Rate My Professor Sera Hernandez

Hernández received the Outstanding Global Educator/Researcher Award from SDSU in 2022 for her advocacy for language, culture, and global education. Her international efforts include leading the Formadores de Docentes Project since 2018, a binational collaboration with Baja California escuelas normales to develop curricula addressing socio-political, social-linguistic, social-cultural, and social-emotional impacts on migrant students and families. She has also contributed to bilingual education programs in Palau, Switzerland, and Oaxaca, Mexico. Key publications include “Equity issues in parental and community involvement in schools: What teacher educators need to know” (2013, Review of Research in Education, with P. Baquedano-López and R.A. Alexander); “Future perfect?: Teachers’ expectations and explanations of their Latino immigrant students’ postsecondary futures” (2018, Journal of Latinos and Education, with D.B. Dabach, C. Suárez-Orozco, and M.D. Brooks); “Are they all language learners?: Educational labeling and raciolinguistic identifying in a California middle school dual language program” (2017, CATESOL Journal); and “Bilingual teacher educators as language policy agents: A critical language policy perspective of the Castañeda v. Pickard case and the bilingual teacher shortage” (2022, Language Policy, with C. Alfaro and M.A.N. Martell). Her scholarship advances bilingual education policy and teacher preparation by emphasizing the assets of multilingual learners.