Luis Fernandez

Affiliation

The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

Biography

Dr. Luis M. Fernández has a deep desire to make a lasting impact on the education community at all levels. Growing up bilingual in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas, Dr. Fernández has a particular interest in working to identify instructional programs and practices that increase the quality of mathematics education for Emergent Bilingual (EB) students. Specifically, he is interested in creating materials and providing professional development opportunities for educators to help them use EB skills to promote English acquisition and content understanding simultaneously. He is also interested in causes of apparent gaps in college students’ mathematical abilities (i.e. need for developmental courses), and the increasingly rigorous expectations of public high schools with regard to mathematics achievement.