About+the+Presenter

//Although a Spanish teacher by trade, I think I may be an artist at heart. I love playing with concepts, juxtaposing ideas, and seeking connections. I am fascinated by the convergence of aesthetics, creativity, and design, and intrigued by intersections of pedagogy, play, and professional development. Most recently, I am pursuing the idea of layers. . . of experience, life, meaning, and media through social technologies.//

Cherice Montgomery holds a B.A. in Spanish, a M.Ed. in Curriculum and Instruction (both from Wichita State University), and a Ph.D. in [|Curriculum, Teaching, and Educational Policy] with an emphasis in Learning, Technology, & Culture from [|Michigan State University]. She currently teaches courses in Spanish pedagogy and supervises student teachers at [|Brigham Young University] in Provo, Utah. She also serves as an independent consultant for a variety of publishers, universities, and school districts. Cherice's work is informed by a wide array of teaching experiences. In addition to her work as a methods instructor, she has worked as a high school Spanish teacher, a middle school Spanish immersion camp director, an elementary Spanish immersion instructor for homeschooled children, and a community college instructor. She has also served as a full-time instructional facilitator, coordinating cross-curricular professional development and providing both pedagogical and technological support for faculty in a large, urban, public high school. Cherice has been honored with several awards for excellence in teaching, including the [|Kansas Foreign Language Teacher of the Year Award]. Cherice's research interests focus on the intersections of:


 * Arts-informed education, creativity, and visual cognition
 * Design-based pedagogies and experiential learning
 * [|Mentoring, leadership, and change]
 * Professional development
 * [|Social technologies as pedagogical tools]
 * World language education, transliteracy, and 21st Century learners

Cherice's professional endeavors include service on the Advisory Board of the [|National K-12 Foreign Language Resource Center] (NFLRC), as an Associate Editor for the //Journal of Critical Inquiry Into Curriculum & Instruction//, and as a member of the [|New Visions in Foreign Language Education Task Force]. While at Michigan State, she worked with the Top-of-the-Mitt satellite of the Red Cedar Writing Project, was a writing consultant for the [|MSU Writing Center], and coordinated the Innovation with Technology in Education Consultants (iTecs) for[|MSU’s College of Education]. She has also designed and facilitated a variety of grant-funded, summer institutes with the purpose of helping teachers to develop skills in mentoring, leadership, pedagogy, and technology (including several for teachers of [|Arabic, Hebrew], and Chinese). You can follow her work here:


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