AACTE鈥檚 Annual Meeting to Spotlight Kris Guti茅rrez
AACTE鈥檚 2014 Speaker Spotlight Session will feature Kris Guti茅rrez, professor of literacy and learning sciences at the University of Colorado at 麻豆影院.
Guti茅rrez uses her expertise to improve the educational condition of immigrant and other underserved students, in both school-based and community settings, and to design effective models for teacher preparation. For more than 15 years, Guti茅rrez served as the principal investigator and director of an after-school computer learning club for low-income and immigrant children. She also spent over a decade directing the UCLA Migrant Scholars Leadership Program, a residential summer academic program for high school students from migrant-farmworker backgrounds.
A fellow and past president of the American Educational Research Association and the National Conference on Research in Language and Literacy, Guti茅rrez was recently elected to the National Academy of Education and was nominated by President Obama to the National Board for Education Sciences. She has received numerous awards and honors and is frequently invited to speak to national and even international audiences. Guti茅rrez鈥檚 research examining learning in designed learning environments, with particular attention to students from nondominant communities and English learners, has been published widely.