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=Cherice Montgomery=

[|Brigham Young University]

 * Provo, UT**



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Cherice Montgomery holds a B.A. in Spanish, a M.Ed. in Curriculum and Instruction (both from Wichita State University), and a Ph.D. in // Curriculum, Teaching, and Educational Policy // with an emphasis in // Learning, Technology, & Culture // from Michigan State University. She currently teaches courses in Spanish pedagogy and coordinates the Spanish Teaching Major Program at [|Brigham Young University] in Provo, Utah. She also serves as an independent consultant for a variety of publishers, universities, and school districts.

Cherice's work is informed by a wide array of teaching experiences. She has worked as an elementary Spanish immersion instructor for homeschooled children, a middle school Spanish immersion camp director, a high school teacher, a community college instructor, and a university methods instructor. She has also served as a full-time instructional facilitator, coordinating cross-curricular professional development and providing both pedagogical and technological support for faculty in a large, urban, public high school. Cherice has been honored with several awards for excellence in teaching, including the [|Kansas Foreign Language Teacher of the Year Award].

Cherice's research interests focus on the intersections of:


 * Arts-informed education, creativity, and visual cognition
 * Design-based pedagogies and experiential learning
 * [|Mentoring, leadership, and change]
 * Professional development
 * [|Social technologies as pedagogical tools]
 * World language education, transliteracy, and 21st Century learners

Her professional endeavors have included service as a member of the Advisory Board for the [|National K-12 Foreign Language Resource Center] (NFLRC), as an Associate Editor for the // Journal of Critical Inquiry Into Curriculum & Instruction //, and as a member of the [|New Visions in Foreign Language Education Task Force]. While at Michigan State, she worked with the [|Literacy Acquisition Research Center], served as a technical consultant to the Top-of-the-Mitt satellite of the Red Cedar Writing Project, was a writing consultant for the [|MSU Writing Center], and coordinated the Innovation with Technology in Education Consultants (iTecs) for [|MSU’s College of Education]. She has also designed and facilitated a variety of grant-funded, summer institutes with the purpose of helping teachers to develop skills in mentoring, leadership, pedagogy, and technology (including several for teachers critical languages such as Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew, and Russian).

Cherice's hobbies include dancing, reading, cooking, photography, camping, hiking, scrapbooking, and waterskiing.

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