Frances Lopez

Curriculum & Instruction

M.Ed. in Curriculum and Instruction, University of Texas, 2018
B.A. in Performance Studies and Anthropology, Texas A&M University, 2012

Email: mary.frances.lopez@utexas.edu
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Frances finished their master's degree in the Learning Technologies program at the University of Texas at Austin; they received their dual B.A. in Music and Anthropology at Texas A&M University in 2012 before pursuing a career in bilingual elementary education in the local Austin Independent School District. From substitute teacher to tutor and later from classroom teacher to instructional specialist, they worked 5 years and then began to go to school full-time in pursuit of a Ph.D. beginning fall 2018.

During their time in the doctoral program, they have served as a field supervisor for teacher candidates in every semester of preparation and become deeply interested in teacher candidate agency over digital practices during preparation; in particular, they hope to learn more about spaces that take up discussions of social justice issues among multilingual students. They have also helped use feedback to design, teacher- and student-facing features for the problem based learning module, Alien Rescue by incorporating feedback from teacher interviews and team input.

Most recently their work has taken them to work as an Assistant Instructor for a summer institute at the Panamerican University in Aguascalientes where they assisted Dr. Jason Rosenblum in a course for teacher candidates and practitioners to develop augmented reality experiences for the November Posada that children from surrounding rural communities attend each year.