Marta Sanchez
Biographic Data
| ID | 3649841 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marta Sanchez |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marta |
| FAMILY NAME | Sanchez |
| SIGNATURE | SANCHEZ M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Watson College of Education, University of North Carolina, Wilmington, NC 28403, USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Teaching young multilingual learners
Professional Learning for ESL Teachers
Using a randomized controlled trial, we examined the impact of a teacher professional learning (PL) program on English as a Second Language (ESL) teachers’ use of evidence-based instructional strategies for multilingual learners, collaboration with classroom teachers, and incorporation of Latino multilingual learners’ cultural wealth into their classrooms. The analyses included 29 ESL teachers from 29 elementary schools in three school districts.…
Pivoting a Bilingual Teacher Preparation Program through a Critical Race Theory Lens
This essay adds to the continuing discourse on the effective support of bilingual teachers. It examines the programmatic shifts in a university-based bilingual teacher preparation program, set against the challenges posed by a global pandemic and racial violence in the United States. Specifically, the study investigates the program’s redesigned elements using Critical Race Theory as a lens. It concludes with policy recommendations to enhance bili…
Theory of Mind in ADHD. A Proposal to Improve Working Memory through the Stimulation of the Theory of Mind
The aim of this study was to investigate the relationships between Theory of Mind (ToM), Working Memory (WM), and Verbal Comprehension (VC). Performance of these variables was evaluated in 44 elementary students (6-12 years) diagnosed with ADHD. Their performance in all variables was collected through the Neuropsychological Battery (NEPSY-II) and the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children IV. The results showed that fifty percent of the partici…
Improving Young English Learners’ Language and Literacy Skills Through Teacher Professional Development
Using a randomized controlled trial, we tested a new teacher professional development program for increasing the language and literacy skills of young Latino English learners with 45 teachers and 105 students in 12 elementary schools. School-based teams randomly assigned to the intervention received professional development focused on cultural wealth, high-impact instructional strategies, and a framework for collaboration. We observed each teache…
Fathering within and beyond the Failures of the State with Imagination, Work and Love
When Emilio López made his way to Atlanta, Georgia from México’s third most populated city, where he had grown up, worked, married and had two daughters, he was in pain. He had hurt his back in a work-related accident and was still recovering. “Es algo que no se lo deseo a nadie” [It’s something I don’t wish upon anyone], he began. Eventually he would come to talk about another kind of pain that previously had been too raw to share, one provoked …
The LithicUB project
The LithicUB project began in 2009 with two main objectives. The first objective was to make available to the scientific community the description and classification of a set of siliceous rocks that had been recovered from different surveys. The second to make public the lithotheque as a useful tool for archaeological research, related to the procurement and management of lithic raw materials in Prehistory. Thanks to several research projects tha…
The cognitive development of young dual language learners
On Faith, Dreams, and Art
Improving Young English Learners’ Language and Literacy Skills Through Teacher Professional Development
Using a randomized controlled trial, we tested a new teacher professional development program for increasing the language and literacy skills of young Latino English learners with 45 teachers and 105 students in 12 elementary schools. School-based teams randomly assigned to the intervention received professional development focused on cultural wealth, high-impact instructional strategies, and a framework for collaboration. We observed each teache…
Teaching young multilingual learners
On Faith, Dreams, and Art
The LithicUB project
The LithicUB project began in 2009 with two main objectives. The first objective was to make available to the scientific community the description and classification of a set of siliceous rocks that had been recovered from different surveys. The second to make public the lithotheque as a useful tool for archaeological research, related to the procurement and management of lithic raw materials in Prehistory. Thanks to several research projects tha…
The cognitive development of young dual language learners
Fathering within and beyond the Failures of the State with Imagination, Work and Love
When Emilio López made his way to Atlanta, Georgia from México’s third most populated city, where he had grown up, worked, married and had two daughters, he was in pain. He had hurt his back in a work-related accident and was still recovering. “Es algo que no se lo deseo a nadie” [It’s something I don’t wish upon anyone], he began. Eventually he would come to talk about another kind of pain that previously had been too raw to share, one provoked …
Improving Young English Learners’ Language and Literacy Skills Through Teacher Professional Development
Using a randomized controlled trial, we tested a new teacher professional development program for increasing the language and literacy skills of young Latino English learners with 45 teachers and 105 students in 12 elementary schools. School-based teams randomly assigned to the intervention received professional development focused on cultural wealth, high-impact instructional strategies, and a framework for collaboration. We observed each teache…
Theory of Mind in ADHD. A Proposal to Improve Working Memory through the Stimulation of the Theory of Mind
The aim of this study was to investigate the relationships between Theory of Mind (ToM), Working Memory (WM), and Verbal Comprehension (VC). Performance of these variables was evaluated in 44 elementary students (6-12 years) diagnosed with ADHD. Their performance in all variables was collected through the Neuropsychological Battery (NEPSY-II) and the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children IV. The results showed that fifty percent of the partici…
Pivoting a Bilingual Teacher Preparation Program through a Critical Race Theory Lens
This essay adds to the continuing discourse on the effective support of bilingual teachers. It examines the programmatic shifts in a university-based bilingual teacher preparation program, set against the challenges posed by a global pandemic and racial violence in the United States. Specifically, the study investigates the program’s redesigned elements using Critical Race Theory as a lens. It concludes with policy recommendations to enhance bili…
Professional Learning for ESL Teachers
Using a randomized controlled trial, we examined the impact of a teacher professional learning (PL) program on English as a Second Language (ESL) teachers’ use of evidence-based instructional strategies for multilingual learners, collaboration with classroom teachers, and incorporation of Latino multilingual learners’ cultural wealth into their classrooms. The analyses included 29 ESL teachers from 29 elementary schools in three school districts.…
Teaching young multilingual learners
Psychology (7 works) · Mathematics education (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Pedagogy (4 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (3 works) · Professional development (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Cognition (2 works)