Bilingual/Bicultural Education

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Celebration of Maria Torres-Guzman’s Scholarship ☆

On Friday, May 3rd and Saturday, May 4th the Program in Bilingual/Bicultural Education invited current students, graduates, faculty and colleagues from across Teachers College to join in celebrating the career and legacy of Professor Maria Torres-Guzman on the occasion of her retirement. A two-day conference sponsored by the Blue Sky Asian-American Research Foundation along with the Arts & Humanities …

Posted 9 days ago by A&H

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Alumna Spotlight: Johari Murray’s Not a Language School

Originally from New York, Johari is an all-terrain language teacher with her MA '02 from Teachers College in Deaf and Bilingual Education. She has taught English and Spanish from k-12 and on the university level. With her background spanning private and public schools as well as urban and rural communities, she has reached a childhood …

Posted 10 months ago by marieweller

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Graduate Spotlight: Gillian Esquivia-Cohen, Bilingual/Bicultural Education ☆

For the past two years as a student in TC’s Bilingual/Bicultural Education program, Gillian Esquivia-Cohen has been working with child immigrants, new-arrivals to U.S. classrooms, and researching traumatic immigration (trauma that results from severe psychological stress either immediately before, during, or immediately after the immigration process.) Traumatic immigration is much more common than educators and …

Posted 11 months ago by Liz Hoelzle

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Building Communities of Readers ☆

Bilingual/Bicultural Education Associate Professor Carmen Martínez-Roldán believes that building a child’s identity as a reader, in any way possible, is one sure way to positively impact literacy and foster a greater connection to school. Working in collaboration with professors from the UK, Spain, and Australia, her research involves using wordless texts as a basis for …

Posted 14 months ago by Liz Hoelzle

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Bilingualism and Special Needs

TC’s Bilingual/Bicultural Education program prepares its students to work with linguistically and culturally diverse populations. As a visiting faculty member in that program, Dr. Patricia Martinez Alvarez brings a wealth of firsthand experience to the table. Originally from Spain where she taught students in English/Spanish bilingual programs, Dr. Martinez Alvarez then came to the States …

Posted 15 months ago by Liz Hoelzle

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BBE Alumnus Greg Halzen Wins 2012 NABE Award ☆

The Bilingual/Bicultural program is pleased to congratulate 2010 BBE Peace Corps Fellow Alumnus Greg Halzen, who has been awarded the 2012 NABE (National Association for Bilingual Education) Teacher of the Year award.

Posted 15 months ago by Amy Wolf

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Spotlight on Alumna Tatyana Kleyn ☆

Tatyana received her Ed.D. in Bilingual/Bicultural Education. She earned her BA and MA at Ohio State University and was a primary school teacher in Honduras and in Atlanta, Georgia. She is an Assistant Professor at The City College of New York, an associate at RISLUS (Research Institute for the Study of Language in Urban Society) …

Posted 17 months ago by Amy Wolf

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Two Recently Published Illustrations: Congratulations to Rebecca Solow, BBE Academic Secretary ☆

Rebecca Solow, Bilingual/Bicultural Education Academic Secretary, has had a great start to the semester: two of her illustrations were featured in leading publications.

Posted 19 months ago by Amy Wolf

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Spotlight on Alumnus Arturo Acevedo: Bilingual/Bicultural Education as a Journey of Self-Discovery ☆

Arturo Acevedo is a high school Spanish teacher at the Gotham Professional Arts Academy in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. He did post-graduate work at the University of Maryland and has a Master’s degree in Bilingual/Bicultural Education from Teachers College (’08). Arturo hopes to begin his Ph.D. studies in September, 2012.

Posted 19 months ago by Amy Wolf

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New Faculty Profile: Carmen Martinez-Roldan ☆

TC is pleased to welcome Dr. Carmen Martínez-Roldán to the Arts & Humanities faculty. Coming from the University of Texas at Austin, she will join the Bilingual/Bicultural Education program teaching such courses as Foundations of Bilingual Education, Biliteracy, and Latino Literature for Children and Adolescents. With a research agenda rooted in the literacy process of …

Posted 20 months ago by Liz Hoelzle

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Peace Corps Fellows at TC ☆

The Elliot and Roslyn Jaffe Peace Corps Fellows Program recruits Returned Peace Corps Volunteers to teach in New York City's high-needs public schools while concurrently working towards a Masters degree. The program at TC is the nationwide flagship and has just celebrated a 25th anniversary, just as the national Peace Corps program marked its own …

Posted 23 months ago by Amy Wolf

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