Martha Hernandez

Ms. Martha Hernandez

7 presentations
United States Californians Together

Biography

Martha Hernández is the Executive Director for Californians Together, a coalition of education, civil rights, parent/caregiver, community, and advocacy organizations, that champions the educational success of California’s more than 1.1 million English learners. Her 42 years of California public school experience includes serving as the Assistant Superintendent of Educational Services for the Fillmore Unified School District, as Director of Curriculum and Instruction the Ventura County Office of Education and as a district administrator, principal, staff developer, and bilingual and special education teacher in various districts. She was also the Director of Bilingual Teacher Training at California Lutheran University and served as past president of California Association for Bilingual Education. Martha was appointed by the Senate Rules Committee to serve on the California Department of Education’s Instructional Quality Commission. In 2014, she was appointed by the California State Board of Education to serve as the Co-Chair of the California ELA/ELD Curriculum Framework and Evaluation Criteria Committee. Her work now focuses on biliteracy with an expansion of the California Seal of Biliteracy, the implementation of new English learner policy, the California English Learner Roadmap and effective literacy for emergent bilingual and English learner students.

Publications by Year
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S210: Voices from Field: The Impact of the Science of Reading on EL Literacy Programs
Martha Hernandez Californians Together
Socorro Herrera Kansas State University
Ester de Jong University of Colorado Denver
NABE 2024 53rd Annual Conference
S618: Centering ELs in P3 Alignment – A framework to ensure equity-focused education preschool through early grades
Anya Hurwitz SEAL (Sobrato Early Academic Language)
Laurie Olsen SEAL
Martha Hernandez Californians Together
NABE 2024 53rd Annual Conference
S618: Centering ELs in P3 Alignment – A framework to ensure equity-focused education preschool through early grades
Anya Hurwitz SEAL (Sobrato Early Academic Language)
Laurie Olsen SEAL
Martha Hernandez Californians Together
NABE 2024 53rd Annual Conference
S618: Centering ELs in P3 Alignment – A framework to ensure equity-focused education preschool through early grades
Anya Hurwitz SEAL (Sobrato Early Academic Language)
Laurie Olsen SEAL
Martha Hernandez Californians Together
NABE 2024 53rd Annual Conference
S622: Literacy Development for Dual Language Learners in Early Childhood Education: Critical and Urgent Considerations
Martha Hernandez Californians Together
Laurie Olsen SEAL
Anya Hurwitz SEAL (Sobrato Early Academic Language)
Socorro Herrera Kansas State University
NABE 2024 53rd Annual Conference
S622: Literacy Development for Dual Language Learners in Early Childhood Education: Critical and Urgent Considerations
Martha Hernandez Californians Together
Laurie Olsen SEAL
Anya Hurwitz SEAL (Sobrato Early Academic Language)
Socorro Herrera Kansas State University
NABE 2024 53rd Annual Conference
S622: Literacy Development for Dual Language Learners in Early Childhood Education: Critical and Urgent Considerations
Martha Hernandez Californians Together
Laurie Olsen SEAL
Anya Hurwitz SEAL (Sobrato Early Academic Language)
Socorro Herrera Kansas State University
NABE 2024 53rd Annual Conference