Listing of the Members of the
SB 472 English Language Learner (ELL)
Professional Development
Advisory Committee
as of February 9, 2007
Estella Acosta
Administrator
Orange County Office of Education (COE)
Long Beach
Rupi Boyd
Principal
San Diego Unified School District
San Diego
Sandra Ceja
Director-Reading First
San Diego COE
Carlsbad
Ruth Deese
ELA/ELD Consultant
Tehama COE
Cottonwood
Susana Dutro
Coordinator
E. L. Achieve
Aptos
Jill Hamilton-Bunch
Assistant Professor of Education
Point Loma Nazarene University, Bakersfield
Bakersfield
Kathleen Harris
Regional Director
California Reading and Literature Project
Sebastopol
Miriam Hurdle
Program Specialist
Garvey School District
La Habra
Candace Kelly
Coordinator
Charter Oak Unified School District
Covina
Gretchen Laue
Director of Professional Development Institute
University of California
El Centro
Julie Maxwell-Jolly
Senior Researcher
University of California, Davis
Sacramento
Suzanne Nakashima
Teacher
Yuba City Unified School District
Yuba City
Luis Panduro
Mathematics Coordinator
Imperial COE
El Centro
Cathleen Peel
ELD Teacher
Pomona High School
San Bernardino
Veronica Plascencia
English Learner Specialist
Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD)
Los Angeles
Jacqueline Rojas
Teacher
Anaheim City School District
Anaheim
John Shefelbine
Professor
California State University, Sacramento
Sacramento
Duarte Silva
Executive Director
California Foreign Language Project
Stanford University
Menlo Park
Guadalupe Solis
Student Support and Academic Services
Tulare COE
Visalia
Shelly Spiegel-Coleman
Senior Project Director
Los Angeles COE
Long Beach
Joseph (Jose) Velasquez
Literacy Content Expert
LAUSD, District 4
Los Angeles
The California Department of Education reserves the right to make additions and/or changes to the committee members list.
