Carlos Cardona-Morales

Affiliation

Independent Educator

Biography

Although Mr. Cardona-Morales retired in 2021 after a long and diverse career as an educator, he remains actively committed to Bilingual Education and the improvement of the educational programs and opportunities for all students, specially language minority students. As a public school bilingual education teacher, he taught at all grade levels of public schools from Early Childhood Development to Elementary, Middle, and High School. Mr. Cardona-Morales has been associated with the many universities, local, state, and national institutions of public education in the areas of Teacher Preparation, Instructional Program Development, Capacity Building, and Research. In these areas, Mr. Cardona-Morales has been very active globally. He has provided capacity building support in teacher training and instructional program design to countries Europe, Africa, North America and Central America. Nationally, he has provided capacity building and teacher development to institutions with diverse foci. In the United States, he has directed instructional service centers for bilingual, multicultural, and equity education. Mr. Cardona-Morales has conducted research in Cognitive and Physical Development in Early Childhood, Language Acquisition, Language Development and Reading, Instructional Program Characteristics and Reading Achievement Among Minority Language Students, and Socio-Economic Variables and School Success. At the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory, he designed and implemented the Northwest Language Development Specialist Academies. These academies were successful in putting educational research into practice in the classroom.