CEL Best Article Award
2026 Recipient
鈥溾�� (Vol. 48, No. 4, April 2026) by Elvira Pichardo
Elvira Pichardo is an assistant professor in Foundations, Learning, and Literacy, ESL in the College of Education and Social Sciences at Lewis University. She brings over twenty years of experience in bilingual education as a teacher in transitional bilingual and dual language programs, instructor of Spanish as a second language, instructional coach, and biliteracy coach. She has worked in both urban and suburban school districts, including in New York City, New Mexico, and the Chicagoland area, and in elementary schools, middle schools, and high schools, as well as with adults, teaching courses in bilingual education and in English as a second language. Her research interests include translanguaging, biliteracy and bilingual assessments, immigrant literacy, and education policy.
Honorable Mention
鈥溾�澛�(Vol. 48, No. 3, February 2026) by Kevin Cataldo
Kevin Cataldo is a proud Brazilian American educator and curriculum writer who teaches fifth- and sixth-grade English language arts at the Luis Mu帽oz Mar铆n School for Social Justice in Newark, New Jersey. He also serves as an adjunct professor at Touro University’s Graduate School of Education. Kevin holds a BA in education and English from Felician University and an MA in sociology and education from Teachers College, Columbia University, and he is a doctoral candidate in teacher education and a Holmes Scholar at Montclair State University. His published articles, chapters, essays, and book reviews explore teachers as researchers, culturally relevant pedagogy in urban schools, and social justice teacher leadership.
Award Details
Nominations are not accepted for this award.
笔耻谤辫辞蝉别:听 The CEL English Leadership Quarterly Best Article Award honors the authors of two articles written and published in English Leadership Quarterly.
贰濒颈驳颈产颈濒颈迟测:听 Book reviewers will not be eligible for consideration, but articles written for specific English Leadership Quarterly columns may be considered. Teachers currently on leave may be considered, as may former teachers presently not employed. The editor(s) of English Leadership Quarterly shall draw up the annual list of eligible authors and shall be the arbiter of eligibility.
Award Criteria:聽 The award shall be given once each year, covering issues published between February and October of any given school year. An honorable mention (runners-up) may be also named.
Award Specifics:聽 The awards are announced by the English Leadership Quarterly editor(s) at the Sunday Opening Session during the . The award winner receives a plaque and honorarium.
闯耻诲驳颈苍驳:听 The editorial panel may consist of a chair and three to five readers, selected by the editor(s) of the English Leadership Quarterly. The panel shall be nominated for a one-year term. Panel members will be expected to excuse themselves from the judging if an article on which they are an author is eligible for the award. If necessary, the editor(s) of the English Leadership Quarterly will name a replacement.
CEL English Leadership Quarterly Best Article Award Winners
2026
Elvira Pichardo for 鈥溾�� (Vol. 48, No. 4, April 2026)
Honorable Mention:
Kevin Cataldo for 鈥溾�� (Vol. 48, No. 3, February 2026)
2025
Jan Stallones for “” (Vol. 47, No. 1, August 2024)
Honorable Mention:
Cait O’Connor for “” (Vol. 46, No. 4, April 2024)
2024
Sawsan Jaber for “” (Vol. 46, No. 2, October 2023)
Honorable Mention:
Alma D. Stevenson, Sabrina N. Ross, Calvin Walton and Ming Fang He, for “” (Vol. 46, No. 1, August 2023)
2023
Stephanie P. Jones for (Vol. 45, No. 2 October 2022)
Honorable Mention:
Shea Kerkhoff, Katie Kline, Amy A. Lannin, Katherine O鈥橠aniels, Julie M. Sheerman, Nancy R. Singer, Tracy L. Brosch, Diana Hammond, and Laura Obubo for “” (Vol. 45, No. 3 February 2023)
2022
Robert D. Ford for “” (Vol. 43, No. 3 February 2021)
Honorable Mention:
Christine M. Dawson and Nicole Sieben for “” (Vol. 44, No. 1 August 2021)
2021
Michelle Fowler-Amato and Stacia L. Long for “” (Vol. 43, No. 1 August 2020)
Honorable Mention:
Henry “Cody” Miller, Kathleen Colantonio-Yurko, Shelby Boehm for “” (Vol. 42, No 4 April 2020)
2020
Kristie Hofelich Ennis for聽“” (Vol. 41, No. 4 April 2019)
Honorable Mentions:
Luis Javier Pent贸n Herrera, Lynn Daniel, Margaret Aker for “”
Henry 鈥淐ody鈥� Miller for “”
2019
Molly Buckley-Marudas, Ph.D. for聽“ ” (Vol. 41, No. 2, October 2018)
2018
Katie Alford聽and聽Jessica Singer Early for聽鈥�鈥� (Vol. 40, No. 2, October 2017)
2017
Elsie Lindy Olan and Kia Jane Richmond for “” (Vol. 39, No. 2, October 2016)
Honorable Mentions:
Keri Skeeters, Bridget Campbell, Andrea Dubitsky, Elizabeth Faron, Kelly Gieselmann, Deborah George, Brooke Goldschmidt, Erica Wagner for “” (Vol. 38, No. 3, February 2016)
George Iannuzzi, Jill Ewing Flynn, and Veronica Zuccarello for “” (Vol. 39, No. 1, August 2016)