Mindi Teich

Mindi Teich, MEd, is a Multilingual Learning Coach with SupportEd and a longtime advocate for multilingual learners (MLs) and their teachers, with over 20 years of experience in the field. She began her career as an English language development/ESL teacher in DC Public Schools, working with students in pull-out, push-in, and co-teaching settings, and later served in the district’s Language Acquisition Division with a focus on literacy development for multilingual learners and guidance for integrating MLs into the literacy block. She has also worked as a coach and coordinator for Together is Better, a co-teaching pilot project in the School District of Philadelphia, and continues to provide coaching and professional development to school districts, including in Pennsylvania, on topics such as scaffolding content, oral language development, academic language, SLIFE, culturally responsive practice, and social-emotional learning for MLs.

Teich is the co-author, with Diane Staehr Fenner, of Social Emotional Learning for Multilingual Learners: Essential Actions for Success, which offers research-based strategies, tools, and frameworks for integrating SEL into instruction for multilingual learners. She frequently presents at conferences and webinars on multilingual learner education and SEL and holds a Master’s in Education from Marymount University.