ESL/Bilingual Faculty and Staff

Teresa Carranza
ESL Program Development and Advocacy, ESL Methods
Teresa Carranza received a B.S. degree in Elementary Education from the University of Wisconsin - Madison, a Master's Degree in Educational Leadership at Edgewood College (Spring 2007), plus extensive graduate coursework at the University of Wisconsin. She holds teaching credentials in ESL and Bilingual Education and taught Spanish and ESL for 15 years. Her experiences also include two years teaching English in Mexico City, AmeriCorps Project Supervisor for the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction and consulting work for the Wisconsin Center for Education Research at U.W. Madison. Teresa is currently serving as the ELL/Bilingual Program Coordinator for the Verona Area School District and an active volunteer for local literacy and ESL programs.

Mariana Castro
ESL Methods
Mariana Castro received a B.S. degree in Chemistry from the University of Wisconsin - Madison and a Master of Science in Curriculum and Instruction from both UW - Madison and U.W. Whitewater with an emphasis on Special Issues of Learning Across the Lifespan. She has 11 years of experience in the Madison Metropolitan School District as a Chemistry teacher as well as an ESL teacher and Bilingual Resource Specialist. Mariana has shared her expertise in the ESL/Bilingual program field through a variety of presentations around the country and is currently an Educational Specialist for the WIDA consortium.

Pam Dorn
Foundations in Content-based Instruction
Pam Dorn received a B.S. degree in Elementary Education from the University of Wisconsin - Madison and a Master of Arts in Applied Linguistics from the University of South Florida. She has 16 years of experience teaching second through sixth grades in Florida and Wisconsin and is currently teaching ESL at Glendale Elementary in Madison. Throughout Pam's teaching career she has created, developed and modified curriculum for diverse populations of learners and has guided students to develop meta-cognition in reading and writing.

Jed Hopkins
The Study of Language and Linguistics
Jed Hopkins is a full-time faculty member at Edgewood College and holds both a master's degree and Ph.D. (ebd) in Curriculum and Instruction. His fields of interest are socio-linguistics, literacy and philosophy of education. He has worked as the English Language Arts consultant for the Minneapolis Public School District and has taught numerous courses at both the University of Minnesota and Hamline University before coming to Edgewood College. He has been a public school teacher for much of his career in the United States and England.

Sara Huse
Methods of Bilingual Education
Sara Huse graduated from UW-Madison in 1998 with a major in Elementary Education and a minor in Spanish. Sara began her career teaching third grade at an elementary school in Waukesha. She taught there for three years while getting her bilingual endorsement and master's degree in Curriculum and Instruction from UW-Whitewater. In 2001, Sara returned to Madison to help begin the bilingual education program at Cherokee Heights Middle School, teaching in a sixth grade bilingual classroom.

Bob Kohl
ESL/Bilingual Assessment
Following many years of teaching and administrative roles in school settings, Bob joined the World Class Instructional Design and Assessment Consortium (WIDA) as an ELL Testing Coordinator. Through professional development workshops for teachers and administrators nationwide, he facilitates curriculum development, standards alignment and effective assessment procedures.

Mercedes Martin
Second Language Acquisition
Mercedes graduated from Edgewood College in 2007 with an M.A. in Educational Administration and is currently serving as Interim Principal and ESL teacher at Westside Elementary School in Sun Prairie. She is highly involved in the field of TESOL, served as President of WITESOL in 2007 and is co-creator/facilitator of Edgewood's Networking mini-conferences for ESL teachers.

Rebecca Zambrano
Foundations/Paradigms of ESL/Bilingual Education
Rebecca Zambrano received a B.A. degree in Political Science, secondary education teaching credentials in Spanish, History and Broad Field Social Studies, and a Master of Arts in Education degree from San Francisco State University (with an emphasis on preparation and coaching of bilingual teachers). She has taught at all grade levels for the past 15 years both in the United States and abroad. Rebecca currently serves as the Title I Migrant Teacher (grades 6-12) for the Madison Metropolitan School District. She formerly coordinated the California Mini-corps program at San Jose State University, where she trained college students from migrant backgrounds to become bilingual teachers and served as a part-time faculty member in the College of Education.