Maria G. Dove

Maria G. Dove, EdD, is a professor in the School of Education and Human Services at Molloy University in Rockville Centre, New York, where she teaches preservice and inservice teachers and supports doctoral students in Educational Leadership for Diverse Learning Communities. Before entering higher education, she worked for over 30 years as an English-as-a-second-language teacher in K–12 public schools and adult English language programs in the greater New York City/Nassau County area, and in 2010 she received the Outstanding ESOL Educator Award from New York State Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (NYS TESOL). She holds a B.A. from Queens College (CUNY), an M.A. from Hunter College (CUNY), and an Ed.D. from St. John’s University.

Dove frequently provides professional development for educators across the United States on teaching multilingual learners and serves as a mentor for new ESOL teachers and an instructional coach for general education teachers and literacy specialists. With long-time collaborator Andrea Honigsfeld and other colleagues, she has coauthored numerous books on English learners and multilingual learners, including Collaboration and Co-Teaching: Strategies for English Learners (2010), Common Core for the Not-So-Common Learner (Grades K–5 and 6–12, 2013), *Collaboration and