Mary Avalos Email and Phone Number

Mary A. Avalos is a Research Professor in the Department of Teaching and Learning at the University of Miami (FL) and directs the School of Education and Human Development’s Community and Educational Well-being Research Center. Her research interests include equity-focused projects in public school and community settings and working with teachers to improve multilingual teaching and learning for equitable learning opportunities in diverse, urban classrooms. She has worked with teachers to develop interventions and assessments in reading/language arts, science, mathematics, and social studies content areas. Mary has published her work in practitioner and scholarly journals, including Urban Review, The Elementary School Journal, The Reading Teacher, and Bilingual Research Journal. She is an active member of the Literacy Research Association, American Educational Research Association, and the Society for Community Research and Action. Over the past 20 years, she has brought in over $8.5 million in grant funding to the UM School of Education and Human Development for education research.