Dr. Deborah Short, Director, Academic Language Research & Training

Dr. Short provides professional development on sheltered instruction and academic literacy worldwide. Formerly she was a Division Director at the Center for Applied Linguistics, Washington, DC where she co-developed the research-validated SIOP® Model for sheltered instruction. She has directed numerous research studies on English language learners funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the U.S. Department of Education, among others. She taught English as a second/foreign language in New York, California, Virginia, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.