Orientation Agenda Speaker Bios References Map Partners BLOG What's a blog? Home Speaker Bios Annette Lareau Annette Lareau teaches sociology at Temple University. Her recent book, Unequal Childhoods, won the best book award for the Sociology of Family Section, the Section on Childhood and Youth, and the Sociology of Culture Section (co-winner) of the American Sociological Association. Her book, Home Advantage: Social Class and Parental Involvement in Elementary Education won the Willard Waller Award for the Sociology of Education Section of the American Sociological Association. With Jeff Shultz, she is the editor of Journeys Through Ethnography: Realistic Accounts of Fieldwork. Starting in the fall of 2005, she will join the Department of Sociology at University of Maryland. Kris Gutiérrez Kris Gutiérrez is Professor in the Graduate School of Education & Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles and serves as the Director of the Center for the Study of Urban Literacies, as well as the Director of the Education Studies Minor. Professor Gutiérrez' research focuses on studying the literacy practices of urban schools. In particular, her research concerns itself with the social and cognitive consequences of literacy practices in formal and non-formal learning contexts. Across her work, she examines the relationship between literacy, culture, and human development. Professor Gutiérrez' long-term ethnographic studies in Los Angeles area schools across various school districts have afforded opportunity to study the following: 1) the social and discursive practices of literacy instruction; 2) how effective literacy practices are constructed and sustained; 3) the effects of teacher assistance programs (e.g., coaching) on transforming learning contexts; 4) the effects of new policies and reform initiatives on English language learners and urban schooling practices and 5) reading and writing development in elementary aged students, including English Language Learners. Issues of equity and excellence are important and recurrent themes in her work. Professor Gutiérrez is a highly visible leader in the area of literacy, biliteracy, cultural-historical theory and urban education and serves on a number of national policy making and academic advisory boards/committees and is a keynote speaker at a number of state, national, and international conferences including Australia, Brazil, Cuba, Denmark, Mexico, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Spain, Italy, and Switzerland, for example. She is currently the Chair of the Standing Committee on Research for the National Council of Teachers of English. Professor Gutierrez's research has been published in Educational Researcher, Human Development, Mind, Culture and Activity, Reading Research Quarterly, the Harvard Educational Review, Linguistics and Education, Discourse Processes, the Bilingual Research Journal, Urban Education, the International Journal of Educational Reform, Education and Urban Society, Theory into Practice, Language Arts, and the Review of Education, Pedagogy and Cultural Studies, for example. Additionally, Professor Gutierrez has written a column for the Los Angeles Times' Reading page. Professor Gutiérrez is also the principal investigator of an after-school computer mediated learning club and the Director of the UCLA Migrant Scholars Leadership Program, a residential summer academic program for high school student from migrant farmworker backgrounds. Professor Gutiérrez was the 2004 recipient of the AERA Division C Sylvia Scribner Award. The award is for a body of work that has influenced significantly the field of learning and instruction. Josué González Josué M. González was born on the U.S.-Mexican border, in south Texas. There, he attended public schools and took bachelor's and master's degrees at Texas A&M University in Kingsville. He did doctoral studies at the University of Texas at Austin and completed them at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. He earned an Ed.D. in education administration in 1974. He has also studied at the School for Advanced International Studies in Vermont. Professor González was an early innovator in bilingual and dual-language education. As early as 1967, he wrote curriculum materials and designed programs at all levels, from primary to graduate school. He has written extensively in that field, and has lectured widely. He has helped train future teachers and other school leaders. He has held faculty appointments at Chicago State University, Southern Methodist University in Dallas, and Teachers College in New York City. He has also held adjunct appointments at Roosevelt University in Chicago, and George Mason University in Virginia. He is a former President of the National Association for Bilingual Education. Early in his career Dr. González developed a strong interest in education policy studies. In 1970, he served on the staff of the Senate Select Committee on Equal Educational Opportunity where he organized the first hearing ever held by the U.S. Senate on the condition of Puerto Rican education on the mainland. When he later served in the Department of Education, González put his policy expertise to work. In 1978, Dr. González was selected to head the Office of Bilingual Education in the U.S. Office of Education (USOE). While at USOE, González helped launch the newly created U.S. Department of Education. He became the first director of OBEMLA, the Office of Bilingual Education and Minority Languages Affairs, under the nation’s first Secretary of Education, Shirley Huffstedler. Huffstedler also appointed him to the U.S. Mexico Cultural Exchange Commission, a bilateral group of government officials responsible for developing cultural and educational exchange procedures between the two countries. In 1981, after completing government service, Dr. González became a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Educational Leadership in Washington, D.C. and a Visiting Fellow at George Mason University. He continued his interest in public policy as adjunct professor of Public Administration at Roosevelt University in Chicago after he returned to that city in 1982. In Chicago, he served the Chicago Public Schools as Associate Superintendent. Later, he became Vice Chancellor for Planning, Development and Research at the City Colleges of Chicago, the city's community college system. Dr. Gonzalez has been a board member of several organizations including the Erikson Institute, and the Ounce of Prevention Fund. He was a founding board member of the Mexican and American Solidarity Foundation headquartered in Mexico City, and the Latino Institute of Chicago. In 1986, Dr. González was appointed to the Commission on Youth and America's Future, a project of the W.T. Grant Foundation. Dr. González has received a number of awards including recognitions from the National Council of La Raza, and from Valle del Sol in Phoenix, for his nationwide leadership in education on behalf of Hispanic children and youth. In September 1991, Dr. González became Professor of Educational Administration at Teachers College, Columbia University in New York City. In 1998, Dr. González began his association with Arizona State University as Professor of Educational Leadership and Director of the Center for Education Equity and Language Diversity. He is active in civic affairs, and is one of the co-editors of the Bilingual Research Journal, the nation’s premier journal in the field.