Kelly Duff

Affiliation

Pearland ISD/Jamison MS

Biography

Within the professional context of bilingual education and educating emergent bilingual (EB) students in different roles, Kelly Duff’s funds of knowledge, awareness, and sensitivity has been enhanced and enriched when considering the challenges and issues encountered in today’s classrooms, especially in school districts around Houston, Texas. The more she worked with EB students and collaborated with teachers in schools, the more she discovered that she wasn’t the only teacher struggling with integrating second-language learning within the curriculum. With twenty-four years of elementary, middle school, and junior high experience teaching in dual language, bilingual and ESL education, she has also served as a school counselor and an assistant principal in neighboring school districts. Kelly is also a second language learner, fluent in Spanish. She currently works as a 5th grade teacher in a Dual Language program at Jamison Middle School in Pearland ISD, providing instruction in the content areas of English language arts, science and social studies. Kelly holds a B.A. in Bilingual Education (with ESL certification) from the University of St. Thomas in Houston, and a M.S. in Counseling and an Ed.D. in Educational Leadership with principal certification, both from the University of Houston-Clear Lake.