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Staff
Sarah McFadden
Research Program Coordinator, Department of Teaching and Learning
After teaching English as a Second Language for ten years, Sara moved into healthcare quality improvement research several years ago, and then into education research. As a former teacher, she enjoys working to better understand how students learn new words and how we can use what we learn about student’s language skills and morphological awareness to better support teachers in their goal to improve students’ literacy. She’s greatly enjoyed working with the wonderful teachers and students in our Nashville middle schools.
Hazel Vega Quesada
Project Manager, Department of Education and Human Development
Dr. Hazel Vega Quesada is the project manager for the grant Building Capacity for Early Multilingual Learners: Bridging Literacy, Reading Recovery®, and ESOL (CU Bridge ESOL & RR) at the College of Education in the Department of Education and Human Development. She has worked on teacher preparation extensively in the United States and Costa Rica at undergraduate and graduate levels, and in professional development for government initiatives. Her research explores teacher learning in pre-service and in-service contexts. She is interested in the identity construction among teachers of English as a second/foreign language and the professional development of teachers serving multilingual learners. Her work also examines and develops participatory research innovations.