I am a Professor in the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at UCLA.   I teach in the doctoral program on Urban Schooling and in the Teacher Education Program, where I also serve as Director of Faculty.  The courses I have taught at UCLA include:  

                . Education 409:  Language Structure, Acquisition and Use

                . Education 229:  Language Issues in Education

                . Education 229:  Immigrant Youth, Ethnography and Education

                . Education 229:  Sociocultural Language and Literacies

                . Education 19:    Children and Migration

My work is interdisciplinary in nature, and I am affiliated with several interdisciplinary programs on campus: 

                . The Culture, Brain and Development Program

                . The Interdisciplinary Relationship Studies Program

                . The Migration Studies Co-facilitator of the winter seminar series in

                   which we bring speakers to campus for an interdisciplinary look at

                   migration issues.

Before joining UCLA’s faculty I taught in the School of Education and Social Policy at Northwestern University, where I had a joint appointment in the Learning Sciences and Human Development and Social Policy.  There I taught course on language, literacy and immigrant youth as well as ethnographic methods for research.

I also served as a bilingual classroom teacher in Los Angeles Unified School District  from 1983-1993.  That is where my interest in children, language, literacy, migration, social justice and education really took form.

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