Gilberto P. Lara

Gilberto P. Lara, Ph.D., is an assistant professor in the Department of Bicultural/Bilingual Studies at The University of Texas at San Antonio. A former bilingual and ESL classroom teacher, he has more than 16 years of experience in emergent bilingual education, including dual-language, sheltered-content, and teacher-education settings. He earned his Ph.D. in Bilingual/Bicultural Education from The University of Texas at Austin and bachelor’s and master’s degrees in education from Boise State University.

Lara’s research examines teaching practices in multilingual classrooms, biliteracy development, community cultural wealth, and multicultural children’s literature. He is a coauthor of Multicultural Literature for Latino Bilingual Children: Their Words, Their Worlds, Second Edition and The Reading Turn-Around with Emergent Bilinguals: A Five-Part Framework for Powerful Teaching and Learning. His scholarship has appeared in publications including the Bilingual Research Journal and Social Studies and the Young Learner.