Areas of Interest
Early Childhood and Bilingual Education
Why USD?
I am both a teacher and a learner.
Advice for Future Students?
Focus on your why.
Favorite Quote?
“The teacher is of course an artist, but being an artist does not mean that he or she can make the profile, can shape the students. What the educator does in teaching is to make it possible for the students to become themselves” -Paulo Freire
Anything else about yourself?
Dr. Garcia is an advocate and proponent of bilingual education programs that sustain language, culture, histories, and ways of being of bilingual/multilingual learners. As a former bilingual education teacher, her research examines how teachers can leverage the cultural and linguistic funds of knowledge of emergent bilinguals in the classroom curriculum. Prior to becoming a professor, Dr. Garcia spent a decade as a bilingual education teacher and instructional leader.