Sandra I Musanti

Affiliation

University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

Biography

Sandra I. Musanti is a Professor in the Bilingual and Literacy Studies Department at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. She was a postdoctoral fellow for the Center for the Mathematics Education of Latinos/as, a project funded by the NSF. She prepares elementary pre-service teachers in the Bilingual EC-Generalist program and teaches graduate level courses in the bilingual Master and Doctoral program. Her areas of expertise are bilingual pre-service and in-service teacher education. Presently, her research interests focus on bilingual teacher preparation and development across content areas, translanguaging in higher education, and bilingual teacher identity and agency.