Dr. Carla Espana

Carla España, PhD, is an instructor and fieldwork advisor at Bank Street Graduate School of Education. She teaches in the Bilingual/TESOL graduate program and partners with K-12 schools and university teacher preparation programs to support preservice and in-service teachers, coaches, and administrators. As a former middle grade bilingual teacher and literacy coach, she has more than ten years of curriculum development in K-12 settings across schools in the United States, Mexico, Chile, and Colombia. Her teaching, writing, research, and workshops live at the intersections of critical literacy, bilingual/multilingual education, children's literature, translanguaging, language ideologies, and teacher education. Find her on Twitter @ProfesoraEspana.