Lucía was a dual language teacher in the San Francisco Bay Area for many years. She pioneered the implementation of a balanced approach to teaching literacy in Spanish and English in schools across the Pacific North West and elsewhere. Lucía has supported hundreds of dual language and bilingual schools and classrooms across the country and internationally. During her tenure as a teacher, she led many professional development opportunities for teachers across her district and elsewhere. She was a teacher mentor and instructional coach working alongside both new and veteran teachers. 

 

Lucía was also a faculty member at the Stanford Graduate School of Education STEP program, where she supported bilingual teacher candidates in their development as early teachers. She was a staff developer at the Reading and Writing Project at Columbia University where she worked alongside school leaders and teachers to help them increase reading and writing skills of children across all grades in their schools. She is the co-founder of The Language and Literacy Collaborative, a literacy consulting team that believe in equitable access to literacy for ALL children.

 

She holds a Masters degree in bilingual teaching and education from the University of California at Santa Cruz and a Master of Education in Education Leadership from Teachers College at Columbia University.

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Her most important job is raising her two children in Scotts Valley.