Ana Gabriela Bell Jimenez

Affiliation

Madison Public Schools

Biography

Ana Gabi Bell Jimenez, PhD has worked in educational leadership, curriculum design and curriculum development in bilingual programs for numerous years. Dr. Ana Gabriela Bell Jiménez is the director of curriculum and instruction for literacy, biliteracy, humanities, social studies, world languages and the arts at the Madison Metropolitan School District in Madison, WI. She is passionate about early reading for socially, culturally, and economically diverse students. Her research centers on the Science of Reading in multilinguistic instructional settings with adolescent learners. Some of her publications leverage education and race, Facts and Challenges Facing Bilingual Intercultural Education and Interculturalism: A Case Study of Afro-Costa Ricans (2020), and Education as a vehicle for social transformation: Paulo Freire’s pedagogy (2017).