Jolene Gregory

UC Santa Cruz
jrgregor@ucsc.edu

Jolene will be a 3rd year PhD student during the 18-19 school year at UCSC during which time she will be working on her QE papers. Her anticipated dissertation topic centers around how bilingual students make a transfer from one language to another with literacy skills in mathematics and how teachers can be prepared to support that transfer. Her interest in bilingual education and teacher preparation developed while working as an English teacher for 15 years in both public and private K-12 schools in Mexico. This experience allowed her to see both the challenges of bilingual education as the kids were learning English, but even more importantly as an increasing number of families began to return to Mexico from the U.S. and these children struggled with learning in Spanish. Jolene became aware of the need to address bilingual education in teacher education as well as the need for further research in order to learn how we can better support bilingual education. She hopes to be able to contribute to this knowledge as well as to teacher education. In addition, she is currently working with the MALLI project, Mathematics and Language, Literacy Integration in dual language settings. This project is working with both Pre-service and Cooperating teachers in developing their practices as related to mathematics and language and literacy integration in both English and Spanish. This project has given Jolene further opportunities to explore her interests and learn more about teacher education. Jolene looks forward to working with the CTERIN project as she expects she will continue to learn and collaborate in developing this project.