Susana Ibarra Johnson (Website)

Dr. Susana Ibarra Johnson is an assistant professor in bilingual education and TESOL in the School of Teacher Preparation, Administration, and Leadership. Dr. Ibarra Johnson is one of the co-authors of The Translanguaging Classroom: Leveraging Student Bilingualism for Learning along with Ofelia García and Kate Seltzer. Her commitment to improving the education of bilingual students is grounded in her experience as a bilingual learner and teacher. She has been a professional development specialist, associate researcher for WIDA, director of bilingual multicultural education programs at Bernalillo Public Schools, and most recently a district biliteracy specialist for Albuquerque Public Schools. Her research focuses on translanguaging pedagogy in bilingual education and English language development contexts.

Dr. Ibarra Johnson’s books – The Translanguaging Classroom: Leveraging Student Bilingualism for Learning 

Cultivating the Pedagogy of Translanguaging

Deborah Palmer (Website)

I am a Professor in the program in Equity, Bilingualism and Biliteracy in the School of Education, a faculty associate with the BUENO Center for Multicultural Education, and affiliate faculty in the Department of Ethnic Studies and the Culture, Language and Social Practice (CLASP) Program. Formerly a dual language bilingual teacher in Redwood City, California and bilingual teacher educator at the University of Texas at Austin, I conduct qualitative research using ethnographic and discourse analytic methods in culturally and linguistically diverse schools and classrooms. My interests include bilingual education policy and politics; dual language bilingual education; teacher preparation for linguistically and culturally diverse teaching contexts; and issues of language, power and identity in schools. I have two recent books (2023), both co-edited with colleagues: “Critical Consciousness in Dual Language Bilingual Education: Case Studies on Policy and Practice” (Routledge) and “Gentrification and Bilingual Education: A Texas TWBE School Across Seven Years” (Lexington). My 2018 book (Multilingual Matters) related to bilingual teacher education was titled Teacher Leadership for Social Change in Bilingual/Bicultural Education.