She received an EdD in Applied Linguistics from Teachers College, Columbia University. Sarah specializes in preparing teachers for multilingual classrooms in urban settings and has supervised pre- and in-service ESL and bilingual teachers at NYU, Teachers College, and Hunter College. Sarah is particularly interested in developing teacher skills for content-based language instruction, working with SIFE students, teacher-student interaction in multilingual settings, and teaching in multi-level classes. She also offers courses and coaching in second-language pedagogy for adult students with limited first language literacy. As a researcher, Sarah uses conversation analysis to look at talk, gesture, and body position in educational environments, asking how close analyses of interaction can inform teachers’ moment-by-moment choices in the complex world of a classroom.