Margo Gottlieb, Ph.D., Lead Developer for World-Class Instructional Design and Assessment (WIDA) at the Wisconsin Center for Education Research, University of Wisconsin, Madison, and Director, Assessment and Evaluation, for the Illinois Resource Center, crafts language standards, designs assessments, and creates instructional assessment systems for English language learners. She has presented and published extensively; her books include: Common Language Assessment for English Learners (2012), Paper to Practice: Using the TESOL's English Language Proficiency Standards in PreK-12 Classrooms (with A. Katz & G. Ernst-Slavit, 2009); Assessment and Accountability in Language Education Programs: A… Guide for Administrators and Teachers (with D. Nguyen, 2007); and Assessing English Language Learners: Bridges from Language Proficiency to Academic Achievement (2006).