CURRICULUM VITAE Adele René Arellano, Ph.D. 4124 Crondall Drive Sacramento, CA, 95864 916.489.4283 ara@csus.edu Education: 1995-2002 Stanford University Department of Education Language, Literacy, and Culture Program Doctoral Degree, 2002 1994-1995 California State University, Sacramento Master s Degree Program: Bilingual/Multicultural Education Department 1984-1985 University of California, Davis Teacher Credential Program Secondary Teaching Credential, English 1979-1983 Saint Mary s College, Moraga English Bachelor of Arts Degree Languages: High speaking, reading, and writing proficiency in English and Spanish Employment: 2009-present Professor Bilingual/Multicultural Education Department CSU, Sacramento 2009 present Co-Director, RIAP CSU, Sacramento Reading Institute for Academic Preparation CSU Early Assessment Program, CSU Chancellor s Initiative 2004-2009 Associate Professor Bilingual/Multicultural Education Department CSU, Sacramento
A. R. Arellano, Page 2 1998-2004 Assistant Professor Bilingual/Multicultural Education Department CSU, Sacramento 1996-1998 Research Assistant Program for Complex Instruction Department of Education Stanford University 1996-1997 Teaching Assistant Stanford Teacher Education Program Department of Education Stanford University 1994-1995 Research Assistant Optimal Learning Environment Project School of Education Sacramento State University 1994 Curriculum Specialist Summer Youth Employment and Training Program Sacramento State University 1989-1992 Teacher (Grades: 8-12) Will C. Wood High School Vacaville Unified School District Vacaville, CA 1988-1989 Teacher (Grades: 9-12) Logan High School New Haven Unified School District Union City, CA 1985-1987 Teacher (Grades: 9-12) Vacaville High School Vacaville Unified School District Vacaville, CA Consultancies: 2008 Workshop Co-Presenter, EUSD Professional Development: Effective Practices for Secondary EL grades 7-12, Scaffolding Instruction Day 1, Esparto High School, Esparto CA March 3 A.R. Arellano, Page 3
Workshop Co-Presenter, EUSD Professional Development: Effective Practices for Secondary EL grades 7-12, Building Academic Language, Day 2, Esparto High School, Esparto CA March 10 Workshop Co-Presenter, EUSD Professional Development: Effective Practices for Secondary EL grades 7-12, Learning Strategies, Day 3, Esparto High School, Esparto CA March 24 Workshop Presenter, Adopting Effective EL Instructional Practices: SIOP Professional Development Day 1, Vacaville High School, Vacaville, CA, January 16 Workshop Presenter, Adopting Effective EL Instructional Practices: SIOP Professional Development Day 2, Vacaville High School, Vacaville, CA, January 31 Workshop Presenter, Adopting Effective EL Instructional Practices: SIOP Professional Development Day 3, Vacaville High School, Vacaville, CA, February 12 2007 Co-Presenter McClatchy In-Service: Quality Instruction for English Language Learners at the Secondary Level Session 2. McClatchy High School, Sacramento, CA March 6 Co-Presenter McClatchy In-Service: Quality Instruction for English Language Learners at the Secondary Level. McClatchy High School, Sacramento, CA January 11 2005-2006 Trainer, Comprehensive Teacher Education Initiative (CTEI), San Juan Unified School District, Sacramento, November, January, February, April, June 2004 Faculty Presenter, Science Project Related to Equity and Excellence (SPREE) Summer Institute, July 29-30, August 2-13 2002-2004 Literacy and Second Language Acquisition Consultant Grant Unified School District, Sacramento, CA A.R. Arellano, Page 4
2000-2002 Literacy and Language Acquisition Consultant Performance Fact, Educational External Evaluators Sacramento, CA 1996-2002 Literacy Consultant/Presenter Optimal Learning Environment California State University, Sacramento Fellowships/Grant Awards: Linguistic Minority Research Institute Grant, Can Reading Intervention Replace English Language Development: A Case Study at the Secondary Level, 2003-2004, $23,200 California State University Forgivable Loan/Doctoral Incentive Program, 1997-2002 Spencer Research Grant, Stanford University, 1998 U.S. Department of Education, OBEMLA Doctoral Fellowship-Stanford University, 1995-1996 Publications: 2007 Wong, P.L., Murai, H., Berta-Ávila, M., William-White, L., Baker, S., Arellano, A., & Echandía, A. (2007). The M/M center: Meeting the demand for multicultural, multilingual teacher preparation. Teacher Education Quarterly, 34( 4), pp. 9-26* Berta-Ávila, M. I., Ruiz, N. T., Lozano, A. S., & Arellano, A. R. (2007). Survey assesses EL teacher readiness. CATESOL News, 39(2), pp. 16-17. Available at http://www.catesol.org/catnews0807.pdf. 2003 Bilingual students acquisition of academic language: A study of the language processes and products in a Complex Instruction classroom. Unpublished Doctoral Manuscript. Stanford University, March, 2003 A.R. Arellano, Page 5
1999 Complex Instruction: Equity in cooperative learning classrooms Theory Into Practice, 38, 80-86. (Co-authors: Elizabeth G. Cohen, Rachel A. Lotan, & Beth A. Scarloss) 1996 "Academic invulnerability among a select group of Latino/a university students Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 18 (4), 475-485. (Co-author: Amado Padilla) Professional Presentations: 2008 Institute Presenter, Expository Reading and Writing Curriculum, Summer/Fall Institute 2008, Sacramento County of Education, Day 3, October 16 Workshop Presenter, Reacquaint Yourself with the Early Assessment Program (EAP) and the Expository Reading and Writing Curriculum, Sacramento County of Education, September 23 Institute Presenter, Expository Reading and Writing Curriculum, Summer/Fall Institute 2008, Sacramento County of Education, Day 1 & 2, June 24-25 Institute Co- Presenter, Expository Reading and Writing Curriculum Folsom- Cordova School District, Day 1 & 2, June 4-5 (with Dr. Marcy Merrill) Institute Presenter, Academic Literacy and its Connection to College Preparedness, CSU Reading Institute for Academic Preparation (RIAP), Sacramento State University, May 17 th Co- Presenter, Teacher Candidates Knowledge and Disposition Related to English Learners. California Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, Sacramento, CA April 11 (with Dr. Margarita Berta- Ávila & Dr. Albert Lozano) Co-Presenter Preparing Teacher Candidates to Work with English Learners: Survey Results from Two California Teacher Education Programs Poster Session. American Educational Research Association, New York, NY March 26 (with Dr. Albert Lozano, Ms. Michele Steel & Dr. Margarita Berta- Ávila) A.R. Arellano, Page 6
2007 Presenter, Quality Instruction for English Language Learners at the Secondary Level: Overview of the Sheltered Instruction Observational Protocol. (SIOP), Vacaville High School, Vacaville, CA, November 15 Panelist, Scheduling the Teaching Event and Introducing it to Students. Building Knowledge and Practice: PACT Implementation Conference, UC Santa Barbara, CA, October 5 & 6 Co-Presenter, A Survey to Assess Teacher Candidates Preparation and Preference to Work with English Learners: Pilot Results from Two Universities. UC Linguistic Minority Research Institute 20 th Annual Conference, Tempe, AZ May 4 (with Dr. Margarita Berta-Á, Dr. Albert Lozano & Dr. Nadeen Ruiz) Co-Presenter, A Survey Assessing Preparation to Work with English Learners. California Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, San Diego, CA April 14 (with Dr. Margarita Berta-Ávila, Dr. Albert Lozano & Dr. Nadeen Ruiz) Co- Presenter, A Survey to Assess Teacher Candidates Preparation and Preference to Work with English Learners: Pilot Results from Two Universities. American Educational Research Association, Chicago,, IL April 10 (with Dr. Margarita Berta- Ávila, Dr. Rachel Lotan, Dr. Albert Lozano & Dr. Nadeen Ruiz) 2006 Panel Moderator, A View from the Trenches 18 th Annual Envisioning California Conference: How Well Are We Preparing Out Young People for Life after High School? Sacramento Convention Center, September 21-22 The M/M Center: Meeting the Demand for Multicultural, Multilingual Teacher Preparation. American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, CA April 11 (Co-Presenter with Dr. Margarita Berta-Ávila, Dr. Sue Baker, Dr. José Cintrón, Ms. Adriana Echandía, Dr. Sue Heredia, Dr. Harold Murai, Dr. Nadeen Ruiz, Dr. Lisa William-White & Dr. Pia Wong) 2005 Panelist, Discipline Workshop for Education 2005 Northern California Forum for Diversity in Graduate Education, CSU Sacramento, October 29 Proposal Co-Writer, Examining middle school curricula in action: Drawing English language learners into academic literacy. American Educational Research Association (Proposal submitted to Division G August- Declined November) A.R. Arellano, Page 7
Invited Participant, Secondary EL Conference, Policies to Improve the Schooling of English Language Learners in California Secondary Schools. Sponsored by UC Davis School of Education and the William Flora Hewlett Foundation. Sacramento, May 12 2004 Co-Presenter, Contra la corriente [Against the tide]: A Critical Approach to Preparing Pre-Service K-12 Teachers to Work with Culturally/Linguistically Different Students Post-SB2042. Second Annual International Conference on Teacher Education and Social Justice, San Francisco, CA July 24 (with Dr. José Cintrón, Ms. Adriana Echandía & Dr. Albert Lozano) Co-Presenter, Improving the Quality of Instruction for English Language Learners at the Secondary Level. Small is Not Enough: SCUSD SLC Conference, Sacramento, CA February 28 (with Dr. Margarita Berta- Ávila & Ms. Adriana Echandía) 2003 Can Reading Intervention Take the Place of English Language Development? A Case Study at the Secondary Level. UC Linguistic Minority Research Institute Teacher Research Grant Award. Woodland Unified School District, June 2003-June 2004* Co-presenter, 2042 Faculty Development Workshop: Two Day SIOP Training. California State University, Sacramento, May 28-29 (with Susan Baker, Adriana Echandía, and Rebeca García-González) Co-presenter Introduction to the SIOP. Multicultural Education Conference, California State University, Sacramento, March 1 (with Dr. Susan Baker and Ms. Adriana Echandía), 2002 Presenter, Effective ELD and SDAIE Strategies for Middle and High School English Language Learners: Accessing the Content and Developing Academic Language In-service for district administrators, Grant Unified School District, August 26-27 Presenter, Effective ELD Strategies Pre-Service Training for Summer School English Learner Literacy Academy Grant Unified School District, Sacramento, CA, May 17 Co-presenter, Content Reading Comprehension Strategies for Middle and High School EL Students In-service for science and social science district teachers, Grant Unified School District, Sacramento, CA, March 22 A.R. Arellano, Page 8
Presenter, Effective Strategies for Middle and High School English Language Learners: Accessing the Content and Developing Academic Language. Multicultural Education Conference, California State University, Sacramento, March 2 2001 Panelist, Bilingual Students Acquisition of Academic English in a Complex Instruction Classroom. National Council of Teacher s of English Annual Conference, Baltimore, MD, November, 15-18. 2000 Presenter, Bilingual Students Acquisition of Academic English in a Complex Instruction Classroom. American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA., April 26. Workshop Co-Presenter, Students Who Struggle with Reading, Writing, and the Acquisition of English. Martin Luther King, JR Junior High School, Sacramento, CA. May, 2000 (with Dr. Nadeen Ruiz), Co-Presenter, Students Who Struggle with Reading, Writing, and the Acquisition of English. Rio Tierra Fundamental, Junior High School, Sacramento, CA. May, 2000 (with Dr. Nadeen Ruiz) Workshop Co-Presenter Students Who Struggle with Reading, Writing, and the Acquisition of English. Grant Union High School, Sacramento, CA. June, 2000 (with Dr. Nadeen Ruiz), Guest lecturer, Introduction to SDAIE Principles and Methods EDBM 170 Summer intersession, CSUS, June 2000 Co-Presenter, Migrant/OLE (Optimal Learning Environment) Annual Literacy Institute. Presentation and training focused on instructional strategies for teaching expository writing to students in bilingual and multilingual middle and high school classrooms. Sacramento, CA. August, 2000 1999 Panelist, Latino/a University Students Perceptions of Equity and Access American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, Montreal, Canada April 20 Co-Presenter, Migrant/OLE (Optimal Learning Environment) Annual Literacy Institute. Presentation and training focused on instructional strategies for teaching expository writing to students in bilingual and multilingual middle and high school classrooms. Sacramento, CA. August, 1999 A.R. Arellano, Page 9 Panelist, Carreras de Ensenanza Solano College Annual Chicano/Latino Educational Youth Conference, Suisun, CA October 23, 1999
1997 Panelist, "Academic Invulnerability Among a Select Group of Latino/a University Students American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL March 25 Panelist, "Academic Invulnerability Among a Select Group of Latino/a University Students National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies, Sacramento, CA April 17 Professional Association Membership: American Educational Research Association * Hispanic Research SIG * Division G - Social Context of Education California Association for Bilingual Education California Association for Bilingual Education, Sacramento and Larger Surrounding Areas/SALSA (Local Affiliate) California Teachers of English to Speakers of other Languages National Council of Teachers of English References Dr. Pia Wong Nancy Brynelson, Co-Director Professor Center for the Advancement of Reading Bilingual/Multicultural Education Dept. California State University Office of the Chancellor California State University, Sacramento 6000 J Street, Modoc Hall 2003 6000 J Street Sacramento, CA 95819-6018 Sacramento, CA 95819-6079 916.278.4581 916.278.6139 Dr. Harold Murai Emeritus Professor Bilingual/Multicultural Education Dept. California State University, Sacramento 6000 J Street Sacramento, CA 95819-6079 916.278.7018