Grants & Awards

Funded Grants

  • 2012:  Higher Education Servicing Corporation. Grant amount: $5,500. Project Title: UT Arlington College Readiness Program.

  • 2012: Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. Grant amount: $42,000. Project Title: UT Arlington College Readiness Program (with Luis Rosado).

  • 2011-2016: U.S. Department of Education & Office of English Language Acquisition: National Professional Development Grant Program. Grant amount: $1,877.929. Project Title: Improving Preparation for All Teachers to Serve English Learners (with Luis Rosado).

  • 2011: Center for Research, Evaluation and Advancement of Teacher Education. Grant amount: $3,000. Project Title: Identifying the Professional Development Needs of Teachers at a Culturally and Linguistically Diverse, Minority-Majority Charter School (with Yolanda Parker, Peggy Semingson and Kevin White).

  • 2011-2013: Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. Grant amount: $300,000. Project Title: UT Arlington College Readiness Program (with Luis Rosado).

  • 2011: Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. Grant amount: $16,720. Project Title: UT Arlington and Arlington ISD College Readiness Program (with Luis Rosado).
     
  • 2011: Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. Grant amount: $36,000. Project Title: UT Arlington and Arlington ISD College Readiness Program (with Luis Rosado).

  • 2011: Higher Education Servicing Corporation. Grant amount: $6,100. Project Title: UT Arlington College Readiness Program.

  • 2010: UTA's Faculty Fellowship on Sustainability in the Curriculum. Grant amount: $3,000. Project Title: Increasing Bilingual Pre-Service Teachers’ Pedagogical Content Knowledge of Sustainability through the Creation and Implementation of Materials in Dual Language Classrooms.

  • 2010: UTA's Innovative Teaching Grant. Grant amount: $3,500. Project Title: Creating Technology-Infused Assessment Modules for Pre-Service Teachers Working with English Language Learners.

  • 2009: AmeriCorps*State. Grant amount: $68,000. Project Title: UT Arlington and Arlington ISD College Readiness Program (with Luis Rosado).

  • 2009: Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. Grant amount: $270,000. Project Title: UT Arlington and Arlington ISD College Readiness Program (with Luis Rosado).

  • 2009: P-16 Regional Councils Grant. Grant amount: $50,000. Project Title: UT Arlington and Arlington ISD College Readiness Program (with Jeanne M. Gerlach & Luis Rosado).

  • 2007: Graduate Student and Faculty Mentoring Grant Program, College of Education, Criminal Justice and Human Services at the University of Cincinnati. Grant amount: $750. Project Title: Latino/a Children ESL and Subject-Matter Appropriation through Technology-Mediated Activities: A Cultural Historical Activity Theory Perspective (with Gulbahar Beckett).

  • 2006: Graduate Student and Faculty Mentoring Grant Program, College of Education, Criminal Justice and Human Services at the University of Cincinnati. Grant amount: $750. Project Title: Utilizing a SMART Board as a second language mediation tool in graduate school (with Gulbahar Beckett).

  • 2005: Graduate Student and Faculty Mentoring Grant Program, College of Education, Criminal Justice and Human Services at the University of Cincinnati. Grant amount: $750. Project Title:  On being socialized to graduate school discourses with and through online asynchronous discussions (with Gulbahar Beckett).

  • 2005: Smarter Kids Research Foundation Grant, Canada. Grant amount: $6000. Project Title: Utilizing a SMART Board as a second language mediation tool in graduate school (with Gulbahar Beckett).

Awards

  • 2011: UT Arlington's 2011 Faculty Scholar for Service-Learning. Center for Community Service Learning. University of Texas at Arlington. 

  • 2009-2010: UT Arlington's 2009 Service Learning Faculty Fellows. Center for Community Service Learning. University of Texas at Arlington.

  • 2009: 2009 'Garvin Distinguished Dissertation Award’ from the College of Education, Criminal Justice and Human Services at University of Cincinnati. Dissertation Title: Latino Children's ESL and Subject-Matter Appropriation through Technology-Mediated Activities: A Cultural Historical Activity Theory Perspective.

  • 2008: 2008 ‘Outstanding Doctoral Student in Literacy/TESL’ Award from the College of Education, Criminal Justice and Human Services at the University of Cincinnati.

  • 2006: Grant Writing Workshop Award, The Graduate School, University of Cincinnati. 

  • 2004: Affiliate Membership Award, Ohio TESOL.