Mary Lou McCloskey, an educator in the area of English for speakers of other languages, has worked with teachers, teacher educators, and departments and ministries of education in 27 countries on 5 continents and in 34 of the United States. Below are a few of her past and present projects and activities, more or less in chronological order:She taught multi-grade classes at Martin Luther King, Jr. Elementary School in Syracuse New York.She worked with English teachers from throughout central and southern Europe at a summer institute in Slovakia right after the breakup of the Soviet Union. She worked with English language educators from all ethnic and racial groups in South Africa right after the end of Apartheid. She worked with teachers in South Africa and Mozambique on content-based English language education, focusing on the content of HIV/AIDS education.She served for five years as consultant to a program sponsored by USAID in Egypt, involved in several projects that included preparing Ministry and Faculty professionals to work with teachers of young learners of English, materials development with faculty and ministry to develop a text for pre-service teachers of English, working with Egyptian educators to develop teacher education standards for English teachers in Egypt. She served on the Advisory Board for Global English online learning; and worked with the E-Language Project, collaboration between the United States Department of Education and the Chinese ministry of education, to develop free web-based language learning in English and Chinese. She developed Project STEPS, a program for DeKalb County, Georgia teachers to receive their endorsement in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages, while providing a summer language program for English learners in the county. She has taught at Georgia State University, Emory University, The University of Oklahoma, Florida International University, and has consulted at many others. She was president of Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, and served on the TESOL Task Force to develop TESOL/NCATE Teacher Standards in English as a Second Language. She has designed the curriculum and trained teachers at the Teaching Tolerance through English program in Balatonlelle, Hungary for middle school teachers and students in Central and Southern Europe for the past four years.She teaches and consults with the FugeesFamily, a program in Atlanta that runs four soccer teams for refugee youth and works to prepare them for higher education.She directs a project for the US State Department to develop an anthology of adolescent literature for EFL learners. She hopes one day to write a children's book about Lena, the elephant who lived in the alley behind her house in Mayville, New York when she was a child.