Margarita P. Pinkos, ED.D

Margarita P. Pinkos, ED .D.

Eastern REGION

As we close another successful NABE conference, I also see the end of my three-year term in the NABE Executive Board approach. I have decided to ask for your support once again as I submit my candidacy for an additional three years representing the Eastern Region.

NABE is an organization close to the heart of those of us who value bilingual education and fight to ensure all students have access to a quality education built on a strong language foundation. For too long our multilingual learners have paid the price of losing their language in the pursuit of educational success. NABE was created almost 50 years ago by pioneers who wanted to offer educators and students across the country a more successful and culturally responsive educational alternative to monolingualism.

The work of NABE continues to be relevant, perhaps, now more than ever. I would like to continue my work in the Board in support of NABE’s mission and lending my educational leadership, global connections, and community involvement experience to NABE. The mission of NABE is too close to my heart and I am committed to continue my work in making the newly unveiled Strategic Plan- “NABE Rise-Up”- a success.

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PREVIOUS EMPLOYEMENT POSITIONS 2008-2017 > EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Department of Multicultural Education, School District of Palm Beach County, Florida

2006-2008 > ASSISTANT DEPUTY SECRETARY AND DIRECTORO�ce of English Language Acquisition, United States Department of Education

1999-2006 > EXECUTIVE DIRECTORDepartment of Multicultural Education, School District of Palm Beach County, Florida 1994-1999 > PRINCIPALGove Elementary School, School District of Palm Beach County, Florida

1993-1994 > AREA SUPERINTENDENT’S ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANTArea V O�ce, School District of Palm Beach County, Florida

1989-1993 > ASSISTANT PRINCIPALSouth Area High School, School District of Palm Beach County, Florida

1988-1989 > RESOURCE SPECIALISTExceptional Student Education, School District of Palm Beach County, Florida

1984-1988 > TEACHERNorthboro Elementary School, School District of Palm Beach County, Florida

HIGHER EDUCATION TEACHING EXPERIENCEADJUNCT PROFESSOR2016-Present > Lynn University, Boca Raton, FL

2000-2001 > Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida

1995-1997 > Palm Beach State College, Lake Worth, Florida

EDUCATION

FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITYBoca Raton, Florida

2002 > Doctor of Education, Educational Leadership

1999 > Educational Specialist, Educational Leadership

1987 > Master of Education, Administration and Supervision

1975 > Bachelor of Science, Biological Sciences

NABE MEMBER SINCE:

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NUMBER OF YEARS IN PRESENT POSITION:

Assistant Superintendent Global Education and Community Outreach, School District of Palm Beach County, Florida

Florida

FABES

President, 2008-2014

Global Institute, Chair2017-2019

NABE EXECUTIVE BOARD POSITIONS HELD :

OTHER NABE ORGANIZATION RESPONSIBILITIES/CONTRI-BUTIONS:

- Lifetime Member since 2013- VP 2016-2017- President 2017-2019- Board Member 2013-2016, 2016-2019

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OTHER LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE RELEVANT TO NOMINATION

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Dr. Pinkos is an educational leader whose remarkable 33-year career has been dedicated to building the capacity of students and families, and the educators who serve them. Her professional journey started in 1984 as an elementary school ESOL teacher and includes service as a school principal and district level executive in the School District of Palm Beach County, Florida - the 11th largest public school system in the United States.

Pinkos’ path as an educator has taken her from principal of a large elementary school in an agricultural community to traveling nationally and internationally to share exemplary practices and research-based strategies with other educators. In 1993, at Gove Elementary School in Belle Glade, Florida, she implemented the district’s first Dual Language program, transforming the school’s linguistically diverse and previously failing student population into a high-performing, bilingual, bi-literate school within two years. That program has mushroomed throughout more than 20 schools in the South Florida school district, replicating academic success everywhere the program is being conducted with fidelity to the frameworks.

One career distinction is Dr. Pinkos’ White House appointment as assistant deputy secretary and director of the Office of English Language Acquisition (OELA) in the United States Department of Education (USDOE) where she worked with state and local education systems across the country to support high quality instructional programs for linguistically and culturally diverse students.

In 2009, she returned to Palm Beach County from Washington, D.C. resuming her leadership in the Multicultural Education Department and continuing her leadership trajectory in 2017 as Assistant Superintendent of Global Education and Community Outreach where she currently serves the District of Palm Beach County students.

NABE MEMBER SINCE:



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Assistant Superintendent Global Education and Community Outreach, School District of Palm Beach County, Florida

Florida

FABES

President, 2008-2014

Global Institute, Chair2017-2019



- Lifetime Member since 2013- VP 2016-2017- President 2017-2019- Board Member 2013-2016, 2016-2019

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Associate Professor, Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching-UTSA

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Texas

Texas Association for Bilingual Education (TABE)

Higher Education Representative

Co-Editor-Perspectives



Central Region Representative, 2016-2019

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2005

PREVIOUS EMPLOYEMENT POSITIONS LECTURER-UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PAN-AMERICAN

4TH GRADE TEACHER-HARLINGEN INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT

EDUCATIONED.D. TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY

María Arreguín-Anderson, ED.D.

I am excited to participate as a candidate for the position of Central Regional Representative for the 2019-2021 term. Throughout my career as an educator, I have been involved with the National Association for Bilingual Education (NABE) in different capacities. For three years, I served as Central Region Representa-tive. In the area of publications, I have served as an Associate Editor and subse-quently as Co-Editor for NABE Perspectives since 2009. In this position, I edit, review, and contact authors for invited manuscripts to be published in special issues. As part of my service activities in NABE I chaired the NABE Outstanding Dissertation Committee in the 2010 and 2011 competition and the 2010 and 2011 NABE Teacher of the Year selection committee.

I currently serve as Higher Education Representative in the 2019-2021 Executive Board of the Texas Association for Bilingual Education (TABE). Historically, my participation in this state organization includes the position of President (2014-2015), Treasurer (2013-2014), elected Secretary (2011-2012 and 2012-2013), TABE Conference Program Committee Chair (2012-2013) and Professional Development Committee Chair in 2008 having the opportunity to serve as a scholarship reviewer and member of the Bilingual and ESL Teacher of the Year selection committees.

As a former elementary bilingual teacher in the public schools of the Rio Grande Valley, I had the privilege to witness the transforming power of bilingual/bicul-tural education. It was through quality bilingual programs that my students and their families affirmed their conviction of the enormous possibilities embedded in their Spanish and English language proficiencies. Our confidence stemmed from the firm belief that access to quality education is key in achieving our personal and collective goals.

Finally, in my position as Associate Professor of Early Childhood and Elementary Education at the University of Texas at San Antonio, I continue to explore ways to design instruction that is congruent with students’ linguistic and cultural back-grounds. In doing so, I seek to contribute to the dissemination of more demo-cratic teaching practices.

OTHER LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE RELEVANT TO NOMINATIONSELECTED APPOINTMENTS

- Co-founder and co-chair of English Learners Advocacy Council in Higher Education (2012-present)

- Illinois Early Learning Council. Linguistic and Cultural Diversity Committee member (2007-present)

- Illinois State Board of Education Standards for ESL, Bilingual

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Professor and Department Chair, DePaul University

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Illinois

- Illinois (current)- Arizona (past)

Member

Dual Language in Higher Education SIG (founding member)



Member of NABE Corporate Advisory Council (CAC) 2018-present

Member of NABE National Dual Language Advisory Council, 2018-present

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1988

Sonia W. Soltero, pH.d.

On my first day of my first year in a classroom as a bilingual teacher more than 30 years ago, I knew that bilingual education was going to be my life-long passion and define me in profound ways both professionally and personally. My experiences as a bilingual and dual language teacher in Tucson and Chicago, and now as a university professor, researcher, policy advocate, and professional developer, position me well to serve on the NABE Executive Board and help advance its mission to advocate for educational equity, access, and excellence for bilingual/multilingual students and bilingual education professionals. My extensive experience in the field of bilingual education teacher preparation would also contribute to NABE’s efforts on national policies and initiatives to address the chronic bilingual education teacher and school-leader shortages. I have a strong record of advocacy and mobilization, and if elected to be a member of the NABE Executive Board, I would fully commit to advancing NABE’s mission to “influence and help create policies, programs, research, pedagogy and professional development”. It would be an enormous privilege and an honor, to join the NABE Executive Board and have the opportunity to represent the field of bilingual education in all its dimensions, and to advocate on behalf of bilingual/-multilingual and heritage language students, their families, and bilingual education professionals.

PREVIOUS EMPLOYEMENT POSITIONS 1993-2000 > Chicago Public Schools, Dual Language Teacher and Coordinator

1987-1993 > Tucson Uni�ed School District, Bilingual and Dual Language Teacher

EDUCATIONPhD -Bilingual Education, University of Arizona

EdS -Bilingual Education and Literacy, University of Arizona

MeD -Language, Reading and Culture, University of Arizona

BA -Elementary Education, University of Arizona

Education and General Education Teachers Committee, 2014-2016

- Latino Advisory Committee Chicago Public Schools, 2014

- Education Advisory Committee K-12 Education Agenda, Latino Policy Forum, 2011-2012

PRESENT POSITION:Provost Chair of Faculty Diversity and Inclusion and Professor of Dual Language Education, San Diego State University

N/A

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California

- NABE Education Advisory Board (2018-Present)

- NABE Featured Speaker on Dual Language Education

- NABE Institutions of Higher Education Sig Member and Contributor



SDSU for over 20 years

2015

OTHER LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE RELEVANT TO NOMINATION- CA ELD Standards Development Board Member

- Director of Binational/Bilingual Teacher Education Program (Serving the Students we Share) CA/Mex

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My central focus is to continue to support the vision and mission of equity in biliteracy education through research and practice that supports students, teachers, administrators, and bilingual teacher educators in institutions of higher education. During an era of restrictive language policies [CA Prop 227] as a Biliteracy Professor and Immediate Past Chair of the Dual Language and English Learner Education Department in the College of Education at SDSU, I championed and led the model and largest bilingual teacher education-social justice based program in the state of California. I am also the Director of the Formadores de Docentes Binacionales, a project that addresses the needs of the over 54,000 Students We Share between the Mexico/California border. As evidence of my work’s impact I am the recipient of the San Diego County Office of Education Biliteracy Leadership Award, College of Education and University Senate Excellence in Teaching Award, the National Outstanding Latina in Higher Education Award (AAHHE), and the Gomez-Morin Global Education Award (Que-retaro, Mexico). Additionally, I am honored to serve on the editorial boards for the NABE Journal of Research and Practice, the Bilingual Research Journal and NABE Perspectives. I am confident that my background as a biliteracy teacher, school administrator, biliteracy professor, Department Chair, Binational Teach-er Education Director, and University Provost Chair of Faculty Diversity and Inclusion has provided me with an extensive and solid background to serve on the NABE board.

PREVIOUS EMPLOYEMENT POSITIONS 2012-2018 > Department Chair, Dual Language and English Learner Education (DLE)

DLE Immediate past Chair, recently (2019) promoted to University Provost Chair, SDSU

1998-Present > Professor, Biliteracy Development Pre-K-16 [SDSU]

2017-Present > Excecutive Director, Center for Biliteracy Education Research, SDSU

EDUCATIONPh.D. Claremont Graduate and SDSU Joint Doctoral Program [Bilingual Teacher Education]

Masters---SDSU [Policy Studies for Multilingual Education and Social Justice]

BA—Liberal Studies and Bilingual Education

western REGION

Cristina Alfaro, pH.d.

PRESENT POSITION:Chair, Department of Dual Language and English Learner Education, San Diego State University

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California

- Language Policy SIG Chair (4 Years)

- Started BESO Sig and has co-chaired the SIG for 7 years with Dr. Belinda Schouten



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OTHER LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE RELEVANT TO NOMINATION- Chair of AERA Hispanic Research Issues SIG

- Chair, Department of Dual Language and English Learner Education, San Diego State University

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I have been a member of NABE since I was a student. Currently I co-chair

the Bilingual Education Student Organization Special Interest Group with

Dr. Belinda Schouten. I am committed to Continuing my work with NABE

as a NABE Board Member. I also run the largest Bilingual Education

Department in the state of California, and the only autonomous program

in the state. I feel it necessary to join the Board.

PREVIOUS EMPLOYEMENT POSITIONS June 2007 – June 2018 Professor, University of Texas at San Antonio

EDUCATIONPh.D., Educational Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

M.A., Bilingual/Bicultural Education, California State University at San Bernardino

B.S., University of California at Riverside

western REGION

Margarita Machado-Casas, pH.d.

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