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Office Hours

Office Hours: T: 3:00 - 6:00 p.m. & Wed: 3:00 - 6:00 p.m. 

Biography

Dr. Cecilia M. Espinosa is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Early Childhood/Childhood at the School of Education at Lehman College/CUNY.  Cecilia, an immigrant from Ecuador, received her PhD in Philosophy of Education - Curriculum & Instruction with a focus on Language & Literacy and a specialization in Bilingual Education from Arizona State University (ASU). Before becoming a teacher educator, Dr. Espinosa was first a teacher assistant, then a multiage (K-2nd grade) bilingual classroom teacher, and later director of a K-8th grade dual language program in Phoenix, Arizona.

Cecilia has served as an Associate Investigator for CUNY New York State Initiative Emergent Bilinguals (CUNY NYSIEB) and the Initiative on Immigration and Education (CUNY IIE). She is a Faculty Participant in the project Computer Integration Teacher Education (CITE). She is an Affiliated Faculty to the New York City Writing Project (NYCWP). Cecilia is a member of the Editorial Board Bilingual Review/Revista Bilingüe, the editor of The Bilingual Times (NYSABE), and Chair of the Charlotte Huck Award for Outstanding Children’s Literature in Fiction (NCTE).  She is the Professional Development Liaison at Samara Dual Language Community School.  

Cecilia co-led the NYSED Project on Best Practices for Multilingual Learners and the Next Generation Learning Standards (NGLS). She is co-author of Rooted in Strength: Using Translanguaging to Grow Multilingual Readers and Writers (Scholastic, 2021). Her research publications focus on bilingual children’s writing, translanguaging, descriptive processes, and children’s literature that affirms and nurtures their multiple identities. Her oath is to ensure the children’s literature collection at the Lehman College Library reflects the rich diversity of The Bronx. 

In addition to her duties at Lehman, Dr. Espinosa is also an appointed Consortial Faculty to the Ph.D. Program in the Urban Education Department - at the CUNY Graduate Center. 

Cecilia values collaboration, dialogue, and inquiry. She takes a descriptive stance toward teaching, learners, and learning.