Educational Background:

Ed.D.   Teachers College, Columbia University                                 
International Educational Development with a specialization in Bilingual/Bicultural Education, 2007

Dissertation:Multicultural Education and Bilingual Teachers: An examination of convergence and divergence across ethnolinguistic groups

M.Ed.   Ohio State University                                                       Elementary Education, 1997

B.S.       Ohio State University                                                                    
Pre-Service in Elementary Education, 1996

Teaching Experience:

• Morrow Elementary School, Morrow, GA- Grades 4, 5
• Escuela Internacional Sampedrana, San Pedro Sula, Honduras - Grade 3

Courses Taught:

• Education that is Multicultural (EDCE 5700C)
• Bilingual Student Teaching Seminar and Supervision  (EDCE 45800 & 41600 and EDCE 0501G & 0502G): Click here to learn more about
  professional portfolios in the student teaching seminar
  
• Content Research Seminar in Bilingual Education (EDCE 2203I)
• Seminar in Educational Research (EDCE 2900I)
• Theories and Practice of Bilingual Education (EDCE 5300C)
• Methods of Teaching English as a Second Language (EDCE 5400C)

Publications:

Books:

•  Kleyn, T.  (in-press).  Immigration: Stories, struggles and debates. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press.

Reyes, S.A., & Kleyn, T.  (2010).  Teaching in Two Languages: A guide for K-12 bilingual educators.  Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press. Click here for more information

Magazine Articles:

• Kleyn, T. (March 2010).  Bilingualism and the deficit-gifted dichotomy: Challenging the U.S. Framework.  National Capital Language Resource Center, 14(3).
• Menken, K., & Kleyn T.  (April 2009).  The difficult road for long-term English learners.  Educational Leadership, 66(7).  [Available:
  http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational_leadership/apr09/
  vol66/num07/The_Difficult_Road_for_Long-Term_English_Learners.aspx]
  

Chapters/Encyclopedia Entries:

• García, O., & Kleyn, T. (in-press).  Teacher education for multilingual education.  In Durk Gorter and Jasone Cenoz (Eds.)  The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics.
• Menken, K., Funk, A., & Kleyn, T.  (in-press).  Teachers at the epicenter:
  Engagement and resistance in a biliteracy program for “Long-Term English
  Language Learners” in the U.S.  In Christine Helot and Muiris OLaoire (Eds.) Teaching in the Multilingual Classroom: Policies for Pedagogy.
• Kleyn, T. (2008). “Garífuna es nuestra manera de ser, es lo que somos”:
  Enfoque de identiades e hibridaciones en la transculturación.  (“Garífuna is our way of being, it is who we are”: A focus on identity and hybridity within transculturalism.). In F. Nájera and P. Viturro (Eds.), Escrituras, Polimorfías e Identidades (pp. 63-85) (Writings, Polymorphics and Identities).  Buenos Aires, Argentina, Libros del Rojas.
  English Translation
  
  

Invited Book Reviews:

• Kleyn, T.  (2009).  History of multicultural education, Volume 5: Students
  and student learning.  Teachers College Record. [Available:
  http://www.tcrecord.org/Content.asp?ContentId=15859]
• Kleyn, T. (2008). Affirming Diversity: The sociopolitical context of
  multicultural education (5th Ed.).  Language Policy, 17(3):297-299. DRAFT in pdf
• Kleyn, T. (2006).  Imagining Multilingual Schools.  Teachers College Record. [Available: http://www.tcrecord.org/content.asp?contentid=12885]

Report:

• Menken, K., Kleyn, T., Ascenzi-Moreno, L., Chae, N., Flores, N., & Funk, A.
  (2009). Meeting the needs of Long-Term English Learners in High Schools,
  Phase II.  Report to the New York City Department of Education, Office of English Learners.
• Menken, K., Kleyn, T., Chae, N.  (2007). Meeting the needs of Long-Term English Learners in High Schools.  Report to the New York City Department of Education, Office of English Learners.
  For more information about the Long-Term English Language Learner Project see the following website:
  http://web.gc.cuny.edu/dept/lingu/rislus/projects/LTELL/index.html

Peer Reviewed Articles:

• Kleyn, T., & Reyes, S. (in-press).  Nobody said it would be easy: Ethnolinguistic group challenges to bilingual and multicultural education in New York City. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism.
• Menken, K., & Kleyn, T.  (2010). The long-term impact of subtractive
  schooling in the educational experiences of secondary English learners.
  International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism.
• Kleyn, T.  (forthcoming). Cultural mismatch in Honduran Garífuna communities: The role of culture, race and language in schools.  Diaspora, Indigenous and Minority Education.
• Kleyn, T.  (2008).  Speaking in colors: A window into uncomfortable
  conversations about race and ethnicity in U.S. bilingual classrooms.  GiST: The Colombian Journal of Bilingual Education, 2:13-23.
• Torres-Guzman, M., Morales-Rodriguez, S., Han, A., & Kleyn, T.  (2005).  Self-designated dual- language programs:  Is there a gap between labeling and implementation?  Bilingual Research Journal, 29(2), 453-474. 

Selected Conference Presentations:

• “Bookending the Secondary ESL Spectrum: Newcomers and Long-term Learners."  Paper presented at TESOL Conference, Boston, Massachusetts, March 2010 (with Menken & Short)
• “When change is the only consistency: The case of Long-Term English
  Learners in secondary schools.”  Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association Conference, San Diego, California, April 2009 (with Menken & Chae)
• “Bilingual Education from the Top Down to the Bottom Up: Policy, Leadership, and Practices in New York City.”  Symposium presented at American Educational Research Association Conference, Chicago, Illinois, April 2007 (with Hunt & Menken)
• “Multicultural Education and Bilingual Teachers: An examination of convergence and divergence across ethno-linguistic groups”  Paper presented at the New Educator Conference, City College of New York, October 2006
•  “Is a Read Aloud just a Read Aloud? An intertextual and interactional cross-cultural analysis.”  Paper presented at the National Association of Bilingual Educators Conference, San Antonio, Texas, January 2005 (with Torres-Guzman)
• “Dual Language Programs? A closer look at self-designated dual language programs in NYC.”  Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association Conference, San Diego, California, April 2004  (with Torres-Guzman, Morales & Han)
• “Race, Language and Schooling:  The construction of Garifuna.”  Paper presented at Comparative International Education Society National Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, March 2003

Invited Presentations:

• "Long Overlooked: The Characteristics and Educational Needs of Long-Term English Learners.”  Presentation at Sanibel Leadership Conference, Clearwater Beach, Florida, June 2010
• "Uderstanding and Planning for Long-term English Learners: The Case of New York City.”  Presentation for Californians Together Symposium, Alhambra, California, May 2010
• “Attending to the needs of Long-term English Language Learners at the
  secondary level.”  Presentation for CREATE conference (Center for Research on the Educational Achievement and Teaching of English Language Learners), University of Texas, Austin, October 2009.
• “Educating Emergent Bilingual Students: A closer look at what we know, what we do and what we can change.”  Presentation for the Bilingual/ESL Teacher Leadership Academy, Bank Street College, April 2009
• “Illuminating Strategies for All Teachers of ELLs.”  Presentation for Restart High Schools, New York City Department of Education, April 2008
• “Garífuna, ladino y/o negro: Formas identitarias e hibridaciónes transculturales.”  Paper presented at Transamérica: Confrontando las porosas fronteras de la posmodernidad, Centro Cultural de España en Buenos Aires, Argentina, October 2007
  
• “Pink Trucks and Blue Dresses: Exploring and challenging gender and sexuality.”  Presentation at La Escuelita Dual Language Preschool, New York, New York, August 2007
• “Where’s the Culture? Study groups as a tool to facilitate multiculturalism.”  Presentation at the New York City Department of Education Dual Language Learning Network Spring Conference, New York, March 2006 (with Hunt)
•  “Inclusive Schools, Exclusive Practices: The case of two Garifuna communities in Honduras.”  Brown bag lecture presented at the Institute of Latin American Studies, Columbia University, New York, November 2003
•  “Bilingual Education in the United States.”  Workshop presented at Universidad Pedagogica Nacional, Tegucigalpa, Honduras, August 2002

Honors and Awards:

• Colin Powell Center Public Scholarship Grant, 2010-2011
• William Stewart Travel Award, 2010
• PSC-CUNY Research Award, 2009-2010
• National Association of Bilingual Education Outstanding Dissertation Award - 2nd Place, 2008
• Spencer Research Training Grant, 2006
• General Scholarship, 2003, Teachers College, Columbia University
• Latin American Studies Field Research Grant, 2003, Columbia University

Professional Affiliations:

• AERA-American Education Research Association
• NABE- National Association of Bilingual Education
• NYSABE - New York State Association for Bilingual Education
• TESOL - Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages

Professional Service:

• Referee for TESOL Journal, 2010
• Referee for Journal of Literacy Research, 2010
• Referee for The Modern Language Journal, 2010
• Referee for GiST: The Colombian Journal of Bilingual Education, 2009
• Referee for Bilingual Research Journal, 2009
• Referee for International Journal of Multilingualism, 2008
• Referee for Diaspora, Indigenous and Minority Education, 2008
• Reviewer for Lawrence Erlbaum Publishers, 2008
  
• Education panel on the university committee on research awards, 2007-present
• Associate Editor, The New Educator Journal, 2007-present
• PSC-CUNY Grant Reviewer, 2005