Tonya Ward Singer is a professional learning leader 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.

Tonya is the author of bestsellers EL Excellence Every Day and Opening Doors to Equity. She co-authored Breaking Down the Wall and EL and literacy curricula for international publishers. Tonya has taught across multiple grade levels as a core teacher, reading specialist, and EL specialist, and excels as an international consultant helping schools lead job-embedded, impact-focused professional learning to realize the vision of equal opportunity for every child.

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 and via her website www.tonyasinger.com.