Funded Projects
I have been part of the following New York State Education Department and United States Department of Education grants and projects.
CUNY - Initiative on Immigration and Education (CUNY-IIE)
PI with Ariana Mangual Figueroa, Nancy Stern (Co-PIs) and Daniela Alulema (Project Director)
CUNY-IIE is a New York State Education Department funded project that provides opportunities to learn from immigrant communities throughout New York State who are directly impacted by increasing political tension and discrimination. We aim to develop multimodal and multilingual resources, and spaces for dialogues that build upon the strengths of mixed status immigrant communities including undocumented, refugee, and asylum-seeking members. At CUNY-IIE, educators, researchers, families and local leaders work together to learn about, from, and with immigrant communities, act in ways that center our shared humanity regardless of legal status, and advocate for equitable policies and opportunities at the intersection of immigration and education.
Building Secondary Educator Leadership for Multilingual Learners (B-SEAL) Co-PI with Nancy Stern (PI)
B-SEAL for Multilingual Learners prepares teams of high school teachers and leaders to serve the academic and socioemotional needs of Multilingual Learners. Building on the work of the Multilingual Learner Project (MLP). B-SEAL is designed and implemented through a collaboration by The City College of New York and New Visions for Public Schools to provides teachers with a unique opportunity to earn either a New York State certification in TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) or a Bilingual Extension, at almost no out-of-pocket cost to participants. The program also includes school leaders through a Professional Learning Community (PLC), to understand the strengths and needs of MLs and to program for them more effectively.
Multilingual Learners Project (MLP)
Co-PI with Nancy Stern (PI)
MLP prepares teams of high school teachers to support the academic and socioemotional needs of Multilingual Learners, one of the country’s fastest growing groups of students. This US Department of Education Title III Professional Development Grant is a collaboration between The City College of New York and New Visions for Public Schools. The program aims to support the literacy development and academic achievement of Multilingual Learners across content areas by providing coursework and intensive coaching that lead to NYS TESOL certification.
CUNY - New York State Initiative on Emergent Bilinguals (CUNY-NYSIEB)
Interim Co-PI and Associate Investigator with Ricardo Otheguy (PI), Ofelia Garcia and Kate Menken (Co-PIs)
CUNY-NYSIEB works to improve the education of emergent bilingual students across New York State. It is a collaborative project of the Research Institute for the Study of Language in Urban Society (RISLUS) and the Ph.D. Program in Urban Education funded by the New York State Education Department. CUNY-NYSIEB is founded on the stance that for schools to be successful at meeting the needs of emergent bilingual students they must develop ecologies of bilingualism that build on the home language practices of their students by way of a translanguaging theory and pedagogy. While the project funding has ended, the varied resources and research that were developed are accessible to everyone via the website.