Why We Do?
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EMMA is a “consortium” of committed educators representing the classroom (practitioners) to the halls of academia (professors, researchers, etc)
Advisory Members
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Dr. Joan Lachance
EMMA Director
UNC Charlotte
Associate Professor
Joan Lachance, PhD, is an associate professor and director of the Teaching English as a Second Language Master of Arts, Graduate Certificate and Undergraduate Minor programs at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She received her undergraduate degree in Secondary Education, Modern Languages and Linguistics from Florida International University. With Spanish as the language of program delivery, she completed graduate coursework to earn her Master’s degree in School Counseling from Pontifical Catholic University in Poncé, Puerto Rico. Dr. Lachance completed her doctoral work in Curriculum and Instruction, with an emphasis on Urban Education, Literacy, and TESL at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
Dr. Lachance’s research agenda encompasses dual language teacher preparation, academic literacy development, and authentic assessment with multilanguage learners. Dr. Lachance is the co-author of the National Dual Language Education Teacher Preparations Standards and is beginning to specialize her research further into the area of co-teaching for English learners in DL programs as well as dual language education for the preservation of Native American languages.
In addition to her faculty position, Dr. Lachance’s service agenda supports the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, North Carolina school districts, and districts nation-wide. Her service specializes in professional development for teachers, school counselors, and school administrators. This also includes North Carolina state-led initiatives including Dual Language/Immersion Program Support, Co-Teaching and Collaboration for ELs, Using the WIDA Standards, The North Carolina Guide to the SIOP Model, and Active Student Engagement for Multilingualism.
For fun, Dr. Lachance enjoys camping with her husband Carl, their teenage son, and their three rescue dogs. She is passionate about science, astronomy, the outdoors, hiking in the Blue Ridge Mountains, and the preservation of the Appalachian Trail. While she lives and works in North Carolina, she shares her heart deeply with New Mexico and, has a passion for the preservation of Native American Languages (and everything Hatch green chilies).
Dr. Michael D. Guerrero
EMMA - Co-Director
University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Department of Bilingual & Literacy Studies
Dr. Michael D. Guerrero, a long time proponent of dual language education, earned his doctorate in educational linguistics from the University of New Mexico in 1994. He presently teaches at the University of Texas Pan American in curriculum and instruction where he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in the areas of the development of bilingualism and biliteracy in Spanish and English. His research agenda has revolved around matters of the academic Spanish language proficiency of bilingual education teachers and his publications have appeared in the Bilingual Research Journal, Journal of Latinos and Education, Language Testing and the Journal of Urban Education. He is presently directing a five-year federally funded professional development and research grant intended to better prepare pre-service dual language education teachers.
David Rogers
EMMA Advisory - Consortium Member
DLeNM Cosecha Conference Organizer
David Rogers supports the work of Dual Language Education of New Mexico-DLeNM whose mission is to promote the effective design and implementation of dual language education (www.dlenm.org) in New Mexico, and beyond.
A founding member of DLeNM, David is a respected national leader in the dual language community who works with regional and national partners like the National Committee for Effective Literacy, the Center for Applied Linguistics and many others to develop important resources like the Guiding Principles for Dual Language Education, the National Dual Language Education Teacher Preparation Standards, the Charter School Theory of Change Logic Model (Dual Language Immersion), etc.
In his thirty-five years as an educator, David has served as an education volunteer and program coordinator in Peace Corps Paraguay, South America, a bilingual special education teacher in South Bronx, NY, and as a dual language classroom teacher, bilingual program coordinator, and school principal in the South Valley of Albuquerque. In 1996 David and his colleagues helped to organize the first La Cosecha Dual Language Conference, which is hosted by DLeNM, where David served from 1999 until 2022 as the its first Executive Director.
David is husband to dual language educator Rosie González-Rogers, and together they have four multilingual multicultural daughters and call Albuquerque, New Mexico their home.
Michael Rodríguez
EMMA Advisory - Consortium Member
DLeNM Executive Director
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EMMA Partners
NAELPA, MABE, BUENO, WIDA, CAL