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name: Alma Flor Ada
about: (http://facebook.com/almaflorada)Dr. Ada was the founder and First Editor in Chief of : NABE, Journal of the National Association for Bilingual EducationShe has been active for many years in various professional associations including : IRA, International Reading AssociationCRA, California Reading AssociationCABE, California Association for Bilingual EducationUSIBBY, US Branch of the International Board of Books for Young PeopleShe is a member of :Advisory Board of Loose Leaf Public Radio ProgramsNational Television WorkshopBetween the LinesReading Up!, Natural Head Start AssociationA frequent speaker at national and international conferences, Dr. Ada also works in school districts with children, teachers and parents. The award-winning auth (http://facebook.com/almaflorada)Dr. Ada was the founder and First Editor in Chief of : NABE, Journal of the National Association for Bilingual EducationShe has been active for many years in various professional associations including : IRA, International Reading AssociationCRA, California Reading AssociationCABE, California Association for Bilingual EducationUSIBBY, US Branch of the International Board of Books for Young PeopleShe is a member of :Advisory Board of Loose Leaf Public Radio ProgramsNational Television WorkshopBetween the LinesReading Up!, Natural Head Start AssociationA frequent speaker at national and international conferences, Dr. Ada also works in school districts with children, teachers and parents. The award-winning author of numerous children’s books and a prolific translator, Alma Flor Ada is a leading mentor and philosopher of bilingual education in the United States. She has authored several reading programs, among them two Spanish reading programs :Cielo abierto (K-6)Vamos de fiesta! (K-3)and of two English reading programs :Signatures (K-6)Collections (K- 6)and is a series consultant for Relatos de la historia (1-5), a Spanish social studies program developed by Harcourt School Publishers.Among her most substantive contributions to the transmission of Hispanic culture to children are :Música amiga, a program for learning through songs, published by Del Sol BooksPuertas al Sol - Pathways to the Sun, published by SantillanaLatino poetry, Art, and Biographies for children, published by SantillanaDr. Ada received her Ph.D. in Spanish Literature from the Pontifical Catholic University of Lima, Perú and did post-doctoral research at Harvard University as a Fellow of the Radcliffe Institute and a Fulbright Research Scholar. ...more