Alma Flor Ada
Alma Flor Ada was born in Camagüey, Camagüey Province, Cuba on January 3rd, 1938 and is the Children's Author. At the age of 86, Alma Flor Ada biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Alma Flor Ada (born January 3, 1938) is an award-winning Cuban-American author of children's books, poetry, and novels.
A Professor Emerita at the University of San Francisco, she is recognized for her work promoting bilingual and multicultural education in the United States.
Career
Dr. Ada began her teaching career in Lima, Peru, where she taught at the Abraham Lincoln Bilingual School and the Alexander von Humboldt Trilingual School. She taught Emory University, a professor at Mercy College of Detroit, and the University of San Francisco, where she retired as a Professor Emerita. She directed 160 dissertations in the field of International Multicultural Education at the University of San Francisco. She was a visiting professor at the University of Texas, El Paso, St. Thomas University in Houston, The University of Guam, Associated Colleges of the Midwest, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, and Fundación José Ortega y Gasset, Madrid, and author in residence at the University of Texas, El Paso and UC Davis. She has spoken out about her educational dreams as a keynote speaker at national and international conferences. At the NABE 2014 conference in San Diego, where she was honoured with the Mexican Government's Ohtli Award for her lifetime contributions to the development of Mexican communities abroad, including the Pajaro Valley Literacy Initiative. The California Association of Bilingual Education (CABE) established "The Alma Flor Ada Teachership Award" in 2008, which is distributed annually in her honor.
Alma Flor Ada is a major contributor to the development of critical pedagogy, focusing on the integration of experience-based learning of parents and students into the classroom by authentic writing. Authors in the Classroom (coauthored with Isabel Campoy) and A Magical Encounter: Latino Children's Literature in the Classroom are two of her extensive educational resources. She has written books for Harcourt School Publishers, Macmillan-McGraw Hill, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Scott Forseman, Santillana, and Frog Street. Dr. Ada has served on numerous advisory boards, including Sesame Street in Spanish, Between the Lions, Loose Leaf, The Journal of Latinos and Education, and The National Association of Bilingual Education Journal, which she founded. Dr. Ada has written chapters in various books, including Teachers, Teaching, and Teacher Education (Harvard Education Review, 1988); Minority Education: From Shame to Struggle (California Association for Bilingual Education, 1995); Education Reform and Social Change (Multicultural Voices, Struggles and Visions, Lawrence Erlbaum, 1996)