Presenter Biodata
KATESOL/BE Spring Conference
Hays, Kansas / March 13, 2004
Boyd, Jacqueline (session1
session2)
Haskell Indian Nations University
Jacqueline
Boyd is an Education Psychology Instructor at Haskell Indian Nations University
School of Education in Lawrence, Kansas. Her primary
responsibilities include teaching, academic advising, and supervising student
teachers. She is also the placement coordinator and Haskell KNEA SP advisor.
She has undergraduate degrees in Business Management from New Mexico State University and Elementary Education
from Haskell Indian Nations University. Her graduate degree is
from University of Kansas in Special Education
emphasizing Early Childhood Handicapped. Prior to becoming a university
instructor, she was a 5th grade teacher in Leavenworth, Kansas. She is certified to teach
K-9th grade and birth to age 5 in early childhood handicapped. She has
presented at national conferences and local public schools on topics related to
Indian Education. She is a member of the National Indian Education Association
(NIEA), Council of Exceptional Children (CEC) and Association for Supervision
and Curriculum Development (ASCD). She is also a tribal member of San Juan and San Felipe Pueblo in New Mexico and Dine (Navajo) from Lukachukai, Arizona.
Cooley, Nancy (session1)
Glencoe
West Applied Group
Bio
forthcoming
DeGruson, Melinda (session1)
Pittsburg State University
Melinda DeGruson
is a Counselor at Meadowlark Elementary
School in Pittsburg, Kansas. She holds a Bachelor of
Science
in Elementary Education, with
a minor in Special Education;
a Masters of Science in
Elementary School Counseling; and
an
Ed.S. in Elementary
Counseling.
Dickerson, Lorena (session1
session2)
United
States Department of Education
Lorena
Amaya-Dickerson has a B.S. in Early Childhood
Education and an M.Ed. in Curriculum and Instruction
with the Specialization in multilingual/multicultural education. Ms. Dickerson
is an Education Program Specialist with the Office of Language Acquisition,
Language Enhancement, and Academic Achievement for English Language Learners
and is responsible for programmatic, budgetary and administrative management of
State formula grants. She manages high-level competitions, including the
Special dual language Initiative Comprehensive School grant competition and
others. Ms. Dickerson represents OELA in the area of early childhood by
participating in task forces throughout the Department and with other agencies.
Garcia, Ana (session1
session2)
United
States Department of Education
Ana Maria Garcia has a degree in Elementary Education (k-12), a
B.S. in Spanish Language Arts and an M.S. in Spanish Language Arts and Spanish
Literature. Ms. Garcia is an Education Program Specialist with the Office of
English Language Acquisition at the United State Department of Education, in Washington D.C. As an education
program specialist, she is responsible for discretionary
and State formula grants. She assesses the educational
effectiveness and progress of grant projects and determines compliance with
Department rules and regulations, with grant agreements and
financial/budgetary terms. Ms. Garcia initiates plans and conducts workshops on
the education of limited English proficient students, and bilingual
developmental education. She speaks to national and international
audiences in Spanish and English. Ms. Garcia represented
the Department in the IV Conference on Education/Science and Technology in
Beijing, China, in 2000. She conducts
projects involving the analysis of policy related issues.
Giles, Mary (session1
session2
session3)
Harvard University
KU
Education: Worked for Betty Soppelsa, shared courses
and a book shelf with Robb Scott. Day Gigs: Taught Russian language and culture
to Americans, and American language and culture to people from all over. Helps
K-12 and college teachers learn about the former Soviet Union, courtesy of the Department
of Ed. Interest: The culture of kindness and emotional healing. Completing Smoke, a manuscript on Russian-American
communication. Favored Things: Benevolent people, luminous fiction, a capella singing, Welsh harp,
church bells, cockatiels, Sunspire chocolate, peace
& quiet.
Harris, Susan (session1)
Pittsburg State University
Susan Elaine Harris, a PSU Communication major/English minor, is a
fifth-year teacher presently teaching Language Arts at Hume R-8 High School,
where she is helping teachers and students learn the Six plus One Trait
Writing Model in order to ultimately raise MAP scores.
Head, Mary (session1)
Blue Valley School District
Mary Head is a teacher of ESOL at the secondary level in the Blue Valley School
District in Overland Park, Kansas. She received
her M.A. in Education from the University of Kansas in 1997. She
previously taught in the Intensive English programs at Johnson County Community
College, Baker University, and the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh. She also served as a GTA at the Applied English Center at KU, teaching
mostly speaking/listening classes. Ms. Head spent nearly nine years teaching
English in Japan.
Herrera, Socorro (session1
session2)
Kansas State University
Dr. Socorro Herrera grew up as a migrant child in the Southwest. When she was three years old, her family left
their home in Mexico and came to the
United States in search of
better working opportunities. She learned to ignore all the surrounding
negative influences; she learned to deal with discrimination and prejudice
early on in her life. She decided to
become an educator and later earned a Masters degree in Multicultural Guidance
and Counseling, and a Doctorate in Educational Psychology. Socorro has taught in both New Mexico and Texas, working with
culturally and linguistically diverse students.
Her lifelong passion has been to increase the number of Latinas/Latinos
in post-secondary education. Dr. Herrera currently serves as an associate
professor of Elementary Education at Kansas State and is
co-director of the CLASSIC© ESL/Dual Language Program. Certified in Elementary
education, Bilingual Education, and School Counseling, Dr. Herrera's recent
publications have appeared in the Bilingual Research Journal and the Journal of
Research in Rural Education. Her recent research and teaching in education has
emphasized emergent literacy, reading strategies, the differential learning
needs of second language learners, and mutual accommodation for language
learning students.
Hoernicke, Placido (session1)
Fort Hays State University
Bio
forthcoming
Hull, Peggy (session1)
Dodge City Community
College
Peggy Hull is currently Associate Professor of ESL at Dodge City Community College, where she directs the
Academic ESL program. She has taught EFL in France and French in NYS and has
studied both Spanish and Bambara (a West-African
language) while a graduate student and Associate Instructor at IU-Bloomington,
where she earned two masters degrees, the first in French Linguistics and the
second in Applied Linguistics.
Jenab, Eada Arbab
(session1)
University of Kansas
Dr.
Eada Arbab Jenab is a Lecturer in the Applied English Center at the University of Kansas. She received her Ph.D. in
Education from the University of Kansas in 2003, and an M.A. in
French Literature from the University of Kansas in 1994. Dr. Jenab teaches regular AEC classes, short-term programs and
specialized tutorials, and teaches in the student computer laboratory. She
primarily teaches speaking/listening courses and pronunciation labs, and also
coordinates Pronunciation labs, assists in curriculum development and scores
the SPEAK Test.
Kopriva, Rebecca (session1
session2
session3
session4)
University of Maryland
Dr.
Rebecca J. Kopriva is Director of the Center for the
Study of Assessment Validity and Evaluation (C-SAVE), which is housed in the
Department of Measurement, Statistics, and Evaluation at the University of Maryland. Formerly she was Associate
Professor in the California State University System, state testing director,
and consultant for test publishers, the U.S. Department of Education, national
legal and policy groups, and a variety of states and districts. Dr. Kopriva is a researcher and publishes and presents
regularly on the theory and practice of improving large-scale test validity and
comparability in general. She also is a leader in addressing these topics as
they relate to the measurement of academic knowledge and skills in racial,
cultural, and ethnic minority students and students with disabilities. She has
published books, monographs, research articles, and implementation papers. Four
in the last year that are currently published or in press address civil rights
issues in high stakes testing, and the theoretical and practical implications
of inclusive policies to assessment development, test selection and the custom
retrofitting of standard assessments in order to improve the quality of large
scale test results for students who are English language learners.
Kraft, Nancy (session1)
Kansas Parent Information Resource Center
Nancy
Kraft, Ph.D., is the Director of the Kansas Parent Information Resource Center. She most recently taught
graduate students in Teaching & Leadership at the University of Kansas and, prior to that, worked
for a Federal Comprehensive Center, consulting in Title I and
other federal programs nationwide.
Krashen, Stephen (session1 session2
session3)
University of Southern
California
Dr.
Stephen Krashen is Professor Emeritus of Learning and
Instruction, at the University of Southern California. He is an expert in the
field of linguistics, specializing in theories of language acquisition and
development. Much of his research has involved the study of non-English and
bilingual language acquisition. Recently Dr. Krashen's
research has focused on reading and its effects on language acquisition and
academic success. In the late 1970s, Stephen Krashen
began promoting the "natural approach" to language teaching, which he
laid out in a landmark text he co-wrote with Tracy Terrell. His ideas about the
difference between learning and acquisition have strongly influenced the field
of ESL/EFL for several decades. He has published hundreds of books and articles
and has been invited to deliver over 500 lectures at universities throughout
the United States and the rest of the world.
In the past five years, Stephen Krashen has fought to
save whole language and bilingual education in the United States and, more recently, has
been lobbying for "recreational reading" and better stocked school
libraries because of research relating both to higher achievement.
Kreicker, Kim (session1
session2)
Emporia State University
Dr.
Kim Kreicker has over fifteen years' experience in
ESOL education as a classroom teacher, teacher trainer, and former KSDE
Education Program Consultant. She is presently the ESOL Resource Specialist for
Project Best, a Title III-funded teacher training grant to Emporia State University.
Langan, Katherine (session1)
Sterling College
Dr.
Katherine Langan is Assistant Professor of Foreign
Language and Linguistics, at Sterling College. She earned her Ph.D. in
sociolinguistics from Georgetown University, and has worked in adult
education, ESL, foreign language acquisition, bilingual education, language
planning, interpreting and translating (Spanish, French, Poqomam,
K'iche', and Kaqchikel) in
the United States and Guatemala since 1975. She has been a
consultant and trainer of interpreters in the medical and educational contexts
since 1993.
Lee, Debbie J. (session1)
Pronunciation
Power, Inc.
Bio
forthcoming
Mantonya, Rebecca (session1)
Auburn-Washburn
USD 437
Rebecca
Mantonya is a K-12 ESOL teacher for Auburn-Washburn
USD 437 in Topeka. She taught in a mainstream
classroom in Lincoln, Nebraska, and had many ESL students
in her homeroom.
Markham, Paul (session1)
University of Kansas
Dr. Paul Markham is Associate Professor of Second
Language Education in the Dept. of Teaching & Leadership at the University of Kansas. He has taught
TESOL/Bilingual Ed. courses at KU for 14 years and has many refereed publications
and national conference presentations among his accomplishments. He has also
served as the primary director of several federally funded projects in his
field.
Martinez, Lupe (session1)
Metro College of Denver
Dr. Lupe Martinez has 8 years of elementary
education teaching experience, 5 years of early childhood
teaching/administrative experience and 25 years of college teaching experience.
He has presented at hundreds of national education conferences including Singapore on Multicultural Education,
Diversity, Bilingual Education and 21st Century Teacher Preparation. Dr.
Martinez in the summer of 2002 was a member of an American education delegation
to Beijing and Guillin, China, where his Power Point
presentation included works of his students on 21st Century Teacher
Preparation. Currently Dr. Martinez has a one-year cohort partnership with an
elementary school. The students enroll in the classroom management and
curriculum course in the fall and return in the spring and enroll in language
arts and social and an advanced reading class. It is a win-win situation for
the classroom teachers, the college students and of most importance the
children. He has conducted action research to demonstrate the benefits of this
model for teacher preparation.
Mayfield-Smith, James (session1)
Pearson
Learning Group
James
Mayfield-Smith has taught grades 1, 2, and K-8 reading and has served ESOL
students in a variety of diverse settings. His specialty is designing
strategies-based guided reading interventions for struggling learners. He
currently serves schools as the sales representative for Pearson Learning
Group.
McCartney, Courtney (session1)
Pittsburg State University
Courtney
McCartney is a graduate of Pittsburg State University and is
currently working towards the Kansas Endorsement in ESOL at Pittsburg State. Courtney
McCartney is a teacher at Meadowlark Elementary in a primary classroom, 2nd and
3rd grades, for USD 250, Pittsburg, Kansas.
Morrison, Heather (session1)
Newman University
Heather Morrison is the Director of the Newman University Western Kansas Center in Dodge City and also
directs the English as a Second Language Licensure Program. Her experience has led to the development of
a solid ESL program for teachers in the southwest corner of Kansas.
Murry, Kevin (session1)
Kansas State University
Dr. Kevin Murry, co-director of CLASSIC©
ESL/Dual Language Education at KSU, is currently an associate professor of
Foundations and Adult Education. His work in Educational Administration has
focused on ESL/Dual Language programming in secondary public schools. Dr. Murry's recent research has emphasized advocacy frameworks
for culturally and linguistically diverse students, the linguistic and
cross-cultural dynamics of ESL instruction, portfolio-based practicum
experiences, and school restructuring for linguistic diversity. His recent
publications have appeared in the Journal of Continuing Higher Ed, Educational
Considerations, and the Bilingual Research Journal.
Naab-Bullock, Lisa (session1)
Garden
City Public Schools USD 457
Lisa
Naab-Bullock has been a teacher in USD 457 for the
last eight years. Within those eight years, she has taught a year of special
education inclusion at the seventh grade level, three years of ESOL
Inclusion
at the fifth and sixth grade levels (the first all-inclusion model classroom
for USD 457), and, currently, at-risk four-year-olds. Ms. Naab-Bullock
graduated with a B.S. in elementary education from Kansas Newman College, obtained an ESOL
endorsement through Fort Hays State University and completed an M.S. in
elementary education, with an ESOL emphasis, at Kansas State University.
Palmberg, Edith (session1)
Olathe
Public Schools
Bio
forthcoming
Perez, Della (session1
session2
session3)
Kansas State University
Dr. Della Perez is currently an assistant professor in the College of Education at Kansas State University. Her work has
focused on ESL/Dual Language programming in elementary and secondary public
schools. Dr. Perez's recent research has emphasized literacy development for
ELL students, ELL parent literacy, advocacy frameworks for culturally and
linguistically diverse students and families, and theory into practice research
with practicing educators. Dr. Perez has
worked with districts and schools in Kansas, Utah, and Iowa.
Reid, Joy (session1
session2)
University of Wyoming
Dr.
Joy Reid is a Professor of English at the University of Wyoming, where she
teaches ESL courses, linguistics, and composition, prepares ESL teachers. She is director of the ESL support program
and works with the Wyoming ESL certification program. She has written textbooks
and teacher-resource books on ESL writing and edited two anthologies about ESL
students and learning styles. Her research interests include ESL writing
assessment, ESL learning styles, and the change process. Currently she is
completing an introduction to linguistics book and serving as a co-editor of an
ESL series for Houghton-Mifflin. She has a daughter who teaches at Oklahoma State
University and a son who is an organic farmer of 40 acres outside of Victor,
Idaho. Kumu, which means "teacher" in
Hawaiian, is her Birmalayan cat. The spring of 2004
is Joy Reid's final semester at the University of Wyoming. She is retiring and
moving full-time to Maui, where she appreciates "the diversity, the
anonymity and the weather." She especially enjoys tai-chi, mystery writer
Janet Evanovich and TCBY.
Renfrow, Melissa (session1)
University of Kansas
Melissa
Renfrow is a Lecturer in the Applied English Center at the University of Kansas. She received an M.A. in
TESL from the University of Colorado in 1995, and is currently a
doctoral student in education at the University of Kansas. She teaches advanced
reading/writing, speaking/listening and business/law English at the AEC, and grades SPEAK tests.
Renner, Christopher (session1)
Kansas State University
Bio
forthcoming
Ruiz, Olivia (session1)
Pearson
Learning Group
Olivia
Ruiz has worked for 27 years in Tucson Unifed as a
Bilingual/ESL classroom teacher, Title 1 Reading teacher and a Reading Recovery
Descubriendo La Lectura
teacher leader. She is a co-author of the Spanish
Observation Survey and Spanish
Developmental Reading Assessment. Presently she is an Educational
Consultant for Pearson Learning Group.
Sánchez-Aizcorbe, Alejandro (session1)
Fort Hays State University
Alejandro
Sánchez-Aizcorbe is an Assistant Professor of Modern
Languages at Fort Hays State University. He earned a bachelor of
arts in humanities with specialization in language and literature from Ponticia Universidad Catolica del
Peru, Lima, in Peru. His master
of arts degree in Spanish was obtained at the University of Kentucky. He is a doctoral candidate
in Spanish at the University of Kentucky, where his dissertation is
on the prophetic and apocalyptic voices of seven Peruvian writers. He has
published nearly 60 essays and articles, as well as two collections of short
stories and two novels. Currently in press is the first chapter of his novel, The Dissident, to be published by the Hostos Community College literary magazine, New York City. Mr. Sánchez-Aizcorbe
is fluent in Spanish, English, French, German and Latin.
Sehlaoui, Salim (session1
session2
session3)
Emporia State University
Dr.
Salim Sehlaoui is Assistant
Professor of TESOL Teacher Education and Applied Linguistics. He has eighteen
years teaching experience (9 years Secondary schools, 3 years Elementary, and 6
years as Teacher Educator) in various contexts. His TESOL teaching experience,
TESOL Teacher Education, and Computer Technology (2 Master degrees and an Ed.D in TESOL Teacher Education) have provided him with
knowledge and skills in the following areas: Applied Linguistics;
ESOL/Bilingual teacher education; second language acquisition; cross-cultural
communication; TESL/TEFL methodology; integrated and content-based
learner-centered curriculum and assessment; and computer-assisted language
learning and teaching. Salim is competent is five languages (Arabic, French,
English, Berber, and Spanish).
Sildus, Tatiana (session1
session2)
Pittsburg State University
Dr.
Tatiana Sildus holds a Ph.D. from Kansas State University. She is an assistant
professor at Pittsburg State University, where she teaches ESOL
courses. Tatiana serves as president of Kansas Foreign Language Association and
is the recipient of the Outstanding Graduate Student in Education and the Best
of Kansas awards.
Simonenko, Irene (session1)
Newcomer
Program, Omaha Public Schools Career Center
Irene A. Simonenko
came to the USA from Russia in 1999. She
received her M.Ed. degree in Curriculum & Instruction/Foreign Language
Education/Second Language Acquisition at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Irene has been working as an ESL high school teacher at the Newcomer Center
program/Omaha Public Schools in Nebraska since 2001.
Stuart, Melanie (session1)
Kansas
Department of Education
Melanie Stuart is the ESOL Program Consultant for
the Kansas Department of Education. She has worked as a middle school ESL
teacher in Quito, Ecuador; an elementary ESL teacher
in New York City Public Schools; a university ESL teacher at the University of Kansas, and an adult ESL teacher
in New
York,
Ecuador and Kansas City. Melanie Stuart earned a
Bachelor of Science in Foreign Language Education (Spanish major, French minor)
from the University of Kansas, and a Masters degree in
TESOL from City University of New York.
Tompkins, Andy (session1)
Kansas
Department of Education
Dr.
Andy Tompkins is the Commissioner of Education for the State of Kansas, and has served in this
capacity since 1996. Dr. Tompkins is recognized as one of the finest leaders in
education, and has earned numerous awards, including Kansas Superintendent of
the Year (1991-1992). He has also been asked to serve as chairperson for many
state and national organizations and committees.
Torres-Wier,
Connie (session1)
Pittsburg State University
A new marriage
brought Connie Torres-Wier to Kansas two years ago.
She comes from Mexican ancestry through her grandparents, and Cahuilla Indian. She enjoys working with migrants and is
currently enrolled at Pittsburg State University, earning a
degree in Spanish with an endorsement in ESOL.
Tran, Anh
(session1)
Wichita State University
Dr. Tran has earned her BA degree in Secondary
Education, MA in Educational Administration, and Ph.D. in Curriculum and
Instruction. She has been a classroom teacher, consultant, trainer, lecturer,
and administrator, both in the United States and overseas. Currently she
is an Assistant Professor at Wichita State University, teaching Teacher Education
courses and ESOL courses in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, College of Education. Side by side with
teaching, Dr. Tran has been traveling and giving presentations at international
as well as nation-wide conferences.
VanPatten, Bill (session1
session2)
University
of Illinois-Chicago
Dr.
Bill VanPatten is Professor of Spanish and
Linguistics, and Director of the Spanish Basic Language Program, at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His principal areas of
research are (1) the development of a theory of input processing in second
language acquisition that uses both cognitive and linguistic approaches; (2)
the impact of formal instruction on language acquisition and by extension; (3)
the development of explicit grammar instruction that is psycholinguistically
motivated. Bill VanPatten's research goals include
the unification of linguistic and non-linguistic approaches to studying
language acquisition, in addition to linking the disciplines of second language
acquisition theory and language teaching. In 1992, Bill VanPatten
served as the Chief Academic and Designer of the WGBH (Boston) National Telecourse/Video Project Destinos: An Introduction to Spanish. This $5
million project, funded by the Annenberg Foundation, is a weekly PBS serial of
52 episodes, applying comprehension based language teaching to home learning of
Spanish. His most recent text for ESOL and teachers of other languages is From Input to Output: A
Teacher’s Guide to Second Language Acquisition (2003, McGraw-Hill).
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Biodata Updated on January 4, 2004