Board
of Directors:
Bob
Park, chairman
Gerda Bikales
Dr.
Cliff Colwell
Dr.
Rosalie Porter
Leo
Sorensen
Dr.
John Tanton
Executive Director:
K.C. McAlpin
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Dr. Rosalie Porter is an accomplished author and
scholar. She is a consultant for school districts across the country,
the executive director of the READ Institute (The Institute for Research
in English Acquisition and Development), and founder and editor-in-chief
of READ Perspectives.
Dr. Porter, who arrived in the U.S. at age six, not knowing a word
of English, has also been a fellow at Harvard University, a Spanish
Bilingual Teacher, the Director of Bilingual/ESL Programs in the Newton,
MA, Public Schools, and Chairman of the Massachusetts Commission on
Bilingual Education.
She has delivered public lectures for the U.S. State Department in
Bulgaria, China, Finland, Japan, Israel, Italy and Turkey; and has
been keynote speaker at Georgetown, Harvard, Brandeis and Northeastern
Universities, and at Wellesley and Mt. Holyoke Colleges. Porter has
served as an expert witness in court cases relating to the education
of non-English-speaking students in California, New Mexico, New York,
and Texas.
Chairman, Massachusetts Commission on Bilingual Education
Executive Director, The Institute for Research in English Acquisition
& Development (READ Institute)
Founder and editor-in-chief, READ Perspectives
Member, National Advisory Council on Bilingual Education
Author, Forked Tongue: The politics of bilingual education,
Author, Language and Literacy for English Learners |
