Dr. JoAnn (Jodi) Crandall is Professor Emerita and former Director of the Language, Literacy and Culture Ph.D. Program, and Co-Director of the MA TESOL Program at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Prior to joining the faculty at UMBC in 1992, she was Vice President of the Center for Applied Linguistics in Washington, DC. Dr. Crandall is a Series Editor, with Dr. Joan Kang Shin, for Our World, National Geographic Learning’s program for young learners of English; Explore Our World, a light and lively version of Our World; Welcome to Our World, a three-level pre-primary series for very young learners of English; and Impact, Second Edition, for teenage learners of English.
Brenden Layte is a Managing Development Editor at National Geographic Learning. He has an MA in Applied Linguistics from Boston University with a focus on psycholinguistics, as a well as a TEFL diploma. Brenden has worked in educational publishing for over 15 years and has teaching experience in the United States and Thailand. He previously served on the board of directors for the Barrio Planta Project, an organization that brings free supplemental education to students in Nicaragua.
