Barbara Flores' Selected Presentations
Consulting Experience
 | Barbara consults across the nation, concentrating her efforts in California and other areas of the Southwest. |
Selected Presentations
| Her experiences span across the board but Barbara has concentrated her efforts on literacy in bilingual education programs; Spanish literacy, and expository writing. |
Projects/Partnerships in Professional Development
| Barbara has consulted with schools on teaching English language learners in Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and other areas of California. Her partnerships created successful early literacy programs. |
Presentation Topics
| Invite Barbara to present on the following topics: Beginning Literacy and Biliteracy Development (reading and writing, pre-K–2); Second Language Development across the Content Areas, (K-5); Beginning ELL Readers; Struggling ELL Readers; and Teaching English Language Learners (mainstream teachers, K-5).
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Published Works by Barbara Flores
Publications
| Barbara has published several articles in books on bilingual education topics, including this chapter, "Biliteracy as Social Practice in Schooling: A Bilingual First Grader’s Journey in Learning to Read and Write in L1 and L2.” She also wrote the chapter, “The Intellectual Presence of the Deficit View of Spanish Speaking Children in the Educational Literature during the 20th Century.” Learn more about Barbara's publications here.
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Journal Articles
| Barbara's work has been published in numerous journals including Language Arts, Reading Teacher, and Applied Linguistics. |
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Related Resources
Education and Professional Experience
| This talented consultant has her Ph.D. from the University of Arizona, Graduate School of Education in Reading, Higher Education Administration, & Bilingual Education. Her Masters is from California State University, Sacramento in Reading Education. Barbara was in the classroom as an ESL instructor and reading teacher.
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Honors and Awards
| Barbara is the recipient of numerous awards including the Annual Award for Inspiring the Teacher and Learner to All of Us and Our Students, Bilingual Directors Association, Los Angeles County; The Esperanza Award for Unselfish Service to the Latino Community in the Inland Empire, California Chicano News Media Association, Inland Chapter; Recognition for Outstanding Support, California Statewide Association of Mexican American Educators, October 29, 2005. Read more here!
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Professional and Academic Memberships
| Barbara values belonging to professional organizations, including NCTE, International Reading Association (IRA), Association for Childhood Education International (ACEI), American Educators Research Association (AERA), National Association of Bilingual Educators (NABE), Center for Expansion of Language and Thinking (CELT) and more.
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