Margaret Rohan Keefe (Ed.D 2006), has just finished a book entitled Adapting Content to Empower English-language-learners (ACEES)

Keefe’s ACEES book has many specific features that are not found in other related materials. The goal of the text is to provide practical teaching tools and transformative perspectives, to empower English-language-learners of secondary content area instructors. This book provides insight into the legal foundation, cross-cultural issues, second language acquisition, adolescent literacy, instructional technology, and testing and assessment of English-language-learners.

There are activities for teachers to explore aspects of instructing ELL students that concentrate on academic vocabulary and presenting comprehensible instruction through contextualized lessons. There are many strategies, techniques, and tools included which teachers can use in daily classroom practice.

Keefe is a 20-year public school educator and 6 year university instructor of TESOL courses in pre-service and post-graduate programs. She advocates for migrant students and families, and her research focuses on educating English-language-learners, and is finishing a video-documentary, “Voices of Immigrant High School Students.” She resides in Florida and the north Georgia mountains with her husband, Michael.