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Appendix: Committee and Staff Biographies
Appendix: Committee and Staff Biographies
Pages 315-324
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of the American Psychological Association, an inaugural fellow of the American Educational Research Association, and a fellow of the Association for Psychological Science. He was the chair of the Board on Testing and Assessment at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and has served on several consensus studies, including the Committee on Developmental Outcomes and Assessment of Young Children and most recently on the Committee on the Evaluation of NAEP Achievement Levels.
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Her co-authored recent books include Children's Multilingual Development and Education: Fostering Linguistic Resources in Home and School Contexts; Language, Literacy, and Learning in the STEM Disciplines: How Language Counts for English Learners; SelfRegulation in Learning: The Role of Language and Formative Assessment; and Progressing Student Language Day by Day. She is a faculty research partner at the National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST)
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Early Career Award. Her research focuses on effective preparation models and support structures for teachers, effective elementary mathematics teaching for English language learners, and curriculum standards and policies.
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, she has developed engineering curricula for preschool through middle school students and professional development for their teachers. She previously served as director of the Tufts University Center for Engineering Educational Outreach, where her work focused on integrating engineering with science, technology, and math in professional development for K–12 teachers.
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Her research explores how to organize schools and school systems for equity, particularly for English learners and immigrant students. Her current work uses mixed methods, including social network analysis, to examine how organizational structures, norms, and beliefs, influence policy implementation and teachers' professional learning in bi/multilingual contexts.
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She is currently leading collaborate research to develop instructional materials aligned with the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) to support the language development of elementary students, including English learners.
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. She has received numerous awards and honors including Walmart Local Teacher of the Year, Caddo Parish Elementary Teacher of the Year, a Fund for Teachers fellowship to study in Spain, a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship to study the American skyscraper in Chicago, numerous grants to support science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)
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A linguist, she uses systemic functional linguistics to explore meaning in language in ways that illuminate issues in education, with a focus on students for whom English is a second or additional language. Her recent Institute of Education Sciences-funded research with Annemarie Palincsar explored ways of supporting English learners in elementary school through use of metalanguage that brings a focus on meaning to discussion about language in the texts students read and write.
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She also co-authored two award-winning books for practitioners that translate findings of National Academies' reports for a broader audience, on using research in K–8 science classrooms and on information science education. Prior to joining the National Academies, she worked as a senior research associate at the Institute of Education Sciences in the U.S.
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As a member of the Graduate Student Association Lobby Corps, she advocated for state support to accommodate recruitment and retention of renowned faculty, and support for building infrastructure and maintenance. She received a doctorate degree in biomedical sciences from the University of California, San Diego.
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