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Bilingualism, applied linguistics, codeswitching, bilingual education, dual language education.

My work examines the language and educational experiences of marginalized learners, with a particular emphasis on how teachers, institutions, and policies shape opportunities for multilingual students across PK–12 and higher education. I draw on sociolinguistic, critical, and pedagogical lenses to investigate teacher preparation for linguistically and culturally diverse learners, as well as processes of first and multilingual language development in classroom settings.

Current projects center on
• Linguistically responsive instruction and humanizing and critical approaches for teachers of multilingual learners
• Teachers’ beliefs, ideologies, and everyday practices in diverse learning environments
• Support for international students (MISs - multilingual international students)
• Fostering belonging for minortized students; current project on belonging of Muslim students in higher education
• Preservice teachers’ writing pedagogy

Bilingual/Dual Language Education programs; equitable access to specialized school programs; EL learner engagement; parent choice; gentrification; family language policy; and social justice

* Dual Language Bilingual Education/ Educación bilingüe
* Research-practice partnerships with multilingual communties / Colaboración entre la investigación y la práctica con comunidades multilingües
* Preparing teachers to build upon multilingual learners' linguistic and cultural funds of knowledge/ Preparación docente para valorar el multilingüismo
* Immigrant youth advocacy and language learning for social justice/ Activismo de los jóvenes inmigrantes y aprendizaje de idiomas para la justicia social
* Peer interaction and language exchange/ Interacción e intercambio de idiomas
* Translanguaging, biliteracy, multilingual and multimodal literacies/ Translingüismo, lectoescritura multilingüe y multimodal
* Teacher learning and collaboration to center equity and justice for multilingual learners/Aprendizaje y colaboración docente para centrar la equidad y la justicia para los estudiantes multilingües

digital media literacy; civic education; history/social studies education; teacher education; educational technology and equity

Language Policy, language educator preparation, education foundations, philosophy of schooling, language-in-education policies

Task-based student-centered mathematics teaching. Equity and diversity in mathematics education. Mathematics education of emergent multilingual students