Updated: January 31, 2007Post-Doc Bios and Reports
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Dr. Maricela Correa-Chávez:
2005-06
Current Info:
Contact Info:
email: mcorrea@ucla.edu
phone: (831) 247-4569
Postdoc Report:
(Pending)
UC LMRI Postdoc Info:
Maricela Correa-Chávez received her BA in both
Anthropology and Psychology from UCLA. She will receive her PhD in developmental
Psychology from the University of California, Santa Cruz in June 2005.
Her work examines learning as a cultural activity tied to people’s
participation in community traditions and institutions like school.
Specifically, she examines the cultural ways in which children manage
attention to multiple events and use observation during a learning activity.
Her dissertation focuses on cultural variation in how U.S. middle class
children and Guatemalan Maya children pay attention to events that are
not addressed to them.
For her postdoc research, beginning September 2005
and co-sponsored jointly by UC LMRI and AERA, she will be working with
Dr. Kris Gutierrez at the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information
Sciences. She will examine how migration and transnationalism may play
a complimentary part to family schooling in how children observe. The
study compares third-party attending among Mexican-heritage children
whose families have extensive or basic schooling, from communities varying
in their relation with traditional Indigenous ways. It also examines
the families’ familiarity with U.S. middle-class cultural norms
based on patterns of migration, especially since migration to the United
States is a common cultural practice in many Mexican communities with
Indigenous history.
• An
update (Word doc) » on the report, as of 1/31/07.
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Dr.
Rebecca M. Callahan: 2003-04
Current Info:
In September 2004 Dr. Callahan joined the University
of Texas at Austin's Population Research Center under the mentorship
of Chandra Muller. She will continue to investigate the academic preparation
of immigrant and English Learner secondary students and is especially
interested in long-term English Learners: those students who have been
in U.S. schools seven years or more, yet remain limited in English language
proficiency.
Contact Info:
email: callahan@prc.utexas.edu
phone: (512) 471-8474
Postdoc Final Report:
Tracking and High School English Learners:
Limiting Opportunity to Learn (PDF, 24 pgs., 108 KB)
American Educational Research Journal, Summer 2005, Vol. 42, No. 2, pp. 305-328
The Intersection of Accountability and Language:
Can Reading Intervention Replace English Language Development? (PDF, 21 pgs., 69 KB)
Bilingual Research Journal (BRJ), Vol. 30, No. 1, Spring 2006
UC LMRI Postdoc Info:
(from UC LMRI's Newsletter Vol, 12, No. 4):
UC Davis Grad, Awarded Joint UC LMRI and AERA/IES
Post-Doctoral Fellowships: Rebecca Callahan, who completed her Ph.D. in Education
at UC Davis, was awarded
two post-doctoral fellowships, one from UC LMRI and one from AERA
with funding from the U.S. Department of Education's Institute
for Educational Sciences (IES).
Because the AERA fellowship provides funding for two
or three years, Dr. Callahan has elected to accept the AERA fellowship
rather than the one from UC LMRI. Dr. Callahan will carry out her post-doctoral
research with Dr. Russell
Rumberger at UC Santa Barbara
beginning in September 2003.
Her post-doctoral fellowship will include a detailed
analysis of statewide CELDT data and English Learner high school transcripts.
Dr. Callahan's dissertation research, under the direction of Dr.
Patricia Gándara, focused on the impact of educational policy
on high school age English Learners. She is especially interested in
long-term English Learners, those students who have been in U.S. schools
seven years or more.
Prior to returning to the university for graduate study,
Dr. Callahan worked as a bilingual educator, first in the early elementary
grades, then at the secondary level. Her previous work has been with
the UC LMRI Education Policy Center at UC Davis.
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Dr.
Jill Leafstedt: 2002-03
Current Info:
Dr. Leafstedt is currently Assistant
Professor of Special Education at Cal State University Channel Islands.
Contact Info:
email: jill.leafstedt@csuci.edu
phone: 805-437-2792
Postdoc Report:
"Effectiveness
of Explicit Phonological Awareness Instructions for At-Risk English Learners"
(PDF)
Related Publications:
- Richards, C., Leafstedt, J. (2006). Qualitative and quantitative examination of four low
performing kindergarten English Learners: Characteristics of responsive and non-responsive students.
Remedial and Special Education, 27(4), 218-234
- Leafstedt, J.M., Richards, C., Gerber, M., (2004) Effectiveness of
explicit phonological-awareness instruction for at-risk English
learners. Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 19(4), 252-261.
UC LMRI Postdoc Info:
(from her 1998-99 UC LMRI Bilingual Education Doctoral Fellows bio):
UC LMRI's second postdoctoral fellowship recipient,
Jill received her BA and teaching credentials from UCSB.
Presently, she is pursuing a masters and doctorate in Special Education,
Disabilities and Risk. She is interested in issues that overlap between
Special Education and Bilingual Education. Jill worked for three years
as a Special Education teacher in Southern California teaching students
from diverse backgrounds. After this she spent a year teaching first
grade in Guatemala, where her interests in bilingual education increasede
greatly. She also developed a curiosity for international issues in
education. Jill spent time studying the effects of Proposition 227 on
schools in California and learning more about cultural perspectives
in Special Education, specifically looking at teacher's perceptions
of abilities.
This fellowship is for the academic year from September
1, 2002 - August 31, 2003. Dr. Leafstedt was also a 1998-99 UC LMRI
Bilingual Education Doctoral Fellow.
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Dr.
Julie Maxwell-Jolly: 2001
Current Info:
Senior Researcher, Policy Analysis for California Education (PACE)
and the UC Davis
School of Education
Contact Info:
email: jrmaxwelljolly@ucdavis.edu
phone: 530-752-1533
Postdoc Report:
"Listening to Teachers
of English Language Learners"
UC LMRI Postdoc
Info:
UC LMRI's first postdoctoral fellowship
recipient received her Ph.D. from UC
Davis in November 2001 with Dr.
Patricia Gándara serving as her dissertation chair.
Dr. Maxwell-Jolly's dissertation focused
on understanding how teachers make decisions about what to do when presented
with a policy they do not agree with. Her postdoctoral fellowship will
support a study of the current employment situation and post-227 professional
experiences of bilingual (BCLAD) teachers in California. Kris
Gutierrez, Professor of Education at UCLA and a member of the UC
LMRI Faculty Steering Committee, will serve as Dr. Maxwell-Jolly's
mentor during the six-month fellowship from April 1, 2001 to September
30, 2001.
Dr. Maxwell-Jolly was also a 1998-99 UC
LMRI Bilingual Education Doctoral Fellow.
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