CAMPUS DIRECTORY

Education

Ed.D., Curriculum and Instruction Bilingual Studies, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, ABD

M.A. Education, English Learner Option, California State University,  Chico 2013

Bilingual, Crosscultural, Language and Academic Development (BCLAD) Teaching Credential, Single Subject Spanish & ELD, California State  University, Chico 2006

• Added authorization: Social Sciences Multiple Subject Credential, 2013

B.A. International Relations and Spanish, California State University, Chico 2003

Areas of Expertise

• Educational justice for multilingual learners

• Bilingual education

• English Language Development 

• Humanizing/Culturally sustaining  pedagogies

• Biliteracy development

• Bilingual teacher education

• Lesson study as a form of critical professional development

Faculty Bio

Formerly a high school ELD, Spanish and AVID teacher in rural northern California schools, Elizabeth currently serves as coordinator and instructional faculty for the Bilingual Credential Program at CSU, Chico. Her interests include the assets, contributions and lived experiences of multilingual learners and their families in bilingual and English-only educational contexts as well as supporting bilingual and general education teachers as they create, adapt and enact curriculum that explores issues related to identity, diversity, justice and social action in culturally and linguistically diverse classrooms.

Grants & Contracts Awarded

CCTC Teacher Residency Grant. Cultivando Rural Bilingual Educators: A Consortium of Educators  for Multilingual Opportunities in Northern California Schools (CRECEMOS). 2024-2029. IHE Lead in partnership with Tehama County Office of Education. 

Department of Education, Office of English Language Acquisition (OELA), Biliteracy as a Resource: Investing in Literacy Across Languages for All (BRILLA) 2021-present. $2,313,130. Co-author, assistant director.

Affiliations

• American Educational Research Association (AERA)

• California Association for Bilingual Education (CABE)

Presentations

Stevens, E (October, 2025). The Recurricularization of Language: Educators' Grassroots Efforts to Reclaim and Sustain Students' Bilingual Identities within a Rural, Structured English Immersion School Program at Curriculum and Pedagogy Group annual conference in Mexico City, Mexico. (Accepted presentation).

Stevens, E. (July, 2025). Where do I start? Supporting Biliteracy Development for Multilingual Learners in General Education and  Bilingual Classrooms presented  at Far North Literacy Conference in Chico, California.

Stevens, E. (April, 2025). The Role of Whiteness in the Transcultural Experiences of Bilingual Education: A  Critical Autoethnography presented at American Educational Research Association annual conference in Denver, Colorado.

Stevens, E. (October, 2022). From Liberty to Equality to Paying It Forward: Using Our Privilege to Build Each Other Up presented at Study of the U.S. Institutes Conference in Athens, Greece.

Whitney, E., Lemmi, C. & Stevens, E (October, 2020). Infusing Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies into Foundational Literacy Courses for Preservice Teachers presented at California Council for Teacher Education Fall Virtual Conference.  Virtual conference.