Kara Mcbride Email & Phone Number

Northampton, Ma, Us

Washington D.C.

• HQ pedagogical expert for USAID-funded Youth Employment Skills (YES) in Uzbekistan. Co-led Foundational Best Practices workshops in Aug. 2021, training of trainers in July 2022; participate in revision of scope and sequence and textbooks for grades 8-11 economics and entrepreneurship with life skills embedded• Lead trainer for two-week "Integrating Social Emotional Learning," in-person exchange for 25 English teaching professionals from 25 countries, March 2023, funded by ECA/U.S. Dept. of State• HQ English Specialist for USAID early grade reading project QITABI 2 in Lebanon: development of over 460 hours of English & SEL e-lessons for public schools in Lebanon, grades 1-6; teacher training; curriculum mapping• Technical lead on World Learning's support of online teacher training courses in Morocco via the USAID-funded early grade reading project NPR (led by Creative)• Lead content author and technical designer of online teacher training courses: OPEN's "Content-based Instruction," OPEN's "The Integration of Critical Thinking into the Exploration of Culture in an EFL Setting," and World Learning and CUHK's "Teaching Struggling Readers Around the World." * More than 25,000 participants, from over 100 countries, have completed these two courses, with an average overall course rating of 4.8/5• Kosovo Transformational Leadership Program, USAID, Kosovo: Trained and mentored the trainers at the Center for Teaching Excellence, University of Prishtina • Syrian Refugee Kids Can Code project in Sulaymaniyah, Iraq: Developed the English and psychosocial support curricula; trained trainers and teachers• Lead editor of World Learning’s Global STEM toolkit, www.globalstemlearning.org

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Valparaíso, Chile

• Founded an English language center in Chile, focused on providing transformative experiential learning activities for business professionals to develop their communicative English • Conceptualized and ran programs using innovative paradigms including theatre, interactive and improvisational formats, and immersion camps, in order to enhance the learning experience with psycho-social and cultural context

Saint Louis, Missouri

• Tenured professor in Second Language Acquisition/ Spanish• Director of Spanish Graduate Program 2010-2013• Recipient of the 2012 James H. Korn Award for Scholarship on Teaching and Learning from the Reinert Center for Transformative Teaching and Learning• Average student evaluations of me as instructor in all courses over 8 years: 74% excellent, 20% very good, 4% good, 2% fair • Ran annual teachers' orientation and monthly in-service seminars for all languages in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Culture• Research areas: computer-assisted language learning, spoken L2 production, listening comprehension, and the development of intercultural competence• Taught: Teaching methodology, sociolinguistics, second language acquisition, phonology and phonetics, all levels of Spanish, "Language and Thought," and "Learning Texts: Tradition, Authenticity and Virtuality"• Supervised over 2,000 hours of service learning internships and apprenticeships• Member, Executive Committee of the Center for Intercultural Studies at Saint Louis University

Talca, Chile

Developed • Department's English placement test • A computer-based, stand-alone English course that was included in university’s Autonomous Learning Center platform• The program's websiteTaught • Reading in English for Law Students• Business English I and II• English for Professionals in Computer Science• English for Professionals in Dentistry• English for Graduate Students in Agriculture• English for Graduate Students in International Business• Preparatory classes for students going abroad• General Reading in English• General Conversation, various levels

Ph.D., Second Language Acquisition And Teaching

Master'S Degree, Teaching English As A Second Or Foreign Language/Esl Language Instructor

Ma, Spanish

Bs, Philosophy