The ESOL program at CCBC is staffed with professional full time and part time faculty and administrators whose goals are to: 

1. Create learner-centered classrooms in which students take responsibility and initiative for their learning with support, guidance, and expertise from the instructor;

2. Improve students' critical thinking skills through the development and instruction of learning strategies materials integrated with course materials;

3. Increase the use of effective technologies in the classroom (computers, webCT, student e-mail accounts, DVDs, CDs);

4. Evaluate the effectiveness of varied technologies;

5. Build students' real world and academic skills in order to increase students' confidence in their own abilities.

Full Time Faculty and Professional Staff

Rachele Lawton, Department Chair: Reading, ESOL, Foreign Languages 

410-780-6954

rlawton@ccbcmd.edu  

Debbie Trevathan, ESOL Program Co-Coordinator, Catonsville and Owings Mills Center
443-394-3617 (OMC)
E-Mail: dtrevathan@ccbcmd.edu

Stacie Miller, ESOL Program Co-Coordinator, Essex and Dundalk

 410-780-6993

E-mail: smiller@ccbcmd.edu

Sarah Barnhardt, ESOL Assistant Professor and Lab Coordinator, Catonsville and Owings Mills Center
443-394-3618
E-Mail:  sbarnhardt@ccbcmd.edu

Vicki Hong-Smith, ESOL Assistant Professor and Lab Coordinator, Essex

410-780-6118

Email:vhongsmith@ccbcmd.edu

Heather Foss, ESOL Assistant Professor, Catonsville and Owings Mills Center

410-455-4708

Email: hwoodland@ccbcmd.edu