Gil García
Dr. García has recently joined the organization as an adjunct faculty member. He is returning to his alma mater as all three of his degrees are from UCLA: B.A. in Spanish, M.Ed. in Educational Administration, and a Ph.D. in Education specializing in curriculum. Gil is currently serving his second term as a Member of the Governing Board of Trustees of the Rowland Unified School District, and a second term as a Director of the Executive Board of the Los Angeles County School Trustees Association. Gil retired in 2004 from a thirty-one year career in publishing with Houghton Mifflin Company. He taught Spanish and history at the high school level for three years before starting his publishing career. Gil is a Past President of the California Reading Association, and a former chair of the International Reading Association’s (IRA) Multilingual Classroom Committee. He recently edited a book for IRA entitled, English Learners: Reaching the Highest Level of English Literacy, and is currently working on a co-authored ELD methods book that will be published by Merrill, Prentice Hall (2008, in press) entitled, English Language Development: Building Academic Language Proficiency in an English Learner Centered Classroom. Gil has also served as an adviser for the Executive Search Services department of the California School Boards Association.