The 6 Principles for Exemplary Teaching of English Learners®
TESOL International Association Writing Team

TESOL International Association Writing Team



Deborah J. Short, Ph.D. directs Academic Language Research & Training and delivers professional development on academic language, content-based ESL, and sheltered instruction. She co-developed the SIOP Model of sheltered instruction and has led research for the Carnegie Corporation of NY, Rockefeller Foundation, and U.S. Departments of Education and Justice. She served on TESOL’s Board of Directors and led the 6 Principles writing team.




Helene Becker is the Director of English Learner Education in the Norwalk (Connecticut) Public Schools and has taught ESL to all ages in Connecticut, New York, and Hawaii. She was a Fulbright Scholar in Italy and is the author of Teaching ESL K-12: Views from the Classroom. Her current interests include training all teachers, grades K-12, in best practices for educating English learners.



Nancy Cloud, Ed.D. is Professor Emerita in the Feinstein School of Education and Human Development at Rhode Island College in Providence. Her publications concern the design and delivery of effective instruction for English Learners in both ESL and Dual Language Programs and she regularly presents on these topics to teachers.





Andrea B. Hellman, Ed.D. is Assistant Profess

The 6 Ps: Adult Education and Workforce Development
Andrea B. Hellman, Kathy Harris, Amea Wilbur, Authors and Deborah J. Short, Series Editor

Andrea B. Hellman, Ed.D. is Assistant Professor of TESOL/Linguistics at Missouri State University, where she directs the iELT-Ozarks Project, a National Professional Development grant. A recipient of the Christopher Brumfit Award, her research focuses on second language vocabulary attainment and the preparation of mainstream teachers for English learners. She is a Hungarian-English bilingual, an adult immigrant to the U.S.


Kathy Harris, PhD has been interested in adult learning for over 20 years, especially adults learning English as a second language and digital skills for work, health, and education. Harris is the director of the Literacy, Language and Technology Research group at Portland State University in the Department of Applied Linguistics.


Dr. Amea Wilbur is an instructor at the University of the Fraser Valley. She holds an Ed.D from the Department of Educational Studies, UBC. Her practice and research are focused on creating inclusive learning spaces and supporting marginalized learners in English as Additional Language and Adult Education.




Series Editor: Deborah J. Short, Ph.D. directs Academic Language Research & Training and delivers professional development on academic language, content-based ESL, and sheltered instruction. Sh

More Than a Native Speaker, 3e
Don Snow and Maxi-Ann Campbell

Don Snow holds an MA in English/TESOL from Michigan State University and a PhD in East Asian language and culture from Indiana University. He has taught language, culture, and linguistics for many years in the United States, Taiwan, mainland China, and Hong Kong, and has worked with a number of organizations that send volunteer teachers abroad. At present he is Director of Duke Kunshan University’s Language and Culture Center.





Maxi-Ann Campbell received her MA in applied linguistics from Georgia State University. She has taught English and intercultural communication at universities in China, and she has served as a Global Academic Fellow at New York University Shanghai. She currently teaches academic writing at Duke Kunshan University. Her research focuses on native-nonnative speaker interaction in university settings and methods for improving native speakers’ attitudes toward and comprehension of nonnative speech.

The 6 Principles® Quick Guide for Paraeducators (single)
Elizabeth Amaral

Elizabeth Amaral has been an educator for over 20 years. As a teacher, instructional coach, and testing coordinator in the TESOL field, she is a lover of languages and cultures. She is passionate about active learning and determined to see all students treated with equity.

What School Leaders Need to Know About English Learners
Jan Edwards Dormer

Jan E. Dormer, Ed. D., has extensive experience working with English learners and teachers in diverse countries and contexts. An immigrant language learner herself at age ten, Jan adds personal experience to her expertise in K-12 ELL education. Jan teaches in the graduate TESOL program at Messiah College, in Pennsylvania.