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Network Capacity Building for English Language Learners’ Success. ACTE-I, Nashville, Indiana, October 25, 2008.

The New Neighbors Pillars: Network Capacity Building for English Language Learners’ Success. Southeast TESOL, BJCC Birmingham, Alabama, September 26, 2008.

Network Capacity Building for English as New Language Best Practices: The New Neighbors Program. Tracing the Unexplored: A Journey through the Latino Heritage, Western Kentucky University,
Key note speaker,
March 26, 2008.

Immigration Challenges:
Upbringing Bicultural and Bilingual Youth. Centro Cultural La Esperanza, Key note speaker, January 16, 2008.
 

Working with Parents to Help English Language Learners. Greater Clark Corporation, Professional Development event. January 2007.

Ordinary People, Extraordinary Courage: Men and Women of the Underground Railroad: Curriculum Guide. Indiana University Southeast/ New Albany-Floyd County Consolidated School Corporation Middle Level Conference, December 2005, and Professional Development at Parkwood Elementary School, January 2006.

Explorations of Diversity Education: 
A Hands-on Immersion Transformational approach. National Association for Colleges of Teacher Education (NACTE), Chicago, ILL, February 2004.

Explorations of Diversity Education:
Preparing future teachers to meet the educational needs of diverse students through immersion and research. 56^th. ATE-ATE-I Nashville, IN, October 2003.

Curriculum and Identities:
The Mayan Contribution to the Education Reform in Guatemala. Hawai’i International Conference on Education, January 2003.

International and Diversity Education:
Children Literature, Social Studies, and Global Citizenship. Presenter at the National Conference of Teachers of English. Atlanta, November 2002.

International and Diversity Education:
Summer in Ecuador. Presenter at the International Speakers Series. Indiana University Southeast. October 2002.

Innovative Pedagogical Approaches to Teaching.
Presenter at Colegio Francés de Quito. Quito, Ecuador. June 2002.

Innovative Pedagogical Approaches to Teaching.
Presenter at Colegio Francés de Quito. Quito, Ecuador. June 2002.

Growing Diversity in Schools.
Presentation at the Turkey Run Conference of the Indiana Association of Teacher Educators. October 2001.

Educational Trends and Perspectives in the Global Village.
Presentation. International Series of IU Southeast. December 2000.

Curriculum Issues and Planning.
Workshop for education senior administrators from Rostov. Louisville International and Cultural Center. October 1999.

Education and Development in Latin America.
Two lectures at Hanover College. November 1997.

Pedagogical Innovations.
Symposium coordinator and presenter. Quito, Ecuador. May 1995.

Director of the Indiana University Southeast Director of the Explorations on Diversity Education Abroad Program (Ecuador). November 2001 to present.

UNESCO Expert at the Consultative Meeting “Challenges and Opportunities of the Information Society” for Central America, Cuba, Mexico and Dominican Republic. Tegucigalpa, Honduras. October 2002.

Member of Ecuadorian Delegation to the Fourth Meeting of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Main Educational Project for Latin America and the Caribbean. Quito, 1991.

Guest of the Centre International de l'Enfance (CIE) for the International Workshop on Nutrition and Education. Paris, France, 1990.

Guest of Environnement et Dévéloppement en Afrique (ENDA). Research and community links initiative for Africa and Latin America. Dakar, Senegal, 1984.

Science Expert Delegate from Ecuador to the XXII General Conference of UNESCO. 1983.

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