Consulting Experience

Keynotes Nationwide (Fall, 2005)

• CABE: California Association of Bilingual Educators’ English Language Learner Conference
• OCRA: Orange County Reading Association’s Annual Fall Conference (Orange, CA)
• Spring Branch IUSD: Early Childhood Conference (Houston, TX)

Workshops at National, State, and Local Conferences

• NABE: National Association of Bilingual Educators, 24th, 25th & 27th Annual Conferences
• CABE: California Association of Bilingual Educators’ English Language Learner Conferences, 17th, 19th, 20th–30th Annual State Conferences, 4th–9th OC CABE Conferences
• CRA: California Reading Association’s 31st, 33rd–39th Annual State Conferences
• OCRA: 28th Annual Fall Conference; Corona Norco Annual Kindergarten Conference
• It’s Elementary Conference, and Early Literacy Extravaganza: Orange County Office of Education

Professionally Sponsored Workshops Nationwide (Independent Consultant)

• Rigby’s Spanish Guided Reading Seminars in: Houston, TX; Las Vegas, NV; and in CA: Monterey, San Jose, Fresno, Commerce, San Diego, Baldwin Park, and Los Angeles
• Rigby 's Train the Trainer Seminars: 3 day seminars in Costa Mesa, San Francisco, and Chicago

School Staff Development Days and Workshops

• Workshop Topics Included:
  • Implementing a Balanced Literacy Program; Early Literacy; Guided Reading; Shared Reading; Phonics; Spelling; Teaching Skills and Strategies; Writer’s Workshop; Leveling Texts; Authentic Assessment; ESL Strategies; Improving Reading and Language of ELLs; and all were offered Bilingually, 1994–2006
• Schools
  • California: Lennox SD; Los Angeles USD; Newport-Mesa USD; Burbank USD; Pomona USD; Palmdale SD; Hacienda La Puente USD; Santa Ana USD; Pasadena SD; Baldwin Park USD; Mountain View SD; El Monte SD; Norwalk-La Mirada USD; San Diego SD; Hawthorne SD; San Ysidro SD; Fullerton SD; Huntington Beach SD; Ocean View SD; La Habra USD; Lancaster SD; Tustin SD;
    Fountain Valley SD; Chula Vista USD; Azusa USD; Westminster SD; Chino USD
  • Nevada: Las Vegas SD
  • Pennsylvania: Lancaster-Lebanon Intermediate Unit 13
  • Texas: Houston ISD, Conroe SD; Spring Branch IUSD; Weslaco ISD

Workshops for County Offices of Education and Staff Development Centers

• Lancaster-Lebanon Intermediate Unit 13, and Education Service Agency:  Workshops for K–8 teachers on Balancing Reading and Language Learning: Increasing Comprehension for All Students; Improving the Vocabulary Development of All Students
• Los Angeles County Office of Education: Workshops for K-2 Teachers on Guided Reading
• San Bernardino County Office of Education: Workshops for Their Early Literacy Trainings
• Orange County Office of Education: REACH Workshops; Paraprofessional Seminars; Workshops on Good First Teaching; Bilingual Workshops for Teachers; Workshops for Moonlight Series
• Santa Cruz County Office of Education: Spanish and English Guided Reading Workshops
• South West Regional Laboratory: Seminar for Principals of Long Beach USD on Balanced Literacy
• Multifunctional Resource Center, San Diego State University: Literacy Workshops for Teachers

Resident Consultant

• Worked as a resident consultant for a period of a year at the following school districts, providing ongoing staff development and coaching as well as demonstration lessons for K–5 teachers:
  • San Ysidro School District, California
  • Lennox School District, California

Summer Literacy Institutes

Presented at Millersville University's ESL Summer Institute in Pennsylvania on Balancing Reading and Language Learning, and her book was used as the core book for the whole institute. 

• Planned, Developed, Coordinated, Presented and Ran two-week Literacy Institutes for 60 teachers and 300 children each session on Shared Reading, Guided Reading and Writer’s Workshop for:
  • Orange County Department of Education: in Tustin USD and in Fountain Valley USD
  • Newport Mesa Unified School District: at Whittier & Kaiser Primary; at Whittier & Wilson; and Presented Follow-up Workshops for teachers in all 4 institutes throughout the school year
• Planned, Developed, and Presented Enhanced Biliteracy Kindergarten and 1st Grade Institutes for 300 teachers:
  • San Diego City Schools; and Presented Follow-up Workshops throughout the school year