Norma Monsivais Diers, PhD
Post Doctoral Fellow
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Dr. Norma Monsivais Diers is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction. Co-leading the statewide implementation of the Illinois Spanish Language Arts Standards alongside the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE). She holds a Ph.D. in Literacy, Language, and Culture from the University of Illinois Chicago. She has an M.A. in Urban Education and a Bilingual and ESL endorsement from Columbia College, as well as a master’s degree in Reading Specialist from Olivet Nazarene University. She is a National Board-certified teacher in the area of English as a New Language. Dr. Monsivais Diers has over 15 years of experience as an educator; she was formerly a bilingual elementary school teacher, a network instructional coach, and an English Learner network specialist in the Cicero District 99 and Chicago Public School Districts. She also worked as a Bilingual Executive Literacy Coach at a company that provides literacy and assessment solutions in English and Spanish for grades K-12 across the country. Her research examines the intersection of language education policy and Latinx family language policies. She has served as a university instructor and is an emerging educational researcher in the fields of teacher education and multilingual education/policy. Dr. Monsivais Diers is the co-author of the chapter ¿Estamos escuchando? Creating transformative ruptures that amplify Latinx families’ right to DLBE in Chicagoland. In G. Delavan, Freire, J.A., & K. Menken (Eds.), Overcoming the Gentrification of Dual Language Bilingual Education: Solution-Oriented Research and Stakeholder Resources for Real Integration by Multilingual Matters.