Director of Family and Community Engagement and Student Success Coach National Louis University, Chicago, IL USA
Monica Haydee Ramos is the Director of Family and Community Engagement and Student Success Coach at National Louis University. A native from Guadalajara, Mexico, she holds a Masters of Arts in Adult Education and Literacy and pursuing a doctorate in Curriculum, Advocacy and Education Policy at NLU. Monica’s goal is to be part of a strong group of diversified professional champions informing the US education agenda. It is her desire as a Latina educator to contribute to the creation of effective curriculum and policy that meet the needs of minority students. She advocates for education, family and community engagement, student success, diversification of the teacher pipeline, and the advancement of the Latino community. Supporting family and community engagement, she
leads the NLU Academy of Parents in Leadership. Through her work with the community, she provides literacy strategies, social emotional child development, family-school-community engagement and civic leadership. Her efforts on unparalleled student experience were supported by the Secretariat of Education Jalisco. She received the IME Scholarship in three occasions. These funds provided support to low-income, non FAFSA eligible Mexican students. On a volunteer basis, she is founding director of the International Council on Education for Teaching Emerging Leaders in Teacher Education program. ICET ELITE that builds leadership capacity among talented teacher candidates seeking to internationalize their learning environments. Monica serves in the advisory boards of Institute of Mexicans Abroad (CCIME) contributing to projects in benefit of the Mexican immigrant community in the US, Mujeres de HACE empowering high potential Latinas, and Passages providing scholarships. She is an active member of Red de Talentos Mexicanos. She was named an emerging Latina leader in the inaugural list of 40 under 40 by Negocios Now. She also received the New Latina Star award in education by Verizon and was recognized by the Binational Institute of Human Development with the Yolotlmeztli award for her contributions to education and women empowerment. In 2014, she presented her work on “The impact of cultural immersion to prepare and support racially and ethnically diverse, first generation pre- service teachers” at Oxford University. In 2015, she presented her research on "Culturally relevant support to reduce attrition among bilingual teachers in urban school settings" at the University of Naruto in Japan.
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