Kate Seltzer, PhD is an educational researcher and teacher educator whose overarching goal is to help schools and teachers build on multilingual students’ rich language practices while also disrupting their own ideologies about these students and their ways of using language.
Kate began her career as a high school English Language Arts teacher in New York City. She received her PhD in Urban Education from the CUNY Graduate Center - City University of New York. She served as a Research Assistant and later as Project Director of the CUNY-New York State Initiative on Emergent Bilinguals. She now teaches pre- and in-service teachers of multilingual students at Rowan University in New Jersey.
Kate is co-author of the book, The Translanguaging Classroom: Leveraging Student Bilingualism for Learning with Ofelia GarcĂa and Susana Ibarra Johnson as well as numerous publications in edited books and academic journals. Kate's research has been recognized with awards such as the Alan C. Purves Award, Janet Emig Award, and the James E. Alatis Prize for Research on Language Planning and Policy in Educational Contexts.
Kate began her career as a high school English Language Arts teacher in New York City. She received her PhD in Urban Education from the CUNY Graduate Center - City University of New York. She served as a Research Assistant and later as Project Director of the CUNY-New York State Initiative on Emergent Bilinguals. She now teaches pre- and in-service teachers of multilingual students at Rowan University in New Jersey.
Kate is co-author of the book, The Translanguaging Classroom: Leveraging Student Bilingualism for Learning with Ofelia GarcĂa and Susana Ibarra Johnson as well as numerous publications in edited books and academic journals. Kate's research has been recognized with awards such as the Alan C. Purves Award, Janet Emig Award, and the James E. Alatis Prize for Research on Language Planning and Policy in Educational Contexts.
