BLANCA G. QUIROZ
Texas A & M University, College of Education and Human Development
College Station, Texas 77843-4232
Office phone: 979 845 7952 Cell: 979 571 7936
Email: bquiroz@tamu.edu
& quirozfam@msn.edu
EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCE
Harvard Graduate School of Education, Human Development and Psychology Ed. D., 2005
Cambridge, MA
Harvard Graduate School of Education, Human Development and Psychology M. A. Ed., 2001
Cambridge, MA
University of California Los Angeles B. A. Psych. 1993
Los Angeles, CA
TEACHING PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Sep. 2005 - Present Assistant Professor Bilingualism and Biliteracy, Texas A & M University
June 2004 - Sep. 2005 Full Time Faculty, Wheelock College
June 2003 - Dec. 2003 Lecturer Simmons College
MOST RESENT ADVANCED TRAINNING
2009 Multivariance analysis presented by Robert Thompson
Psychometrics presented By Robert Thompson
Metalinguistic analysis presented by Victor Willson
2008 Expert Reviewer, Expert Review Panel, National Evaluation of the Comprehensive Technical
Assistance Centers.
Philadelphia, PA: Branch Associates. Contract from Institute of
Educational Sciences, U.S. Department of Education, Washington, DC.
2008 Research Training, Early Childhood Longitudinal Project. Secondary data analysis of National data set. New Orleans, LA.
2007 Expert Reviewer, Expert Review Panel, National Evaluation of the Comprehensive Technical
Assistance Centers.
Philadelphia, PA: Branch Associates. Contract from Institute of Educational
Sciences, U.S. Department of Education, Washington, DC.
2006 Faculty Training Fellowship .
National Assessment of Educational Progress data analysis training
(NAEP). Washington, DC
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Language Minority Families set high educational goals for their children, but families and schools have limited knowledge based on scientific evidence for the best ways to help children from diverse languages and cultures achieve those high educational goals. My experience as a bilingual teacher in Southern California made me cognizant of the difficulties that children from language minority families face in learning at school. That realization guided my research interests in bilingualism and its role on literacy acquisition and development. As a researcher I focus on finding the best ways to bridge the gap between home and school; building bridges between languages to impact the literacy skills of bilingual children; and finding the best way to help teachers and parents build a learning environment where children from language minorities could have the best opportunity to attain educational success.

PUBLICATIONS AND IN PRESS IN PEER REVIEWED JOURNALS
1.
*Quiroz, B. G., & Snow, C. E. & Zhao, J. (2010, In Press).
Vocabulary skills of Spanish/English bilinguals: impact of mother-child language interactions and home language and literacy support.
International Journal of Bilingualism.
2.
Peña, E., Bedore, L. & Quiroz, B. G. (2010, In Press) Grammatical structure and language proficiency influences lexical use in narratives . Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research
3.
Quiroz, G. B., & Snow. C. E. (2009, In Press). Y dónde está la rana? Latino mothers’ picture-book based interactions with their children. Bilingual Research Journal, 32(3).
4.
Rothstein-Fisch, C., Greenfield, P. M.Trumbull, E., Keller, Heidi, & Quiroz, B. (2008). Discovering
Culture in Learning, Development, and Education. In D. Preiss & R. J. Sternberg (Eds.) Towards an integrative, developmental, and contextual science of education.
5.
Eslami, Z., Eslami-Rasekh, A., & Quiroz, B. (2007). English for academic purposes in Iran: A study of perceptions of English needs in academic contexts. ESP Across Cultures 4, 21-36.
6.
Greenfield, P. M., Quiroz, B., & Raeff, C. (2000). Cross-cultural conflict and harmony in the social construction of the child. In S. Harkness, C. Raeff, & C. M. Super (Eds.), New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development,87 , 93-108. San Francisco: Josey-Bass Publishers. A modified version of this paper was published in Carrie Rothstein-Fish (2001) (Ed). Readings for bridging cultures:
Teacher education module. San Francisco, CA: West Ed Lab.
7.
Quiroz, B., Greenfield, P. M., & Altchech, M. (2000). Bridging cultures with a parent-teacher conference. Educational Leadership: Race, Class, and Culture, 56 (7), 68-70. A modified version of this paper was published in Readings for bridging cultures: Teacher education module (2001). Carrie
Rothstein-Fish (Ed). San Francisco: West Ed Lab.
8.
Raeff, C., Greenfield, P. M., & Quiroz, B. (2000). Conceptualizing interpersonal relationships in the cultural contexts of individualism and collectivism. In S. Harkness, C. Raeff, & C. M. Super. (Eds.),
New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 87, 59-74.
9.
Greenfield, P. M., Quiroz, B., & Raeff, C. (1998). Cross-cultural conflict in the social construction of the child. Aztlan, The Journal of Chicano Studies , 23, 115-125.
Revised and expanded version published in 2000 as Cross-cultural conflict and harmony in the social construction of the child. In S. Harkness, C. Raeff, & C. R. Super (Eds.), The social construction of the child , new directions in child development. (pp. 93-108). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. French translation appeared in a special issue of
Psychologie de l’interaction,
edited by E. Veneziano, 7-8,
1998. A modified version of this paper was published in Carrie Rothstein-Fish (2001) (Ed). Readings for bridging cultures: Teacher education module. San Francisco: West Ed Lab.
10.
Quiroz, B., Greenfield, P. M., & Altchech, M. (1998). Bridging cultures between home and school:
The parent-teacher conference.
Connections : B ridging educational research and practice, 87, 30-49.

CHAPTERS AND BOOKS EDITIONS
11.
Greenfield, P.M., Trumbull, E., Keller, H., Rothstein-Fisch, C., Suzuki, L., & Quiroz, B. (2006).
Cultural conceptions of learning and development. In P.A. Alexander & P. H. Winne (Eds.),
Handbook of educational psychology (special edition APA division 15).
12.
Baolian, D, Feinauer, E., & Quiroz, B. (in alphabetical order) (2001) . Introduction. In D. Baolian, E.
Feinauer, & B. Quiroz (Eds.). Harvard Educational Review, 71(3), v-ix.
13.
Baolian D, Feinauer, E., & Quiroz, B. (Eds. in alphabetical order). (2001) . Special issue:
Immigration and education. Harvard Educational Review , 71(3), Cambridge, MA.
14.
Greenfield, P. M., Raeff, C., & Quiroz, B. (1996). Cultural values in learning and education. In B.
Williams (Ed.), Closing the achievement gap: A vision for changing beliefs and practices (pp. 37-
55). Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.
SUBMITTED TO PEER REVIEWED JOURNALS
15.
Quiroz, B. G. & Dixon, L. Q. (in Press). Mother-child talk in four language minority families:
Education in a fractured bilingual environment.
Bilingual Research Journal
16.
Dixon, L. Q., Chuang, H.-K., & Quiroz, B. G. (submitted to Applied Psycholinguistics). Does vocabulary predict phonological awareness among bilingual children? Evidence from Singaporean kindergartners.