Michelle Benegas, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of TESOL at Hamline University’s School of Education and Leadership. Benegas is the principal investigator of the ELM (English Learners in the Mainstream) Project, a U.S. Department of Education funded initiative that seeks to ensure that all teachers are prepared to meet the needs of multilingual learners. In 2020, she published Teacher Leadership for School-Wide English Learning (co-authored with Amy O’Connor Stolpestad) with TESOL Press. Her research interests include ESL teacher leadership, MLL policy, and systemic approaches to improving MLL services.

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