Dr. Kathleen Graves is Associate Professor of Education Practice at the School of Education, University of Michigan. Previously she was a professor of second language teacher education at the School for International Training in Brattleboro, Vermont. She started her career as an English teacher in Taiwan and later taught in the US, Japan and Brazil. Dr. Graves has worked on curriculum renewal and language teacher education in the US, Algeria, Bahrain, Brazil, Japan, and Korea. She believes that teaching and learning are the heart of a curriculum and that supporting teachers’ professional development is the key to successful educational and curricular reform. She is interested in helping teachers to ‘think curricularly’ and to develop a reflective practice both individually and collaboratively. She is the editor/author of two books on course design, Teachers as Course Developers and Designing language courses. She is a past chair of the TESOL Publications committee and is the Series Editor of TESOL’s Language Curriculum Development series.

Dr. Dorothy Kauffman, Ph.D., the author of The Oxford Picture Dictionary for the Content Areas, 2nd edition, is a consultant with the Center for Applied Linguistics, Washington, DC. A former elementary teacher, reading teacher, and reading consultant, she has also taught at the community college, undergraduate, and graduate school levels. As an author, she created a critical thinking reading series and worked with an international team to develop a social studies curriculum and textbooks for students in Belize. She also designed a curriculum and English language arts materials for JEI Learning Centers. Recently, she helped to develop a set of reading frameworks and textbooks for the National Literacy Acceleration Program of Ghana. Her experiences and research led to the development of a K-8 staff development program, What’s Different about Teaching Reading to Students Learning English? Currently, she teachers an ESL methods course at the University of Missouri – Kansas City.

Dr. Shelley Wong began her teaching career in Hong Kong where she went as a Chinese American to study Cantonese and learn about her cultural roots. She has taught English as a Second language in adult school, high school, community college, university intensive English programs, and teacher education programs in California, Ohio, New York, and the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. An Associate Professor at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, in Multilingual/Multicultural Education., she taught previously at the Ohio State University and the University of Maryland. Shelley received her BA from U.C. Santa Cruz, MA in T.E.S.L. from UCLA and Ed.D. in Applied Linguistics from Columbia Teachers College. Shelley was elected President of TESOL and served on the Executive Committee from 2007-2010. She is the author of Dialogic Approaches to TESOL: Where the Ginkgo Tree Grows.

Editor at Large Peter A. Sokolowski joined Merriam-Webster in 1994, and has since defined and edited entries for the best-selling Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate® Dictionary, Eleventh Edition, Merriam-Webster’s French-English Dictionary, and Merriam-Webster’s Advanced Learner’s English Dictionary. Peter represents the company in national author tours, radio and television interviews, and various presentations covering a wide range of language-related topics. His duties include hosting Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day podcast and editing Merriam-Webster’s Open Dictionary (two popular features on the company’s free Web site Merriam-Webster.com). He also answers questions from English language learners and teachers from around the world in the Ask the Editors blog at LearnersDictionary.com and has served as pronouncer for spelling bees in the United States, Korea, and India. Peter attended the University of Paris and taught French at the University of Massachusetts while earning his M.A. in French Literature. He also maintains a busy freelance career as a musician and presents jazz programming for Western New England’s National Public Radio affiliate.