My teaching and research interests center on how students of teaching learn formative assessment as a concept and a practice through teacher education courses and preservice field experiences, with a particular focus on early childhood, special education, and multilingual populations. I use sociocultural and communities of practice frameworks to examine the ways in which student teachers are apprenticed and mentored in the field and the processes in which pedagogical content knowledge and pedagogical language knowledge emerge and develop through dialogic interaction with students and teacher educators.
I am a credentialed early childhood and elementary school teacher in California and New York. My decade plus of elementary teaching experience included PreK-Grade 3 general and special education, in public, charter, and dual language schools, and involved mentoring teachers and developing and conducting parent and teacher workshops.
I am thrilled to be a part of the Ventura Pirate community of learners. I look forward to working with students and faculty, caregivers and community, building out and up:聽 developing stronger and more resilient systems of early childhood education at all levels: local, state, nation!
Ventura College campus is situated on the homelands of the Micqanaqa'n, Chumash聽and multiple other Indigenous nations, present and past.聽