Margarita Calderon

Affiliation

Johns Hopkins University and Margarita Calderon & Associates

Biography

Dr. Margarita Espino Calderón, who was born and raised in Juárez, is a Professor Emerita and Senior Research Scientist at Johns Hopkins University. Her research and development projects, in collaboration with colleagues from Harvard, the Center for Applied Linguistics, and Johns Hopkins, received funding from the National Institutes of Health. One of her empirical studies, titled “The Bilingual Cooperative Integrated Reading and Composition (BCIRC) and Coaching Protocol,” was funded by the US Department of Education and featured in the What Works Clearinghouse. The Carnegie Corporation of New York supported her five-year study to develop Expediting Comprehension for English Language Learners (ExC-ELL), aimed at training and coaching 6th-12th math, science, social studies, language arts, and ESL teachers on integrating vocabulary, reading, writing, and core content instruction. With a Title III National Professional Development grant, she implemented “A Whole-School Approach to Professional Development” in Loudoun County, VA, collaborating with George Washington University. She replicated this approach across 29 schools in TX and NC. She has served on the National Literacy Panel for Language Minority Children and Youth, the Carnegie Corporation of New York Panel on English Language Adolescent Literacy, and various other panels, national boards, and committees. She has published over 100 articles, contributed chapters, and authored 15 books on language, literacy, professional development designs, and coaching manuals. Her latest publication is “ Coaching for Multilingual Excellence: Strategies for Vocabulary, Reading, and Writing Across the Disciplines. " She has been inducted into the Multilingual Education Hall of Fame.