JoAnn (Jodi) Crandall is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Applied Linguistics, where she served as Vice President of International and Corporate Education and directed several programs focused on refugee education. She also established the National Clearinghouse on Adult Literacy, worked with middle and high school multilingual education programs, and served on several CAL advisory groups focused on adult English language acquisition. She later became a member of CAL’s Board of Trustees and served as Chair from 2015-2017.
After CAL, she joined the faculty of the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), where she served as Co-Director of the TESOL/Bilingual MA Program and subsequently established and directed the PhD Program in Language, Literacy and Culture. She is currently a Professor Emerita of Education.
Dr. Crandall has worked with language teachers in more than 40 countries and provided professional development virtually to many more. She has published more than 100 articles, books, or related publications focusing on second language teaching or learning. Her most recent publications include Research on integrating language and content instruction (co-edited with M. A. Christison and D. Christian) and Global perspectives on language education policies (co-edited with K. M. Bailey), as well as a number of chapters within these and other edited series focused on teaching and assessing young learners, integrating language and content instruction for secondary school students, and providing professional development for teachers of English with students at all levels of education. She also has co-edited several global English textbook series for children and teens published by Cengage/National Geographic Learning, including Welcome to Our World, Our World, and Impact.
She has been President of Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL), the American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL), and Washington Area TESOL. She is a Founding Member of TIRF (The International Research Foundation for English Language Education) and has served on its Board for many years.
Dr. Crandall is the recipient of the James E. Alatis Award for Service to TESOL, the Distinguished Scholarship and Service Award from AAAL, and the Outstanding Graduate Faculty Award from UMBC. She also was named one of 50 TESOL professionals who have made outstanding contributions to TESOL during its 50 years and one of 30 English Language Specialists who have made an impact on the US State Department English Specialist Program and the field of TESOL worldwide.
