Fall 2025
Section 0866 of EMLS714CP
Noncredit High-Beginning English Conversation/Pronunciation -- : Oct 14 - Dec 11 2025
This class will be held at SRJC Roseland, 950 S. Wright Road, Santa Rosa, CA 95407. Registration for this class will begin on September 29, 2025, and will be restricted on October 28, 2025.
Section 4226 of EMLS715
Noncredit Low-Intermediate English -- : Aug 18 - Oct 13 2025
This class will be held at the Santa Rosa Campus, 1501 Mendocino Ave, Santa Rosa, CA 95401. Registration for this class will be restricted on August 28, 2025.
Summer 2025
Section 8750 of EMLS714CP
Noncredit High-Beginning English Conversation/Pronunciation -- : Jun 17 - Aug 07 2025
Spring 2025
Section 6056 of EMLS781
NC Transitional Reading/Writing/Grammar for Multilingual Ss -- : Jan 13 - May 15 2025
Registration for this class will be restricted on January 23, 2025.
1986 - MA, U.C. Berkeley, Language and Literacy
1985 - Reading Specialist Credential, U.C. Berkeley
1975 - Secondary Teaching Credential, UCLA
1974 - Bachelors of Arts, Anthropology/English/Spanish, U.C. Berkeley
1998 - Present - Noncredit ESL Coordinator/ESL Instructor, Santa Rosa Junior College
1997 - 1998 - Instructor, Sonoma State University, Teacher Credential Program
1993- 1997 - Title VII Coordinator, "Learners Together Project" Santa Rosa City Schools
1990 - 1992 - Private Consultant, Work Place Literacy, Writing, Spanish; CLAD Training
1984 - 1992 - Teacher/Resource Teacher, English Language Center, Hayward, California
Family Literacy
Learners' Stories
Learner persistence & retention
Content Based Instruction
Emergent Literacy
CATESOL
CABE
Community Presentations/Outreach - Cesar Chavez Health Fair, After the Harvest Fair; Presentations to District Bilingual Advisory Councils, Bellevue Unified School District, Santa Rosa City Schools
Fall, 2006 - Co-Presenter, "Choosing and Using: Assessment Tools and Findings," Strengthening Student Success Conference, San Diego, California
Fall, 2006 - Student Learning Outcomes for Noncredit ESL Students, Santa Rosa Junior College
Spring, 2006 - "Welcome to Noncredit ESL;" Presentation to the Board of Trustees, Santa Rosa Junior College
Spring, 2004 - Presentation of the Noncredit ESL Community Based English Tutorial Program to the Board of Trustees, Santa Rosa Junior College
Spring, 1997- "Using Children's Literature as a Springboard for ESL Instruction;" CATESOL, San Jose, California
Spring, 1995 - "A Title VII Program that Works," CATESOL, 1995; San Diego, California
Fall, 1994, - Family Images/Imagenes de la Familia - a Presentation of a Family Literacy Project at Santa Rosa Middle School and Lawrence Cook Middle School, Santa Rosa, California.
Spring, 1994 - "Are You Failing Your Pre-Literate Students?" - CABE, San Jose, California
Unsung Hero Award, SRJC, Academic Senate, May, 2002