Xae Alicia Reyes

Joint Appointments:
Associate Professor Curriculum and Instruction
Associate Professor Puerto Rican and Latino Studies

Dr. Reyes' work includes research and presentations in the Caribbean, Europe, Mexico and South America, as well as discussion of educational issues outside the University, as the host of Education Matters on Connecticut's CTV14 and through her involvement in activities for the Dioceses of Norwich. Reyes taught Spanish at Le Moyne College, Syracuse University, and the University of Colorado at Boulder where she was also a Research Assistant in the Migrant Program and taught Foundations of Education to pre-service teachers. She has taught at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, where she designed an Honors course: Ethnography of the Workplace. She then joined Rhode Island College to teach Cultural Foundations of Education, School Diversity, and Classroom Research for Teachers and to coordinate field placements in schools as well as the Teacher Academy, a college high school partnership to attract minorities into teaching careers. Upon completion of her fifth year at Rhode Island College, Reyes received tenure and promotion to Associate Professor and became Visiting Faculty of the Ethnic Studies Program at Brown University. In Rhode Island, Reyes was on the revision team for the Mission and Goals of the Providence School Department and was a member of the Statewide Assessment of Learning and Teaching team. In Puerto Rico she worked with TRIO Programs, both as director and grant writer for Student Support Services at the University of Puerto Rico, Cayey.

•Ph.D. Social, Multicultural, Bilingual Foundations of Education, University of Colorado, Boulder

•M.A. Translation University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras

•B.A. Economics University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras

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Contact Information: 

Gentry - 324

Phone: (860) 486-0291

Email: xae.alicia.reyes@uconn.edu

Mailing Address:
Department of Curriculum and Instruction, Neag School of Education, 249 Glenbrook Rd. U-2033, Storrs

Personal Web Page

Current Courses Taught:

EDCI 360/PRLS 300 Latinos and U.S. Education
Wednesdays 4:00 - 6:30
Gentry 325

EDCI 326 Spanish for Educators
Fridays 2:00 - 3:30
Gentry 201

Honors/Awards:

Dean's Award for Faculty Excellence in Diversity 2007-Office of Multicultural and International Affairs-UCONN

Associations/Committees/Outreach:

International Society for Language Studies

Association of Hispanics in Higher Education

Puerto Rican Studies Association

National Association for Bilingual Education

Connecticut Association of Latinos in Higher Education

In the News:

For news, please visit xaealiciareyes.org

Areas of Expertise:

Critical Pedagogy

Civic Education

Multi-cultural Education Issues

Bilingual Education

Policies and Practices

Foreign Language Education

Classroom Discourse

School Reform

Selected Publications/Presentations:

Reyes, X.A. ( 2006) How the language and culture of scholars affects their choice of subjects and methods: Investigating the researchers’ habits of mind. Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press

.Reyes, X. A. Presenter. “The unspoken: researching fear of the other in teacher education experiences”. Purto Rican Studies Association meeting. October 2006 Cornell University. Ithaca, NY.

Keynote and workshop presenter. First Annual Parent Involvement Conference sponsored by the Department of Public Engagement, Providence School Department. CCRI, Providence, RI, March 10-11, 2006

Reyes, X.A. Presenter. Developing Latino/a Leadership: University – Community Connections. AAHHE ( American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education) Annual Conference. March 2007, Costa Mesa, CA

Reyes, X. A.& Carjuzaa, J.(2006) , Strategies for Preparing Culturally Competent Teachers, Learning Conference 2005, Australia, International Journal of Learning-Common Ground, 12(2) 51-58

Reyes, X.A. (2006) Cien porciento puertorriqueña ( one hundred percent Puerto Rican) Latina high school students forge identity, Latina girls: voices of adolescent strength in the U.S., New York,NY: NYU Press., Denner, J. & B.L. Guzman, editors, 157-167, PublishedISBN=0814719775

Reyes, X. A. Presenter ICA conference, "Women, cultural contexts, and spirituality --inner struggles for voice and dialogue." Dresden, Germany. June 22, 2006.enter, International Communications Association

Reyes, X. A., Presenter “ Laying the foundations: Abroad in Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico” American Association of Programs in Latin America and the Caribbean. February 2007. Yale University.