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I earned my B.S in Elementary Mathematics Education with a minor in Science Education from the Middle East Technical University in Turkey. After teaching in private and public school settings in Turkey, I pursued my graduate degree in the area of multicultural education. During my graduate degree at Purdue University-Indiana, I taught an introductory teacher education course to improve first-year pre-service teachers’ understanding of multicultural education, education and society, and professional teaching. I was also involved in educational research projects that have a focus in developing multicultural education curricula for culturally and linguistically diverse students and the role of cross-cultural experiences in preparing pre-service teachers to multicultural classrooms. My dissertation research was an example of comprehensive comparative case study with a focus in developing multicultural education curricula in Islamic schools in the U.S by peeling the roles of race, class, gender, nationality, and language. In my current position at the New Mexico Public Education Department, I work to build capacity in multicultural education and culturally and linguistically responsive pedagogy by collaborating with the educators in New Mexico to transform the school environments into learning environments that develop and sustain high expectations for all students but specifically for culturally and linguistically diverse students.

Stefanie Wager is a Senior Technical Assistance Consultant at the American Institutes for Research. Prior to this role, Stefanie worked for the Gates Ventures OER Project and served at the Iowa Department of Education providing leadership and guidance at the state level for social studies education. She also taught high school social studies for Des Moines Public Schools and Dallas Center-Grimes Schools and worked at Instituto Thomas Jefferson in Naucalpan, Mexico. In addition, she formerly served as the coordinator of a Teaching American History Grant. She received both a Bachelors and Masters degree from Drake University in Des Moines, IA. She is the Past President of the National Council for the Social Studies. In 2011, Stefanie was named an Emerging Leader in Education by ASCD. Stefanie lives in Grimes, IA.