October 2018 Edition
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The Model<br />
Recognizing Culturally Responsive and Innovative Classroom Teachers<br />
Name: Maria Munoz<br />
School: ESL Newcomer<br />
Academy<br />
Maria Munoz earned a bachelors<br />
degree and a teaching certificate<br />
in Social Sciences at the Universidad<br />
Centroamericana (El Salvador) and a<br />
Master in Education and a K-12 ESL<br />
endorsement at the University of<br />
Louisville. Since 2016, Maria has dedicated<br />
her cultural responsive teaching to English<br />
Language Learners (ELLs) at the multicultural<br />
ESL Newcomer Academy. Her<br />
passion for ELLs is rooted on her own firsthand<br />
experience as an ELL herself when<br />
she arrived to Louisville in 1996; she had a<br />
great desire to serve as an educator and as<br />
a contributing citizen in the American<br />
society. Her cultural responsiveness is<br />
inspired by Paulo Freire’s education-forfreedom<br />
and the educational principles of<br />
the Sheltered Instruction Observation<br />
Protocol (SIOP).<br />
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Photos, Abdul Sharif
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