Our Projects

Project Team Members

Project Area 1 Team: ALTERNATIVES IN TEACHER CREDENTIALING

Norman Léonard (LEAD), Becky Sapien-Melchor (LARC); Robert Blake, Duarte Silva, Mimi Met (Advisory Board Members); Edith Benkov; Phyllis Jacobson, Ghada Osman, Tim Xie, Jean Jacques-Jura, Karen Cadiero-Kaplan, Kim-Oanh Nguyen (Consultants)

  • Arabic: Hanada Taha-Thomure/Noha Ireiqat
  • Chinese: Regina Wu/Tim Xie/Lily Cheng
  • Filipino: Atilio Alicio/Sally Idos
  • Dari/Pashto: Farid Saydee/Saboor Niasi
  • Persian: Pooneh Paydar/Shahnaz Ahmadeian
  • Spanish: Judith Shrum/Chris Brown
Project Area 2 Team: STANDARDS BASED CURRICULUM BUILDING

Hanada Taha-Thomure (LEAD), Evan Rubin, Lina Hariri (LARC), Mahdi Alosh, Don Fischer, Mahera Harouny (Advisory Board Members); Farid Mahdavi, Cathy Yi Yu Cho Woo, Becky Sapien-Melchor, Terri Nelson, (Consultants)

  • Arabic: Dany Doueiri/Youniss-El Cheddadi/Ghassan Zakaria
  • Chinese: Lily Cheng /Ke Xu
  • Dari/Pashto: Saboor Niasi/Farid Saydee
  • Italian: Steve Sacco/Clarissa Clò
  • Russian: Daria Shembel/Veronica Shapovalov
  • Persian: Pooneh Paydar/Mani Moitee
Project Area 3 Team: DEVELOPING TRANS-CULTURAL COMPETENCE

Steve Thorne (LEAD), Mary Ann Lyman-Hager, Evan Rubin, Kyle Murley (LARC); Leo Van Lier, Richard Kern, Bob Fischer (Advisory Board Members), Mahdu Madavan, Dipak Gupta, Huma Ghosh, Carl Eckberg, Bill Root (Consultants)

  • Arabic: Randa Jad Moussa/Youniss El-Cheddadi/Ghassan
  • Zakaria
  • Chinese: Minjuan Wang/Ke Xu
  • Dari/Pashto: Saboor Niasi/Farid Saydee
  • Hindi/Urdu: Computer Science Graduate Students
  • Persian: Mana Mohtasham/Shahnaz Ahmadeian
Project Area 4 Team: TESTING AND ASSESSING LANGUAGE GROWTH

Trevor Shanklin, Michael Pasamonik (LARC), Ray Clifford, Margaret Malone, Elvira Swender, (Advisory Board Members) Nadeźda Novaković, Daniel Rivas, Eniko Csomay, Greg Keating, Jim Lantolf, Xiaufei Lu, Matt Poehlner (Consultants)

  • Arabic: Hanada Taha Thomure/Mahdi Alosh
  • Chinese: Tim Xie/Minjuan Wang
  • Dari/Pashto: Farid Saydee/Saboor Niazi
  • Filipino: Sally Idos/Atilio Alicio
  • Italian: Clarissa Clò/Steve Sacco
  • Persian: Mani Moitee/Elham Sadegholvad
  • Spanish: Íñigo Yanguas /Chris Brown
  • Japanese: Ryu Kitajima/Aya Ibarra