before entering the field of higher education, she worked for over thirty years as an English-as-a-second-language teacher in public school settings (Grades K12) and in adult English language programs in the greater New York City area. She frequently provides professional development for educators throughout the United States on the teaching of multilingual learners. She also serves as a mentor for new ESOL teachers as well as an instructional coach for general-education teachers and literacy specialists.
With Andrea Honigsfeld, she has coauthored multiple best-selling Corwin books, including Collaboration and Co-Teaching: Strategies for English Learners (2010), Common Core for the Not-So-Common Learner, Grades K5: English Language Arts Strategies (2013), and Common Core for the Not-So-Common Learner, Grades 612: English Language Arts Strategies (2013), Collaboration and Co-Teaching: A Leaders Guide (2015), Co-Teaching for English Learners: A Guide to Collaborative Planning, Instruction, Assessment, and Reflection (2018). Along with other Corwin top-named authors, she coauthored Breaking Down the Wall: Essential Shifts for English Learner Success (2020). In addition, she coedited, Coteaching and Other Collaborative Practices in the EFL/ESL Classroom: Rationale, Research, Reflections, and Recommendations (2012) and Co-Teaching for English Learners: Evidence-Based Practices and Research-Informed Outcomes (2020) published by Information Age. With Audrey Cohan and Andrea Honigsfeld, she coauthored Beyond Core Expectations: A Schoolwide Framework for Serving the Not-So-Common Learner (2014) published by Corwin and Team Up, Speak Up, Fire Up: Educators, Students, and the Community Working Together to Support English Learners (2020) published by ASCD.
