Our Team
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Dr Linda Navarette
Project Director
lindavn@ucr.edu
Dr. Linda Ventriglia-Navarrette is the Director of Project Adelante Moving Forward and a Research Professor at the University of California, Riverside. She has degrees from Claremont University and Harvard University. As a Ford Foundation post-doctoral fellow, she completed four years of study in linguistics and second language acquisition at Harvard University which resulted in the publication of Conversations of Miguel and Maria: How Children Learn a Second Language (Pearson1996).
She is the author of several English language Development curriculums including: Santillana Intensive English K-8, Opening Doors (Santillana), Ready for English (National Textbook) and English language Benchmarks (Santillana, 2004), Best Practices in Teaching Interdisciplinary Vocabulary and the RULE of 3 Early Language and Literacy program.
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Robert Aquila
Administrative Assistant
robert.aquila@ucr.edu
Robert Aquila is the Administrative Assistant for the Project Adelante Moving Forward office at the University of California, Riverside. He is an alumni of the UC Riverside and has a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology.
He serves as the office administrator to coordinate Financial, Fiscal Policy, Professional Development & Program Implementation support between the University of California, Riverside and project partners.