Executive Director | Consultant
A litearcy, equity and children's advocate at heart, Frances L. Gonzalez-Garcia, Ph.D., has served in the education sector for the past two decades through the capacity of multiple roles, including that of a classroom teacher, Master Reading Teacher, district job-embedded trainer, adjunct, lecturer, university reading clinic supervising assistant, reading specialist, selected Texas Education Agency literacy trainer, and an independent literacy consultant.
Prior to becoming an independent consultant, Dr. Gonzalez-Garcia served as a district-level K-5 ELA and K-12 dyslexia coordinator for Boerne ISD, working in collaborative efforts with the assistant superintendent of curriculum and instruction, district content coordinators, special education/504 directors, K-12 teachers, K-12 administrators, K-12 dyslexia specialists, K-5 literacy leaders, librarians, school board members, numerous district/regional committees and community members.
During her tenure as the ELA/dyslexia coordinator, she spearheaded the district’s ELA vertical team, ELA administrative team, literacy cadres, ELA professional development cadres, literacy job-embedded trainers, and the district's dyslexia/dysgraphia advisory committee.
She provided professional development in literacy, dyslexia, and dysgraphia, in addition to district-wide instructional coaching support and formal appraisals. She led the development of the district’s ELA curriculum and dyslexia/dysgraphia compliance initiatives and created an online literacy support site for educators and parents to access professional resources and literacy-based webinars.
Her extensive experience in education includes working with learners from diverse backgrounds and marginalized populations, as well as gifted and talented, multilingual, and dyslexic students in K-12 Title/non-Title settings. In higher education, she has taught undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral courses for public and private universities.
Dr. Gonzalez-Garcia holds a degree in Interdisciplinary Studies of Science with an emphasis in English, a Master of Science in Educational Technology, a Master of Science in Reading, a Master Reading Teacher (MRT) certification, a Reading Specialist certification, and a Doctorate in Curriculum and Instruction with an emphasis in literacy.
She is the national recipient of the International Literacy Association Legends in Literacy Award and the state recipient of the H.E.B. Excellence in Education Award in elementary leadership.
As an active presenter for local, state, and national conferences, she shares her experiences and background knowledge in the areas of multiple metacognitive approaches, text sets and multimodal texts, technology, reading/writing motivation, teacher education, literacy coaches/specialists, educational leadership, research-based instructional approaches, dyslexia/dysgraphia (instructional and policy approaches), and literacy in multilingual/multicultural contexts.
Dr. Gonzalez-Garcia offers consulting and professional development to support literacy initiatives for districts, affiliations, and state education agencies nationwide. Additionally, Dr. Gonzalez-Garcia provides strategic guidance to universities to restore regulatory compliance and improve teacher candidate performance through evidence-based literacy practices.
Read her latest piece featured in ILA's Literacy Today magazine
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