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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Associate Professor, Special Education
The University of New Mexico
Within Special Education, I work within the Concentration in Intellectual and Severe Disabilities: Studies in Educational Equity for Diverse Exceptional Learners
I also sit on the faculty of Bilingual Education/TESOL and Educational Linguistics at UNM.
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 by prior appointment only from week 1- week 16 of the regular semester, excepting Fall, Thanksgiving, and Spring breaks:
- Thursdays, 5:30-6:30
- Fridays, 4:00-6:30 (off campus location)
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. My work in this area includes:
- bilingual special education (e.g. disproportionate representation),
- language socialization and communication development among culturally and linguistically diverse populations,
- portrayals of individuals with disability in the media, and
- alternative assessment/evaluation.