Dr. Socorro Herrera,
Spring Conference 2008
Keynote Speaker

Dr. Herrera serves as a professor of Elementary Education at Kansas State University and directs the Center for Intercultural and Multilingual Advocacy (CIMA) in the College of Education. Her K-12 teaching experience includes an emphasis on literacy development. Her research focuses on literacy opportunities with culturally and linguistically diverse children, reading strategies, and teacher preparation for diversity in the classroom.       Dr. Herrera has recently published two books with Allyn and Bacon, Mastering ESL and Bilingual Methods: Differentiated Instruction for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students (2005) and Assessment Accommodations for Classroom Teachers of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students (2007). A third book entitled Differentiated Literacies: Contextualizing Reading and Writing for the Linguistically and Culturally Diverse Student, written with Dr. Kathy Escamilla and Dr. Della Pérez, will be released in 2008.