SUSAN BAKER, Ph. D nd Ave. Sacramento, California (916)

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1 SUSAN BAKER, Ph. D nd Ave. Sacramento, California (916) EDUCATION 9/96-6/03 School of Education,. Ph.D. in Language, Learning, and Policy 9/95-6/96 School of Education,. M.A. in Language, Literacy and Culture 9/87-6/90 School of Education, San José State University Multiple Subject Teaching Credential, Bilingual, Cross-Cultural Emphasis, Spanish 3/84-7/84 Peace Corps Training, Frogmore, South Carolina and Thies, Senegal Training in community study and needs assessment methods, cross-cultural sensitivity, health, appropriate technologies, French, Wolof and Pulaar languages. 8/79-6/83 Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio B.A., Spanish/Psychology 8/81-6/82 CEUCA, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia Junior Year Abroad Program EXPERIENCE 8/09- present Associate Professor, Bilingual, Multicultural Education Department California State University at Sacramento 8/01- present Assistant Professor, Bilingual, Multicultural Education Department California State University at Sacramento 6/00-8/00 Lecturer, University of California at Santa Cruz; course taught: Methods of English Language Development University of California at Santa Cruz 9/99-8/01 Instructor, Stanford/San Francisco Unified School District CLAD Networked Learning Project, courses taught: Second Language Acquisition, Methodology of Bilingual, English Language Development and Content Instruction, Culture and Content Instruction 8/98-8/00 Support Provider, Applicants for National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) Board Certification, Early Childhood Generalists

2 8/98-6/99 Coordinator, Crosscultural, Language, and Academic Development (CLAD) Program; Stanford Teacher Education Program 2/98-6/98 Graduate Assistant, CLAD Examination Review Task Force California Commission on Teacher Credentialing 6/97-8/01 Instructor, Department of Education; courses taught: Bilingual Education, Second Language Acquisition Dominican College 3/97-6/99 Teaching Assistant, Department of Education; class: Bilingual Education, Professor Kenji Hakuta 6/95-9/95 Research Intern Center for Applied Linguistics 6/95-8/95 E.S.L. Instructor Wakefield High School, Arlington, Virginia 9/92-6/95 Bilingual Instructor for Kindergarten and First Grade VQUEST (Virginia Quality Education in Science and Technology) Instructor, Science Lead Teacher Key School, Dual Immersion Program, Arlington, Virginia 2/87-6/92 Bilingual Instructor Hall District School, Watsonville, California Mexicali, Mexico San Vicente Elementary School, Soledad, California Middleton School, Huntington Park, California 7/84-6/86 Rural Community Development Agent U.S. Peace Corps, Village of Mballo Cunda Thierno, Senegal PUBLICATIONS Baker, S., Bersola, T., De Leon, E., Phelps, P., Martín, M., Suarez, C. (2008) Promises and pitfalls, (in Wong, P. and Glass, R. eds.) Interrupting Tradition: Prioritizing Urban Children, their Teachers and Schools through Professional Development Schools; SUNY Press (forthcoming in 2009).

3 Wong, P., Murai, H., Berta-Ávila, M., William-White, L., Baker, S., Arellano, A., Echandía, A. (2006) The M/M Center: Meeting the Demand for Multicultural, Multilingual Teacher Preparation, Teacher Education Quarterly 34, 4 (Fall). Co-authored a observational protocol for teacher candidates specific to the goals of the BMED department, protocol was adopted by TPAC for the midterm and final observation forms (Spring, 2004) Baker, S., & Hakuta, K. Bilingual education and Latino civil rights Fernandez, E., & Baker, S. (1993). Assessment Portfolio, Grades K-5 Two-Way Spanish Partial Immersion Program. Arlington, VA: Arlington County Public Schools. (ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. ED ). AWARDS Outstanding Dissertations: Third Place. National Association for Bilingual Education, PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS 2008, Fall ELD as a Scaffold for Writing: A Functional Approach proposal accepted to present paper at the 2008 Regional California Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages Annual Conference, San José. 2008, Spring Creating an ELD Program that Supports EL Students Writing in English proposal accepted to present paper at the 2008 Bilingual Multicultural Education Department Annual Conference, Sacramento. Unable to attend conference due to family emergency. 2008, Spring ELD as a Scaffold for Writing: A Functional Approach proposal accepted to present paper at the 2008 California Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages Annual Conference, Sacramento. Unable to attend conference due to family emergency. Spring, 2008 ELD and English Writing: One TWIP's Journey Creating an ELD Program that Supports Students' English Writing Abilities with Cynthia Suarez, 2008 California Association for Bilingual Education Annual Conference, San José. Winter, 2007 Fostering a Relationship between English Language Development and Writing 2007 College of Education Round Table, CSU Sacramento. Summer, 2007 Reworking the ELD Standards for TWIPs: One School s Journey, with Maria Dowling, 2007 Two Way Immersion Program Conference, Burlingame.. Spring 2007 The Language Academy of Sacramento: A Two-Way Immersion Program Charter School 2007 Charter School Development Center Conference, Sacramento.

4 Spring, 2007 Bilingualism, Language Maintenance, and Supporting Students Learning Spanish as a Second Language, Language Academy of Sacramento, Sacramento. Spring, 2007 Teaching Writing to English Learners: A Functional Linguistic Approach 2007 California Association of Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages Conference, San Diego. Spring, 2007 Reinterpreting the ELD Standards for a Two-Way Immersion Program Thirteenth Annual BMED Multicultural Education Conference: Department of Bilingual/Multicultural Education, CSU Sacramento.. Summer, 2006 NCLB: The Last Nail in the Coffin of Bilingual Programs? 2006 Two Way Immersion Program Conference, Long Beach.. Summer, 2006 Reinterpreting the California ELD Standards for Two-Way Bilingual Immersion Programs 2006 Two Way Immersion Program Conference, Long Beach. Spring, 2006 Community Study: Transforming Educators and Communities through Acting on Local Definitions of the Public Interest (co-presented with Language Academy of Sacramento Charter School) AERA Conference, San Francisco. Spring, 2006 The M/M Center: Meeting the Demand for Multicultural, Multilingual Teacher Preparation (co-presented with BMED professors), 2006 AERA Conference, San Francisco. Summer, 2005 The SIOP Model of Teaching and Learning, American School of Bombay, India. Spring, 2006 Community Study: A tool for learning about school communities 2006 Twelfth Annual BMED Multicultural Education Conference: Department of Bilingual/Multicultural Education, CSU Sacramento. Summer, 2005 Language Objectives and Science Instruction Science Projects Related to Equity in Education (SPREE) Institute. Spring, 2005 Teaching Language Objectives: An Essential Part of Sheltered Instruction for EL Students, 2005 Eleventh Annual Multicultural Education Conference: Department of Bilingual/Multicultural Education, CSU Sacramento. Winter, 2005 Current Concerns in the Teaching of English Learning Students Testimony before the Assembly Committee on Education, Sacramento. Spring, White Bilingual Teachers and Self-Identification as Spanish Speakers, Tenth Annual Multicultural Education Conference: Department of Bilingual/Multicultural Education, CSU Sacramento. Winter, White Bilingual Teachers: A Study of Discourse of Difference and Classroom

5 Practice, National Association for Bilingual Education (NABE) Conference, Albuquerque. Winter, 2004 Anglo-American Anglophone Bilingual Teachers and Teaching the Other, A Look at the Linkages between Teachers Discourses, Teacher Backgrounds and Teacher Practice, NABE Conference, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Spring, 2003 Anglo-American Anglophone Bilingual Teachers and Teaching the "Other,": A Look at Meaning Making About Difference, 2003 AERA Conference, Chicago.. Spring, 2003 Anglo-American Anglophone Bilingual Teachers and Teaching the "Other,": A Look at Meaning Making About Difference, 2003 Ninth Annual Multicultural Education Conference: Department of Bilingual/Multicultural Education, CSU Sacramento. Spring, 2003 SIOP: Sheltered Instructional Observation Protocol with Arellano, Adele; Echandía, Adriana, 2003 Ninth Annual BMED Multicultural Education Conference: Department of Bilingual/Multicultural Education, CSU Sacramento, Sacramento.. Fall, 2002 White Bilingual Teachers Meaning Making about Difference, 2002 Colloquium Series, CSU Sacramento. Spring, 2002 White Bilingual Teachers Discourses about Difference 2002 Eighth Annual BMED Multicultural Education Conference: Department of Bilingual/Multicultural Education, CSU Sacramento, Sacramento.. Spring, 2000 Anglo American Anglophone Bilingual Teachers: Beliefs and Practice, 2000 American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans.. Spring, 1998 A Look at Beliefs about American Society: Interviews with Four Head Start Teachers, 1998 American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, Montreal. Spring, 1998 Sí o No, Spanish Language Use in the Dual-Immersion Classroom, 1997 American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, Chicago. Fall, 1996 Language Acquisition Strategies for the Second Language Classroom, 1996, Arlington County Public Schools. Fall, 1996 Dual Immersion Programs: A Reform of Bilingual Education?, 1996 Berkeley- Stanford Symposium, University of California at Berkeley. Winter, 1995 Developing Problem Solving Skills in the Second Language Classroom, 1995, American School of San Salvador, El Salvador. Spring, 1994 Developing Problem Solving Skills in the Second Language Classroom, 1994, Arlington County Public Schools.

6 Winter, 1994 The Biliteracy Immersion Program 1994 Asilomar Reading Conference, Asilomar. CURRICULUM WRITING 2007 Matching the CA ELA Standards Blueprints with the CA ELD Standards, Language Academy of Sacramento (LAS), Sacramento ELD Standards Reinterpreted for Two-Way Immersion Programs, in collaboration with the faculty of the Language Academy of Sacramento (LAS), Sacramento Science Process Skills for the Kindergarten, First and Second Grade Classrooms, Arlington County School District, Arlington, Virginia Portfolio Assessment in the Dual Immersion Program, Science Fair Manual- Using the Science Workshop Model, Arlington County School District, Arlington, Virginia.

7 GRANTS 2009 High School Readiness. Grant proposal written on behalf of The Language Academy of Sacramento, and co-authored with Eduardo de León and Fátima Castaneda. Proposal did not receive funding Specialty Crop Grant: Student Learning through School Gardens. Grant proposal written on behalf of The Language Academy of Sacramento, and co-authored with Yumi Sera. Proposal did not receive funding Improving Literacy Through School Libraries: U.S. Department of Education. Grant proposal written on behalf of The Language Academy of Sacramento, and co-authored with Yumi Sera. Proposal did not receive funding Research and Creative Activity Grant: Teaching Writing to English Learners: A Functional Approach Pedagogy Enhancement Grant: Teaching English Learners Narrative Writing Skills: A Functional Linguistic Approach. Fall, 2008 (declined due to acceptance of Research and Creative Activities Grant) Pedagogy Enhancement Grant: Teaching English Learners Writing Skills: A Functional Linguistic Approach Charter School Start-up Grant for the Language Academy of Sacramento, a federally funded grant for $450,000, Co-authored with school community CLAD Networked Learning Project- a Title VII grant for $450,000 to fund the planning and implementation of long distance learning CLAD courses for San Francisco Unified School District teachers. Cowritten with Kenji Hakuta, Lydia Stack, Elsa Schirling and Daria Witt Energy Conservation- a grant funding sets of literature books to promote the integration of Science and Language Arts instruction Literacy at Home- a grant funding literature in Spanish and English, bookbags and Parent Education nights, to promote parent involvement in student literacy Literature in the Classroom-a grant funding sets of literature books to be used as a supplement to basal instruction, 1989 LANGUAGE ABILITIES Spanish, Pulaar, French