JUDIE HAYNES
—Featured Writer for TESOL'S ESSENTIAL TEACHER— to SPEAK AT CONFERENCE 2004

Judie Haynes is the author and co-author of four books on helping classroom teachers with their second language population: Newcomer Program Grades K-2,Newcomer Program Grades 3-6, Classroom Teacher's ESL Survival Kit #1, and Classroom Teacher's ESL Survival Kit #2. She has also co-authored a chapter in TESOL's Integrating Standards into Classroom Practice. Judie is currently writing a column on elementary ESL entitled Circle Time for a TESOL magaine, Essential Teacher.
Judie has taught elementary ESL for 24 years; the last 18 in River Edge, New Jersey. Her ESL program has won two awards from the NJ Department of Education over the past two years. In 2001 it was named a "Best Practice" and was recently selected as a finalist in as a N.J. Model E.S.L. Program. Judie is an active member of NJTESOL/NJBE and is currently editor of the NJTESOL/NJBE Voices, an affiliate newsletter. She is also a past Chair of TESOL's Elementary Interest Section.
Judie presents inservices and workshops throughout New Jersey and has presented at TESOL every year for the past fourteen years. She is the recipient of the New Jersey Governor's Teacher Grant and TESOL's Newbury Award for Excellence in teaching. She was also chosen as the N.J.ESL Teacher of the Year in May, 1993.