Curriculum Vita
Carol A. Evans
October 2014
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Chronology of Education
Aug. 1989
University Degrees
Ph.D., Foreign Language Education with specialization in Bilingual Education,
University of Texas at Austin. Dissertation: The Transmission of Spanish as a
Family Language. Director: Professor George M. Blanco.
May 1980
M.A., Bilingual Education, University of Texas at Austin. Master's Report: The
Maintenance of a Mother Tongue: A Family Undertaking. Director:
Professor Theodore Andersson.
May 1975
B.S. Elementary Education (Bilingual Education, Spanish minor).
University of Texas at Austin.
Other University Coursework
Summer, 1981
Nine hours of French study. Laval University, Quebec, Quebec, Canada.
Summer, 1973
Six hours of Spanish study, University of the Americas, Cholula, Puebla,
Mexico.
Major Fields
Bilingual Education
Elementary School Literacy and Biliteracy
First and Second Language Acquisition
Teacher Education
Chronology of Employment
8/12-present
Program Coordinator, Teaching and Teacher Education.
8/97-present
Associate Professor, Teaching, Learning, and Sociocultural Studies, University
of Arizona. Teaching (60%), research, and service. Graduate teaching in both
TLS Programs: TTE (Teaching and Teacher Education, and LRC (Language,
Reading, and Culture) programs. Undergraduate program work includes
coordination and teaching of school-site bilingual and English as a second
language elementary cohort program (DualCats) at Hollinger Elementary/Middle
School, as well as student teaching supervision.
8/91 to 8/97
Assistant Professor of Teaching and Teacher Education (TTE), University of
Arizona. Coordinator, Bilingual Education, Initial Teacher Preparation
Program. Graduate and undergraduate teaching, student teaching supervision,
research and service.
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8/89-7/91
Lecturer, University of Texas at San Antonio. Graduate and undergraduate
teaching, course development, service, grant program coordination. Graduate
courses taught: Sociolinguistics, Psycholinguistics of Second Language
Acquisition and Learning, Ethnographic Research Methods; Undergraduate
courses: Language and Culture in a Pluralistic Society, Language Arts Methods
for Bilingual Teachers. Program Coordinator for graduate portion of Title VII
grant, "Educational Leadership in Bilingual Education."
Summer/1988, 1989
Instructor, University of Texas at Austin. Graduate courses taught: English as a
Second Language I & II.
8/84-5/88
Graduate Assistant, University of Texas at Austin. Coordination, methods
practicum; Supervision, bilingual and traditional program student teachers.
9/81-5/84
Doctoral Fellow, Title VII Bilingual Education Teacher Trainer Grant,
University of Texas at Austin.
8/79-5/81
Title I bilingual kindergarten teacher, Austin Independent School District,
Austin, Texas.
9/75-5/78
Bilingual education classroom teacher, South San Antonio Independent School
District, San Antonio, Texas.
Courses Taught (from 2007)
Graduate
TTE 537 Equity in Schools and Society
TTE 539 Recent Research in Teaching and Schooling
LRC 504 Language and Culture in Education
Undergraduate
TTE 323 Reading Methods (in Bilingual and Multicultural ESL Program)
TTE 322 Language Arts Methods (in Bilingual and Multicultural ESL Program)
LRC 428 Curriculum and Instruction in Bilingual and Second Language Settings
TTE 493A Elementary Student Teaching Supervision
Publications (from 1994)
Articles in Refereed Journals
Evans, C. A. (2009). Mexican Americans Acquire Bachelor’s Degrees: Whose Opportunity?
Journal of Latinos and Education, 8(3), 199-218.
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Combs, M. C., Evans, C.A., Fletcher, T., Parra, E. & Jiménez, A. (2005.) Bilingualism for the
Children: Implementing a Dual Language Program in an English Only State. Educational Policy, 19(5),
pp. 701-728.
Evans, C. A., Elizabeth Arnot-Hopffer, Donna Jurich. (2005). Making Ends Meet: Bringing
Bilingual Education and Mainstream Education Students Together in Preservice Teacher Education.
Journal of Equity and Excellence in Education, 38(1), pp. 75-88.
Evans, C. A. (1996). Prejudice, Ethnolinguistic Vitality and Family Language Transmission:
Mexican Americans in the Southwest, Bilingual Research Journal,20, 2, 177-203.
Johnson, D. M. & Evans, C.A. (1995). Assessing discourse access and performance for second
language learners. Exceptionality Education Canada, 5, 1, 43-63.
Evans, C. A. (1994). Monstruos, pesadillas, and other frights. The Reading Teacher, 47, 5, 428430.
Invited Articles
Evans, C. A. (forthcoming). Home language use and student self-esteem. . González, J. (Ed.)
Encyclopedia of Bilingual Education. Sage. (Entry revised, resubmitted, and accepted in early 2007).
Evans, C. A. (forthcoming) . Theodore Andersson. González, J. (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Bilingual
Education. Sage. (Entry submitted in June, 2006 and accepted in early 2007).
Book Chapters
Evans, C. A., (2000). Monstruos, pesadillas, and other frights. Article reprinted from The
Reading Teacher. In Rasinski, T.V. et al, (Eds.), Developing Reading-Writing Connections. Newark:
International Reading Association.
Evans, C. A. (1994). Challenging language prospects: A view of the scholarly work of
Theodore Andersson. In C. A. Evans (Ed.), Scholar with a Mission: The Career of Theodore Andersson
and His Contributions to Language Education. Washington, D.C.: National Clearinghouse for Bilingual
Education, pp. 49-84.
Evans, C. A. (1994). English-only children from bilingual homes: Considering the home-school
connection. In C. K. Kinzer & D. J. Leu, (Eds.) Multidimensional Aspects of Literacy Research, Theory,
and Practice. Forty-Third Yearbook of the National Reading Conference. Chicago: The National
Reading Conference, pp. 172-179.
Edited Tribute
Evans, C. A. (Ed.). (1994). Scholar with a Mission: The Career of Theodore Andersson and
His Contributions to Language Education. Washington, D.C.: National Clearinghouse for Bilingual
Education.
Book Review
Evans, C. A. (Summer, 2002). Review of At War with Diversity by James Crawford. Bilingual
Research Journal, 26 (2), pp. 497-503. Invited book review.
Evans, C. A. (1994). Review of Learning in Two Worlds: A Spanish/English Biliteracy
Approach by Bertha Pérez & María Torres-Guzmán. Multicultural Education, 15-16.
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Scholarly Presentations (from 1996)
Conference Presentations per Proposal Selection
Evans, C. A. (2008). English Learner Destruction: English Learner Destruction: Current State
Law and the Four-Hour Mandate. Conference of the Arizona Literacy Teacher Educators, Tucson, AZ,
January 28.
Evans, C. A. , Combs, M.C., Reyes, I. (2006). Studying Two-Language Children in an EnglishOnly State: New Challenges. Invited Research Symposium, National Association for Bilingual
Education, Phoenix, January 19.
Evans, C. A. (2006). Latinos Acquiring Bachelor’s Degrees: A Question of Opportunity. Poster
Session, Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, April 10.
Combs, M.C., Evans, C. A., Fletcher, T., Favela, J. (2004). Bilingualism for the Children:
Implementing a Dual Language Program in an English Immersion State. Albuquerque, NM. National
Association for Bilingual Education, February 4-7.
Combs, M.C., Fletcher, T., Evans, C.A., Parra, E., Jiménez, A. (2004). English Language
Learners and Structured English Immersion: The Legal, Psychological, Academic, and Social
Consequences of English-Only Education in Arizona. Binational Symposium of Education Researchers,
March 2004, Mexico City. (I was unable to attend this conference, but worked with my collaborators to
prepare the presentation.)
Combs, M.C. Berning, T., Evans, C.A., Parra, E., Gabaldón, S. (2003). English Language
Learners and Structured English Immersion: The Legal, Psychological, and Social Consequences of
English Only Education in Arizona. Tucson Teachers Applying Whole Language (TAWL) Conference,
October 4, Homer Davis Elementary School, Tucson, Arizona.
Evans, C. A. & McKean, B. (Scheduled, Novermber 20, 1998). Using Readers' Theatre for the
Study of Social Issues: Bilingual and Traditional Classrooms. Proposal accepted by the National
Council for the Study of Social Studies (NCSS). Annual Conference, Anaheim, California.
Evans, C. A. & McKean, B. (March, 1998). Creating Readers' Theatre Scripts Around Social
Issues. (With Barbara McKean). Sixth Annual Conference on Literature and Literacy for Children and
Adolescents, The University of Arizona.
Jurich, D., Evans, C. A., & Arnot-Hopffer, E. J. (1996). Mixing it up: Combining bilingual
and traditional program preservice teachers--Who wins, who loses? Paper presented at the American
Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting, New York, New York.
Griego-Jones, T., Evans, C. A., & Riojas-Clark, E. (1996). Sharing the knowledge base:
Contributions of bilingual education to teacher education. Paper presented at the American Association
of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE) Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois.
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Invited Presentations
Evans, C. A. , Combs, M.C., Reyes, I. (2006). Studying Two-Language Children in an EnglishOnly State: New Challenges. Invited Research Symposium, National Association for Bilingual
Education, Phoenix, January 19.
Evans, C. A., Combs, M.C., Fletcher, T., Betten, P., Fernández, C. (2005). The Combined Effect
of Anti-Bilingual Education and NCLB Policies on English Learners at an Arizona Elementary DualLanguage School. National Association for Bilingual Education, San Antonio, Texas, January 19-22.
Evans, C. A. (January, 1998). La formación de maestros en contextos multiculturales. Invited
speaker, with Richard Ruiz, by the Secretary of Public Education and Culture, State of Sinaloa, Mexico.
Presentations made at three sites: Unidad Pedagógica Nacional in Mazatlán, Escuela Normal de Sinaloa
in Culiacán, and Escuela Normal Experimental de El Fuerte in El Fuerte. Representatives of all teacher
preparation and development institutions in the State of Sinaloa were part of these conferences; the
purpose was to explore and develop collaborative and exchange efforts between those institutions and the
College of Education at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.
Evans, C. A. (1996). La vitalidad etnolingüística y la transmisión del español como idioma de la
familia. (Ethnolinguistic vitality and the transmission of Spanish as a family language). Paper presented
at the Binational conference ( Conferencia de aprendizaje binacional de investigadores), sponsored by
Johns Hopkins University, the Texas Education Agency, and the Educational Services of the State of
Chihuahua. Ciudad Juárez, Mexico.
Invited Colloquia Presentations
Evans, C. A. & McKean, B. (September, 1998). Creating an Performing Readers' Theatre Scripts
about Social Issues. Tucson Area Reading Council (TARC), Tucson, Arizona.
Evans, C. A. (1996). Ethnolinguistic vitality, prejudice, and the transmission of Spanish. Paper
presented at the Mexican American Studies and Research Center Brown Bag Lecture Series, University
of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona.
Evans, C. A., D. Jurich & E. J.Arnot-Hopffer. (1996). Combining bilingual and traditional
program preservice teachers--Who wins, who loses? Paper presented at the Mexican American Studies
and Research Center Brown Bag Lecture Series, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona.
Other Scholarly Presentations:
Combs, M.C., Evans, C.A., Fletcher, T. (2004). The Effect of English Immersion and
Proposition 203 Policies on Teachers and Students at One Elementary Dual-Language School. College of
Education Policy Research Dinner, January 22, 2004, UA Student Union.
Evans, C.A. (2002). The Importance of Language in Understanding Culture. Fourth Annual
Tucson Resiliency Conference: Tucson, November 1-2.
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Grants and Contracts
Funded Projects
Learning to Speak, Read, and Write English.
PI, Director, Pima Education Research Collaborative Project: ($9220)
With Dr. Mary Carol Combs. This is a study of the
acquisition of English and English literacy by Spanish dominant
elementary school children in English-only classrooms. Our work continues.
2008
2006-2007
Focused Participant Observations of SEI Classrooms and Teachers.
Collaborator, Pima Education Research Collaborative research project, one-year award
for $8, 460. With Dr. Mary Carol Combs (P.I .)
2003-5
The Effects of Proposition 203 on a Dual Language Program.
Collaborator, University Small Grant; Todd Fletcher and Mary Carol Combs
(Co-PI’s).
1999-2005
Bilingual Education for Arizona Schoolchildren (Project BETAS).
PI and Director, Title VII Preservice Teacher Preparation for Bilingual Teachers.
Recruited and funded 104 undergraduate students over 6 years.
Submitted, February, 1999, Funded, July 1999
Students funded beginning Fall, 1999
5-year grant, $1,019, 001
Not Funded
Project CARTA (2007) —Culturally (and Academically) Responsive Teachers for Arizona
National Professional Development Program under the Office of Education. The proposal was
for a five-year project to be funded at $1,481,880. The two major purposes of the proposed
project were (1) to recruit, prepare, and graduate 60 new teachers who would specialize in
working with English learners, (2) to collaborate with colleagues in TTE , LRC, English, and
Spanish, to revise and update the courses in our existing bilingual education program, while also
establishing a new English Language Learner specialization for teachers of English Learners not
themselves fluent in Spanish.
Small Grant Proposal (2005)
Last year I wrote a University small grant proposal for the August, 2005-July, 2006 year to
undertake a study of a group of children in a local elementary school dual language program.
Dept. of Education, Office of Innovation and Improvement, Summer, 2004
Arts in Education Model Development and Dissemination Grant Program
Application through the Arizona Alliance for Arts Education
Proposed Project: Stories that Soar ¡Cuentos al vuelo!
Bilingual Coordinator, with Barbara McKean (College of Fine Arts) and Kathy Naylor, Project
Co-directors
We proposed a theatre arts educational partnership (“Stories that Soar! ¡Cuentos al
vuelo!”) among the Colleges of Education and Fine Arts and the Flowing Wells and Sunnyside
School Districts. We intended to involve the students at three elementary schools (one bilingual)
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in a collective but personal storywriting effort, with classroom involvement by College of
Education preservice teachers, which would culminate in a dramatic presentation of the stories by
College of Fine Arts students. The research plan was to investigate the nature of the experience
for participants, and the ways in which the experience impacts the quality of children’s story
writing. Unfortunately, our proposal was not among those selected.
Service/Outreach (since 1997)
National and International Service
2012-2013
2012
2010-present
2009-2010
2006-present
2006-present
2006
2001, 2002, 2005-6
1995-2006
2005
2002-2003
2000-2001
1999-2000
1995-1999
Director, Collaborative on Language, NCTE (Executive
Committee, Coordination of group membership efforts, draft group
proposals for NCTE Conference, help organize Business Meetings)
Reviewer, Conference Proposals, Literacy Research Association
Director-Elect, Collaborative on Language, NCTE (Executive
Committee, Coordination of group membership efforts, draft group
proposals for NCTE Conference, help organize Business Meetings)
Member, AERA HENRY T. TRUEBA AWARD for Research
Leading to the Transformation of the Social Contexts of Education,
(Award was presented to Norma González at the Annual AERA
Conference in Denver, April 2010)
Occasional reviewer: Spanish in Context (Electronic Journal), 2009
AERA, Hispanic Research SIG, Bilingual Education SIG, Division G
Literacy Research Association conference proposals
Memberships, National Council of Teachers of English
Literacy Research Association
American Educational Research Association
Outside Reviewer for a candidate for promotion to Associate Professor with
Tenure at the University of Texas at San Antonio
Reviewer, Program Proposals, National meeting of the American Educational
Research Association (AERA) Hispanic Research SIG)
Member, American Educational Research Association (Division G Social
Context of Education, Division K Teaching and Teacher Education,
Bilingual Education SIG, Hispanic Research SIG), International
Reading Association, National Association for Bilingual Education
(NABE), National Council of Teachers of English
Outside Reviewer for a candidate for promotion to Associate Professor with
tenure at the University of New Mexico
Interviewer, Fullbright Program
Chair, Hispanic Research SIG, AERA
Program Chair and Chair Elect, Hispanic Research SIG, AERA
Reviewer, occasional, Conference Program Proposals for annual conferences of
the National Association for Bilingual Education (NABE), National Reading
Conference (NRC).
University Committees and Service
2003-2005
2001-2002
COE Representative, University Undergraduate Council,
Chair, Human Subjects Review Committee, SLAT
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1998-present
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Member, SLAT Faculty
Member, Second Language Acquisition and Teaching (SLAT) Graduate
Committee
College Committees and Service
2012-2013
2011
2008-2011
2007
2003-2007
2004-2005
2004
2001-2003
2001-2003
2002-2003
1998
1997-1998
1996-1997
Contact person for COE Advisors, especially regarding bilingual education and
ESL endorsement students, Spring 2012-Fall 2013. Met and strategized directly
with the advisors each semester.
Member, College-wide Teacher Preparation Program Representatives Group
assembled 5/11 and 12/11 by Associate Dean Renee Clift
Led redesign and implementation of undergraduate bilingual education program,
with the addition of an undergraduate English as a Second Language
endorsement program for elementary school preservice teachers
Member, Academic Programs Committee for 2007-2008 academic year
Recruiter, Interviewer, Non-bilingual education endorsement block students to
participate in the bilingual block
Member, Search Committee, LRC Early Literacy position (David Yaden)
Member, Dean’s Search Committee (Ron Marx)
Member, College-Wide Curriculum Committee
Member, College Council
Member, Adhoc Inter-Institutional Committee Commissioned to Develop the
UA-Pima Community College/Desert Vista Campus Sequential Degree
Program for Cohort of Bilingual Education Teachers Candidates
Member, Sequential Degree Program Committee. Committee comprised of
Peggy Douglas, Toni Griego-Jones, 3 faculty from the Desert Vista
(Pima Community College Campus), and TUSD Bilingual Director
Leonard Basurto, formed to begin a new cohort group of bilingual
teachers in the Fall of 1999.
Member, Strategic Planning Study Group Work on Faculty Renewal and
Development with Dana Fox, Linda Levine, Aleene Nielson, Stephanie
Parker. Final Report submitted November 14, 1997.
Local/State Outreach
2011-2013
Disseminated information to TUSD and SUSD principals and teachers
about the new Elementary Education Multicultural ESL Endorsement
Program, recruiting schools and teachers as fieldwork sites for the new
program. This included both schools already serving as
Bilingual/Multicultural Elementary Education Cohort fieldwork sites for
practicum and student teaching experiences before 2011 (6 in TUSD; 4 in
SUSD), as well as outreach efforts to 13 additional TUSD schools, and 6
additional SUSD schools.)
2003-2007
2000-2007
Member, Arizona Literacy Teacher Educators
Member, Tucson Area Reading Council
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2013-14
2012-13
2010-2012
2011-12
2011
2010
2008
2007
2006-7
2006-7
1997-2007
2005
2004-2005
1996-2005
2000-2005
2003-2004
2000
1999
1998-1999
1998
1998
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Departmental Committees and Service
In Collaboration with Erin Turner and Toni Griego-Jones, wrote
rationale for new bilingual education positions (2) and led
departmental discussion of the position. Spring, 2013
Co-chair, with Erin Turner, Bilingual Education-Multicultural Education-ESL
Search, Fall 2013. Erin did by far most of the work in the Fall, since
I was on sabbatical. However, in order to provide a smooth transition
when she went on sabbatical at the end of the semester, I participated
as a committee member in most ways, reviewing the 44 applications,
attending the 10 or so screening Skype interviews, etc. Fall, 2013. I took
charge of the visits of the 3 candidates. Carol Brochin was hired.
Team leader, Dual/ESL group which meets monthly since 9/12-12/13. I set
the agenda and hosted discussions.
Leader, Literacy group in Elementary Education—Until the fortuitous arrival of
Elizabeth Jaeger, I led the group, which meets monthly as part of Donna
Jurich’s CATS meetings. We revised our benchmark assignment, Fall
2011-Spring, 2012, and this took quite a bit of collaboration and
coordination.
Chair, Search Committee, Reading and Language Arts position.
Dr. Elizabeth Jaeger selected and hired; Haeny Yoon, applicant for our position,
recruited to apply for the Early childhood position
Member, Peer review committee, (alternate)
Member, Promotion and Tenure Committee, Fall 2010
Member, Personnel Committee, Fall 2008 (1 promotion review,
2 third-year reviews)
Member, Promotion and Tenure Committee
Member, Search Committee for Math Education Position (Marcy Woods was
hired)
Member, Committee for Creating the Early Childhood Certification Program
Bilingual Education ITP Program Work. Evaluation of student entrance essays
in Spanish. Establishment of school sites for the Bilingual Block.
Identification of student teaching placements for each elementary
bilingual education student.
Chair, Promotion and Tenure Committee,
Chair, Literacy Teacher Education Search Committee. (Ana Christina Iddings
was hired.)
Member, Initial Teacher Preparation Committee
Member, Peer Review Committee, TTE
Chair, Curriculum Committee
Member, Promotion and Tenure Committee. Reviewed tenure materials for one
candidate.
Member, Promotion and Tenure Committee. Reviewed tenure materials for one
candidate.
Member, Search Committee for Language Arts & Reading Position
Chair, Personnel Committee, Reviewed and evaluated 2nd-year and fourth-year
materials of three assistant professors up for review.
Ad-hoc Steering Committee, ABOR and State Certification Initial Teacher
Preparation Program Reviews
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1997
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Coordination, Initial Teacher Preparation Bilingual Education Program.
Administration, program development, student advising, placement of
student teachers, oversight of entrance essays and admissions,
coordination with other university departments, informal Spanish
language assessment, coordination with district administrators and
schools.
Member, Search Committee for 3 TTE Positions.