Paty Abril-Gonzalez completed her PhD in Social, Multicultural, and Bilingual Foundations with an Emphasis in Educational Equity and Cultural Diversity in the School of Education at the University of Colorado at Boulder in 2018. Her dissertation is titled: Recuerdos, Expresiones y Sueños en Nepantla: Identity Journeys through Spoken, Written, and Artistic Testimonios. Her research agenda includes exploring long-term caring relationships between bilingual Latinx teachers, students, and their families through Chicana Feminist orientations using qualitative arts-based methods.
Prior to her returning to graduate school Paty Abril-Gonzalez was a bilingual elementary school teacher for 7 years in Denver, Colorado, including dual immersion and traditional bilingual education settings. She taught in the same district where she learned English as a young student years before.
Ph.D. in Social, Multicultural, and Bilingual Foundations with an emphasis in Educational Equity and Cultural Diversity, University of Colorado Boulder, 2018
M.A. in Curriculum & Instruction, Elementary Bilingual, & ESL, University of Colorado Denver, 2009
B.A. in Art History, University of Colorado Boulder, 2003
B.S. in Business Marketing, University of Colorado Boulder, 2003
Studies long-term relationships with Latinx bilingual students and teachers using arts-based biliteracy approaches to affirm and amplify silenced perspectives, build connections, and develop bilingualism and biculturalism.
Committee Member, Cultural Diversity and Global Culture Flags, (2019 - Present)
NCTE Professional Dyads and Culturally Relevant Teaching (PDCRT), National Council of Teachers of English (2021 - 2023)
Awarded a Grant from Alba Ortiz and James Yates Endowment in the Center for Mexican American Studies, Mexican and American Latino Studies (2021 - 2022)
LRAs STAR Mentee & Member, Literacy Research Association (2019 - 2021)
3MT Winner, University of Colorado Boulder (2018)
Listening, Reading, and Seeing Latinx Youths Testimonios: Imaginative Manifestations of Hope and Resistance, Miramontes Scholars Program Mentor guest speaker, School of Education, Boulder, Colorado. (2020)
Laura D Turner, Ph.D., expected 2022 (Committee Member)
Translanguaging praxis and multilingual pedagogies; holistic bi/multilingual approaches to language and bi/multilingualism; transdisciplinary research methods
Desiree Pallais-Downing (Committee Member)
Examines the contributions of strengths-based approaches in literacy instruction with Spanish-speaking bilingual teacher candidates and in-service teachers in the U.S. and in Latin America.
| Year | Semester | Course |
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| 2021 | Fall | EDC 370E: 2-Language Arts-R |
| 2021 | Fall | EDC 385G: 96-Biliteracy/New Lit Studies |
| 2020 | Fall | EDC 370E: 2-Language Arts-Y |
| 2020 | Fall | EDC 381F: Intro To Teaching & Teacher Ed |
| 2020 | Spring | EDC 370E: 20-Teach Eng As Sec Lang-D |
| 2020 | Spring | EDC 381F: Intro To Teaching & Teacher Ed |
| 2019 | Fall | EDC 370E: 2-Language Arts-D |
| 2019 | Fall | EDC 385G: 96-Biliteracy/New Lit Studies |
| 2019 | Spring | EDC 370E: 2-Language Arts-R |
| 2018 | Fall | EDC 370E: 2-Language Arts-Y |
