📖Bilingual Educator|Educadora Bilingüe| ✊🏽Anti-Racist|Curriculum Innovator| Community Wealth Strategist|Advocate| Biography Driven Instructor| Teacher-Learner | 📍Las Vegas, New Mexico ➡️ Manhattan, Kansas She/Her/Ella♍️ ———————————————— About Me: 🟣Kansas State University (K-State) Doctorate in Education Curriculum and Instruction Dissertation Focus: Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Family Engagement 🎓 University of NM (MA Language, Literacy and Sociocultural Studies - Emphasis- Bilingual Education) 🎓New Mexico Highlands University (BA Elementary Education -TESOL/Bilingual Ed., Reading , ELA, Social Sciences) 👩‍🏫👩🏽‍🏫 20 years as an educator👩‍🏫👩🏽‍🏫 🍎17 years as a classroom teacher 👩‍🏫Dual Language| lenguaje dual 👩‍🏫High school English teacher and adult ESL teacher 📚 Faculitated TESOL courses (English as a Second Language certification for teachers) at K-State University 👩🏽‍🏫👩🏼‍🏫 💪🏽Proud Triunfadora 💟💟💟Single mamá of 3 🏀⚾️🏉 Coach’s daughter 👑Daughter of a Reina ———————————————— Life and Career Passions 💟Helping teachers understand the power of teaching from an asset perspective and building an ecology of care. 💟Helping teachers validate the identities and biographies of our students. 💟Helping teachers and school communities engage culturally and linguistically diverse families . 💟Changing the narrative of how our school systems discuss the futures of our policies that will create equitable and safe learning spaces for all students. “Who is to say that robbing a people Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.” - Maya Angelou 🔗http://linkedin.com/in/latania-marr-y-ortega-73651417b 🔗https://lnkd.in/gdJ54fr Published excerpt from “Women Who Wail”: An auto-ethnographic study of four Latina educators and the heroínas who shaped their understanding of critical pedagogies Bio in Progress / Bio en Progreso