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Written by Deborah Bertsch, a renowned professor of English and composition at Columbus State Community College and a former dual enrollment coordinator, this guide offers any instructor a comprehensive understanding of the opportunities and challenges of teaching in dual enrollment contexts, as well as concrete strategies to support dually-enrolled students more effectively. These strategies emerge from Deb’s extensive experience in the dual enrollment classroom and can be applied in online and face-to-face classes on high school or college campuses.

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Deborah Bertsch

is coauthor of The Norton Field Guide to Writing and professor of English at Columbus State Community College, where she’s also served as writing center coordinator and dual enrollment lead faculty. A past chair of the Two-Year College English Association-Midwest, Bertsch has won a Diana Hacker Outstanding Program award from NCTE, a Campus Technology Impact Award from Campus Technology Magazine, and a Distinguished Full Professor Award from her college.