As California Program Director and Education Leadership Coach, Lindsey will coach Emergent Bilingual Change Agents and Mobilizers and provide program leadership to the Emergent Bilingual Equity and Access Initiative. Joining Teach Plus in 2021, Lindsey has been the founding Coach for the Emergent Bilingual Change Agent Network, developing a robust program supporting teacher leaders throughout California to improve opportunities and outcomes for multilingual learners. Lindsey has shepherded EBCAN’s growth into a multipronged initiative connecting state policy to school-based implementation to community mobilization. In her new role, she will continue building an alumni mobilization strategy to connect policy change and local advocacy and implementation. Lindsey’s national and statewide recognition as a champion for newcomer students, diverse, multilingual learners, and teacher leaders, along with her vision, expertise, and seemingly unending energy, has been essential in establishing Teach Plus as a respected leader in the field.
Lindsey recently left a seventeen year teaching career, the past decade of which was spent as the developer, instructor, and coordinator of the Language Institute, a specialized program serving immigrant, refugee, and asylum seeking high school students in Modesto, California, which was nationally recognized as a model for supporting the needs of newcomer students. Lindsey is a social justice champion and ally to immigrant students and families at the local, state, and national level. An alumna of the Teach Plus California fellowship, Lindsey advocated the state legislature for tenure reform, as well as successfully inserting explicit protections for newcomer students in the education code. She received “Maestra del Ano” award by the Association of Mexican American Educators and the “Amiga of the Year” award from El Concilio, and was honored as a Carlston Family Foundation “Outstanding Teacher of America”.
Lindsey earned a BA in Social Science from California State University Chico and a M.Ed. in literacy and digital learning from the University of San Diego. Check out Lindsey’s Ted talk on the super power of empathy.
