Spring 2024
Section 5717 of ESL770
Supplemental Instruction: ESL -- : Jan 16 - May 17 2024
This is free ONLINE tutoring through the ESL Tutoring and Learning Center. All ESL 781 and credit ESL students will be enrolled in this section during the first weeks of the semester. You will receive an email with more information. You can also register yourself just as you would any other class. See the ESL tutoring schedule here: https://esl.santarosa.edu/esl-tutoring-learning-center-tlc. Questions? Call the ESL Department at (707) 527-4382.
1986 - MA, U.C. Berkeley, Language and Literacy
1985 - Reading Specialist Credential, U.C. Berkeley
1975 - Secondary Teaching Credential, UCLA
1974 - Bachelors of Arts, Anthropology/English/Spanish, U.C. Berkeley
1998 - Present - Noncredit ESL Coordinator/ESL Instructor, Santa Rosa Junior College
1997 - 1998 - Instructor, Sonoma State University, Teacher Credential Program
1993- 1997 - Title VII Coordinator, "Learners Together Project" Santa Rosa City Schools
1990 - 1992 - Private Consultant, Work Place Literacy, Writing, Spanish; CLAD Training
1984 - 1992 - Teacher/Resource Teacher, English Language Center, Hayward, California
Family Literacy
Learners' Stories
Learner persistence & retention
Content Based Instruction
Emergent Literacy
CATESOL
CABE
Community Presentations/Outreach - Cesar Chavez Health Fair, After the Harvest Fair; Presentations to District Bilingual Advisory Councils, Bellevue Unified School District, Santa Rosa City Schools
Fall, 2006 - Co-Presenter, "Choosing and Using: Assessment Tools and Findings," Strengthening Student Success Conference, San Diego, California
Fall, 2006 - Student Learning Outcomes for Noncredit ESL Students, Santa Rosa Junior College
Spring, 2006 - "Welcome to Noncredit ESL;" Presentation to the Board of Trustees, Santa Rosa Junior College
Spring, 2004 - Presentation of the Noncredit ESL Community Based English Tutorial Program to the Board of Trustees, Santa Rosa Junior College
Spring, 1997- "Using Children's Literature as a Springboard for ESL Instruction;" CATESOL, San Jose, California
Spring, 1995 - "A Title VII Program that Works," CATESOL, 1995; San Diego, California
Fall, 1994, - Family Images/Imagenes de la Familia - a Presentation of a Family Literacy Project at Santa Rosa Middle School and Lawrence Cook Middle School, Santa Rosa, California.
Spring, 1994 - "Are You Failing Your Pre-Literate Students?" - CABE, San Jose, California
Unsung Hero Award, SRJC, Academic Senate, May, 2002