Cheryl Urow, M.Ed. – teachingforbiliteracy@gmail.com

Co Founder Cheryl began her career as an educator first in rural Costa Rica and later in the United States as an inner city dual language teacher. Since then, she has had the opportunity to provide professional development across the country for schools, districts, and other organizations supporting the education of English Language Learners.  More recently, Cheryl has focused her professional work on areas related to biliteracy development, the strategic use of languages in bilingual, two-way immersion, one-way immersion and dual language classrooms, authentic strategies for Spanish literacy instruction, and the Bridge between languages. A sequential bilingual who learned Spanish while serving as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Costa Rica, Cheryl is co-author, along with Karen Beeman, of Teaching for Biliteracy: Strengthening Bridges between Languages (Caslon Publishing, 2013) and co-founder of the Center for Teaching for Biliteracy.

Desde muy temprano en su carrera como educadora en Costa Rica, Cheryl siempre ha demostrado y compartido su pasión por el aprendizaje, por el bilingüismo y por el multiculturalismo. Sus experiencias como maestra de clase, asesora de personal docente, y madre de dos hijas bilingües le han infundido su dedicación en el campo de la educación y la formación bilingüe.