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Emilio Garza, Ed.D Dr Emilio Garza has taught language arts and mathematics at the elementary and middle school level in the Kern and San Luis Obispo Counties. He has also taught elementary bilingual education classes with high numbers of English learners. In a K-12 school district in San Luis Obispo County, Dr. Garza established the Independent Studies Program for grades 7-12 where he was also a teacher. He has a Bachelor of Arts in Spanish with a “minor” in Mathematics, a Masters in Bilingual Education and a Doctorate in Curriculum and Instruction (K-12) with emphasis in language arts and teaching reading to English language learners. He also holds a Life Standard Teaching Credential (K-9), Bilingual Certificate of Competency (Spanish/English), Life Administrative Services Credential (K-12) and a Life Community College Credential. He currently is an Assistant Professor with the School of Education at CSU, Bakersfield where he teaches in the Advanced Educational Studies Department. Dr. Emilio Garza has worked in two county offices of education: Santa Barbara County Office of Education and Fresno County Office of Education. He coordinated Migrant Education while in Santa Barbara County, but also serviced San Luis Obispo County. In the Fresno County Office of Education as Curriculum Coordinator, he trained over 100 teachers in the area of the ELD and bilingual instructional strategies. Dr .Emilio Garza was also Assistant Director of Federal and State Projects with the Lucia Mar Unified School District of 11,000 students and with 30 percent English language learners. Dr. Garza also served as Middle School Principal in the Guadalupe Union School District, a small, mostly Hispanic school district where he worked closely with the Mathematics and English Language Arts staff to develop their strategies and pacing charts so that students met the standards in those levels. Dr. Garza was also the Director of Curriculum for Parlier Unified and then was named Superintendent of this K-12 school district. Dr. Garza’s research is on Spanish reading and transferable skills necessary for English reading and he has also compiled several booklets on being an effective coach in K-12 classrooms. His most recent research includes teaching “academic language” in the content areas of math and science in high school. EDUCATION
DISSERTATION “The Effects of Transfer from Spanish Reading to English Reading” Reading Committee: Chair: Callis Harms, Floyd Sucher, Clarence Clark, and Robert Bishop CREDENTIALS Standard Teaching Credential Administrative Services Credential Community College Credential Bilingual Certificate of Competency
(Spanish) AWARDS AND HONORS Association of Mexican American Educators, Administrator of the Year, 1991 Fresno County California Association of Bilingual Education, Fresno Chapter Award for Significant Contribution to Bilingual Education Leadership, 1992 Lucia Mar Unified School District, Award for Parent Involvement Leadership, District Advisory Committee on Compensatory Education Santa Barbara, Ventura, and San Luis Obispo Counties Parent Conference Award for Parent Involvement Leadership Fellowship to California State University, Sacramento, Master’s Degree, Bilingual Education PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT K-12 California
Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo, CA Universidad
Internacional Saltillo, Coah., Mexico University of Valencia, Valencia,
Spain San Joaquin College of Law, Fresno,
CA Superintendent Academy, Burlingame,
CA University of California, Davis,
Davis, CA Personnel Academy, Fresno, CA ;
Business Managers’ Academy, Santa Clarita, CA Monterey County Office of Ed.,
Monterey, CA K-12 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 2005-present—CSUB, Advanced Educational Studies, School of Education, ….Assistant Professor 2003-2004 (leave of absence from Cal State) Bakersfield City School District, …Coordinator of English Language Learners Services 2001, Fall—2003, Winter.-- CSUB, Advanced Educational Studies, School of Education, --Assistant Professor 2000-2001—Sierra Research and Technical Services, Fresno, CA ---Associate and Senior Educational Consultant ---Lags Corporation, Medical Management, Santa Barbara, CA --Consultant and Trainer 1999-2000 Alisal Union School District Salinas, CA --Principal 1993-1999 Santa Barbara County Office of Education, Santa Barbara, CA --Director of Migrant Education 1992-1993 Guadalupe Union School District, Guadalupe,CA –Director of Curriculum/Instruction K-8 1990-1992 Parlier Unified School District, Parlier, CA -Superintendent 1988-1990 Parlier Unified School District Parlier, CA --Assistant Superintendent. , Curriculum/ Instruction K-12 1985-1988 Fresno County Office of Education, Fresno, CA --Curriculum Coordinator K-12 1982-1985 Lucia Mar Unified School District, Arroyo Grande, CA –Coordinator of Independent Study/Bilingual Services K-12 1981-1982 On Sabbatical Leave, Provo, UT 1977-1981 Lucia Mar Unified School District, Arroyo Grande, CA –Assistant Special Projects Director K-12 1975-1977 Guadalupe Union School District, Guadalupe, CA -Prinicpal 6-8 , Main Street School TEACHING EXPERIENCE K-12 1982-1985 Independent Study Support, Arroyo Grande High School 1973-1975 Lucia Mar Unified School District , Arroyo Grande, CA –Teacher K & K-6 Resource 1974 Teaching for the Paraprofessional, Allan Hancock College, Santa Maria 1973 Spanish for Adults, Arroyo Grande High School 1970-1972—McFarland Unified School District, McFarland, CA Bakersfield City Schools District, Bakersfield, CA –Teacher PAPERS AND INVITED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS Invited presenter at National Association of Bilingual Education, Albuquerque, New Mexico, “Policy Issues with English Language Learners”, Jan., 2004 Invited presenter on several occasions to Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo on Bilingual Education with School of Education Presenter on “Evaluation of a Bilingual Education Program”, Association of Mexican American Education Conference, Los Angeles, CA, 1976 Invited by CA State Department of Education to review and monitor bilingual education programs in Los Angles, 1978 Invited as a presenter for a seminar on Bilingual Education to school administrators in the Association of California School Administrators in Fremont, CA, 1989 Invited as keynote speaker to MiniCorp State Conference, Bakersfield, CA, 1990 Invited to participate as a workshop leader, by County Superintendent for the San Luis Obispo County Educational Summit, “Diversity in our County”, 1994 Invited to participate in the Distinguished Schools Visitation as a consultant by CA State Department of Education, 1995 , 1996 & 2004. Invited to participate in Washington D.C. in the Title I Reauthorization Hearings, Washington D.C., 1998. Invited to participate in a seminar with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on the “Effects if Proposition 227 Passes”, San Luis Obispo, CA, 1998 ADDITIONAL PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE --Participated in the CSUB, School of Education in developing and writing the AB2045 Teacher Education Standards Application for State Commission on Credentials. --Trained for the Hampton Brown Publishing Teacher facilitation for new State Adopted Materials for English learners, 2002. --Participated in “Domingo Universitario”, Secondary Migrant Student Outreach with Parents --Organized Project Close Up, Secondary Migrant Students Trip to Washington D.C. Project OLE (Optimal Language Enrichment), Spanish Reading Staff Development Project, Paso Robles, CA --Trained over 100 teachers through Multi-lingual Teacher Training Institute (M.T.T.I.) with the Fresno County Office of Education --Organized a curriculum framework in language arts (K-6) for Lucia Mar Unified School District --Taught at Allan Hancock College, “Education for the Paraprofessional” -Worked with California ----Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo and Fresno State University as a member of the Advisory Committee for Bilingual Emphasis Credential --Planning Committee Member 1999 Migrant Education Parent Conference Los Angeles, CA & Multimedia/ computer presentation during keynote address -Participated as member of the Allan Hancock College ESL Advisory Committee -Participated as member of the Santa Barbara County Children’s Network -Member of Accountability and Assessment Committee, State Dept., Migrant Education DEVELOPMENT OF GRANTS 1976 Guadalupe Union School District, Guadalupe, CA E.S.E.A. Title VII “Transitional Bilingual Education” $150,000 1980 Lucia Mar Unified School
District, Arroyo Grande, CA 1988- Parlier Unified School District, Parlier, CA 1990 Transitional Bilingual Education Project” S.P.E.A.K.” (K-3) $250,000 Family English Literacy Program Project “F.E.L.P.” $150,000 2003 TLC Grant Parent Training Education (Parent Institute for Quality Education PIQE) 2004 California Post Secondary Education Commission Grant, Content Academic Language Literacy Instruction (CALLI) — $984,000 STUDIES, PAPERS, AND PUBLICATIONS M.A. Thesis…”Spanish Basal Word List of Kindergarten and First Grade of Spanish-Speaking Children of Northern California, “1973, CA State Univ., Sacramento. “Lucia Mar Unified School District Bilingual Instructional Language Development Curriculum.Guide,” 1974. Ed.D Project…”A K-1 Language Proficiency Test in Spanish/English,” 1981, Dept.of Elem.Ed. Brigham Young University. Compiled and developed various teacher training materials for Bilingual Teacher Training Program (BTTP) on “Second Language Theory”, “Sheltered English Approach”, and “Teaching Methods and Culture for Bilingual Students”. Compiled various teacher training materials with Dr. Margaita Calderon, University of California, Santa Barbara with the Multilingual Teacher Training Program (MTTI) “Cesar Chavez Curriculum,” United Farmworkers, La Paz, CA 1994. Post Secondary Education Commission Grant on “ELDPI Staff Development Model/Delano Joint Union High School District”, 2005 COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES/PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS · Past Board member of San Luis Obispo Literacy Council · Past member of Exchange Club, Rotary Club, and Kwianas Club · Past member of the California Hispanic Superintendent’s Association · Phi Delta Kappa (P.D.K.) · Past Member Association of California School Administrators (A.S.C.A.) · Association of Mexican American Educators (A.M.A.E.) · Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development (A.S.C.D.) · California Association for Bilingual Education (CABE)
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