Sonia Nieto, Biography

Teacher Emerita of Language, Literacy, and Culture, School of Education, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Sonia Nieto was brought up in Brooklyn, New York, and instructed in the New York City Public Schools. She went to St. John's University, Brooklyn grounds, where she got a B.S. in Elementary Education in 1965. Upon graduation, she went to New York University's Graduate Program in Madrid, Spain, and got her MA in Spanish and Hispanic Literature in 1966. She started her showing profession as a middle teacher of English, Spanish, and ESL in Ocean Hill/Brownsville, Brooklyn, and in 1968 she accepted a position at P.S. 25 in the Bronx, the principal completely bilingual school in the Northeast. Her first situation in advanced education was as an Instructor in the Department of Puerto Rican Studies at Brooklyn College, where she instructed in a bilingual training educator arrangement program co-supported with the School of Education. Moving to Massachusetts with her family in 1975, she finished her doctoral investigations in 1979 with specializations in educational program examines, bilingual schooling, and multicultural instruction. Resigning from the University of Massachusetts in 2006, Dr. Nieto proceeds to talk and compose on multicultural instruction, educator readiness, the training of Latinos, and other socially and semantically assorted understudy populaces. Her book Affirming Diversity: The Sociopolitical Context of Multicultural Education (initial 4 releases exclusively composed, and fifth and sixth ends, with co-writer Patty Bode), is broadly utilized in educator planning and in-administration courses around the country. Different books remember The Light for Their Eyes: Creating Multicultural Learning Communities (1999, 2010), Language, Culture, and Teaching (2002, 2010), What Keeps are Teachers Going? (2003), Finding Joy in Teaching Students of Diverse Backgrounds (2013), and four altered volumes, Puerto Rican Students in U.S. Schools (2000), Why We Teach (2005), Dear Paulo: Letters From Those Who Dare Teach (2008), and Why We Teach Now (2015). She has composed generally in such diaries as The Harvard Education Review, Educational Leadership, Journal of Educational Change, and numerous others. Additionally, she has written or co-created many book sections, book audits, authorized, papers, and others. Other than filling in as a warning part on numerous sheets and publication sheets, she has likewise been a trustee of Mass Humanities (Massachusetts member of the National Endowment for the Humanities), the Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts, and the Center for Applied Linguistics. She has gotten numerous honors for her grant, support, and activism, including the 1997 Multicultural Educator of the Year Award from the National Association for Multicultural Education, an Annenberg Institute Senior Fellowship (1998-2000), the Outstanding Language Arts Educator of the Year from the National Council of Teachers of English (2005), and the 2008 Social Justice in Education Award from the American Educational Research Association. In 2011 she was named a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association and a Laureate of Kappa Delta Pi, an instruction honor society. She has gotten privileged doctorates from Lesley University (1999), Bridgewater State College (2004), DePaul University (2007), and Manhattanville College (2009). Educator Nieto is hitched to Angel Nieto, a previous instructor, and an artist, and youngsters' book writer and they have three girls and twelve grandkids.

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