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Priscilla Helm Walton — CREDE Senior Consultant

Priscilla Walton at far right.

Priscilla Helm Walton earned her MA in Anthropology and Economics at the Institute for Latin American Studies (ILAS) at the University of Texas, Austin in 1974. She earned her Ph.D. at Northwestern University with a specialization on migration, school and community in the inner city.

Her teaching experience includes a visiting associate professorship in the Department of Education, University of California, Santa Cruz, a lectureship at UC Davis in the Department of Applied behavioral Science, and a supervisor of student teachers in the School of Education at Northwestern University. She taught Social Studies and Foreign Language at New Trier Township High School, Winnetka, and Santa Ynez Valley Union High School, Santa Ynez, California. Walton has international teaching experience as an English Teacher at the National Bilingual Institute and National University of Central Peru.

Recent research experience includes serving as Principal Co-Investigator (with Leonard Baca) at CREDE. The project title is, National Study for the Professional Preparation of Teachers for Linguistically and Culturally Diverse Students. She was also a Research Consultant, for the California Consortium for Teacher Development, University of California, through an Eisenhower Grant.

She has worked as a consultant in professional development for the Professional Development Office at California Department of Education and was Coordinator for its Bilingual Teacher Training Program. Her consulting experience at the state level includes 11 years as a Consultant in Planning and Research at the Commission on Teacher Credentialing. Her assignments included statewide responsibility for the development and implementation of Reading/Language Arts programs.

Her major accomplishment at the policy level has been working to secure the inclusion of educational equity concerns in the development of statewide standards and the development of the Multiple Subjects Bilingual Crosscultural Academic Development Credential (CLAD/BCLAD) credentials for the state of California.

She has written numerous articles and presented at state and national conferences and workshops for CREDE, the California Department of Education and the California Commission on Teacher credentialing on issues of equity and the preparation of teachers for linguistic and cultural diversity in the schools. In addition she is past editor of Multicultural Education, the magazine of the National Association for Multicultural Education and Multicultural Perspectives. She also served as Vice-President of the National Association for Multicultural Education.

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