November 2008 VITA Marjorie Faulstich Orellana, Ph.D.
EDUCATION Ph.D., Education. Department of Curriculum and Instruction (program in "Language, Literacy and Learning”), University of Southern California. December, 1994. Graduate Certificate. Program for the Study of Women and Men in Society (SWMS), University of Southern California. August, 1994. A.B., Psychology. Brown University, 1982. Magna cum laude. Phi Beta Kappa, 1981. PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT/EXPERIENCE 2003-present: Associate Professor. Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, Urban Schooling Graduate Program. Director of Faculty for the Teacher Education Program. 1998-2003: Assistant Professor. School of Education and Social Policy, Northwestern University. Joint appointment in the Learning Sciences and Human Development and Social Policy. Research Assistant Professor. School of Education, University of Southern California. Projects: “Interest and Engagement as a Function of Community Context and Tasks for High Risk Students” sponsored by the Center for the Improvement of Early Reading Achievement. Postgraduate Researcher. Institute of Human Development; University of California, Berkeley. Project: "California Childhoods," sponsored by the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Successful Pathways through Middle Childhood. Project Coordinator. The Consortium for Collaborative Research on Social Relationships; California State University, Long Beach. Lecturer, University of California, Los Angeles and California State University, Long Beach. ESL teacher, IXIM (Integration of Indigenous Maya, a community organization for K'anjobal immigrants from Guatemala), Los Angeles, California.
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November 2008 1984-1993: Bilingual Classroom Teacher, Los Angeles Unified School District.
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS ESRC-SSRC Collaborative Visiting Fellowship to the University of London, King’s College, 2008-2009. Haytin Award for Research at University Elementary School, 2007. National Academy of Education/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2000-2001. Southwest Regional Laboratory Research Training Fellowship, 1994-1995. University of Southern California Graduate School Dissertation Fellowship, 1993-1994. Title VII Bilingual Fellowship for graduate studies, 1990-1993. PUBLICATIONS Books Marjorie Faulstich Orellana. (Forthcoming, June 2009). Translating Childhoods: Immigrant Youth, Language and Culture. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. Peer-reviewed journal articles Jennifer Reynolds and Marjorie Faulstich Orellana. (Forthcoming). New Immigrant Youth Interpreting in White Public Space. American Anthropologist. Lisa Dorner, Marjorie Faulstich Orellana and Rosa Jiménez. (2008). “It’s Just Something You Do to Help Your Family:” The Development of Immigrant Youth Through Relationships and Responsibilities. Journal of Adolescent Development. Ramón Martínez, Marjorie Faulstich Orellana and Mariana Pacheco. (2008). Found in Translation: Connecting Translating Experiences to Academic Writing. Language Arts, 85(6): 421-431. Yvonne de la Peña and Marjorie Faulstich Orellana. (2008). An examination of Latino immigrant youths' out-of-school technology practices. Psicologia Escolar e Educacional (Educational and School Psychology Journal), 11:71-82. Marjorie Faulstich Orellana and Jennifer Reynolds. (2008). Cultural Modeling: Leveraging Bilingual Skills For School Paraphrasing Tasks. Reading Research Quarterly, 43 (1): 4865.
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Marjorie Faulstich Orellana. (2007). Unpacking Immigration. Interactions: UCLA Journal of Education and Information Studies Vol. 3, Issue 2, Article 2. http://repositories.cdlib.org/gseis/interactions/vol3/iss2/art2. Reprinted in Teaching Diversity, 3, Fall, 2007, 1-3. Lisa Dorner, Marjorie Faulstich Orellana, & Christine P. Li-Grining. (2007). “I helped my mom” and it helped me: Translating the skills of language brokers into improved standardized test scores. American Journal of Education, 113 (3). Inmaculada García Sánchez and Marjorie Faulstich Orellana. (2006). The Construction of Moral and Social Identities in Immigrant Children’s Narratives-in-Translation. Linguistics and Education, 17 (3): 209-239. Marjorie Faulstich Orellana and H. Julia Eksner. (2006). Power in Cultural Modeling: Building on the Bilingual Language Practices of Immigrant Youth in Germany and the United States. National Reading Conference Yearbook, 55, 224-234. Marjorie Faulstich Orellana, Lisa Dorner and Lucila Pulido. (2003). Accessing Assets, Immigrant Youth as Family Interpreters. Social Problems, 50 (5): 505-524. Marjorie Faulstich Orellana. (2003). Responsibilities of children in Latino immigrant homes. New Directions for Youth Development: Understanding the Social Worlds of Immigrant Youth, Winter (100), 25-39. Marjorie Faulstich Orellana and Philip Bowman. (2003). Cultural Diversity Research on Learning and Development. Educational Researcher, 32 (5): 26-32. Marjorie Faulstich Orellana, Jennifer Reynolds, Lisa Dorner and María Meza. (2003). In Other Words: Translating or “Para-phrasing” as a Family Literacy Practice in Immigrant Households. The Reading Research Quarterly, 38 (1): 12-34. Marjorie Faulstich Orellana, María Meza and Kate Pietsch. (2002). Mexican Immigrant Networks and Home-School Connections. Practicing Anthropology. (Special issue on Latinos in the Midwest.) Marjorie Faulstich Orellana, Karen Monkman, and Laurie MacGillivray. (2002). Coming Out Ahead vs. Being on Level: Parents and Teachers in an Urban Immigrant Community Talk about Success.” Center for the Improvement of Early Reading Achievement Technical Report Series #3-020.
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November 2008 Marjorie Faulstich Orellana. (2001). “The Work Kids Do: Mexican and Central American Immigrant Children’s Contributions to Households and Schools in California.” Harvard Educational Review, 71 (3): 366-389. Marjorie Faulstich Orellana, Barrie Thorne, Anna Chee, and Wan Shun Eva Lam. (2001). "Transnational Childhoods: The Participation of Children in Processes of Family Migration.” Social Problems, 48 (4): 573-592. Sandra Pucci, Sharon Ulanoff, and Marjorie Faulstich Orellana. (2000). “Se Hace Camino Al Andar: Reflections on the Process of Pre-service Teacher Inquiry.” Educators for Urban Minorities, 1 (20), 17-26. Marjorie Faulstich Orellana. (1999). “Space and Place in an Urban Landscape: Learning from Children’s Views of Their Social Worlds.” Visual Sociology, 14, 73-89. Marjorie Faulstich Orellana, Lucila Ek, and Arcelia Hernández. (1999). “Bilingual Education in an Immigrant Community: Proposition 227 in California.” International Journal of Bilingualism and Bilingual Education, 2 (2), 114-130. Marjorie Faulstich Orellana and Barrie Thorne. (1998). “Year-Round Schools and the Politics of Time.” Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 29 (4), 1-27. Marjorie Faulstich Orellana and Arcelia Hernández. (1998). Talking the Walk: Children Reading Urban Environmental Print. The Reading Teacher, 52 (6), 612-619. [Reprinted in Pamela A. Merson and Jeanne Shay Schuman (Eds.), Promising Practices for Urban Reading Instruction. New Jersey: Prentice Hall.] Marjorie Faulstich Orellana. (1996). “Negotiating Power Through Language in Classroom Meetings.” Linguistics and Education, 8, 334-365. (Earlier version appears as “Negotiating Power: Critical Literacy Practices in a Bilingual Classroom” in Resources in Education. Washington, D.C.: ERIC Clearinghouse on Language and Linguistics.) Michelle Commeyras, Marjorie Faulstich Orellana, Bruce Bertram, and Lori Neilsen. (1996). “Why Feminist Theory and Literacy Research?: Four Responses.” Reading Research Quarterly, 31 (4): 458-468. Marjorie Faulstich Orellana. (1996). “¡Aquí Vivimos! Voices of Mexican and Central American Participants in a Family Literacy Project.” The Journal of Educational Issues of Language Minority Students, 16: 115-130. Marjorie Faulstich Orellana. (1995). “Texts, Talk, Tasks, and Take-up: Literacy as a Gendered Social Practice in Two Bilingual Classrooms,” Reading Research Quarterly, 30 (4): 674708.
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November 2008 Marjorie Faulstich Orellana. (1994). “Appropriating the Voice of the Superheroes: Three Preschoolers' Bilingual Language Uses in Play.” Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 9: 171-193. (Earlier version appears in Resources in Education. Washington, D.C.: ERIC Clearinghouse on Language and Linguistics.) Edited journal Sandra Liliana Pucci and Marjorie Faulstich Orellana (Eds.) (2002). Practicing Anthropology. (Special issue on Latinos in the Midwest.) Book chapters Marjorie Faulstich Orellana, Jennifer Reynolds and Danny Martínez. (Forthcoming). Remediating Learning Challenges through Cultural Modeling. In Handbook of Reading Disabilities Research. Marjorie Faulstich Orellana. (2007). Moving Words and Moving Worlds: Reflections from ‘the Middle.’ In Cynthia Lewis, Elizabeth Moje and Patricia Enciso (Eds.) Reframing Sociocultural Research on Literacy. (pp. 123-136). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. Marjorie Faulstich Orellana. (2006). “Qué Dice Aquí?” Building on the Translating Experiences of Immigrant Youth for Academic Literacies. In Robert Jiménez and Valerie Pang (Eds.) Race, Ethnicity and Education. Praeger Press. H. Julia Eksner and Marjorie Faulstich Orellana. (2005). Liminality as Linguistic Process: Mediation and Contestation by Immigrant Youth in Germany and the U.S. In Knörr, Jacqueline (Ed.) Childhood and Migration: From Experience to Agency. Bielefeld & Somerset, N.J.: Transcript & Transaction Publishers. Cynthia García Coll, Barrie Thorne, Catherine Cooper and Marjorie Faulstich Orellana. (2004). From Social Categories to Social Process: “Race” and Ethnicity in School-Based Research with Children of Immigrants. In Cooper, Catherine R., Garcia Coll, Cynthia, Bartko, Todd, Davis, Helen, and Célina Chapman (Eds.), Hills of Gold: Rethinking Diversity and Contexts as Resources for Children’s Developmental Pathways. (pp. 241262). Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Barrie Thorne, Marjorie Faulstich Orellana, Wan Shun Eva Lam and Anna Chee. (2003). Raising Children – and Growing Up – in Transnational Contexts: Comparative Perspectives on Generation and Gender. In Hondagneu-Sotelo, Pierrette (Ed.) Gender and U.S. Immigration: Contemporary Trends. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
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November 2008 Marjorie Faulstich Orellana, Lucila Ek, and Arcelia Hernández. (2000). Proposition 227 and Bilingual Education in a Transnational Community. In Enrique Trueba and Lilia Bartolomé (Eds.) Immigrant Voices: In Search of Pedagogical Reform. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. Marjorie Faulstich Orellana. (1999). Good Guys, 'Bad' Girls: Identity Construction by Latina and Latino Student Writers. In Mary Bucholtz, A.C. Liang, and Laurel Sutton (Eds.) Reinventing Identities: Social Categories in Language and Gender Research. Oxford University Press. (Earlier version appears as “Good Guys, ‘Bad’ Girls: Gendered Identity Construction in a Writing Workshop.” Resources in Education. Washington, D.C.: ERIC Clearinghouse on Teaching and Teacher Education, April, 1995.) Additional materials related to this work can be found at the Reinventing Identities website: http://www-english.tamu.edu/pers/fac/bucholtz/oslg/re-id/ch_03.html. Marjorie Faulstich Orellana. (1999). Language, Play, and Identity Formation: Framing the Issues. In Barbara Kamler (Ed.) Constructing Gender and Difference: Critical Research Perspectives on Early Childhood. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press. Review essays and book reviews Marjorie Faulstich Orellana. (2007). The Power of Instructional Words. Language Arts. Marjorie Faulstich Orellana. (2007). Review of Language and Identity in a Dual Immersion School by Kim Potowski. Teachers College Record. Marjorie Faulstich Orellana and Ernest Morrell. (2006). Professional Resources for Teaching: Multi-modalities. Language Arts, 84 (1): 87-91. Marjorie Faulstich Orellana and Lisa Dorner. (2003). Review of Family Obligation and Assistance During Adolescence: Contextual Variation and Developmental Implications, edited by Andrew J. Fuligni. Contemporary Psychology, 49 (3):281-283. Marjorie Faulstich Orellana. (1998). Review of Just Girls: Hidden Literacies and Life in Junior High, by Margaret J. Finders. Journal of Literacy Research, 30 (1), 177-179. Marjorie Faulstich Orellana and Barrie Thorne. (1997). Review of Race in the Making: Culture and the Child’s Construction of Human Kinds, by Lawrence A. Hirschfeld. American Journal of Sociology, 103 (2), 501-503. Marjorie Faulstich Orellana. (1997). Review of Con Respeto: Bridging the Distances Between Culturally Diverse Families and Schools, by Guadalupe Valdés. Contemporary Sociology, 26 (2), 209-210. Marjorie Faulstich Orellana. (1995). “Forging the Road Together: Furthering Dialogues Against Stupidification.” Review essay in response to Literacies of Power: What Americans Are Not November, 2008 6
November 2008 Allowed to Know, by Donaldo Macedo. The Review of Education/Pedagogy/Cultural Studies, 17 (4): 457-464. Marjorie Faulstich Orellana. (1993). “Thoughts on Theory, Practice, and the Practice of Theorizing.” Review essay in response to Sociolinguistics and Literacies: Ideology in Discourses, by James Gee. The Review of Education, 15: 323-326. Marjorie Faulstich Orellana. (1993). “Struggling for the 'Bi' in Bilingual Education.” Review essay in response to Pedagogy and the Struggle for Voice: Issues of Language, Power, and Schooling for Puerto Ricans, by Catherine E. Walsh. The Review of Education, 15: 203-206. Textbook material Preparation of draft material for the chapter on Language, Cognition, and Culture in M.K. Dembo (1993). Applying Educational Psychology in the Classroom. New York: Longman Publishing Group. Other publications Marjorie Faulstich Orellana and Kris Gutiérrez. (2006). What’s the Problem, Really? Constructing Different Genres. Research in the Teaching of English. Kris Gutiérrez and Marjorie Faulstich Orellana. (2006). The “Problem” of English Learners: Constructing Genres of Difference. Research in the Teaching of English, 40 (4), 502-507. Rosa Jiménez and Marjorie Faulstich Orellana. (2006) Journaling Translations. California English Teacher. Lisa Dorner and Marjorie Faulstich Orellana. (2006). Children and Immigration. In J. Loucky, J. Armstrong, and L. Estrada (Eds.) Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Immigration. Greenwood Publishing Group. Marjorie Faulstich Orellana. (1995). “Saliéndose con la Suya: Literacy, Gender and Choice in a Bilingual Classroom.” In Mary Bucholtz, A.C. Liang, Laurel Sutton, & Caitlin Hines. Cultural Performances: Proceedings of the Berkeley Women and Language Conference. Berkeley, CA: Berkeley Women and Language Group. Marjorie Faulstich Orellana. (1993). “Border Pedagogy.” Voices: The UCLA Graduate Journal of Critical Analysis in Education, 2(2): 3-4.
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Under review Paula Carbone and Marjorie Faulstich Orellana. (Under review at Research in the Teaching of English). Developing Academic Identities: Persuasive Writing as a Tool to Strengthen Emergent Academic Identities. H. Julia Eksner and Marjorie Faulstich Orellana. (Revised and resubmitted to Ethos). Translating in the Zone of Proximal Development. GRANTS “Bilingual Youths’ Everyday Language Practices as Resources for Academic Language Development.” Spencer Foundation. September, 2008-August, 2009. $40,000. “Urban Youth Inquiries On Language And Literacy.” Academic Senate and Community Partnership Program. July 1, 2008- June 30, 2009. “Assessing Children’s Transcultural Skills.” UCLA Academic Senate and Community Partnerships Program. July, 2007. $20,000. “Measuring the Transcultural and Metalinguistic Skills of Bilingual Youth in “Contact Zones.” Linguistic Minority Research Institute. March, 2007. $20,000. “Culture and Development of Immigrant Family Language Brokers.” Culture, Brain and Development Program, UCLA. March, 2006. $4300. “Leveraging Bilingual Youths’ Translation Experiences for School Literacy Tasks.” Linguistic Minority Research Institute. March, 2005. $20,000. “Children’s Responsibilities as Family Translators.” William T. Grant Foundation. January, 2004. $20,500. “Constructing Community Partnerships for Research.” UCLA Faculty Grants Program. July, 2004. $2000. “Bilingual Education Program Development and Implementation.” Seed Grant for Research on Language, Culture and Cognition, Cognitive Science Program, Northwestern University. May, 2001. $3000. “Latino Children as Family Translators: Links to Literacy.” National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. September, 2000. Grant # 1-R03-HD39510-01. $147,000.
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November 2008 Minority supplement grant for María Meza. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. February, 2001. Supplement to Grant # 1-R03-HD39510-01. $31,022. “Language Brokering: Bridging the Home and School Literacy Practices of Immigrant Children.” International Reading Association Elva Knight Research Grant. May, 2000. $5000. “Language Brokering: Bridging Home and School for Latino Immigrant Children.” December, 1999. University Research Grants Committee, Northwestern University. $5000. INVITED TALKS, WORKSHOPS AND KEYNOTE PRESENTATIONS Study Day on Language Brokering. Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy. November 2008. Preconference workshop on Intent Participation led by Barbara Rogoff. International Society for Cultural and Activity Research, San Diego, CA. September 2008. “Life Lessons.” Invited talk for the Last Lecture Program, Office of Residential Life, UCLA. May 2008. “Translating as a Family Literacy Practice in Central American and Mexican Immigrant Households in Los Angeles.” Invited talk for the Latin American Immigrants and Mobile Communities in the United States Teacher Professional Development Workshop, UCLA, May, 2007. Workshop leader and invited speaker for a pre-conference workshop on Culture and Development at the Annual Meetings of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, IL, April 2007. “The Development of Immigrant Youth Through Relationships and Responsibilities.” Invited talk at the Relationships Group lunch series, April, 2007. “Vygotsky Meets the New Sociology of Childhoods: Thinking about Children and Development through the Experiences of Child Language Brokers.” Invited talk for the Culture, Brain and Development program, January, 2007. “Leveraging Bilingual Skills for Literacy Development.” Invited talk for Project Literacy, UCLA, February 2007. “Leveraging Bilingual Skills for Academic Language Development.” Invited talk at the Bilingual Education Conference, United Teachers of Los Angeles, March, 2007.
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November 2008 “Diálogo de Costa en Costa.” Invited guest on the live radio show, “Cuando el niño se convierte en traductor de la familia.” (“When a Child Becomes a Family Translator”). October 5, 2005. “Using Immigrant Youths’ Translating Skills to Build Academic Literacies.” Invited talk for the UCLA Writing Project, July 21, 2005. “Translating as a Family Literacy Practice in Immigrant Households.” Keynote presentation at the Linguistic Minority Research Institute, Santa Barbara, California (May 8, 2004). “Children’s Work as Translators in Immigrant Households.” Paper presented at the Economic Sociology Workshops, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey. (March 8, 2004). Co-sponsored by Princeton’s Center for Migration and Development and the Center for Child Well Health. CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS “Transformations through Translation: Learning, Development, and the Practice of Immigrant Child Language Brokering.” International Society for Cultural and Activity Research, San Diego, CA, September 8-13, 2008. “Developing academic identities: Persuasive writing as a tool to strengthen emergent academic identities” (with Paula Carbone). Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Educational Research Association, New York, NY, March 2008. “Immigrant Youth as Linguistic and Cultural Brokers in Parent-School Interactions.” Paper presented at the International Conference on Ethnography and Education, Barcelona, Spain, September, 2007. “Translating Voices: Leveraging Students’ Audience Awareness Skills for Academic Writing” (with Ramón Martínez). Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, IL, April 2007. “Chican@ Youths’ Voices ‘in Translation’ on Immigrant Rights” (with Ramón Martínez). Annual Meetings of the Pacific Coast Council on Latin America, Los Angeles, CA, November 3, 2007. “Transculturations: Language and Literacy Brokering by the Children of Immigrants.” Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, CA, April, 2006. “Vygotsky Meets the Sociology of Childhoods: Immigrant Family Language Brokering in Zones of Proximal Development. Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, CA, April, 2006.
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“Leveraging Language Brokering Experiences for Academic Language Development.” Presentation at the University Elementary School Bilingual Education Conference (with Ramón Martínez, Rosa Jiménez, and Mariana Pacheco). UCLA, November 5, 2005. “Using Immigrant Youths’ Translating Skills to Build Academic Literacies” (with Paula Carbone, Rosa Jiménez and Ramón Martínez). Workshop presented at the With Different Eyes Writers Workshop Conference, UCLA. November 5, 2005. “Agency and Identity In and Out of School: Adolescent Cultural Practices and their Implications for Learning” (with Lisa Dorner and Rosa Jiménez). Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Educational Research Association, Montreal, PQ, April 2005. “In Their Own Words: Literacy Brokering or ‘Para-phasing’ by Immigrant Youth in the United States.” Presentation at the Language Brokering Conference, Manchester, UK, March, 2005. “Immigrant Child Translators and the Social Meaning of Numbers.”(with Andrew Brantlinger.) Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Educational Research Association, San Diego, California, April, 2004. “I Helped My Mom” and It Helped Me: Translating Bilingual Skills into Improved Standardized Test Scores” (with Lisa Dorner and Christine Li-Grining). Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, IL (April, 2003). “Power in Translation: Building on Bilingual Students’ Translating Experiences for School Literacy Tasks.” Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the National Council of Teachers of English, Atlanta, GA, November 24, 2002. “Latino Adolescent Family Interpreters: Accessing Assets, Ascribing Identities” (with Lisa Dorner and Lucila Pulido). Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, Chicago, IL, August 2002. “Lessons from Cross-Cultural Border Crossing: Cross-Disciplinary Conversations in the Academy” (with Kimberley Williams). Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, LA, April 2, 2002. “Team Ethnography: The Benefits and Challenges of Multiple Collaborations” (with Lisa Dorner, Kimberley P. Williams, Erica Rosenfeld, María Meza, Nicole Wong, Lucila Pulido, Lauren Hersh, Nancy Randall and Jennifer Reynolds). Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, LA, April 2, 2002.
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November 2008 “Exploring the Translating Experiences of Bilingual Adolescents: Of the Kids, For the Kids, and By the Kids” (with Erica Rosenfeld and Lucila Pulido). Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, LA, April 2, 2002. “Researching the Language and Literacy Practices of Latino Students” (with Kimberley Williams, Erica Rosenfeld, Lisa Dorner, Jennifer Reynolds, María Meza, Lucila Pulido, Nicole Wong and Lauren Hersh). Roundtable discussion at the National Council of Teachers of English Research Assembly Midwinter Conference, New York, NY, February 20-22, 2002. “Reciprocal Socialization: How Bilingual Daughters Influence and Support Their Immigrant Mothers” (with Lisa Dorner, María Meza, and Lucila Pulido). Poster session at the Society for the Study of Human Development, October 2001, Ann Arbor, Michigan. “Whose Voice is it Anyway?: Problematizing the Notion of the ‘Latino Student Voice’” (with Erica Rosenfeld). Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association, Seattle, WA, April 9-13, 2001. “Home-School Connections and Mexican Immigrant Family Networks” (with Kate Pietsch and María Meza). Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association, Seattle, WA, April 9-13, 2001. “Inquiring Voices: A Case Study of Latino Students in an Urban Middle School Science Classroom” (with Kimberley Williams). Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association, Seattle, WA, April 9-13, 2001. “Bridging Discourse Communities: Latino Students’ Engagement with Science Literacy, School Literacy, and Home Literacy Practices in the Midwest” (with Kimberley Williams and Erica Rosenfeld). Round table discussion at the National Council of Teachers of English Midwinter Research Assembly, February 9-11, 2001. “Mediating Mediation: Immigrant Children as Language Brokers or ‘Para-phrasers.’” Paper presented at the National Reading Conference, Scottsdale, AZ, November 30, 2000. “Leveraging the Language Skills of Immigrant Children for Literacy Learning in School” (with Maria Meza). Paper presented at the National Council of Teachers of English, Milwaukee, WI, November 17, 2000. “Children as Language Brokers: Implications for Literacy Learning in School?” Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, LA, April 24-28, 2000.
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November 2008 “Who’s Accessing Whose Literacies? The Children of Immigrants in California.” Round table discussion at the Annual Meetings of the American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, LA, April 24-28, 2000. “Transnational Families and the Negotiation of Childhood” (with Barrie Thorne). Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Chicago, IL, August 6-10, 1999. “Translating Citizenship: Child Language Brokers in Immigrant Families” (with Wan Shun Eva Lam). Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, Chicago, IL, August 5-7, 1999. “Niños inmigrantes de Centro-America en California: Conociendo Sus Mundos Sociales Atraves de los Medios de Alfabetización.” Talk given at the Second International Literacy Conference, Guatemala City, Guatemala, February 16-19, 1999. “Parents and Teachers Talk about Literacy and Success” (with Karen Monkman and Laurie MacGillivray). Paper presented at the National Reading Conference, Austin, TX, December 3-5, 1998. “Transnational Childhoods: The Deployment, Development, and Participation of Children in Family Migration Projects” (with Barrie Thorne). Paper presented at the World Congress of Sociology, Montreal, PQ, July 1998. “Proposition 227 and Bilingual Education in an Immigrant Community” (with Lucila Ek and Arcelia Hernández). Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Educational Research Association, San Diego, CA, April, 1998. “Exploring Immigrant Children’s Identity Construction through Pictures, Maps and Stories” (with Anna Chee). Poster session at the Annual Meeting of the Educational Research Association, San Diego, CA, April, 1998. “Fostering emergent literacy in a bilingual preschool setting” (with Laurie MacGillivray, Robert Rueda, and David Yaden). Roundtable discussion at the National Council of Teachers of English Research Assembly Midwinter Conference, Los Angeles, CA, February 20-22, 1998. “Los Niños Inmigrantes de Pico Union: Sus Vidas Diarias y Visiones del Futuro” (with Lucila Ek and Arcelia Hernández). Talk given at the Jornada Pedagógica Internacional para la Educación Bilingüe,” Loyola Marymount University, November 22, 1997. “The Transglobalization of Childhoods: Immigrant Children in Los Angeles” (with Barrie Thorne and Wan Shun Eva Lam). Paper presented at Urban Childhood: An International, Interdisciplinary Conference, Trondheim, Norway, June 9-12, 1997.
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November 2008 “Central American Immigrant Children’s Views of Los Angeles.” Talk given at the Central American Educational Conference (Central Americans in the U.S.: Building the Future through Education). Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, May 24, 1997. “Brokering Home-School Relationships: The Role of Community Workers” (with Jill Denner and Catherine Cooper). Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Educational Research Association, Chicago, Illinois, March, 1997. “‘I’m the mother and you’re the son:’ The Realities of the Socially Constructed Categories of Ethnicity and Gender” (with Laurie MacGillivray). Paper presented at the National Reading Conference, December, 1996. “Investigaciones Sobre Impedimentos en la Comunidad Latina.” Talk given at the Fiesta Educativa Conference. University of Southern California, May 19, 1995. “Good Guys and "Bad" Girls: Identity Construction in a Writing Workshop.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, CA, April, 1995. “Gendered Journals.” Poster session at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, CA, April, 1995. “Contextualizing Gender in the Classroom: Merging Critical Discourse Analysis with Activity Theory.” Round table discussion at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, CA, April, 1995. “Pico Union ¡Presente!: Immigrant Families Speak Up.” Paper presented at the Comparative and International Education Conference, University of California, Los Angeles, November, 1994. "Vivimos Aquí: Voces de Familias Mexicanas y Centroamericanas en la Ciudad de Los Angeles.” Talk given at the First Conference on the Education of Central American Children in North American Schools, California State University, Los Angeles, 1994. “Saliéndose con la Suya: Gender, Literacy, and "Choice" in Two Bilingual Classrooms.” Paper presented at the Berkeley Women and Language Conference, University of California, Berkeley, April, 1994. “Negotiating Power: Critical Literacy Practices in a Bilingual Classroom.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, LA, April, 1994. “Literacy as a Gendered Social Practice in Two Bilingual Classrooms.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, LA, April, 1994.
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“Superhuman Voices: Popular Culture's Influence on Young Children's Bilingualism (Follow-up report).” Poster session at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, LA, April 4, 1994. “The Voice of Superheroes.” Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, CA, December, 1992. “It's Kinda' Like Guys Talking about Cars: Gender Issues in Higher Education.” Paper presented at the Comparative and International Education Society, Stanford University, November, 1992. “Appropriating the Voice of the Superheroes.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, Vancouver, B.C., Canada, March, 1992. "Approaches to Un-tracking.” Invited talk given at Social and Political Perspectives On Bilingual Education, conference sponsored by United Teachers of Los Angeles, 1992. "Rethinking Pedagogy: Language, Culture, and Instruction." Invited talk given at The Legacy of Columbus, conference sponsored by the Los Angeles Human Rights Coalition, Los Angeles, 1991. TEACHING CREDENTIALS AND CERTIFICATES California Professional Clear Multiple Subject Credential; Bilingual/Cross-Cultural Emphasis (Spanish). Coursework at California State University, Los Angeles, 1984-1986. Bilingual Certificate of Competence, 1985; fluent in Spanish and English. PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS Member of the American Educational Research Association; National Council of Teachers of English; NCTE Standing Committee on Research; National Council of Research on Language and Literacy; International Reading Association; National Association for Bilingual Education; Phi Beta Kappa Society.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES Co-Editor (with Ernest Morrell) of the Professional Resources in Education section of the journal Language Arts, 2006-2009.
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November 2008 Ad Hoc Reviewer for Social Problems, Childhoods, Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, The Journal of Literacy Research, The Journal of Latin American Anthropology, The Advocate, Teachers College Press, The Handbook of Early Childhood Literacy Research, Research in the Teaching of English, International Journal of Behavioral Development, Aztlán, the Journal of Early Literacy Research, Oxford University Press, the Bilingual Research Journal, Ethos, The Reading Research Quarterly, Journal of Research on Adolescence, Diaspora, Indigenous and Minority Education: International Journal, and Linguistics and Education. Proposal reviewer for the Spencer Foundation Small Grants Program (2006-2008); the International Reading Association small grants program (2006); the National Council of Teachers of English, Promising Research Awards Committee (2000); National Reading Conference (2000, 2002, Section Chair, 2004); American Educational Research Association, (2002, 2004, 2005, 2006); Joint Center for Poverty Research Research Development Grants, 2002, W. T. Grant Foundation, the Spencer Foundation, the National Science Foundation (2007), the National Institute of Health (2003 and 2004), Israel Science Foundation (2007), the Culture, Brain and Development Program of UCLA (2006-2007), and the American Educational Research Association (2004-08). Editorial Review Board member for Bilingual Research Journal (2007-present), Childhoods (2008-present), The Journal of Early Childhood Literacy (2000-present), The Reading Research Quarterly (2006-present), Research in the Teaching of English (2007-present), Journal of Literacy Research (1996-1997). Faculty-in-Residence, UCLA (2004-present).
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT CONSULTATION Program Evaluator, Zero to Five Program, Los Angeles, California, 2004-2006. Consultant, Annie E. Casey Foundation, May 2002. Program evaluator, District 65 Two-Way Immersion program, 2000-2001. Consultant, Leadership Academy and Urban Network for Chicago, 1999-2001. Consultant, NU-TEACH, Northwestern University1999-present. Consultant, Gender Equity Teacher-Research Group, Winnetka School District, 1999. Consultant, Multicultural Leadership Training Institute, United Teachers of Los Angeles, 1997.
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November 2008 Program leader for family literacy workshops to produce family-authored books documenting experiences of immigration, Los Angeles, 1992. Series of workshops on literature-based instruction for Spanish readers, presented for teachers and paraprofessionals in Los Angeles Unified Schools, 1988-1990. Series of workshops on teaching about Central America and working with Central American refugee children, presented at teachers' conferences in Los Angeles, 1986-1988. Study series leader on the social and cultural history of Guatemala, Guatemala Information Center, Los Angeles, CA, 1986-1988.
UNIVERSITY SERVICE Member, Academic Personnel Committee, Department of Education, 2004-2006. Member, Spencer Research Training Grant Advisory Committee, 2005-2007. Advisor, Spencer Research Training Grant, 2006-2007. Member, Faculty Executive Committee, Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, 2008-2010. Member, CDAS, Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, 2008-2010. Advisor and Seminar Facilitator, Project ADVANCE, 2006-2008. Coordinating Committee Member of the Culture, Brain and Development program, UCLA, 2004-present. Coordinating Committee member of the Migration Study Group, UCLA, 2005-present. Affiliated Faculty, Relationship Sciences program, UCLA.
COMMUNITY SERVICE English Learners Advisory Council of Edison Language Academy (secretary 2003-2004); District 65 Bilingual Education Steering Committee; Washington School Special Interest Team (Bilingual Education); Washington School Parent Advisory Board; Puerta Abierta Preschool Advisory Board; Festival Organizer, Multi-Cultural Festival for the 41st Anniversary of the United Nations' Declaration of Human Rights; Conference Organizing Committee, Teaching the Fourth 'R;’ Conference Organizing Committee, Central American Children in Our Schools; Steering Committee, Guatemala Information Center.
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