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Reviewer, Virginia L. Navarro<br />

Associate Professor in the Division of Teaching <strong>and</strong> Learning at UM-St. Louis <strong>and</strong> co-director the Career<br />

Transitions Certification Program to prepare teachers for urban schools until 2009, Dr Navarro’s work interrogates<br />

the social construction of identity, including how school discourses shape cultural underst<strong>and</strong>ings about gender,<br />

race, <strong>and</strong> class. Additionally, she researches about how to prepare quality teachers collaboratively with school<br />

districts <strong>and</strong> communities. She co-edited a collection of case studies for the Urban Network to Improve Teacher<br />

education (UNITE) called Staying Connected (2005) that analyzes seven school/university partnerships across the<br />

country. Her chapter in Designing Urban Performance Systems, (Erlbaum, 2005) explored why “Context Matters”<br />

when assessing urban schools. In 2009 Dr Navarro taught in a graduate psychology department at Central China<br />

Normal University in Wuhan China, <strong>and</strong> in 2010 taught educational psychology at Korea University’s Summer<br />

Institute in Seoul, South Korea. In 2011 Dr Navarro <strong>and</strong> seven doctoral students presented papers at the 5th<br />

International Postgraduate Research Conference at Phranakhon Rajabhat University in Bangkok, Thail<strong>and</strong>.<br />

A Chicago native <strong>and</strong> youngest of seven children, Dr Navarro graduated from Loyola University in English<br />

Literature, studying for a year in Rome, Italy. After receiving a Masters of Art in Teaching in English at Washington<br />

University St Louis, she taught high school English <strong>and</strong> journalism at public <strong>and</strong> private high schools, returning in<br />

1991 to complete doctoral work in educational psychology. In 2009, Dr Navarro received the Governor’s Award for<br />

Excellence in Teaching. She works extensively with graduate education students at the doctoral <strong>and</strong> masters level as<br />

well as teaching qualitative research methods, action research, <strong>and</strong> sociocultural theory. Raising four wonderful<br />

children with husb<strong>and</strong> Dick over 41 years, Dr Navarro is now enjoying the role of gr<strong>and</strong>mother to three toddlers.<br />

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