Jornada Pedagógica

Dr. Margarita Calderón, Professor Emerita, Johns Hopkins University serves on national preschool-12th literacy panels and advisory boards (National Research Council, ETS, WIDA, National Center for Learning Disabilities, National Literacy Panel for Language Minority Children and Youth). She is a consultant for the U.S. Department of Justice and Office of Civil Rights. Her research interest focuses on professional development, effective schools, and language and literacy development of English language learners.  Dr. Calderón was also principal investigator in a 5-year study in middle and high schools called ExC-ELL funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York that developed a program to train secondary teachers on integrating academic language, reading comprehension, writing skills and content knowledge.  She was Co-PI with Robert Slavin on the 5-year randomized evaluation of English immersion, transitional, and two-way bilingual elementary programs funded by the Institute for Education Sciences/U.S. Dept. of Education.

Dr. Calderón has been a middle and high school teacher, has taught bilingual and educational leadership courses at the University of Texas, El Paso, San Diego State University, University of California, Santa Barbara.  She has over 100 publications, is an international speaker, is invited to do keynote speeches at major conferences, and conducts comprehensive professional development programs throughout the country.