Curriculum Vita
Carol A. Evans
September 2007
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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.
Summer, 1981
Summer, 1973
Other University Coursework
Nine hours of French study. Laval University, Quebec, Quebec, Canada.
Six hours of Spanish study, University of the Americas, Cholula, Puebla,
Mexico.
Major Fields
Bilingual Education
Preschool and Elementary School Literacy
First and Second Language Acquisition
Teacher Education
Chronology of Employment
8/97 to present
Associate Professor of Teaching and Teacher Education (TTE), University of
Arizona. Graduate and undergraduate teaching, school-site bilingual methods
block coordinator and instructor, student teaching supervision, research, service.
Undergraduate courses: Reading Methods for Bilingual Teachers, Language Arts
Methods for Bilingual Teachers. Grant proposal submission for federal funding
to support the preparation of bilingual education teachers funded in 1999;
Implementation and direction of resulting Project BETAS, 1999-2005.
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. Undergraduate courses taught include Reading Methods
for Bilingual Teachers, Language Arts Methods for Bilingual Teachers, and the
Reading Practicum. Graduate courses taught in the Department of Language,
Reading, and Culture (LRC) include Language and Culture in Education, and the
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Biliteracy Practicum.
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.
Publications (from 1994)
Articles in Refereed Journals
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.
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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.
Work in Progress
Submitted for review
Evans, C. A. Mexican Americans Acquiring Bachelor Degrees: Whose Opportunity?
Revision submitted to the Journal of Latinos in Education. July 2007.
The purpose of this paper is to describe and analyze the results of a federally
Funded grant program implemented at a state university in the Southwest for the
preparation of bilingual education teachers. After a very lengthy delay, I
received a request to revise in June.
Other
Parra, E., Evans, C.A., Combs, M. C., Fletcher, T. The Psychological Impact on Mexican
American Children of the Implementation of Proposition 203 as School Policy.
Elena Parra and I are currently collaborating on yet another draft of this paper.
In this paper, we argue use current research and theory about psychological child
abuse to analyze data we have collected from parents whose children attend a
local elementary school. Like the article which appeared in Educational Policy
(see above), this project was initially supported by a University Small Grant,
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2004-2005. We plan to submit this piece before the end of this calendar year.
Evans, C. A. En Camino: Latino Students’ Reflections on Their College Experiences.
This second of two articles will report on my follow-up research on the experiences of
approximately 15 Mexican American students who have participated in our ITP program
as bilingual education preservice teachers and who received support from Project
BETAS. My first objective is to learn more about students’ perspectives on their
experience of completing a college education. A second is to understand what
factors were most significant in the high degree of success of this effort. I am
continuing to interview participants.
Scholarly Presentations (from 1996)
Conference Presentations per Proposal Selection
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
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of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE) Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois.
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
1. Pima Education Research Collaborative
Two other members of our research team, Mary Carol Combs and Todd Fletcher, wrote this
proposal for initiating a new phase of our study of the teaching of English Language Learners at a local
elementary school which we have called Nopal Elementary in our writing and presentations. The study is
called “Focused Participant Observations of SEI Classrooms and Teachers,” and the one-year award is for
$8, 460. We have begun planning for conducting the research next year.
2. University Small Grant (Research)
Until July, I was co-PI with Todd Fletcher and Mary Carol Combs on the small university
grant which has supported our research on the effects of Proposition 203.
3. Project BETAS (Bilingual Education for Arizona Schoolchildren) ended in July, in its sixth
year, thanks to a no-cost extension.
Title VII Preservice Teacher Preparation for Bilingual Teachers
Submitted, February, 1999, Funded, July 1999
Students funded beginning Fall, 1999
5-year grant, $1, 019, 001
Grant Proposals Submitted But Not Funded
1. Project CARTA (2007) —Culturally (and Academically) Responsive Teachers for Arizona
In late January and February, I prepared this proposal for the 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.
The proposal was not among those funded in July 2007.
2. 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. My request
for $10,000 for this research was denied because it was not a new area of study for me.
3. Project BETAS Continuation: (2004)
In Spring 2004, in the context of University-wide dialog about striving to become a Hispanic
Serving Institution, I wrote a proposal (see appendix) that called for the University of Arizona and
College of Education to fund Project BETAS when the federal funding ran out. I met with each dean,
revised the proposal as per their suggestions. In spite of initial interest, their decision was not to take the
proposal forward to higher administration.
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4. 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)
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)
Spring, 2007
2001-2006
2006
2001, 2002, 2005-6
1995-2006
2005
2002-2003
2000-2001
1999-2000
1995-1999
National and International Service
Doctoral Committee Member, Ernestina Hernandez-Zudell, University of New
Mexico
Reviewer, Bilingual Research Journal, 4-6 articles a year.
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
1998-present
1998
COE Representative, University Undergraduate Council,
Chair, Human Subjects Review Committee, SLAT
Member, SLAT Faculty
Member, Second Language Acquisition and Teaching (SLAT) Graduate
Committee
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College Committees and Service
2007
2003-2007
2004-2005
2004
2001-2003
2001-2003
2002-2003
1998
1997-1998
1996-1997
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
2003-2007
2000-2007
Member, Arizona Literacy Teacher Educators
Member, Tucson Area Reading Council
Departmental Committees and Service
2007
2006-7
2006-7
1997-2007
2005
2004-2005
1996-2005
2000-2005
2003-2004
2000
1999
1998-1999
1998
Member, Promotion and Tenure Committee
Member, Search Committee for Math Education Position
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
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1991-1996
1997
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materials of three assistant professors up for review.
Ad-hoc Steering Committee, ABOR and State Certification Initial Teacher
Preparation Program Reviews
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.