Annie Laurie Duguay is the director of Pre-K–12 EL Professional Development for Language and Literacy Development with the Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL). She coordinates and delivers professional development (PD) for educators, working with English learners in school districts throughout the country on a range of topics. Additionally, she is a co-author of the CAL practitioner brief,Implementing the Common Core for English Learners: Responding to Common Questions from Educators.

Annie’s experience at CAL includes several federally funded vocabulary intervention projects, including the Center for Research on the Educational Achievement and Teaching of English Language Learners, for which she wrote sheltered science curriculum for middle grades English learners. She worked on the NICHD-funded project Vocabulary Instruction and Assessment for Spanish Speakers and was the co-creator of the Teachers’ Knowledge of Vocabulary Survey.

Annie also works with CAL’s Immigrant and Refugee Integration program, writing ESL materials for adult refugees as part of domestic and overseas cultural orientation curricula and promoting a welcoming schools model for immigrant and refugee families.

Prior to CAL, Annie was a certified ESL teacher and taught at a STEM-focused public charter school in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She received her Bachelor’s degree from  McGill University and holds two master’s degrees: an EdM from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and an MA in Immigration and Settlement Studies from Ryerson University in Toronto.