Tonya Ward Singer

Tonya Ward Singer is a keynote speaker and consultant who helps K-12 educators transform teaching for equity and EL achievement. Teachers and administrators describe her work as groundbreaking, dynamic, practical, relevant, and impactful. In addition to her best-selling books EL Excellence Every Day and Opening Doors to Equity, Tonya has co-authored EL and literacy curricula for major publishers including Scholastic, Pearson/Longman, and Oxford University Press. Tonya has taught across multiple grade levels as a core classroom teacher, a reading specialist, and an EL specialist, and university professor. A parent, poet, and salsa dancer, Tonya is fluent in Spanish and can negotiate the price of a tomato in Mandarin Chinese. Connect with Tonya on Twitter @TonyaWardSinger or via her website www.tonyasinger.com.