Strategic Inquiry

Joanna Yip 葉天恩 is a multilingual learner consultant and partners with education leaders to support strategic planning and curriculum strategy for multilingual learner success. She most recently served as Director of State and District Engagements at the English Learners Success Forum, where she led the development and implementation of programming and services for states, districts, and professional learning organizations to advance a shared understanding of multilingual learner inclusion in curriculum adoption and implementation. She served as a network-level instructional lead at New Visions for Public Schools and instructional coach at the Internationals Network for Public Schools. She is the co-author of two books on serving multilingual learners: School-wide Systems for Multilingual Learner Success & Sentence Strategies for Multilingual Learners. She is an adjunct instructor in teacher and school administrator preparation programs in New York City. In addition to a Ph.D. in urban education policy from the CUNY Graduate Center, Joanna is a professionally certified coach through the Co-Active Training Institute and New York University’s School for Professional Studies.