Margarita Espino Calderón

Margarita Espino Calderón

Margarita Espino Calderón, PhD, is professor emerita and senior research scientist at the Johns Hopkins University School of Education. She has conducted research, training, and curriculum development for teaching language and reading comprehension, integrating both into content knowledge for K–12 English learners. Her research has focused on evidence-based instructional processes, two-way and dual-language programs, coaching, teacher learning communities, and professional development for schools with minority-language populations and striving adolescent readers.

Calderón’s research has been supported by Johns Hopkins University, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of English Language Acquisition (OELA), the U.S. Department of Labor, the National Institutes of Health, and the Texas Education Agency. She has collaborated with colleagues from Harvard University, the Center for Applied Linguistics, and Johns Hopkins University on the Transfer of Reading Skills from Spanish to English project.

She served on the national panels: The National Literacy Panel for Language Minority Children and Youth (August & Shanahan, 2006 & 2008), and The Carnegie Panel on English Learners Adolescent Literacy (Short & Fitzimmons, 2007).

A native of Juárez, Mexico, Calderón is a recognized expert in education with more than one hundred publications to her credit, and she has been welcomed internationally as a visiting lecturer and consultant. Calderón created Expediting Reading Comprehension for English Language Learners, ExC-ELL™ professional learning model, and directs international institutes for administrators, teachers, and parents. She has experience as a classroom teacher, bilingual program director, professional development coordinator, university bilingual teacher supervisor, and professor of graduate programs in educational leadership.

Calderón earned a master’s in applied linguistics at the University of Texas El Paso, and a doctorate in multicultural education with emphasis on organizational development through a joint doctorate program at Claremont Graduate University and San Diego State University. This year, she was inducted into the Multilingual Education Hall of Fame.

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Presentations by Margarita Espino Calderón

• Teaching Academic Vocabulary to ELs and Struggling Readers
• Teaching Reading Comprehension to K–5 ELs
• Teaching Language, Literacy, and Content to 6–12 ELs
• Teaching Writing to K–12 ELs
• Sheltered Instruction for K–5
• Sheltered Instruction for 6–12
• Designing Professional Development and Learning Communities for Teachers With ELs
• Coaching Teachers of ELs
• Breaking Through: Whole-School Professional Development for Reaching All Students