Cynthia J Macknish Author

Ildiko (Ildi) Porter-Szucs is Professor of ESL and TESOL at Eastern Michigan University, a K-12 certified ESL and German teacher, and co-founder of the Polish Language Center of Ann Arbor. She has extensive experience teaching Polish, Hungarian, German, and English to diverse age groups in public schools, language schools, corporate settings, refugee programs, and higher education. She spent four years working for a high-stakes standardized testing organization.

Cynthia J. Macknish is Professor of ESL and TESOL at Eastern Michigan University. She has taught at a range of levels in several countries, including Canada, the Bahamas, and Singapore, where she taught pedagogy and assessment courses to pre- and in-service teachers at the National Institute of Education. Cynthia was also a certified IELTS examiner for 14 years.

Suzanne Toohey is an experience teacher who has taught multilingual learners for seventeen years. She is a returned Peace Corps Volunteer, Michigan Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages Past-President, and a member of the Michigan Department of Education English Learner Advisory Council. She is now Supervisor of Instruction and Pedagogy at Oakland Schools.