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Bilingual / ESL

Isabella Piña-Hinojosa, Ed.D
Director, Program Compliance
972-968-6149

Isabella has a Doctorate of Education from the University of North Texas, Department of Teacher Education and Administration in Curriculum and Instruction. She also holds a Master's of Education and Professional Certification in Administration from Texas Woman's University and her undergraduate degree in Elementary Education with a Minor in Bilingual-ESL from North Texas State University. Isabella joined the C-FB team in 1984 as one of the district's first bilingual classroom teacher in the intermediate grades, launched the district's first ESL self-contained Newcomer classroom at Good and Kent Elementary.

Isabella is a professional member of the Association for Supervision & Curriculum Development, Council of Educators for Students with Disabilities, Phi Kappa Phi, Phi Lambda Theta, Texas Council of Women School Executives, Bilingual-ESL Ed. Association of the Metroplex, Texas Association for Bil-ESL Education, National Assoc for Bil-ESL Ed., Teachers of English for Students of Other Languages and Texas Teachers of English for Students of Other Languages.

Isabella is on the Advisory Board for Richland College and works closely with Texas Education Agency on educational issues related with English Language Learners. She is a founding member of a national advocacy group for English language learners. http://www.elladvocates.org 

Program Compliance Website:  http://cfbstaff.cfbisd.edu/hinojosai/

Elsa Anderson, Ph.D.
ESL Coordinator
972-968-6143
andersone@cfbisd.edu

Elsa Anderson holds a Doctorate of Philosophy in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of North Texas, with a minor in Educational Administration. She also received a Master of Education in Reading from the University of North Texas and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Mercer University in Atlanta, Georgia. She has conducted research in the instruction of English Language Learners in mainstream classrooms. Dr. Anderson joined the CFB team in July 2005 after years of teaching in bilingual and monolingual classrooms.

Dr. Anderson is a National Writing Project teacher consultant, has served as trainer for the Texas Reading Academies and was chosen in 2008 as a Texas Showcase Presenter at the annual conference of the National Council of Teachers of English. She serves as Chair of the Standing Committee on Bilingual and English as a Second Language Awareness for the Texas Council of Teachers of English Language Arts (TCTELA). She is also a member of the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD), the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), the Teachers of English for Students of Other Languages (TESOL), and the Bilingual ESL Association of the Metroplex (BEAM).

ESL Instruction Website: http://cfbstaff.cfbisd.edu/andersone/


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