Sandra Silva-Enos

Affiliation

Providence College

Biography

Sandra Silva-Enos is a former high school English teacher and currently an Assistant Professor of Secondary Education in the School of Education and Social Works at Providence College. Committed to investigating K-12 school and classroom practices and commitments that create equitable spaces for multilingual students through a lens of Sociocultural Competence, Human Rights, and Social Justice, Sandra has worked alongside teachers to explore teachers’ conceptualizations of the multifaceted complex construct of sociocultural competence as they participated in a professional learning community. Additionally, she has been and continues to be a member of a research team working on the Promoting Equitable Bilingualism and Biliteracy Outcomes through a Focus on Sociocultural Competence project, an IRS funded grant.