Introducing Jill Aguilar

Dr. Jill Aguilar is pleased to be part of the WestEd team that will work at Manual Arts if the school joins the iDivision. Here is a short bio:

After earning her Bachelor’s degree and credential at CSUDH, Dr. Aguilar taught middle and high school English (gen ed & ELD) and History (gen ed, sheltered & bilingual) in Long Beach for twelve years. During that time she pursued a Master’s degree at CSUDH in Curriculum and Instruction with a focus on the language and literacy struggles of US-born Latinos. She completed her PhD in Language, Literacy and Learning at USC. Her dissertation title was “Urban Adolescent Literacies: Multiple Ethnographic Case Studies in a Community-Based Theatre Arts Program.”

She is the Senior Educational Consultant at Shakespeare Festival/LA. She is on the faculty of the CSUDH College of Education in the secondary teacher preparation program. She has taught Language Learning, Foreign Language Methods, Teaching Practices Seminar, and Teaching Secondary Reading. She is the Coordinator of the CSUDH Early Assessment Program (EAP).