Stephen Cary, a second language learner specialist, has worked as a teacher, resource teacher, and administrator. Dr. Cary currently consults in schools throughout the U.S. and abroad and serves as adjunct faculty in the University of San Francisco's teacher education and international/multicultural education programs. He is the author of Working with Second Language Learners: Answers to Teachers' Top Ten Questions and Going Graphic: Comics at Work in the Multilingual Classroom (both from Heinemann). In addition to his Heinemann books, Cary has published a number of other books and instructional materials for teachers working with second language learners.

As a consultant, Cary offers a variety of workshops, in-class demo activities, teacher coaching, and program planning and evaluation services. His other work includes parent education and involvement programs, Spanish language programs for teachers, family/community oral history projects, and teacher training institutes on peer coaching, CLAD (Cross-cultural Language and Academic Development), and CALLA (Cognitive Academic Language Learning Approach).

Stephen Cary's workshops emphasize challenging content, participant interaction, practical ideas, plenty of humor, and the occasional ukulele number!

Grades: K - 12