AWAYTOC

Director

Assistant Director

Advisors:

A Way to Connect, Co., would like to thank the following advisors for the instruction, research, and counsel which led to the development of these programs.

Alicia H. Andre has over 17 years of classroom teaching experience in places as diverse as Japan, Chicago, San Francisco and Minneapolis. She received her MA TESOL degree from San Francisco State University in 1997. She is currently in her ninth year of teaching at Minneapolis Community and Technical College.
Education: M.A. in TESOL, San Francisco State University, U.S.A., 1997
Research Interests: using computers in the ESL classroom, college success strategies for ESL student
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Marilyn Bohne has 35 years of experience teaching English language and literature, composition, public speaking, and various English as a Foreign Language courses. Highlights of her experience include
--training teachers at Soong Jun University and Graduate School and Myung Ji University and Graduate School in Souoth Korea
--teaching at Jiangsu University of Science and Teachnology, in Zhen Zhian, China
--teaching at Daystar University, in Nairobi, Kenya
--teaching at the University of Monterrey, in Monterrey, Mexico
--offering seminars for language teachers in Thailand and Uzbekistan.
She has spent the last ten years training ESL volunteer teachers in America.
Education: M.A. in TESOL, University of Minnesota, U.S.A.
Research Interests: professional development, teacher training

Jennifer Jakubic has lived and studied in Japan and Austria. In the last eleven years she has taught ESL at the University of Minnesota, USA, and Minneapolis Community and Technical College, USA. She is currently involved in teaching writing and reading, assessing speech samples for University of Minnesota Teaching Assistants, and working with area high schools to aid in college readiness of their graduates. She participates in national TESOL and MinneTESOL.
Education: M.A. in TESOL, University of Minnesota, USA, 1997
B.A., Gustavus Adolphus College, USA, 1993.
Research Interests: assessment, college readiness, critical thinking.
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Adele Hansen has been teaching English as a Foreign and Second Language for over twenty years. She has taught in Thailand and Algeria. Much of her work has been in the field of Teaching and Designing English for Special Purposes materials. She taught at the University of Minnesota for many years, and is currently an Instructor at Hennepin Technical College in Eden Prairie, Minnesota. She is licensed to teach Occupational English through the State of Minnesota.
Education: M.A. in TESL, University of Illinois, U.S.A.
Research Interests: English for special purposes, materials development, second-language reading and writing

Kurmanjan Kilichova has taught English in Central Asia for nearly twenty years. She has developed curricula for teaching Kyrgyz and Russian as foreign languages and has over ten years of experience teaching Kyrgyz and Russian to adult learners. She teaches and works as a language education consultant for several humanitarian and development organizations in Kyrgyzstan.
Education: B.A. in English, University of Osh, Kyrgyzstan
Research Interests: teaching speech and listening, adult language learners

Kristi Kline Liu is a Senior Research Fellow at the National Center on Educational Outcomes in Minneapolis, Minnesota. In this position she provides technical assistance to U.S. educators and state education officials on the topics of large-scale assessment and standards-based instruction for English language learners (ELLs) and ELLs with disabilities. Kristi also conducts research in a variety of areas including assessment policies, assessment data reporting, accessible assessment practices, effective instruction and parent participation in education. Before working at the National Center on Educational Outcomes she taught English as a Second Language at the secondary, post-secondary and adult levels in the United States. Kristi has written and presented extensively on these topics; authoring more than 40 articles and reports and making over 30 presentations.
Education: M.A. in TESOL, University of Minnesota, USA
Research Interests: assessment, educational policy, students with special needs

Ellen Lewin has lived and studied in Spain, Costa Rica, and Mexico. She has taught ESL at the Instituto Cultural Mexicano/Norteamericano/Jalisco, Mexico, the University of Minnesota, USA, and Minneapolis Community and Technical College, USA. She is actively involved in professional development, giving numerous presentations for MinneTESOL, LEP conferences, MnSCU, and TESOL, and serving on a wide variety of educational committees. She participates on the ACT ESL Assessment Test Fairness panel and regularly develops and examines ESL Assessment tools for the State of Minnesota. She regularly trains volunteers for numerous organizations.
Education: M.A. in TESOL, University of Minnesota, U.S.A., 1979
B.E.S., concentrations Chicano Studies/Spanish, University of Minnesota, 1974.
Research Interests: assessment, listening and speaking, developmental education, refugee issues
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Askarbek Membetaliev has coordinated educational projects aimed at introducing values of a free society into post-Soviet Central Asia. He served as a liaison person and cultural expert for several pionneering international organizations in the early stages of Kyrgyzstan's independence. He has and published numerous articles in Central Asian languages concerning the issues of democracy and freedom. He is a passionate promoter of mutual internaational relationships, and currently is the director of the Center for Parliamentarianism and International Education at Arabaev Kyrgyz State University, in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.
Education: M.Ed., University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA, 2004
Bachelor's in Informatics and Applied Mathematics, Kyrgyz State National Univeristy, Kyrgyzstan
Diploma with Honor, Bishkek Architectural and Construction College, Kyrgyzstan
Research Interests: international education, open society development
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