Bilingual Elementary LOTE Social Anthropology Ph.D.
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CERTIFICATIONS
EC-* Bilingual Supplemental COMPASS Alternative Certification Program. Dallas ISD
EC-6 Generalist Elementary COMPASS Alternative Certification Program. Dallas ISD
Test: 613 LOTE-SPANISH EC-12
Gómez & Gómez Dual Language Program, Fort Worth ISD, 2014
RECOGNITIONS:
Designated Exemplary Teacher ID: 36813
Designation: Exemplary Teacher from 08-01/2024 ---07-31-2029
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Social Anthropology
Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City, August 2008
Research areas: Environment, Water conflict, USA-Mexico border.
Dissertation: Ecology Politics, Sustainability and Conflict: An Ethnographic Study of the Conflict Over
Water in the U.S.-Mexico East Border.
Master’s Degree in Urban Studies
El Colegio de Mexico, July 2003
Research areas: Urban development, land use and ownership in urban periphery, gender inequalities.
Thesis: Land Ownership in the Urban Periphery of Mexico City: An Analysis from Gender Perspective.
B.A. in Social Sciences
University of Havana, September 1996
B.A. in Philosophy
Moscow State University Lomonosov, Russian Federation
POSITIONS HELD
08/2025-2026 5th grade Bilingual English -Spanish Language Arts teacher. Clark Elem, Spring ISD, Houston TX
08/2024-2025 4th grade Bilingual English -Spanish Language Arts teacher. Heritage Elem. Spring ISD, Houston TX
08/2023- 2024 5th grade bilingual English -Spanish Language Arts teacher. Clark Elem, Spring ISD, Houston TX
08/2022 -2023 3rd grade bilingual English-Spanish self-contained teacher. Epps Island Elem, Klein ISD, Houston TX
08/2019 -2022 4th grade Bilingual English-Spanish Teacher. Heritage Elementary, Spring ISD, Houston, TX
08/2017- 2019 4th grade Bilingual Teacher English-Spanish. Sneed Elementary, Alief ISD, Houston Texas
06/2015- 2017 1st grade Bilingual English-Spanish Teacher. Clara Oliver Elementary. Dallas ISD, TEXAS
08/2014 -2015 1st Grade Two Ways Dual Language Teacher. Christine C. Moss Elementary. Fort
Worth ISD, TEXAS
01/2013-2014 Educational Tutorial Services (****@***************************.***).
Nationwide Tutorial Agency
Tutoring elementary, middle and high school students in the foster home system.
Los Angeles, California.
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02/2011- 2012 Manor ISD, Texas.
Substitute teacher in the following schools: Manor High School, Manor Excel
Academy, Manor New Tech High, Decker Middle School, Manor Middle
School, Oak Meadow Elementary, Manor Elementary, Bluebonnet Elementary.
03/2010 – 2014 Pearson Inc/Austin Scoring Center, Austin, Texas.
Scorer: STAAR Reading and Writing (11th grade High)
Scorer: STAAR Writing Composition (Middle School students).
Scorer: STAAR Math (4th and 5th grades)
Scorer: Spanish Reading Assessments /Puerto Rico
Scorer: Spanish Math Assessment/Puerto Rico
10/2009 – 2010 Bill Smith Group. Freelance bilingual English-Spanish editor for Bill Smith group, Austin, TX
2007-2009 University INACE, Mexico City.
Professor of Methodology of Qualitative Research in Education.
2003-2009 Institute of Advanced Studies on Public Administration, Mexico City.
Professor of Methodology for Social Science Research.
2007-2008 Anthropology Faculty, Mexico State University Mexico. Toluca, Mexico.
Professor of Anthropology.
2006 -2008 University Iberoamericana, Mexico City
Professor of History of Design in Mexico. (History of Mesoamerica)
OTHER TEACHING EXPERIENCES
Course: Social Research and Methodology/ Qualitative Studies on Education (Graduate Program)
Institution: National Academic Institute for Educational Updating (INACE). Mexico City (2008-2009).
Course: Gender Mainstreaming (Undergraduate education)
Institution: FLACSO (Latin American Faculty for Social Sciences) Mexico (2008).
Course: Ecological Anthropology (Undergraduate Program)
Institution: Faculty of Anthropology/ Mexico State University (UAEM), Toluca, Mexico (2007-2008).
Course: Cultural Migrations and Identities (Undergraduate Program)
Institution: Faculty of Anthropology/ Mexico State University (UAEM), Toluca City, Mexico (2007-2008).
Course: Anthropology of Design (Undergraduate Program)
Institution: Department of Design, Univ. Iberoamericana (2006-2008)
Course: Anthropology of Gender (Graduate Program on Psychoanalysis Research)
Institution: Institute for Graduate Studies in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, Mexico City. (2006).
Course: Environment and Society (Undergraduate Program/Department of Design)
Institution: Department of Design, Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico D.F (2006).
Course: Sociology of Family (Graduate Program /Master on Family Studies)
Institution: Simon Bolivar Andean University, La Paz, Bolivia (2005)
Course: Methodology of Investigation (Graduate Program)
Institution: Institute of Superior Studies of Public Administration, Mexico DF (2003-2009)
Course: Formulation and evaluation of social projects (Graduate Program)
Institution: Institute of Superior Studies of Public Administration, Mexico DF (2003-2008)
Course: Environmental, Urban and rural Planning (Undergraduate Program)
Institution: Institute of Superior Studies of Public Administration, Mexico DF (2003-2009)
Course: Social Ethic and Environment (Undergraduate Program)
Institution: Institute of Superior Studies of Public Administration, Mexico DF (2003-2008)
Course: Environmental Politics (Undergraduate Program)
Institution: Institute of Superior Studies of Public Administration, Mexico DF (2003-2008)
Maria del Carmen Cano Secade, PhD
Houston, 01/22/2026
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