Rubí Flores

Rubí P. Flores Torres, M.A., is a contributing author of Breaking Down the Monolingual Wall: Essential Shifts for Multilingual Learners’ Success, a 2023 volume on systemic and pedagogical approaches for dual language and multilingual programs. She is a native of San Luis Potosí, Mexico, and serves as Director of Professional Learning at the California Association for Bilingual Education (CABE), where she supports schools in implementing and refining dual language and multilingual learner programs.

Flores has previously worked as a bilingual teacher, ESL specialist, dual language teacher, instructional coach, dual language program coordinator, and biliteracy curriculum developer in schools across California, El Salvador, Oklahoma, and Texas. She holds a bachelor’s degree in bilingual education from Texas State University and a master’s degree in bilingual and bicultural curriculum and instruction from the University of Texas. Her current work focuses on building teacher capacity to support multilingual learners through coaching and professional learning that promotes biliteracy and academic language development in Spanish and English.