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"Only by being true to the full growth of all of the individuals who make it up, can society by any chance be true to itself."  (John Dewey, 1900)
Julia in her garden
Teaching is not telling -- 
it's about my students, not me.
To teach is to provide the time, 
experiences, and supports 
necessary for learners to 
develop personally valued 
knowledge, understanding, 
and skills. My role as a 
university educator is to 
collaboratively construct 
and ferociously protect 
that learning space.
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Julia Scherba de Valenzuela, Ph.D.
Program Coordinator, Educational Linguistics and 
Associate Professor, Special Education (Mental Retardation and Severe Disabilities Concentration: Studies in Educational Equity for Diverse Exceptional Learners)
The University of New Mexico


The primary purpose of this website is to provide:
  • information about my courses to enrolled and prospective students,
  • an alternative means to access the materials and content of my courses, and
  • additional resources related to these courses.

Office Hours (Spring 2008):
  • Appointment-only office hours (prior appointment needed):
    • Mondays 3-4
    • Tuesdays 3-4
    • Thursdays 3-3:30
    • some Fridays, 4-5
NOTE: I will not be available for office hours during UNM Spring Break, March 17-21, 2006.
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I have been a faculty member in the College of Education at UNM since 1998. My work is shaped around the notion of disability as a social construction and I currently am exploring that idea within the areas of bilingual special education, alternative assessment/evaluation, and language socialization and communication development among culturally and linguistically diverse populations.

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