A current doctoral candidate in bilingual and bicultural education at UT Austin, Mónica Vásquez Neshyba has been involved in education for over a decade in various roles, including bilingual (Spanish/English) elementary teacher, bilingual curriculum coordinator, and English as a second language/sheltered instruction strategist for central Texas school districts. She has also served as a program specialist for the Texas …

Paige McCord is an educational researcher and practitioner. Her current work includes consulting for public school districts, as well as teaching in the MAT@USC program. McCord specializes in the field of gifted education, particularly curriculum and pedagogy appropriate for advanced students. She has served many rolls in the pre-service teacher preparation process including being a master teacher, …

Sue Kasun teaches in the area of language development with English language learners. She taught sociocultural influences on learning at the University of Texas and ESL curriculum and methods courses at George Mason University.
Kasun taught and administrated in Mexican schools and then moved to the U.S. to work with immigrant students. In Fairfax County Public Schools, as a …

Heather Robertson has a Doctorate in Education from USC and a Master’s degree in Education from Cal-State L.A. She started teaching ESL in Taiwan in 1979, and has taught ESL for over thirty years at the adult, community college, and university levels. She has been teaching in the Rosser School of Education Masters in TESOL program (now MAT-TESOL) since 2007 …

John Keith Robinson is an instructional coach for the Language Acquisition Branch of the Los Angeles
Unified School District, AVID co-coordinator at Abraham Lincoln High School, and adjunct professor
for the MAT@USC. Robinson received a doctorate from USC, masters’ degrees from California State
University at Dominguez Hills and Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary, and a bachelors degree from
University of California at San Diego.
Robinson has …