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Larry Ferlazzo has taught English and social studies to English language learners and mainstream students at Luther Burbank High School in Sacramento, California, for 11 years. He has written seven previous books, The ESL/ELL Teacher's Survival Guide (with coauthor Katie Hull Sypnieski); Building a Community of Self-Motivated Learners: Strategies to Help Students Thrive in School and Beyond; Classroom Management Q&As: Expert Strategies for Teaching; Self-Driven Learning: Teaching Strategies for Student Motivation; Helping Students Motivate Themselves: Practical Answers to Classroom Challenges; English Language Learners: Teaching Strategies That Work; and Building Parent Engagement in Schools (with coauthor Lorie Hammond).

He has won numerous awards, including the Leadership for a Changing World Award from the Ford Foundation, and was the grand prize winner of the International Reading Association Award for Technology and Reading.

He writes a popular education blog at http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/; a weekly teacher advice column for Education Week Teacher, and a weekly post for the New York Times on teaching English language learners. Larry is an Adjunct Faculty member at the Department of Education, California State University, Sacramento, teaching credential candidates how to work with English Language Learners at the secondary level. His articles on education also regularly appear in the Washington Post and ASCD Educational Leadership.

Larry was a community organizer for 19 years prior to becoming a public school teacher. He is married and has three children and two grandchildren.

Katie Hull Sypnieski has worked with English language learners at the secondary level for 20 years and has taught English and ELD at Luther Burbank High School in Sacramento, California, for the past 13 years.

She is a teaching consultant with the Area 3 Writing Project at the University of California, Davis, and has led professional development for teachers of ELLs at the district and site level.

She is the coauthor (with Larry Ferlazzo) of The ESL/ELL Teacher's Survival Guide and has written articles for the Washington Post, ASCD Educational Leadership, and Edutopia.

Katie lives in Sacramento with her husband and their three children.