Other Media
US Embassy, Bahrain (2024) English Language Specialist Dr. Michelle Benegas collaborated with teachers and educators to share strategies on enhancing English learning through effective feedback, Instagram Reel
Breiseth, L. (2024) ELL Teacher Leadership in Action: The SWEL Model, Colorin Colorado, Article based on interview
Staff, (2024) State Department selects Michelle Benegas for Prestigious English Language Specialist Program, Inside Hamline
Benegas, M. (2023) Teacher Leadership for School-Wide English Learning, Teaching MLs Podcast with Tan Huynh
Benegas, M. (2022) TESOL Studio Interview. Recorded at the 2022 TESOL International Convention
Featured and quoted in an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education titled Leading the Way Forward, published June, 2019.
Benegas, M., Stolpestad, A. (2018) Developing Teacher Leadership Skills: Instructional Coaching Techniques for English as a Foreign Language Educators, US State Department and American English Live. On Facebook Live, the combined reach of both sessions was 74,087, with 14,708 video views and 2,603 likes, 3,260 comments, and 381 shares. Countries with top viewership were Pakistan, Iraq, Peru, Bolivia, and Mexico.
Benegas, M., Stolpestad, A. (2018) Highest Aspirations, S01 E16: Preparing ELL Teachers to be Teacher Leaders, ELLevation podcast. Over 5,000 plays.
Featured and quoted in an article for the Hamline Alumni magazine titled The Language of Learning, published May, 2017.
Interviewed by Conor Williams, director of New America: Dual Language Learners National Work Group, quoted in Pluralism on the Prairie: Helping Minnesota's Dual Language Learners Leap Forward, published November 16, 2016.
Featured and quoted in an article in the Hamline News titled Hamline School of Education Receives Grant for English Learners in the Mainstream Project, published October, 2016.
Interviewed by a journalist from the Pioneer Press and quoted in an article titled Minnesota’s Dual Language Immersion Programs Serve Growing Student Needs, published February 12, 2016.
Benegas, M. (2015). Shared Accountability for the Success of All English Learners: A Presentation for School Administrators on the Statutory Requirements for Serving ELs in Schools, video lecture funded by the Minnesota Department of Education and the Minnesota Association of School Administrators, Brooklyn Center, MN
Pictured and quoted in an article titled Benegas Gives Moving Talk at TEDX UMN Event in the University of Minnesota College of Education and Human Development News, published February 18, 2014.
Interviewed by a journalist from Growth and Justice and quoted in the Uptown Neighborhood News in an article titled LEAPS Act Promotes Bilingual Learning Across Minnesota Schools, published September 1, 2014.
Pictured and highlighted in an article titled Michelle Benegas Participates in 2013 TESOL Advocacy and Policy Summit, on the MinneTESOL website, published July, 2013.
Benegas, M. (2013). Confessions: New teacher of newcomers, TEDx Salon- University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, November 2013
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