She serves on numerous ESOL, gifted, and education committees and boards on the local, state, and national levels. Arlene has recently completed the Florida Department of Education WIDA Training for Trainers workshop which prepared her to deliver professional development on the WIDA English Language Development Standards Framework in Florida. Arlene is the recipient of the 2007 National Christa McAuliffe Educator Award, 1992 Florida Gifted Teacher of the Year Finalist, and the 2007 Program for Academically Talented Center Teacher of the Year. Her interests lie in research, professional development, standards and policy writing and implementation as well as ELLs’ access to all educational programming, especially in gifted education. Dorina Sackman