Addendum Exhibit 5.2.a Qualifications and Experience Name Tenure

Addendum Exhibit 5.2.a Qualifications and Experience
The University of Texas at Brownsville
Name
Tenure Recent Experience in public schools
Status
Ayala, Javier Adjunct Taught K-8 in BISD until 2012.
BussertTenured BISD, 21st C. Community Learning Center Program: 2011Webb, Kathy
2013: 9 elem. and middle schools. Mentored, trained, and
evaluated pre-service teachers who mentored and tutored the
children. Surveyed and interviewed the children, teachers, staff,
and mentors. Coordinated school field-trips to UTB and
interacted with the children. Played reading games with the
children and their teachers. Evaluated student teacher lesson
plans. Observed and evaluated one student teacher’s lesson
implementation in a public middle school. Coordinate and
evaluate field experiences for students in EDLI 4351 in K-12
public schools, 2012 and 2014. May 2006-2010, 2013: Afterschool Tutorial & Gardening Project in Cameron Park with
BISD children.
Butler, Janice Tenured Collaborations with K-12 teachers and administrators in the Rio
Grande Valley for the Master Technology Teacher certification
process. Ahead of the Future 2011 Technology and Education
Conference Director. HalloGREEN Student Science Day
Creator & Director. Storm Fury Community Science Day for
Children – Director – Coordinated the field trip of 400 BISD
children for the morning StormFury activities.
Cano, Jaime
Lecturer Have collaborated with teachers and administrators in
Harlingen CISD. Have provided assistance for substitute
teachers. School Board Member- Harlingen CISD
Cavazos,
Tenure- Mentor in Corpus Christi Independent School District.
Lionel Javier Track
Volunteer at Ben Milam Elementary in Harlingen, Texas.
Mentor with GATE program with high school students at Texas
A&M University-Corpus Christi.
Chamberlain, Tenured Brownsville ISD Special Services Committee (ad hoc, board
Steve
appointed). Volunteer at Sharp Elementary. University
supervisor of student teachers 2014.
Conatser,
Tenured Adapted Physical educations class students and he worked at a
Phillip.
BISD Special Olympics event (Basketball, bowling, weight
lifting, flag football, and track and field). University supervisor
of student teachers 2014.
Corbeil,
Tenured Episcopal Day School in Brownsville Executive Board member
Maria Elena
& Chair, Technology Strategic Planning Committee; Web
designer. Episcopal Day School Board member and secretary.
Corbeil,
Tenured Episcopal Day School web design collaboration.
Joseph Rene
One West University Boulevard • Brownsville, Texas 78520 • utb.edu
Curtis, Mary
Diaz, Leticia
Diaz, Maria
E
Duarte,
Georgianna
Freeman,
David
Freeman,
David
Fuentes,
Angelica
Maria
Garcia
Casares,
Carmen
Garcia, Juan
O.
Garza,
Gonzalo
Goldberg,
Susan
Tenured 2011 Early Childhood Special Needs Workforce Solutions of
Cameron County, Presented to child care providers, South
Padre Island. Summer camp for local children with autism
(grades 1-8) (2010-2011).
Tenured NINOS Head Start/Job Fair and Hanna High School, BISD,
Career Day helper.
Lecturer HEB Read 3 Coordinator at a BISD elementary. Worked
directly with parents, children, pre-service teachers, and
teachers in an elementary school.
Tenured Consulting in Schools: Math and Science Training in early
childhood education: rural districts. Two service projects in
community involving teachers and children.
Tenured Consulting La Paz Community School, Costa Rica and High
Scope Schools, Jakarta. New York Dept. of Ed. gave workshops
for administrators and teachers. Evaluated student teacher
lesson plans and one observed and evaluated one student
teacher.
Tenured Consulting La Paz Community School, Costa Rica and High
Scope Schools, Jakarta. New York Dept. of Ed. gave workshops
for administrators and teachers. Evaluated student teacher
lesson plans and one observed and evaluated one student
teacher.
Tenured Director of the Sabal Palms Writing Project affiliated with the
National Writing Project. Designed and Implemented various
professional development programs for Language Arts K-12
teachers since 2005. Collaborated with other Texas National
Writing Project directors and co-directors to gather data on
adolescent writing and 15 Texas schools, Project entitled
Culturally Mediated Writing Instruction; collaborate with Arte
Publico Press to sponsor Hispanic Authors for author visits to
UTB and local schools. Worked with elementary students in a
Reading Clinic in 2007-2008.
Lecturer Participated as an Early Childhood judge in the selection of
outstanding early childhood education services to the
community. Also coordinated this program in BISD elementary
schools. Collaborated with Mr. Daniel Ybarra, program Design
Team Leader n the Transition To Teaching grant. Helped to
supervise these ACP students of our UTB program in k-12
schools. Supervised a student teacher in English, Fall 2013.
Head of Field Based and Student Teacher Programs. 2012
Academic Summer Camp.
Lecturer Supervised student teachers of English Language Arts, spring
2013. 2010-Present: UTB Superintendent and Principal
Supervisor for Superintendent and Principal Interns placed in
Hidalgo, Cameron, and Willacy County School Districts and
Campuses. Collaborate with all Superintendents in Hidalgo,
Cameron, and Willacy Counties due to placement of
Superintendent and Principal Interns in school districts and
campuses.
Lecturer Developed Basketball camps for K-12 children in summers
Adjunct
Team Leader; Mentor Teacher in public schools. Worked with
Laureles Elementary, Los Fresnos CISD, in the Zoofari.
Hart, Charlie
Adjunct
Henderson,
Maria Isabel
Adjunct
Herrera,
Albert
TenureTrack
Hinton, Kip
TenureTrack
James, Eric
Tenured
Jewett, Laura
Tenure
Track
Jones, Leslie
Tenured
Leal, Alma
Tenured
Ledingham,
Chris
Tenured
LireCaldwell,
Gilda
Loff, Jack
Adjunct
PE teacher in Harlingen Public Schools. Directed and taught
annual fitness camp for Children. Family Fitness Day Camp.
Adventure Fitness for Children with Autism. Adventure
Education Program. Annually Provide numerous workshops
and in-service programs for local school districts. Assisted with
Down by the Border event for children with special needs.
Los Fresnos CISD curriculum and instruction and science
writing and planning. Science facilitator at Laureles
Elementary. Science mentor at Laureles Elementary. STAAR
night parent awareness presentation. Current teacher.
Member: Lower Rio Grande Valley Advisory Board and
Principal’s Task Force
Evaluation of Bilingual and ESL Programs in Harlingen CISD,"
which involves interviewing parents, students, teachers, and
administrators. One goal of this evaluation is better integration
of the district, university, and community within Harlingen. Dr.
Hinton brought in guest speakers for a summer 2013 doctoral
class, including leaders of district bilingual programs, a parent,
and a K-12 student. Observer and teacher's aide, Desert Mirage
HS, California. Mentor, E.T. Wrenn MS, Texas.
Assisted with ‘Down by the Border’ event to support disabled
children. 2009-2011
Co-Supervised Student Teachers Fall2012. Educational
Director/Teacher Heritage Ranch East Feliciana Parish and East
Baton Rouge Parish. Grant Screener, Louisiana Serve K-12
Special Initiative, 2011-2007. Regional Coordinator, State
Department of Education, Oklahoma. 1998-2000.
Designed, coordinated, collaborated with GEAR UP Personnel
from UTPA and BISD, provided oversight, and collected data
for Region I GEAR UP Compass Camp on UTB Campus for
graduating HS Seniors. Designed and provide oversight for a
six week UTB Summer Bridge Program with the goal of
actively recruiting almost "college ready" students to participate
in a summer program aimed at transitioning them toward
college preparation. Includes working with counselors from
Brownsville ISD, Los Fresnos CISD, Point Isabel ISD, San
Benito ISD, Rio Hondo ISD, Harlingen ISD, and IDEA
Schools.
As Organizer of Border Violence task Force on Mental Health
Issues of Children, she collaborates with other volunteers who
are counselors, Guidance & Counseling Directors, and other
administrators; works with Texas school districts and also with
agency representatives on the behalf of children and families.
Professional Development for elementary, middle, and high
school teachers (2011-2009). American Public Health
Association. Governing Councilor and incoming chair-elect of
the School Health Education and Services Section.
No. She taught developmental/remedial classes and directed
one of these programs. Her program is now with TSC.
Lecturer No. He was on phased retirement and he no longer teaches at
UTB.
Maris,
Cynthia
Adjunct
Martinez,
Janet
Lecturer
Mata, Zelma
Tenured
McArthur,
Kerry G.
TenureTrack
Medina,
Erika G.
Adjunct
Mercuri,
Sandra
Tenured
Morgan,
Bobbette
Tenured
Musah,
Lourdes
Musanti,
Sandra
Adjunct
Overton,
Terry
Pan, Cheng
Chang (Sam)
Parson, Paula
Tenured
Pena, Eli
Pena,
Herman
TenureTrack
Director of Special Programs (Forney ISD). PKES grant
(Forney ISD)/MOUs with Head Start and Child Care facility.
Response to Intervention (RTI) Program Manual – Guidelines
and Procedures for school district. She was employed at Forney
ISD until December 2010.
Supervises students in field based classes. Instructional Coach
in a BISD Elementary and directly worked with children, preservice teachers, and teachers there for the HEB/UTB/BISD
Read3 Pilot Project. Co-Chair, 18th Binational Conference
Committee in which she directly worked with K-12 teachers
and held the education conference in BISD schools and
Mexican K-12 schools.
2010-2012 Consultant, BISD, Brownsville Housing Authority
and The College of Education Center for Educational
Development and Innovation at The University of Texas at
Brownsville monthly presentations on fitness and nutrition at
designated housing authority facility to BISD children and
parents. 2010-2012 Consultant, BISD for dance instruction for
schools for Charro Days dance presentations.
Evaluated student teacher lesson plans and one observed and
evaluated one student teacher’s lesson implementation in a
public high school.
Science Curriculum Specialist (4 years), 6-8 Classroom Teacher
(10 years), Raymondville ISD Science Consultant (2 Years),
San Benito CISD Science Consultant (currently).
Provide professional development to teacher working with
ELLs K-12 nationwide. Provided consultant services for dual
language program in the area of curriculum development and
linguistic support. Evaluated field experiences for students in
teacher preparation courses.
Volunteers as an official advocate for immigrant adolescents.
Observed 40 Field-based Students teaching lessons in public
schools, Fall 2011. Supervised secondary student teachers of
English language arts and reading in 2013.
Developed online training for secondary teachers in the
Ministry of Education 2009-2011 outside of the USA.
Developer of a nationwide online professional development
program for science and social studies high school teachers
(EXPLORA).
Supervises the graduate Educational Diagnostician students.
Tenured Nothing.
Lecturer Sabal Palms Co-Director 1999-2011 (National Writing Project).
Trained K-12 teachers at UTB and on their campuses and
collaborated with them and their students in their writing
projects with K-12 students. Supervised field experience and
field-based courses.
Tenured Assisted with Regional Collaborative grants and worked with
K-12 teachers for Saturday and summer trainings. Gave
presentations in schools.
Adjunct Nothing. No longer employed in COE.
Perez, Elva
Cerda
Tenured Supervisor for UTB and TX A&M Student Teachers. Bilingual
consultant to Santa Rose Independent School District. Inservice
Traning to RaymondVille ISD. Inservice training to Los
Fresnos ISD. Inservice Traning to San Benito ISD. Reading to
Children at Longoria Elementary. Provided training to middle
school students in Los Fresnos Elementary 4 and 6 graders.
Chair of Biational Conference in which she directly worked
with K-12 teachers and held the education conference in BISD
schools and Mexican K-12 schools.
Petty, Lori
Tenured Taught 7-8 grade science. Taught 11-12 science. Got UTB
students involved as science fair judges
Ramirez, Rey Tenured Collaborate with teachers in the Rio Grande Valley for Science
trainings and several state-level committees. Serving as aquatic
education area chief for Texas Parks and Wildlife Department
to provide science activities in schools.
Ready,
Tenured Writing Project - College Readiness Workshop for high school
Arlene
English teachers. Collaboration with local school districts to
recruit select high school students to participate in a Summer
Bridge program which provides skills remediation so they can
pass the COMPASS and provides them an overview of the
academic expectations of some gen. ed. courses using
simuations. Collaboration with UTPA personnel & BISD &
UTB Student Affairs in providing a GEAR UP Compass Camp
for students; collaborate with counselors from BISD, Los
Fresnos ISD, Port Isabel ISD, San Benito ISD, Rio Hondo ISD,
Harlingen ISD, IDEA Academy & Academic Advising to
recruit students for Summer Bridge program.
Rivas, Olivia Tenured Worked with SB Harlingen ISD with counseling/teaching in
services. After school program with Harlingen and San Benito
ISDs. Ethical training workshops for School administrators
from San Benito and Harlingen. Grant writing San Benito ISD:
helped with the guidance grant- funded by US Dept. of
Education. Wrote sickness grant successfully funded from TEA
for past 3 yrs.- San Benito ISD. Assisted UTB Student Affairs
with GEARUP grant for high school students. TRIO programs:
Talent Search upward bond and student support services and
GEAR UP. Consultant to SB ISD Guidance Dept.
Rodríguez,
Tenured Has provided professional development for various school
Alma D.
districts on strategies to teach ELLs. Directs service learning
projects and field experiences for undergraduate students in
local schools. 2011- 2012 – Service Learning Project @ Pullam
Elem, (EDSL 4307). Fall 2010 – Service Learning project @ St.
Mary’s Catholic School (EDSL 4307). She met with teachers
and staff at an elementary to set up a project in which Bilingual
and ESL pre-service teachers engaged in a semester-long
project; she placed them placed in classroomsand paired up
with one ELL or a small group of ELLs to support their English
language development.
RodriguezTenured Supervising Student Teachers (Spring 2009/Fall 2010/Spring
Garcia, Ana
2014).
Laura
Rodriguez,
Adjunct Does community research in a local colonia and works directly
Jaime
with BISD school children as they explore and discuss photos
they have taken of their community.
Rosenberg,
Graciela P.
Tenured Consultant Bilingual/ESL Education in public K-12 schools.
Member and organizer of the First, Second, and Third Jornada
Binacional de Educaion Intercultural with the University of
Tamaulipas, Mexico, in which she directly worked with K-12
teachers and held the education conference in BISD and
Mexican K-12 schools. All classes BILS 3312, 3314, and EDSL
4307 do 15 hours of school observations. . HEB Read3 Family
Literacy Workshop- she participated as a Supervisor for UTB
students' teachers who were trained to conduct workshops for
parents and children. Read 3 Family Literacy Workshop
involves six weeks of classes designed to help parents and preschool children to prepare for success in kindergarten. This
project is funded and sponsored by HEB Supermarkets. In
Brownsville, Read 3 has been implemented in a partnership
with BISD and UTB. Several of herstudents in BILS 3310 and
4306 have volunteered in this project since its creation in 2011.
Dr. Rosenber also helped a literacy coach at Castaneda
Elementary school as part of this Read 3 Program.
Saenz, Sonia Adjunct Integration of FOSS and 6 writing traits into Montessori
Curriculum. - Book study on the 7 Habits of Highly Effective
People with staff members at Kenmont
Sharma,
Adjunct College Readiness Committee, Lopez High School. Speaker,
Suniti
J.F.K. Elementary School, Mercedes ISD.
Shefelbine,
Tenured Pro bono Professional Consultation – Public Schools in
Janet
Community. Supervised administration students in K-12
schools as part of their internships.
Skukauskaite, Tenured Nothing. No longer at UTB.
Audra
Snelson,
Adjunct Nothing. No longer employed in COE.
Shane
Sullivan,
Tenured Collaboration with Sharp Elementary BISD teachers and
Michael
children on the El Jardin de la Esparanza Project. Got students
involved in "plant a Row for the Hungry.” Teaching and
collaboration with students and UT Continuing Education
faculty for Algebra Across the Wire for secondary migrant
students in public schoos- 14 years and ongoing. Public School
volunteer for Austin ISD.
Sutterby,
Adjunct Conducted dissertation field work at Harmony Science
Sandra
Academy. Worked directly with students, teachers, and staff.
Murillo
Volunteer at Harmony Science Academy.
Sutterby,
Tenure- Volunteered at Harmony Science Academy. Taught a parent
John
Track
involvement clinic with children and teachers at Longoria
Elementary, BISD. Worked with area pre-school teachers and
administrators in a grant implementation.
Tate, Jim
Adjunct Nothing.
Telese, Jim
Tenured The TRC Math Collaborative works with San Benito,
Harlingen, Los Fresnos, Port Isabel and BISD and Dr. Telese is
a primary participant. University supervisor of student teachers
in 2014.
Vallado,
Nick
Tenured Nothing.
Varbelo,
Sonja
Viren,
Vejoya
Ward,
Hsuying
Wells, Lori
Williams,
Zulema
Zhang,
Zhidong
Lecturer HEB Read 3 Coach. Worked directly with elementary teachers,
pre-service teachers, and staff
Tenured 2014: Supervising student teachers. 2010-2011:
Mentor/Facilitator for Children’s Learning Institutes HIED
Grant project. Mentored in 16 community preschool classrooms
for 18 months. 2003 – 2010: Supervised students in Pre-K/ KG
classrooms for field based course. 2010: Collaborated With
Texas Early Childhood Education Coalition (TECEC) and
United Way of Southern Cameron County Success By 6 in
planning for the Texas School Ready Summit. 2009:
Collaborated with Army School, Bengdubi, India on providing
Teacher workshops.
Tenure- Taught in Texas K-12 for 14 years. Consultancy w/ BISD in
Track
May 2012.
Adjunct Worked full-time for Harmony Math and Science Academy
(public charter schools) as a Counseling Services Diagnostician
until Summer 2013. Contract Psychological and Autism Testing
for BISD 2010-2012.
Adjunct 2011-2012 3rd grade Curriculum Science writer. 2011-2012 3rd
grade Curriculum Science Pacing Guide Writer. 2011-2012 2nd
grade Reading Benchmark Curriculum writer. 2012 Parental
Involvement Presenter.
TenureTrack