VitaUNM 4-2016

Lois Marilyn Meyer (Home) 343 Nara Visa Ct. NW
Professor Albuquerque, NM 87107
Language, Literacy & Sociocultural Studies Tel.: (cel) 505/225-0022
College of Education
Hokona 252 Fax: 505/277-8362
University of New Mexico Email: lsmeyer@unm.edu
Albuquerque, NM 87131
Tel.: (of) 505/277-7244 Bilingual & biliterate: Spanish/English
CURRICULUM VITA (Rev. 4/2016)
ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
1982-91 University of California, Los Angeles: Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics, specialties in second
language acquisition, child bilingualism and language education. Degree awarded 1991.
Dissertation topic: “The Language Circle: Inside the Teaching and Learning of Language in an
Inner City Elementary School.” Co-Chairs: Evelyn Hatch, Applied Linguistics, and Harold
Garfinkel, Sociology.
1983-85 University of California, Berkeley: specialized study in the areas of child language
development, second language acquisition, and bilingualism.
1980 University of New Mexico, Albuquerque: specialized study in neurolinguistics, second
language acquisition, second language research, and bilingualism at the Linguistics/TESOL
Summer Institute.
1976 Loyola University of Chicago: M.A. in Education: Curriculum and Instruction, specialty in
Bilingual Education.
1975 Southern Illinois University on location in Jalapa, Mexico: participant in a Special
Education Institute on the psychocultural problems in the education of behavioral disordered
Spanish-speaking children.
1971 Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, Michigan: B.A. Cum Laude in Spanish and Sociology.
RESEARCH INTERESTS Comparative language policy and planning; Bilingualism & second language
acquisition; Curriculum for linguistic and cultural diversity; Discourse analysis; Global English issues;
Qualitative research and program evaluation
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Lois M. Meyer, Associate Professor, LLSS, College of Education, UNM
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2000-Present University of New Mexico: Professor in the Dept. of Language, Literacy and
Sociocultural Studies, College of Education. Instructor of undergraduate and graduate courses on
curriculum development and methods of bilingual instruction, teaching English as a second language, first
and second language acquisition and bilingualism, the historical and cultural foundations of bilingual
education, discourse analysis, qualitative research and program evaluation, and issues in the global spread
of English. Tenured in 2004; promoted to Professor in 2011. Chair of the LLSS Dept. from January
2011 to June 2014.
June-November 2014 Evaluator, English Language Program, University of Cuenca, Ecuador:
Conducted a comprehensive evaluation of the university’s English language program, which serves more
than 2000 students each semester. The evaluation involved interviews with top university administrators
about the goals of the program, analysis of the diverse components of the program and the curriculum and
texts in each component, review of evaluation procedures, and with the assistance of a local team,
devising, implementing and analyzing two student surveys and one instructor survey. Final evaluation
report submitted to the University of Cuenca in March 2015.
July 2011-July 2012 International advisor, Diplomado (Intensive Study Experience) in Community-
based Indigenous Initial Education, Oaxaca, México: Advisor to the Pedagogical Committee of Plan
Piloto-CMPIO on the development and implementation of the first professional development experience
in the State of Oaxaca for Indigenous teachers of Initial Education (serving pregnant mothers and babies
up to 3 years old); facilitator of the module on community-based research and its pedagogical
applications. Diplomado was accredited by the Institute for Public Education of the State of Oaxaca.
1999-2000 Council for International Exchange of Scholars, Washington, D.C.: Fulbright Senior
Research Scholar in Oaxaca, Mexico, investigating teacher preparation for the indigenous diversity of the
state of Oaxaca, in collaboration with the Center for Research and Advanced Studies in Social
Anthropology (CIESAS), Oaxaca, Mexico.
1995-1998 California Teachers Association (CTA): Author, field tester and trainer of trainers for
the professional development program “RespeCT A Child, RespeCT A Teacher: A CTA curriculum for
SB 1969 training,” commissioned by CTA to equip its in-service teacher members with new
competencies required by State Law 1969 to teach Limited English Proficient (LEP) students (CLAD and
BCLAD endorsements).
1989-2000 San Francisco State University: Professor in the Department of Elementary Education
of the College of Education. Instructor of courses on curriculum development in the Social Studies for
linguistically diverse classrooms, linguistic and cultural diversity in the elementary school, and the
acquisition and teaching of second languages. Supervisor of student teachers and waiver teachers, both
bilingual and English monolingual, in inner-city classrooms. Tenured and promoted to Associate Professor
in 1995; promoted to Professor in 1999.
1999, 1995, University of California at Berkeley: Instructor of courses on second language
1994 teaching theory and methodologies in the Summer Program for Educators conducted
by the Graduate School of Education, UC Berkeley.

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Spring 1993 University of California at Berkeley: Visiting assistant professor in the Graduate
School of Education, teaching courses normally taught by Dr. Lily Wong Fillmore during her sabbatical
leave.
1987-89 Sonoma State University, Sonoma, CA: Visiting instructor of courses on bilingual
education and English as a second language methodology.
1983-1986 San Francisco Unified School District, CA: Curriculum specialist in the areas of
bilingual education, immersion education, and second language instruction, for program support and
teacher inservice education.
1982-1983 University of California, Los Angeles: Teaching Associate in the Interdisciplinary
Ph.D. Program in TESL/Applied Linguistics; instructor of ESL courses for UCLA second language
students, graduate and undergraduate.
1978-1982 Visiting instructor of courses on English as a Second Language and bilingual education
programs and methodology for:
a. University of the Americas, Mexico City Branch, Mexico;
b. University of Alabama, in extension in Mexico City, Mexico, and Barranquilla,
Colombia
1976-1982 American School Foundation, Mexico City, Mexico: Coordinator of second
language instruction and teacher of English as a Second Language (ESL) for first and second graders
(1977-1982); full-time teacher of first and second grade ESL (1976-1977).
1974-1976 State of Illinois Department of Bilingual Education, Chicago, IL: Bilingual intern,
involved with curriculum development and program evaluation in bilingual education.
1971-1974 Concordia Teachers College, River Forest, IL: Developer of the Latin American
Intensification Program, a program to prepare Lutheran teacher education students with skills for teaching
Spanish-dominant and other minority language students; instructor of beginning Spanish language courses.
PUBLISHED BOOKS
Meyer, L. and B. Maldonado Alvarado, eds. 2011. Comunalidad, educación y resistencia indígena
en la era global: Un diálogo entre Noam Chomsky y más de 20 líderes indígenas e intelectuales
del continente americano. Oaxaca, MX: Colegio Superior para la Educación Integral Intercultural
de Oaxaca.
Meyer, L. and B. Maldonado Alvarado, eds. 2010. New World of Indigenous Resistance: Noam
Chomsky and Voices from North, South and Central America. San Francisco, CA: City Lights
Publishers.
 Reviewed by S. Perez Jacobsen, A. Giridhar Rao & T. Skutnabb-Kangas. In Language Policy, Vol.
9, No. 4, 2010, p. 371-374.

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 Reviewed by S. Speed. 2010. In AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, Vol.
6, No. 3, 283-284.
 Reviewed by G. Cajete. The American Indian Quarterly, Vol. 35, No. 2, Spring 2011, 274-275.
 Reviewed by M. López-Gopar, W. Sughrua, and A. Clemente. 2011. In Teachers College Record,
online since 1-2011.
 Reviewed by C. Cazden. In Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 41(4).
 Reviewed by S. Nahmad. 2010. Desacatos. Mexico, D.F.: CIESAS.
 A selection from the book was featured for several years on the following web magazines:
1. Reality Sandwich, posted July 29, 2010, at
http://www.realitysandwich.com/the_fourth_principle_comunalidad
2. ZNet, posted Aug. 7, 2010, at
http://www.zcommunications.org/the-fourth-principle-comunalidad-by-jaime-mart-nez
Meyer, L., B. Maldonado, R. Ortiz, and V. García, eds. 2004. Entre la normatividad y la
comunalidad: Experiencias educativas innovadoras del Oaxaca indígena actual. (Between
national standards and communal ways of life: Innovative educational experiences in
indigenous Oaxaca today). Oaxaca, México: Fondo Editorial, Instituto Estatal de Educación Pública
de Oaxaca.
 Reviewed by A. Miranda. 2007. Reseñas Educativas: Una revista de reseñas de libros
(Educational Reviews: A journal of book reviews). Downloaded at http//edrev.asu.edu/reviews/revs
152.
Meyer, L. 2004, 1993. Grandma's Helper. An original storybook first published as a kindergarten
reading selection in E. Sulzby & L. Morrow, Celebrate Reading, a Kindergarten-8th grade reading
series. Reprinted as a free-standing tradebook in 2004. Glenview, IL: Scott Foresman Publishing Co.
 Highlighted in L. Morrow. 1995. Multicultural books about families. Reading Today, June/July.
Meyer Precup, L. 1982. You, too, Tohui? / Tu, tambien, Tohui? An original preschool children’s
storybook and activity book (Spanish and English version). Mexico, D.F.: Editorial Educativa, S.A.
EDITORSHIP OF REFEREED JOURNAL
Meyer, L., ed. 2000. Children and languages at school [Special Issue]. Theory into Practice (TIP),
Autumn, 39:4.
 Issue was nominated by the TIP Editorial Board to receive special recognition by the Association
of Educational Publishers.
PUBLISHED ARTICLES IN REFEREED JOURNALS
Meyer, L. (2016). Teaching our own babies: Teachers' Life Journeys into Community-Based Initial
Education in Indigenous Oaxaca, Mexico. In P. Beckman & J. Gallo (eds.) themed issue on Rural
Education, Global Education Review 3(1), 14-31.
Abouelhassan, R. & Meyer, L. (2016). Economy, Modernity, Islam and the Story of English in Egypt.
World Englishes. Vol. 35/1, 147-159.
Jiménez Ramírez, J., Martínez Pérez, L., Mendoza Almaráz, J., and Meyer, L.M. (2015). Análisis de

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las actividades de niños de Educación inicial en Pueblos Originarios de Oaxaca, México (Analysis of
children´s early education activities in Indigenous communities of Oaxaca, México). In P. Ames
& A. Padawer (Eds.), Special edition titled “Infancia indígena, identificaciones étnico nacionales y
educación: experiencias formativas cotidianas dentro y fuera de las escuelas/ Indigenous infancy,
ethno-national identities and education: Everyday, formative experiences inside and outside
schools. ANTHROPOLOGICA/AÑO XXXIII, N° 35, pp. 141-172.
Meyer, L. 2012. Fishman's Cultural Autonomy as an Approach to Sociolinguistic Power-Sharing. In O.
Garcia & G. S. Fishman (eds.). Special Issue: Cultural Autonomy and Fishmanian Sociolinguistics.
International Journal of the Sociology of Language 213: 127-142.
Meyer, L. 2010. Hacia una alternativa de formación indígena bilingüe e intercultural: una pedagogía
liberadora desde la “comunalidad.” (Toward an alternative bilingual, intercultural indigenous
teacher preparation: A pedagogy of liberation based in “comunalidad”.) In E. Guajardo, ed.
Revista Latinoamericana de Educación Inclusiva 4:1, 83-103. Thematic volume: Teacher
preparation in Latin America. Santiago, Chile: Escuela de Educación Diferencial, Facultad de Ciencias
de la Educación, Universidad Central. Electronic version at www.rinace.net/rlei/
Meyer, L. 2009. Methods, meanings and education policy in the United States. Reprinted in Educación
Comunal, No. 2, July 2009, Oaxaca MX: CSEIIO, CEEESCI, Universiteit Leiden, and World
Learning.
Meyer, L. 2005. Resistencia y esperanza: El futuro de la comunalidad en un mundo globalizado –
Entrevista a Noam Chomsky (Resistance and hope: The future of “comunalidad” in a globalized world
- Interview with Noam Chomsky): Reprinted in Identidades, 2005: 4-15. Oaxaca, MX: Fondo
Editorial, Instituto Estatal de Educación Pública de Oaxaca (IEEPO).
Meyer, L. 2001. El rol de la formación docente y la capacitación profesional en la reorientación de la
educación y el fortalecimiento de las lenguas y culturas indígenas. (The role of teacher preservice and
inservice preparation in the reform of education and the strengthening of indigenous languages and
cultures.) Identidades 2:7, Oct.-Dec. 2001, 41-54. Oaxaca, MX: Fondo Editorial, Instituto Estatal
de Educación Pública de Oaxaca (IEEPO).
Meyer, L. 2000. Barriers to meaningful instruction for English learners. Theory into Practice 39:4,
228-236.
Meyer, L. 1994. Barrio Buddies: Learning through letters about kids, cultures, communities, and self-
confrontation. California Perspectives, Vol. 4: November, 92-109. San Francisco, CA: California
Tomorrow.
Meyer Precup, L. 1981. Integrating Second Language Learning into the Elementary School Curriculum.
MEXTESOL Journal 5:1, 1-7. Mexico, D.F., Mexico.
BOOK CHAPTERS

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Meyer, L. M. 2013. Being Community: Engaging Struggles, Constructing Academic Lives, and
Effecting Social Change. In C. Connery and R. Lake, Constructing a community of thought:
Letters on the scholarship, teaching and mentoring of Vera John-Steiner. Teachers College Press.
Meyer, L. M. 2011. El Estado imperial y la esperanza desde adentro de la América Indígena (The
imperial state and hope from within Indigenous America). Interview conducted with Noam Chomsky
on October 4, 2007. In L.M. Meyer & B. Maldonado (eds.) Comunalidad, educación y
resistencia indígena en la era global, 61-78. Oaxaca, Oax.: Colegio Superior para la Educación
Integral Intercultural de Oaxaca
Meyer, L. M. 2011. Reflexiones sobre una conversación hemisférica entre iguales. (Reflections on a
hemispheric conversation among equals). Interview conducted with Noam Chomsky on June 17,
2009. In L.M. Meyer & B. Maldonado (eds.) Comunalidad, educación y resistencia indígena en
la era global, 307-326. Oaxaca, Oax.: Colegio Superior para la Educación Integral Intercultural de
Oaxaca
Meyer, L. M. 2011. Resistencia y esperanza: El futuro de la comunalidad en un mundo globalizado.
(Resistance and hope: The future of comunalidad in a globalized world). Interview conducted with
Noam Chomsky on February 20, 2004. In L.M. Meyer & B. Maldonado (eds.) Comunalidad,
educación y resistencia indígena en la era global, 41-60. Oaxaca, Oax.: Colegio Superior para la
Educación Integral Intercultural de Oaxaca
Meyer, L. M. 2011. Introducción: Una conversación hemisférica entre iguales (Introduction: A
hemispheric conversation among equals). In L.M. Meyer & B. Maldonado (eds.) Comunalidad,
educación y resistencia indígena en la era global, 13-37. Oaxaca, Oax.: Colegio Superior para la
Educación Integral Intercultural de Oaxaca
Meyer, L. M., Kirwin, J. & Tooher, E. 2011. Una conclusión abierta (An open-ended closing). In L.M.
Meyer & B. Maldonado (eds.) Comunalidad, educación y resistencia indígena en la era global,
345-359. Oaxaca, Oax.: Colegio Superior para la Educación Integral Intercultural de Oaxaca
Meyer, L. 2010. Hungering for Educational Justice. In N. Berlatsky, ed. Opposing Viewpoints: School
Reform. (OVPSRF-1). Greenhaven Press.
Meyer, L. 2010. A hemispheric conversation among equals. Introductory chapter in L. Meyer and B.
Maldonado Alvarado, eds. New World of Indigenous Resistance: Noam Chomsky and Voices
from North, South, and Central America, 7-37. San Francisco, CA: City Lights Publishers.
Meyer, L. 2010. Resistance and hope: The future of “comunalidad” in a globalized world. Interview
conducted in 2004 with Noam Chomsky. In L. Meyer and B. Maldonado Alvarado, eds. New
World of Indigenous Resistance: Noam Chomsky and Voices from North, South, and Central
America, 41-62. San Francisco, CA: City Lights Publishers.
Meyer, L. 2010. The imperial state and hope from inside indigenous America. Interview conducted in
2007 with Noam Chomsky. In L. Meyer and B. Maldonado Alvarado, eds. New World of

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Indigenous Resistance: Noam Chomsky and Voices from North, South, and Central America,
65-82. San Francisco, CA: City Lights Publishers.
Meyer, L. 2010. Reflections on a hemispheric conversation among equals. Interview conducted in 2009
with Noam Chomsky. In L. Meyer and B. Maldonado Alvarado, eds. New World of Indigenous
Resistance: Noam Chomsky and Voices from North, South, and Central America, 343-364. San
Francisco, CA: City Lights Publishers.
Meyer, L., J. Kirwin, and E. Tooher. 2010. An Open-Ended Closing. Concluding chapter in L. Meyer
and B. Maldonado Alvarado, eds. New World of Indigenous Resistance: Noam Chomsky and
Voices from North, South, and Central America, 383-399. San Francisco, CA: City Lights
Publishers.
Meyer, L. 2009. La Educación de los Pueblos Indígenas ante el Neoliberalismo: Entrevista a Noam
Chomsky (The Education of Indigenous Peoples in an Age of Neoliberalism: Interview with Noam
Chomsky / originally titled “The imperial state and hope from inside indigenous America. Interview
conducted in 2007 with Noam Chomsky.”). In Procedimientos del 2o Congreso Nacional de
Educación Indígena e Intercultural (Proceedings of the 2nd National Conference of Indigenous
and Intercultural Education). Oaxaca, MX: Fondo Editorial, Instituto Estatal de Educación Pública
de Oaxaca (IEEPO).
Meyer, L. 2007. Methods, meanings, and education policy in the United States. In J. Cummins and C.
Davison, eds. International Handbook of English Language Teaching, Part 1, 211-228. NY:
Springer Science+Business Media, LLC.
Meyer, L. 2004. Hacia una pedagogía de la comunalidad. (Towards a pedagogy of “comunalidad”). In
L. Meyer, B. Maldonado, R. Carina and V. García, eds. Entre la normatividad y la comunalidad:
Experiencias educativas innovadoras del Oaxaca indígena actual (Between national standards
and communal ways of life: Innovative educational experiences in indigenous Oaxaca today),
45-76. Oaxaca, México: Fondo Editorial, Instituto Estatal de Educación Pública de Oaxaca (IEEPO).
Meyer, L. 2004. Resistencia y esperanza: El futuro de la comunalidad en un mundo globalizado:
Entrevista a Noam Chomsky (Resistance and hope: The future of “comunalidad” in a globalized world:
Interview with Noam Chomsky.) In L. Meyer, B. Maldonado, R. Carina and V. García, eds. Entre
la normatividad y la comunalidad: Experiencias educativas innovadoras del Oaxaca indígena
actual (Between national standards and communal ways of life: Innovative educational
experiences from indigenous Oaxaca today), 613-635. Oaxaca, México: Fondo Editorial, Instituto
Estatal de Educación Pública de Oaxaca.
Meyer, L. 2003. Unos pensamientos sobre el rol de la formación docente y la capacitación profesional
en la reorientación de la educación y el fortalecimiento de las lenguas y culturas indígenas. (Some
thoughts on the role of teacher preservice and inservice preparation in the reform of education and the
strengthening of indigenous languages and cultures.) In F. Soberanes Bojórquez , ed. Pasado,
presente y futuro de la educación indígena: Memoria del foro permanente por la reorientación
de la educación y el fortalecimiento de las lenguas y culturas indígenas, 215-228; published
comments in response to audience questions, 241-242, 259-260. Mexico, D.F.: Universidad
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Meyer, L. 1990. Commentary on teacher-written cases. In J. Shulman and A. Mesa-Baines, Teaching
Diverse Students: Cases and Commentaries, 36-38. San Francisco, CA: Far West Laboratory.
Meyer, L. 1990. It was no trouble: Achieving communicative competence in a second language. In R.
Scarcella, E. Andersen and S. Krashen, eds. Developing Communicative Competence in a
Second Language, 195-215. Part of the Issues in Second Language Research Series. New York:
Newbury House Publishers.
Wong Fillmore, L. and L. Meyer. 1992. The Curriculum and Linguistic Minorities. In P. Jackson, ed.
AERA Handbook of Research on Curriculum, the first decade handbook on curriculum sponsored
by the American Educational Research Association, 626-651. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co.
Fathman, A. & L. Meyer Precup. 1983. Influences of age and setting on second language oral
proficiency. In K. Bailey, M. Long, and S. Peck, eds. Second Language Acquisition Studies, 151-
161. Rowley, MA: Newbury House Publishers.
MONOGRAPHS
Meyer, L. and F. Soberanes. 2010. The Language Nest: Orientation for the “guides.” English version of
L. Meyer and F. Soberanes. 2009. El Nido de Lengua: Orientación para sus “guías.” Mexico,
D.F. and Oaxaca: National Congress of Indigenous & Intercultural Education. Desktop publication
only. Digital English version available online at
http://www.cneii.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=10:nueva-publicacion
Meyer, L. and F. Soberanes. 2009. El Nido de Lengua: Orientación para sus “guías” (The
Language Nest: Orientation for the “guides”). Mexico, D.F. and Oaxaca: National Congress of
Indigenous & Intercultural Education. Also available online at
http://www.cneii.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=10:nueva-publicacion
CURRICULUM GUIDES / MATERIALS
Meyer, L., ed. 2006. Course reader for LLSS 456/556: First and Second Language Acquisition in
Cultural Context. UNM Copy Center.
Compilation of a selected set of student final projects from the 456 and 556 courses, published with
students’ permission as a course reader. Called the Language Analysis Project or LAP, the final project
requires students to conduct and analyze an interview with the caretaker or the learner her/himself,
depending on age, and also transcribe and analyze a spontaneous speech sample. The LAP has become
one of the key measurement experiences for ESL & Bilingual MA students in LLSS.
Meyer, L. 2004. No Child Left Bilingual? An analysis of U.S. educational policy and its impact on
English Language Learners and their school programs. UNM Copy Center.
Critical analysis of the No Child Left Behind Act and its implications for English learners in the schools.
Published at UNM for use in courses and in conference and workshop presentations on NCLB and English
Learners.

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Meyer, L. 1998. A Critical Look at the Unz Initiative: “English for the Children.” Published on
the language policy website of James Crawford during and following the California election of June
1998. (http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/JWCRAWFORD).
A study guide for critical analysis of the anti-bilingual education Proposition 227 in California.
Meyer, L. 1998. RespeCT A Child / RespeCT A Teacher: A CTA curriculum for SB 1969 training.
Millbrae, CA: California Teachers Association.
Professional development curriculum for California inservice teachers to develop required competencies for
State authorization to teach language minority students.
Meyer, L. 1997. The Ebonics Debate. Course reader compiled to critically analyze the ebonics debate
that raged in Oakland and then nationwide in December 1996 and the months that followed.
Meyer, L. 1991. The Afro-American History Case, Parts I and II. Ethnographically-based case
materialsfor teacher education developed as part of my dissertation research and used with credential
candidates at San Francisco State from 1990 (while they were in development) and beyond.
Meyer, L. 1985. Excellence in leadership and implementation: Programs for Limited English
Proficient Students. San Francisco, CA: San Francisco Unified School District.
Meyer, L. and Johnson, J. 1982. You, too, Tohui? / Tu, tambien, Tohui? Activity books and lesson
plans (English and Spanish) to accompany the children’s book by L. Meyer, You, too, Tohui? / Tu,
tambien, Tohui? Mexico, D.F.: Editorial Educativa, S.A.
BOOK REVIEWS
Meyer, L. 2011. Review of Critical Multiculturalism: Theory and Praxis by S. May & C. Sleeter,
eds. Teachers College Record, February 17, 2011.
Meyer, L. 1987. A review of Barry McLaughlin’s Second Language Acquisition in early childhood:
Volume 1. Studies in Second Language Acquisition 9:1, 113-114.
VIDEOGRAPHIC WORKS
Commissioned by educational agencies and foundations in San Francisco, and by the Title VII Program of the NM
State Department of Education to produce the following videotapes and video series.
Macbeth, D. & Meyer, L. 1990. The Afro-American Studies Program at Hawthorne Elementary
School, San Francisco, CA. Videotape made for display to the Superintendent's Standard English
Program Committee, San Francisco Unified School District, CA.
Meyer, L. Associate Producer. 1990. Hawthorne Elementary School, San Francisco: An
Introduction for Parents: Videotape in three versions - English, Spanish, and Cantonese – produced for
parent education at Hawthorne Elementary School in San Francisco, CA.

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Macbeth, D. & Meyer, L. 1989. Bilingual Education in New Mexico. Videotape series of three
scenes of elementary instruction in rural New Mexico, commissioned by the Title VII - Bilingual Program of
the New Mexico State Department of Education, NM.
Macbeth, D. & Meyer, L. 1988. Inside Diverse Classrooms: Scenes from Three Urban High
Schools. Videotape series of three scenes of high school instruction in urban San Francisco, funded by
the San Francisco Education Fund for the HERALD Project, San Francisco Unified School District, CA.
Commissioned by the Directions Committee of the Mexican National Congress for Indigenous & Intercultural
Education:
Meyer, L. & J. Freiberg. 2007. Interview of Noam Chomsky, conducted October 4, 2007.
Video professionally filmed and subtitled for broadcast and mass distribution at the Second National
Congress for Indigenous & Intercultural Education, held in Oaxaca, Mexico, on Oct. 25-27, 2007. Oaxaca,
MX: CNEII.
The following videotapes were filmed and edited in Oaxaca and are used in conference presentations in the U.S.
and Mexico. Several have been mass-copied for distribution to researchers, funding agencies, and the teachers
and communities participating in our research projects.
Meyer, L. 2008. Collection of video segments of Language Nests in Oaxaca, MX. Filmed and edited
for professional development purposes with teachers and community members in Oaxaca. Oaxaca,
MX: CMPIO, A.C.
Meyer, L. 2008. Collection of video segments of language use in indigenous bilingual classrooms in
Oaxaca. Filmed and edited for professional development purposes with bilingual teachers. Oaxaca,
MX: CMPIO, A.C.
Meyer, L. 2008. Three interviews with grandmothers and mothers of young children in indigenous
communities of Oaxaca. Filmed for analytic and professional development purposes as part of
continuing research on early socialization practices in indigenous communities of Oaxaca. Oaxaca,
MX: CMPIO, A.C.
Meyer, L. 2002. Tequio Pedagógico: Colaboracion pedagogica en comunidad. First tour of
Oaxacan schools, February 2002. Videotape of instructional scenes and bilingual education
characteristics documented during the first visit to Tequio schools, February, 2002. Edited and shown
in both Mexico and the U.S. Oaxaca, MX: CMPIO, A.C.
Meyer, L. 2000. Casos Ejemplares de la Enseñanza en la Primera Lengua (Oaxaca, México).
Edited videotape displaying exemplary scenes of instruction through the first language (Spanish or
Ombeayiiüts) of students in elementary schools in the state of Oaxaca. Oaxaca, MX: CMPIO, A.C.
MEDIA INTERVIEWS
Aug. 2010 New World of Indigenous Resistance: Interviewed about our book on Insighters, a
weekly, syndicated, public affairs Pacifica Radio show covering political, legislative,
constitutional, environmental and human rights issues. The Insighters airs live on
KPFK 90.7 FM in Los Angeles, 98.7 FM in Santa Barbara, and on WPRR 1680
AM in Grand Rapids, MI.

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May 2010 La Discriminación y el Rescate de las Lenguas Indígenas - Conversación con
Lois M. Meyer (Discrimination and the Revitalization of Indigenous Languages –
Conversation with Lois M. Meyer.) Interviewed live by the Center for the Study and
Development of the Indigenous Languages of Oaxaca / Centro de Estudios y
Desarrollo de las Lenguas Indígenas de Oaxaca (CEDELIO).
Interview posted on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXjWE_sl0wA
April 2010 Indigenous movements: Struggle and repression in Mexico.
Interviewed live on NM IndyMedia Channel 27 TV, ABQ, along with Francisco
López Bárcenas and Rebeca Jasso Aguilar.
November 2007 Interviewed on Youth Radio at KUNM about the teacher strikes and civic uprising in
Oaxaca in 2006, and the Second National Congress of Indigenous and Intercultural
Education held in 2007, taped on Nov. 11, 2007.
August 2007 Interviewed on Radio Plantón, the Oaxacan teachers’ union pirate radio, following the
Second National Congress on Indigenous and Intercultural Education, Oaxaca.
October 2006 a. Interviewed live on Voces Latinos on KUNM, Albuquerque, about the Oaxaca
popular movement;
b. Interviewed by phone about NCLB by KRZA Community Radio, Alamosa, CO.
September 2006 Panelist on Channel 27 TV, Albuquerque, about the Oaxaca popular movement
August 2006 Interviewed live about the Oaxaca teachers’ strike on Women’s Focus, KUNM,
Albuquerque
August 2006 Interviewed live on We the People, Channel 27 TV, Albuquerque, about the Oaxaca
teachers’ strike
September 2005 Interviewed on We the People, Public TV, ABQ, on No Child Left Behind.
May 2005 Panelist discussant on KOAT Channel 7 television, ABQ, on the topic of No Child
Left Behind, May 18.
March 2005 Interviewed live by Al Franken on the Al Franken Show, AirAmericaRadio, on Mar.
15, on the topic of No Child Left Bilingual? Interview was rerun on Best of Al
Franken for that week, reviewed on The Al Franken Show Blog for Mar. 14-18,
and written up in both the Albuquerque Journal (Mar. 16) and the Rio Rancho
Observer (Mar. 17).
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Meyer, L. & Rosa, R. 2015. Teachers’ resistance in Oaxaca offers lessons for U.S. Activism. Published
online in Truth-Out on October 15, 2015, at http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/33245-teachers-
resistance-in-o…
Meyer, L. 2015. Classic case of the pot calling the kettle black. Published Op Ed in the Albuquerque
Journal, Feb. 22, 2015, page B3.
Meyer, L. 2012. UNM faculty salaries not as high as you might believe. Published letter to the editor.
Albuquerque Journal, May 21, 2012.
Meyer, L. 2008. Indios who teach: Reclaiming cultural identity in Oaxacan classrooms and
communities. Book proposal submitted to the international competition, California Series in Public
Anthropology. October.
Meyer, L. 2007. Hungering for educational justice. Tumbleweeds, Vol. 13, No. 3. Winter 2007-2008,
28-29. Santa Fe, NM.
Meyer, L. 2007. New Mexicans speak out about NCLB and ELLs. Advocacy document published
online at www.elladvocates.org.
Meyer, L. 2006. AP story on Oaxaca protest skirts violent police abuse. UNM Daily Lobo, Nov. 30,
p. 4.
Critical response to an article reprinted from the Associated Press, “Violence surges in Mexican city,” Daily
Lobo, Nov. 27, p. 3.
Meyer, L. 2006. Published letter to the editor. Albuquerque Journal, August 10, A13.
Meyer, L. 2004. No Child Left Behind fails to pass fairness test. Op Ed published in the Albuquerque
Journal, May 29, 2004.
 Reprinted as “A test of patience” in The Albuquerque Tribune, August 26:C1.
 Reprinted in the NABE News, the national newsletter of the National Association for Bilingual
Education, in Fall, 2004.
 Posted for several years on Jim Crawford’s Language Policy website.
Meyer, L. 2000. Notes from the road: One state, 14 languages. The SFSU Magazine, Fall 2000, p.
32.
Meyer, L. 1998. The Unz Initiative - English OR the Children. Editorial in Multicultural Education,
the magazine of the National Association for Multicultural Education, Vol. 5:3, 1. Spring 1998.
PUBLISHED COVERAGE BY OTHERS ABOUT MY WORK
Hernández, A. 2007. A la preservación de la lengua indígena. El País, Mar. 17, 12A. Full page
coverage with six photos of a workshop on first and second language acquisition I facilitated in
Oaxaca, published in a Oaxacan newspaper.
DeMarco, M. 2006. News Feature- Oaxaca’s Reach. The Alibi, Nov. 9-15: 10-11. Double-page
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Moreno, N. 2006 and 2007. Various articles in the Spanish language newspaper, La Voz de Nuevo
México (The Voice of New Mexico) about the Oaxaca work.
Mayfield, D. 2005. “Al Franken Rocks.” Albuquerque Journal, Mar.16:B3. Write-up of Franken’s
national Air America Radio broadcast from Albuquerque, mentioning his interview with me about my
No Child Left Bilingual research.
Treweek, Tom. 2005. Snow doesn’t stop Al Franken from coming. The Rio Rancho Observer, Mar.
17: A-6. Write-up of Franken’s national Air America Radio broadcast from Albuquerque, mentioning
his interview with me about my No Child Left Bilingual research.
Gonzales, C. 2004. Efforts by all. UNM Quantum. Vol. 20: 5.
L. Mellas-Ramirez. 2002. Meyer works with indigenous educators: Coalition aims to preserve
native languages in Oaxaca, Mexico. Featured on the front page of the UNM Campus News, April
22.
SB 1969 solution in hand. California Educator, Mar. 1998, 2:6, p. 20-21.
Feature article on the professional development curriculum I authored and field-tested for the California
Teachers Association, to help teachers comply with the requirements of the CA credential reforms.
REFEREED PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS - International
Meyer, L. 2015. Teaching our own babies: Linguistic & educational autobiographies of
Indigenous teachers in Oaxaca, Mexico. Bilingual presentation at the International Society of
Language Studies Conference, Albuquerque NM, June 2015.
Meyer, L., Jiménez, J. & L. Martínez. 2015. Infant learning in Indigenous communities of Oaxaca,
Mexico: Implications for communal bilingual initial education. Collaborative presentation with 2
Oaxacan colleagues at the International Society of Language Studies Conference, Albuquerque NM,
June 2015.
Meyer, L. 2013. Reconstrucción Comunal de la Educación Inicial en el Oaxaca Indígena.
Presentation at the XIII Inter-American Symposium on Ethnography and Education, UCLA,
September 18-20, 2013.
Meyer, L. 2011. Hacia una alternative de formación indígena bilingüe e intercultural: Una pedagogía
liberadora desde la “comunalidad” (Towards an alternative preparation for bilingual and
intercultural Indigenous teachers: A liberatory pedagogy of comunalidad). Presentation at the
4th International Symposium of Bilingualism and Bilingual Education in Latin America. Benito Juarez
Autonomous University of Oaxaca (June 30, 2011).
Meyer, L. & Maldonado, B. 2011. Presentation and analysis of the book, ‘Comunalidad, educación y
resistencia indígena en la era global.’ Presentation at the 4th International Symposium of

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Bilingualism and Bilingual Education in Latin America. Benito Juarez Autonomous University of
Oaxaca (July 1, 2011).
Meyer, L. 2010. Indios que enseñan (Indians who teach). Presentation at the IX Congreso
Latinoamericano de EIB / 9th Latin American Congress on Intercultural Bilingual Education, Antigua,
Guatemala, October 19-22.
Meyer, L. 2010. La lengua y discriminación (Language and discrimination). Panel presentation at the
Seminar on Culturally Relevant Education: An Unrealized Expectation, part of a conference to
inaugurate the national campaign against discrimination in indigenous education, initiated by the National
Congress on Indigenous and Intercultural Education. Held at the National Pedagogical University,
Ajusco, MX. April 19-21, 2010.
Meyer, L., L. García, et al. 2008. Basic education from a communal perspective. Interactive workshop
accepted for presentation at the World Indigenous Peoples’ Conference on Education, Melbourne,
Australia, December 7-11.
Meyer, L. & F. Soberanes. 2008. Hacia una pedagogía de la “comunalidad”: Construyendo una
educación comunal, bilingüe e intercultural de calidad (Toward a pedagogy of “comunalidad”:
Constructing quality communal, bilingual and intercultural education). Plenary presentation at the
XI State Pedagogical Congress of Indigenous Education, Pátzcuaro, Michoacán, MX, December 3-5.
Meyer, L.& C. García. 2008. Hacia una pedagogía de la comunalidad: Construyendo una educación
comunal, bilingüe e intercultural de calidad en Oaxaca y Chiapas (Toward a pedagogy of
“comunalidad”: Constructing a quality communal, bilingual and intercultural education in
Oaxaca and Chiapas). Three-day workshop at the 4th International Festival of Education for Life,
San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, Nov. 18-19.
Meyer, L. & F. Soberanes. 2008. Facilitators of a two-day workshop on “La interculturalidad desde las
aulas indígenas de Sinaloa y Oaxaca: Estrategias y retos” (Interculturalism in indigenous classrooms
of Sinaloa and Oaxaca: Strategies and challenges). In celebration of the 30th
anniversary of the
National Pedagogical University (UPN), Mazatlán, Sinaloa, MX, November 6-7, 2008.
Meyer, L., F. Soberanes, L. García & C. García. 2008. Hacia una pedagogía de la comunalidad:
Construyendo una educación comunal, bilingüe e intercultural de calidad (Toward a pedagogy of
“comunalidad”: Constructing quality communal, bilingual and intercultural education). One of
a series of public lectures to celebrate the 20th
anniversary of the Center for Research and Graduate
Studies in Social Anthropology (CIESAS)-South Pacific Region, Oaxaca, MX, October 3.
Meyer, L. & L. García. 2008. Formación comunal intercultural para maestros de pueblos originarios de
Oaxaca (Initial teacher preparation that is communal and intercultural for indigenous teachers
in Oaxaca). Presentation at the 2nd Symposium on Educational Change in México-Japan, sponsored
by the Colegio de México and CINVESTAV, Mexico City, MX, Sept. 17-19.
Meyer, L & E. Mateos Luna. 2008. Más allá de la competencia lingüística: Una pedagogía bilingüe y
liberadora desde la “comunalidad india” (Beyond linguistic competence: A bilingual and liberatory

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pedagogy of indigenous “comunalidad”.) Presentation at the Coloquio María Teresa Fernández de
Miranda: Las Lenguas Otomangues y Oaxaqueñas ante el Siglo XXI. Oaxaca, MX, April 11-13.
Meyer, L. & F. Soberanes. 2003. La comunidad y la investigación educativa pedagógica: Una
experiencia binacional en Oaxaca y su significado en los EU y México (Community and educational
pedagogical research: A binational experience in Oaxaca and its significance in the U.S. and
Mexico). Plenary session presented at the Simposium Internacional de la Educacion para Niños
Migrantes (International Symposium on the Education of Migrant Children), Guasave, Sinaloa,
Mexico, October 2003.
Meyer, L. 2002. Multiculturalidad y la Paz Mundial (Multiculturalism and World Peace). Panelist at
UNESCO’S III World Congress of the Permanent Forum on International Education for the
Development and Integration of Nations, Guanajuato, Guanajuato, Mexico, February 13-15, 2002.
Meyer, L. 2001. La formación de profesores para la diversidad en Estados Unidos de Norte América
[Pre-service teacher preparation for diversity in the United States]. Plenary speaker at the
International Symposium on Teacher Preparation, sponsored by the Government of the State of
Sinaloa through its Secretary of Public Education and Culture and its institutions of higher education, in
coordination with the city of Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico, September 28, 2001.
Meyer, L. & F. Soberanes. 2001. Concretizar el discurso educativo: Formar y capacitar docentes para
la diversidad (Concretizing educational rhetoric: Preparing teachers for diversity). Paper co-
presented at a plenary session of the International Symposium on Teacher Preparation, sponsored by
the Government of the State of Sinaloa through its Secretary of Public Education and Culture and its
institutions of higher education, in coordination with the city of Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico, September
28, 2001.
Meyer, L. 2001. Formación docente para el México diverso y migratorio (Teacher preparation for a
diverse and migratory Mexico). Plenary presentation at a conference titled Educating Migrant
Children in the Mexican Northwestern States, sponsored by the State of Sinaloa, Mexico, and the
Normal School of Sinaloa, in Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico, May 2001.
Meyer, L. & the Coalition of Indigenous Teachers and Promoters of Oaxaca. 2001. Nuestra Palabra en
Nuestras Lenguas: Construyendo en comunidad nuestra educación y pedagogía bilingüe e intercultural.
(Our Word in Our Languages: Constructing in community our education and our bilingual,
intercultural pedagogy). Collaborative presentation at the Primera Feria Hemisférica de la Educación
Indígena (First Hemispheric Festival of Indigenous Education), Guatemala, Guatemala. July 25-27.
Meyer, L. 2000. Aprender a ver, ver para aprender: El uso de la etnografía en la formación /
capacitación de maestros para la diversidad lingüística y cultural de Oaxaca. (Learning to see,
seeing to learn: Use of ethnography in the preparation of teachers for the linguistic and cultural diversity
of Oaxaca). Paper presented at the IX Inter-American Symposium of Ethnographic and Qualitative
Research in Education, Mexico City, Mexico, October 24-27, 2000.
Meyer, L. 1999. El rol crítico del maestro en el desarrollo lingüístico y cognitivo del niño (Critical role
of the teacher in the linguistic and cognitive development of the child). Plenary presentation to an
international conference on the educational issues of migrant students, sponsored by the Programa para

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la Atención a los Estudiantes Migrantes of the Mexican Secretariat of Public Education, Mexico, D.F.,
Mexico, November.
Meyer, L. 1999. Implications of California’s Proposition 227 on university teacher education.
Invited panelist in a highlighted Presidential Session, “Educational implications to language policies and
practices in the United States and abroad.” Annual Meeting of the American Education Research
Association, Montreal, Canada, April.
REFEREED PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS – National
Meyer, L., Maldonado, B., Gutiérrez Luís, B., Soberanes, F., Briseño, J., Ruíz, D. M. 2013. Panel
organizer & participant: Material Poverty Amid Organizational, Linguistic and Cultural Wealth:
Communal Education Research in Indigenous México Profundo. Panel with 5 Oaxacan
colleagues, describing the network of community-based educational efforts in Oaxaca, from initial
education (birth through 3 years old) to an alternative BA in community-based teaching. American
Educational Research Association, San Francisco CA, April 29, 2013.
Meyer, L. 2013. Comunalidad and Initial Education in Oaxaca, Mexico. Presentation at the
American Educational Research Association, San Francisco CA, May 1, 2013.
Meyer, L. 2012. Construyendo nuestra identidad bilingüe/Constructing our bilingual identity.
Presentation at the annual meeting of the New Mexico Association for Bilingual Education,
Albuquerque, NM, April 26, 2012.
Meyer, L. 2011. Quality teachers for community-based early education: Who are they? La Cosecha
Dual Language Conference, Albuquerque, NM.
Meyer, L. 2010. Un-standardizing the dual language curriculum. Presentation at La Cosecha Dual
Language Conference 2010, Santa Fe, NM, November 2010.
Meyer, L. 2009. El aula bilingüe alternativo y comunal en acción (The alternative communal
bilingual classroom in action). Presentation in Spanish at the La Cosecha Dual Language
Conference, Albuquerque, NM, Nov. 19, 2009.
Meyer, L. 2009. Language Nests in Mexico: Revitalization of language from the crib. Presentation
in English at the La Cosecha Dual Language Conference, Albuquerque, NM, Nov. 21, 2009.
Meyer, L. 2009. El aula bilingüe en acción: Reflexiones desde EU. (The bilingual classroom in
action: Reflections from the U.S.). Presentation in Spanish at the New Mexico Association of
Bilingual Education (NMABE) Conference, Albuquerque, NM, Sept. 25, 2009.
Meyer, L. 2009. Indigenous “comunalidad” and language stabilization in Oaxaca, Mexico. 16th
Annual Stabilizing Indigenous Languages Symposium, Arizona State University, Tempe AZ, Apr. 30-
May 2, 2009.
Meyer, L. 2009. Language revitalization close-up: Inside the Language Nests of Oaxaca, Mexico.
Presentation at the International Indigenous Language Policy Research Conference, sponsored by the

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American Indian Language Policy Research & Teacher Training Center, UNM, Albuquerque, NM,
April 23, 2009.
Meyer, L. 2008. Invited participant in the research seminar, Aprendizaje a través de la participación
intensa en comunidades (Learning through intent participation in communities), convened by Dr.
Barbara Rogoff, Psychology Dept., principle investigator, University of California Santa-Cruz. Sept. 7
& 8, 2008.
Meyer, L. 2008. Los Nidos de Lengua: Revitalizar las lenguas y culturas originarias desde la cuna
comunal. (Language Nests: Revitalizing Indigenous languages and cultures from the communal
crib). Presentation at the First Biennial Symposium on Teaching Indigenous Languages of Latin
America (STILLA-2008). Organized by the Minority Languages and Cultures of Latin America
Program (MLCP) & the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS), Indiana
University, Bloomington, IN. August 14-16, 2008.
Meyer, L. 2008. Beyond Civic Responsibility: A Liberatory Pedagogy of “Comunalidad.” Paper
presentation in the session, “Critical Literacies and Liberatory Pedagogy: Agency through Literacy” at
the international conference of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), New York
City, March 25.
Meyer, L. 2007. NCLB – A national education policy in “relentlessly local” contexts. Part of a
spotlight session on “Reauthorization of ESEA/NCLB and ELL Literacy Research” at the International
Conference of the Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL), Seattle WA, March
21.
Meyer, L. 2007. Trabajo Académico Activista y Comunal (Activist and Communal Academic
Work). Presentation in the session “Políticas neoliberales y la educación pública en México: Efectos
dañinos y respuestas desde abajo” (“Neoliberal policies and public education in México:
Damaging effects and responses from below”). At the 4th Abriendo Brechas: Activist Scholarship
in the Américas Conference. University of Texas at Austin. February 22-24.
Meyer, L. 2006. Presentation on Defending Public Education on both Sides of the Border, Dual
Language Education of NM La Cosecha Conference, NM. November 2006.
Meyer, L. 2006. Organizer and convener of a round table on “No Child Left Bilingual?: Impact of
Federal Education Legislation” at the Politics of Language Symposium, UNM, October 21, 2006.
Meyer, L. 2006. Spanish spoken here?: NCLB and “public interest” in bilingualism in New
Mexico. Paper accepted for presentation at AERA 2006, San Francisco, CA, April 7-11.
Meyer, L. 2006. No Child Left Bilingual? NCLB and English Language Learners, their school
programs, parents and communities. Presentation at the National Association for Bilingual
Education (NABE) Annual Conference, Phoenix, AZ, January 19, 2006.
Meyer, L. & B. Maldonado. 2006. National expectations vs. “comunalidad”: Constraints on
bilingual efforts in Mexico and the U.S. Featured Language Policy session at the National Assoc.
for Bilingual Education (NABE) Annual Conference, Phoenix, AZ, January 19, 2006.

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Meyer, L. 2005. In search of a methodology of “comunalidad.” Paper accepted for presentation at
the American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C., November 2005.
Meyer, L. 2005. No Child Left Bilingual? Presentation at the 13th
Annual National Two-Way
Bilingual Immersion Program Summer Conference of the California Association for Bilingual Education,
Monterey, CA, July 2005.
Meyer, L. 2004. No Child Left Bilingual? Presentation at the La Cosecha Dual Language
Conference, Santa Ana Pueblo, NM, November 7, 2004.
Meyer, L. 2004. No Child Left Bilingual? Presentation at a Department of Education Symposium on
No Child Left Behind: Education of American Indian students, held at the Southwestern Indian
Polytechnic Institute, Albuquerque, NM, April 30, 2004.
Meyer, L. 2004. Practitioner research outside the cultural bubble: Western “scientific”
paradigms encounter indigenous “comunalidad” in Oaxaca, Mexico. Presentation at the 25th
Annual Ethnography in Education Research Forum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, February 27 & 28,
2004.
Meyer, L., M. Hernandez & A. Lopez. 2003. Two sessions with Oaxacan colleagues presented at the
La Cosecha Dual Language Conference, Santa Ana Pueblo, NM, November 12-15, 2003:
a. Caminamos y construimos juntos: Colaboración comunal para construir una pedagogía
innovadora intercultural bilingüe en Oaxaca, Mexico. (Walking and building together:
Communal collaboration to construct an innovative bilingual multicultural pedagogy in
Oaxaca, Mexico).
b. La interculturalidad y la comunalidad indígena: Dificil balance en la educación bilingüe
de Oaxaca. (Interculturalism and indigenous communal ways of life: A difficult balance
for bilingual education in Oaxaca.).
Meyer, L., M. Hernandez, & A. Lopez. 2003. Three presentations with Oaxacan colleagues at the state
conference of the New Mexico Association for Bilingual Education (NMABE), Albuquerque, NM,
March 19-22, 2003:
a. La enseñanza en el aula y en la comunidad. (Teaching in classroom and community).
b. Que tantos niños se dejen atrás: La política de la educación bilingüe en México y EEUU.
(Leaving so many children behind: The politics of bilingual education in Mexico and the
U.S.)
c. Teaching for tribal survival. (Enseñar para que sobreviva la tribu). Session presented
jointly with Pueblo indigenous language teachers of New Mexico.
Meyer, L. & J. Suina. 2003. A comparative study of Native language teachers on two sides of the
border. Paper accepted for presentation at the annual conference of the National Association for
Bilingual Education, New Orleans, LA, January 30-Feb. 1.
Meyer, L. 2002. El silencio como una forma de resistencia: Actitudes indígenas hacia la
enseñanza del inglés en las comunidades de Oaxaca (Silence as a form of resistence: Indigenous
attitudes toward English instruction in Oaxacan communities). Paper presented at the X Inter-
American Symposium on Ethnographic and Qualitative Research in Education, Albuquerque, NM.
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Meyer, L., B. Gutierrez, S. Asevedo & A. Lopez. 2001. Nuestra palabra en nuestras lenguas:
Colaborando en comunidad para construir una educación bilingüe indígena alternativa en
Oaxaca, México. (Our Word in Our Languages: Collaborating in community to construct an
alternative indigenous bilingual education in Oaxaca, Mexico). Collaborative presentation with
research colleagues from the Coalition of Indigenous Teachers and Promoters of Oaxaca at the La
Cosecha Dual Language Conference, Albuquerque, NM, November 7-9.
Meyer, L. 2001. Educational research outside the “cultural bubble”: Coming to know about
teaching in rural indigenous Mexico. Paper presented at the American Educational Research
Association Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, April 10-14.
Hamel, E., R. Blum Martinez, N. Francis, L. Meyer, and C. Sims. 2001. Crossing Borders: Bilingual
education in indigenous communities in Mexico and the United States. Panel presentation at the
Annual International Bilingual-Multicultural Conference of the National Association for Bilingual
Education, Phoenix, AZ, February 20-24.
Meyer, L. 1999. Proposition 227 and Linguistic Human Rights in California. Panel presentation in
the second of a two-panel series titled “Vecinos/Neighbors: One hundred years of relationships with
Mexico”, part of the Centennial Celebration at San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA,
October 1999.
Meyer, L. 1997. Curriculum for linguistic liberation. Participant in the panel, “Preparing teachers for
diversity and equity in an interconnected world: Alternative approaches in making connections
between multicultural and global education.” Annual Meeting of the American Education Research
Association, Chicago, IL, March 24-28, 1997.
Meyer, L. 1993. The Shadow Side of Cases and a Pedagogy of Transformation. Paper presented
at the American Education Research Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, April 1993.
Meyer, L. 1993. You racist!: The use of ethnographic cases as a transformative pedagogy for
teacher education. Paper presented at the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education
(AACTE) Conference, San Diego, CA. February 1993. Session selected for audiotaping.
Meyer, L. 1992. Knowing, Thinking and Feeling Like an Inner City Teacher. Paper presented at
the Paulo Freire Conference, Establishing Humanities and Social Science Core Curriculum in
Multicultural Settings, University of California, Irvine, CA, July 1992.
Meyer, L. 1992. Knowing, Thinking and Feeling Like an Inner City Teacher. Paper presented at
the Fourth Annual Lilly Conference on College Teaching-West, Lake Arrowhead, CA, March 1992.
Meyer, L. 1985. Achieving comprehensible input: Scenes from three situations of language
acquisition. Second Language Research Forum, University of Southern California and the University
of California, Los Angeles, CA.
Meyer, L. 1983. Learning to mean in a second language: Communicative competence vs.
communicative coping. Second Language Research Forum, University of Southern California and
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NON-REFEREED PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS – International
Meyer, L. 2014. Educación inicial comunal/ Initial Communal Education. Two-day workshop
planned and facilitated for 45 Indigenous teachers of Initial Education in Oaxaca, Mexico. Oaxaca,
Dec. 2014.
Meyer, L. 2014. Las secundarias comunitarias y el reto del bilingüísmo/Communal secondary schools
and the challenge of bilingualism. Two-day workshop planned and facilitated for 30 teachers of the
ten community-based middle schools in Oaxaca, Mexico. Oaxaca, Nov. 2014.
Meyer, L. 2014. Binational research: Indigenous sovereignty & community based education,
Oaxaca and New Mexico. Invited speaker to the MA in Critical Language Studies, Universidad
Autónoma “Benito Juárez” de Oaxaca, Facultad de Idiomas. Oct. 4, 2014.
Meyer, L. 2014. English language development at the University of Cuenca. Four day (30 hour)
intensive workshop planned and facilitated for 45 English language instructors at the University of
Cuenca, Ecuador. Nov. 17-20, 2014.
Meyer, L. 2014. Autobiografías lingüísticas y educativas y nuestras competencias bilingües/Linguistic &
educational autobiographies and our own bilingual proficiency. Two-day workshop planned and
facilitated for 28 Mixtec bilingual teachers in the Sierra Juárez of Oaxaca. October, 2014.
Meyer, L. 2012. Construyendo una educación comunal, bilingüe e intercultural. Plenary
presentation to the First International Gathering for Critical Education, sponsored by Section 22 of the
Mexican National Union for Educational Workers, Oaxaca de Juárez, Oaxaca. May 23, 2012.
Meyer, L. 2011. Investigación y analisis de la base comunal de la crianza de los niños en las
comunidades originarias de Oaxaca (Investigation and analysis of the communal base of
childrearing in indigenous communities of Oaxaca). Facilitator and presenter at a session of the
intensive study project (diplomado) on Early Education, sponsored by the Coalition of Indigenous
Teachers and Promoters of Oaxaca, Oaxaca (November 24-25, 2011).
Meyer, L. & Soberanes, F. 2010. Los Nidos de Lengua en Oaxaca (Language Nests in Oaxaca).
Invited presentation to an NGO seminar in Antigua, Guatemala, October.
Meyer, L. 2010. Facilitated Language Nest community gatherings in Oaxaca, March and October.
Meyer, L. 2010. La etnometodología de Garfinkel: Enfoques contemporáneos de la teoría sociológica.
(Garfinkel’s ethnomethodology: Contemporary foci in social theory). Inaugural presentation of the
Permanent Seminar on Contemporary Social Theory, held at the Center for Theoretical and
Multidisciplinary Studies in the Social Sciences, School of Political and Social Sciences, National
Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), April 20, 2010.
Meyer, L. & Jimenez, E. 2010. Reafirmar el trabajo lingüístico en los Nidos de Lengua (Reaffirm
linguistic efforts in the Language Nests). Presentation in Spanish at the 9th Language Nest
Workshop, Oaxaca, Mexico, March 20, 2010.

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Meyer, L. 2010. Transformando nuestra metodología/Transforming our methodology. Facilitator
and presenter in an intensive course (diplomado) for indigenous teachers in Chiapas, MX, in a project
sponsored by INED, February.
Meyer, L. 2009. Presenter of a poster session on Language Nests in Oaxaca, MX, as part of the Rogoff
Research Group workshop, Learning through Intense Community Participation, San Pedro la Laguna,
Guatemala, July 13-16.
Meyer, L. 2009. Plenary presentation, Comunidades educativas y educadores comunales (Educational
communities and communal educators). First Forum on Science and Technology, College of
Scientific and Technological Studies of the State of Chiapas, Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas, MX. July 9.
Meyer, L. 2009. Facilitator of a 3-day workshop, titled El bilingüísmo y la pedagogía de la primera y
segunda lengua (Bilingualism and first and second language pedagogy), part of a year-long
professional development intensive course (diplomado) for Chiapas bilingual teachers, titled
Competencias para promover la educación bilingüe e intercultural (Competencies to promote
bilingual and intercultural education). Innovación Educativa (INED), San Cristóbal de las Casas,
Chiapas, MX. March 19-21.
Meyer, L. 2008. El análisis del uso de las lenguas en los salones de clase bilingües de Oaxaca (Analysis
of language use in bilingual classrooms in Oaxaca). Plenary presentation at the First Exchange of
Pedagogical Experiences of Novice Indigenous Teachers, Oaxaca, MX, Nov. 28, 2008.
Meyer, L., Soberanes, F., García, C. 2008. Construyendo una educación comunal, bilingüe e
intercultural de calidad (Constructing quality communal, bilingual and intercultural education).
Plenary session at the Annual Conference of Teacher Centers, Oaxaca MX, Nov. 20.
Meyer, L. & García, C. 2008. Hacia una pedagogía de la comunalidad: Construyendo una educación
comunal, bilingüe e intercultural de calidad en Oaxaca y Chiapas (Toward a pedagogy of
“comunalidad”: Constructing a quality communal, bilingual and intercultural education in
Oaxaca and Chiapas). All-day workshop with the bilingual, intercultural faculty of the National
Intercultural University of Chiapas (UNICH), San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, Nov. 17.
Meyer, L. 2008. Educación e interculturalidad (Education and interculturalism). Invited plenary
panelist at the International Symposium: Emerging Fields in the Professional Preparation of Educational
Professionals. Held to celebrate the 30th
anniversary of the National Pedagogical University (UPN),
Mazatlán, Sinaloa, MX, November 6-8.
Meyer, L. & F. Soberanes. 2008. Revitalizar la cultura como estrategia de interculturalidad (Revitalizing
culture as a strategy of intercultural education). Public presentation on the occasion of the 30th
anniversary of the National Pedagogical University (UPN) of Los Mochis, Sinaloa, sponsored by the
Secretariat of Public Education and Culture of the state of Sinaloa, MX, October 25.
Meyer, L. & H. Ramos. 2008. El uso de las lenguas en la educación bilingüe (Language use in
bilingual education). Two-day workshop for teachers, state and school district authorities,
Pátzcuaro, Michoacán, MX, Sept. 1-2.
Meyer, L., L. García, & C. García. 2008. La educación básica desde la comunalidad (Basic education
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and Graduate Studies in Social Anthropology (CIESAS)-South Pacific Region, Oaxaca, MX, August
27.
Meyer, L. 2007. Overview of linguistic issues in Indigenous & Intercultural Education. Invited
presentation to the 2nd
National Congress of Indigenous & Intercultural Education, Oaxaca, MX, Oct.
25-27, 2007
Meyer, L. 2007. Presenter on various topics (e.g. first and second language acquisition; bilingual
education program models; effective instructional materials development) at the intensive opening
month of a year-long alternative teacher training program for 50 novice indigenous teachers, titled
Formación Comunal e Intercultural para Maestros de Pueblos Originarios (Communal
Intercultural Preparation for Teachers from Indigenous Peoples). Oaxaca, Mexico, July.
Meyer, L. 2007. Trabajo colaborativo (Collaborative work). Presentation for secondary teachers in
public schools, held at the Escuela Secundaria Técnica No. 89, Guadalajara, Jalisco, MX, May 24.
Meyer, L. 2007. Didáctica de la enseñanza de la primera y la segunda lengua (Pedagogy of first and
second language instruction). Three-day workshop sponsored by UNICEF for 75 indigenous
teachers from 5 Mexican states. San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, MX May 17-19, 2007.
Meyer, L. 2007. Didáctica de la enseñanza de la primera y la segunda lengua (Pedagogy of first and
second language instruction). Three-day workshop sponsored by UNICEF for 100 indigenous
teachers from 6 Mexican states. Oaxaca, MX. March 15-17, 2007.
Meyer, L. & B. James. 2005. La elaboración de libros en lenguas indígenas y en español como segunda
lengua. Three-day workshop on book-making in indigenous languages and in Spanish as a Second
Language for 100 teachers of the Coalition of Indigenous Teachers of Oaxaca, MX, January 2005.
Meyer, L. & B. James. 2005. La elaboración de libros en la formación docente. Workshop on book-
making for students at the Indigenous Bilingual Normal School of Oaxaca, MX, January 2005.
Meyer, L. 2004. Desarrollo linguístico en contextos multiculturales (Linguistic development in
multicultural contexts). Plenary presentation and workshop session with Mexican indigenous
leaders, by invitation of the Directions Committee of the National Congress of Intercultural Indigenous
Education, Oaxaca de Juarez, Oaxaca, Mexico, January 16, 2004.
Meyer, L. 2003. Panelist at a conference on La formación docente para la atención educativa en
contextos multiculturales y plurilingües/Teacher preparation for multicultural and plurlingual
contexts. Subsecretariat of Basic and Normal Education, Office of National Standards, Mexico, D.F.
Oct. 30-31.
Meyer, L. 2001. El rol de la formación docente y la capacitación profesional en la reorientación de la
educación y el fortalecimiento de las lenguas y culturas indígenas (Role of teacher preparation and
professional development in the reorientation of education and the strengthening of indigenous
languages and cultures). Paper presented at the third panel of the Foro Permanente por la
Reorientacion de la Educacion y el Fortalecimiento de las Lenguas y Culturas Indigenas (Permanent
Forum for the Reorientation of Education and the Strengthening of Indigenous Languages and
Cultures), Oaxaca de Juarez, Oaxaca, Mexico, July 13.

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Meyer, L. 2001. Taller de escritura y produccion de materiales didacticos en lenguas indigenas.
[Workshop on writing and instructional materials development in indigenous languages].
Coordinator of a workshop for the professors and students of the Bilingual Intercultural Normal School
of Oaxaca, Tlacochahuaya, Oaxaca, Mexico, January.
Meyer, L. 2000. Los retos pedagogicos de la diversidad escolar oaxaqueña (Pedagogical challenges
of Oaxaca’s school diversity). Presenter of a week-long intensive training on indigenous bilingual
education programs and strategies for the research and program staff of the State Institute of Public
Education of Oaxaca (IEEPO), Oaxaca de Juarez, Oaxaca, Mexico, January 2000.
Meyer, L. 1999. Promoting language teaching in Mexico: The pedagogy of bilingualism in Mexican
schools. Intensive course for teachers of English at various of the campuses of the Instituto
Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, held on the Estado de Mexico campus,
Atizapan, Estado de Mexico, December 10.
Meyer, L. 1999. Invited panelist on indigenous education in Oaxaca at the Encuentro Continental sobre
la Enseñanza de las Lenguas Indígenas de América, México, D.F., October 25-28.
NON-REFEREED PRESENTATIONS – National/State
Meyer, L. 2013. Transcending boundaries: An Indigenous dialogue on community education,
colonial impediments and transformation between Zuni Pueblo and Mexican Indigenous
educators. Zuni Pueblo, May 3-4, 2013.
Meyer, L. 2012. New world of indigenous resistance. Plenary presentation at the Santa Fe World
Affairs Forum: The World in Foment. Santa Fe, NM. April 17, 2012.
Meyer, L. & Maldonado, B. 2011. Defying inequality by fortifying communal life: Experiences of
"comunalidad" in Oaxaca. Presentation at Center for Lifelong Learning, Institute for American
Indian Arts, Santa Fe, NM (April 2011)
Meyer, L. & Maldonado, B. 2011. Defying inequality by fortifying communal life: Experiences of
"comunalidad" in Oaxaca. Featured presentation at the symposium, “Shrinking Latin America's
Inequalities: Livelihood, Nutrition and Health Strategies for All," sponsored by the Center for Latin
American and Caribbean Studies, Michigan State University (April 2011).
Meyer, L. & Maldonado, B. 2011. Creating schools that defend rather than destroy community:
Reflections from Indigenous Latin America, MSU Libraries Colloquia Series Event co-sponsored
with the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Michigan State University Libraries (April
2011)
Meyer, L. & Maldonado, B. 2011. "Indios" who teach: Preparing indigenous teachers in
"comunalidad." Presentation to the Michigan State College of Education (April 2011)
Meyer, L. & Soberanes, F. 2011. Presentation on Language Nests and language/culture revitalization,
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Meyer, L. 2009. Invited panelist on the topic, Connecting research and practice, CEMELA Research
Symposium, Albuquerque, NM, Jan. 16, 2009.
Meyer, L. 2008. Toward a pedagogy of “comunalidad”: Constructing quality communal, bilingual and
intercultural education in Oaxaca, MX. Presentation at the Inaugural Conference of the Latin American
Network in Government and Public Policy, “How Networking can Promote Social Justice.” UNM,
Sept. 10-13.
Meyer, L. 2006. Oaxacan teacher strike: Lessons for U.S. teachers. Featured speaker at the
Teachers 4 Social Justice 6th
Annual Conference, San Francisco, CA. October 14, 2006.
Meyer, L. & E. Berstein. 2006. Oaxacan teachers struggle: Implications for U.S. teachers and
teacher unions. Featured speakers at the Teacher Union Reform Network (TURN) of AFT and
NEA Locals, Las Vegas, NV, October 28, 2006.
Meyer, L. 2005. No Child Left Bilingual? Featured speaker at the Dual Language Advocacy
Luncheon, La Cosecha Dual Language Conference 2005, ABQ, November 2005.
Meyer, L. 2004. Distinctive instructional programs for English learners. Presentation to the
Leadership Seminar of the Hispanic Border Leadership Institute, Santa Fe, NM., January 30.
Meyer, L. 2003. The No Child Left Behind Act and English learners. Presentation given at the La
Cosecha Dual Language Conference, Santa Ana Pueblo, NM., November.
Meyer, L. 1998. Let’s talk about teacher talk…and Proposition 227. Featured presenter at the 13th
Annual Conference of the California Elementary Education Association and Staff Development
Resources, “Solving the problems of teaching English Language Learners,” Long Beach, CA.,
December 10.
Meyer, L. 1998. Preparing Social Studies teachers for linguistically diverse classrooms. Presenter
and discussant at the College and University Assembly (CUFA) Conference of the National Council
for the Social Studies, Anaheim, CA., November.
Meyer, L. 1998. The research base of bilingual education. Panel presentation prior to a debate
sponsored by the Council of Northern California Funding Agencies concerning the anti-bilingual
Proposition 227, San Francisco, CA., April.
Meyer, L. 1998. Research-based approaches: Elements that transcend individual programs and
ensure school success – factors affecting the achievement of Limited English Proficient
students. Plenary presentation at the Improving High Poverty Schools Project conference,
“Implementing Comprehensive School Reform.” Council of Chief State School Officers, Washington,
D.C., held in El Paso, TX., March 25-27.
Meyer, L. 1997. Organized teaching, learning, and beyond: Advanced bilingual classroom
strategies. Oregon summer Bilingual Institute, Bend, Oregon., June 22-25.
Meyer, L. 1995. Effective language and literacy experiences for English language learners. Two-
day presentation to a District Teachers Conference, Lower Kuskokwim School District, Bethel,
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Meyer, L. 1995. English Language Development trainer at the English Language Development Summer
Institute of the San Francisco Unified School District, San Francisco, CA., July.
Meyer, L. 1995. Empowering today’s students....and you!: Looking inside your classroom &
curriculum. Presenter of a two-hour featured Institute at the California Elementary Education
Association’s 1995 ESL/Bilingual Education Conference, San Francisco, CA., March 15.
Meyer, L. 1994. Inside the teaching and learning of language in an inner city school: Cases and
the preparation of urban teachers. Participant in a special session highlighting the contributions of
Dr. Harold Garfinkel to the field of qualitative research in the Social Sciences, at the Annual Meeting of
the Pacific Sociological Association, San Diego, CA., April.
Meyer, L. 1994. Our children in your classrooms: Parents of color dialogue with teachers.
Organizer and facilitator of a semiplenary session at the California Kindergarten Conference in which
Latino immigrant parents discussed with teachers their fears, hopes and concerns as they send their
children off to public schools, San Francisco, CA.
Meyer, L. 1994. Preaching to the unconverted: New realities of bilingual and multicultural
education. Invited panelist at the National Association for Bilingual Education, Los Angeles, CA.,
February.
Meyer, L. 1991-1992. Our changing society: Curriculum development for diversity in California
public schools. Presenter for three sessions of the San Diego County Office of Education’s
Curriculum and Instruction Academy, San Diego, CA.
Meyer, L. 1990. Multicultural teachers close-up: The case method in teacher education and
faculty development. Invited presenter at the multicultural conference, “Celebrating diversity:
Preparing the educators of today for the schools of tomorrow”, of the California Teacher Credentialing
Commission, Oakland, CA.
Wong Fillmore, L., and Meyer, L. 1990. Second language acquisition in the classroom. Invited
presentation at the multicultural conference, “Celebrating diversity: Preparing the educators of today
for the schools of tomorrow”, of the California Teacher Credentialing Commission, Oakland, CA.,
January.
Meyer, L. 1990. Multicultural teachers close-up: The case method in teacher education.
Presentation at the bi-annual conference of the independent colleges consortium (ICCUDE) of the
California Council for the Education of Teachers, San Jose, CA., March.
INVITED PRESENTATIONS – University and Community
Meyer, L. 2015. Invited sabbatical research presentation at a COE Research Brown Bag, March 27,
2015.
Meyer, L. 2015. Indigenous language maintenance & revitalization in Oaxaca, Mexico. Invited
presentation featured in the Roadrunner Series of speakers organized by the High Desert Linguistics
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Meyer, L. 2014. Invited participant-reader at the book presentation of C. Connery and R. Lake (Eds.),
Constructing a community of thought: Letters on the scholarship, teaching and mentoring of
Vera John-Steiner. UNM.
Meyer, L. Language Nests and language revitalization in Oaxaca, Mexico. Presentation to the LLSS
456/556 course at UNM taught by Valentina Kingsolver. June 20, 2012.
Meyer, L. 2012. Presentation to CAPS on second language acquisition theories and pedagogy. March
2, 2012.
Meyer, L. & Maldonado, B. 2011. Presentation of our book, New World of Indigenous Resistance,
sponsored by the Graduate Student Organization of the College of Education. (May 2011).
Meyer, L. 2009. Language access to social agencies. Panelist at the network meeting, New Mexico
Coalition Against Domestic Violence, held at the United Way, Feb. 25, 2009.
Meyer, L. 2008. Toward a pedagogy of “comunalidad”: Constructing quality communal, bilingual
and intercultural education in Oaxaca, MX. Panel presentation at the Inaugural Conference of the
Latin American Network in Government and Public Policy, “How Networking can Promote Social
Justice.” UNM, Sept. 10-13.
Meyer, L. 2007. Reauthorization of NCLB: What will it mean for NM? Public talk given at UNM
Gallup, November 15.
Meyer, L. 2007. Before, beneath and beyond reading: Shared oral language opportunities, or
“talking to learn.” Workshop presented as part of Together we can! ¡Juntos podemos!, sponsored
by the Albuquerque Teachers Federation, the Albuquerque Educational Assistants Association, and
the American Federation of Teachers. September 8, 2007.
Meyer, L. 2007. Presenter on No Child Left Bilingual? at the International Seminar on Public
Administration, Education and Leadership, organized by Vice President for Student Affairs Eliseo
Torres, April.
Meyer, L. 2006. The No Child Left Behind Act and New Mexico’s “Disadvantaged” Students.
Keynote speaker at the COE 4th
Annual Emeriti Luncheon, UNM, Sept. 29, 2006.
Meyer, L. 2006. What does solidarity mean: The Teachers’ Strike in Oaxaca. Presenter at an
ABQ Teacher Federation Fall Symposium, September 28, 2006.
Meyer, L., M. Schwartz, & S. Metheny. 2006. Examining No Child Left Behind. Presenter with two
doctoral research assistants at Educators for Dialog and Inquiry (EDI), February 2006.
Meyer, L. 2005. No Child Left Bilingual. Panel presentator to the ABQ League of Women Voters,
June.
Meyer, L. 2005. Panelist on the topic How can we make No Child Left Behind work for New
Mexico students? Forum presented by the American Association of University Women, ABQ
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Meyer, L. 2005. No Child Left Bilingual? Presentation at the Cultural Competency Institute for NM
public school teachers and administrators, Center for the Education and Study of Diverse Populations,
ABQ., May.
Meyer, L., M. Copple & E. Brown. 2005. Translating indigenous “comunalidad” into field
research and academic texts: Lessons from Oaxaca. Presentation with two Ph.D. students at the
Joint NMSU-UNM Faculty and Graduate Student Colloquium, sponsored by the National Resource
Center Consortium for Latin American Studies in NM, at NMSU, April 22
Meyer, L. 2005. NCLB and English Language Learners. Presentation at the No Child Left Behind
Undergraduate Conference, COE, March 23.
Meyer, L. 2005. No Child Left Bilingual? Spring Symposium sponsored by the Albuquerque
Teachers’ Federation, January 27.
Meyer, L. 2003. Who’s getting left behind?: The No Child Left Behind Act and English learners.
Public presentation sponsored by the Albuquerque Teachers Federation, Albuquerque, NM., April 24.
Meyer, L. 2002. Connecting scholarship with university service: The Tequio Pedagógico Project
in Oaxaca, Mexico. Invited presentation to the Mentor/New Faculty Luncheon Series.
Meyer, L. 2001. Ethnographic Pedagogy: Learning to see, Seeing to learn. Presentation to the
College of Education Research Brown-bag Series, UNM, Albuquerque, NM., November.
Meyer, L. 1995. Staff Developer for English monolingual teachers, San Francisco Unified School
District. San Francisco, CA.
Meyer, L., N. Gonzalez-Edfelt & S. Peregoy. 1995. Presenters of Cross-cultural, Language and
Academic Development (CLAD) professional development sessions for all teacher education faculty of
the College of Education, San Francisco State University, to address new required State competencies
for teaching English learners, San Francisco, CA., Spring semester.
Meyer, L. 1993. Consultant to the organizers and closing respondent at the First Annual Critical Issues
Forum on Cultural and Linguistic Diversity in California Classrooms, Education Department, University
of California, Berkeley Extension Programs, Berkeley, CA.
GRANT AND PROJECT REPORTS
Werito, V., Martinez, G., Minthorn, R. & Meyer, L. (2014). COE Summer Research Proposal:
Multinational Perspectives and Experiences of Indigenous Educational Rights and Community-Based
Education. Accepted for funding (funded in May 2014; implementation postponed until June 2015).
Meyer, L. (P.I.). 2003. Tequio Pedagógico: Pedagogical Collaboration in Community. Final
report of research conducted in collaboration with the Coalition of Indigenous Teachers and Promoters
of Oaxaca (CMPIO), supported by a Practioner-Researcher Communication and Mentoring Grant

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from the Spencer Foundation, 2001-2003. Final report written collaboratively with the CMPIO;
translated to English by L. Meyer. Spanish version was published and distributed by the CMPIO in
Oaxaca in July.
Meyer, L. 2000. Aprender a ser docente en el Oaxaca plurilingüe y pluricultural/Learning to be a
teacher in multilingual and multicultural Oaxaca. Final Fulbright report for the Center for the
International Exchange of Scholars, Washington, D.C. Printed and distributed in Spanish in Oaxaca.
Oaxaca, Mexico: Coalition of Indigenous Teachers and Promoters of Oaxaca (CMPIO).
Meyer, L. 1997. Limited English Proficient (LEP) Students and the S.F.U.S.D. Consent Decree –
A Framework for Inquiry. Internal report for the state-appointed monitor of the Consent Decree for
racial integration, San Francisco Unified School District, San Francisco, CA.
Meyer, L. 1994. Final report on compliance of the Peace Accords concerning education in the
Strengthening Basic Education in El Salvador (SABE) Project. Dr. Charles B. Green, Chief of
Party. Management & Business Associates, Coral Gables, FL.
GRANTS AND PROPOSALS
Meyer, L. 2014. Successful sabbatical proposal (FA 2014) for continuing collaboration with the
Coalition of Indigenous Teachers and Promoters of Oaxaca (CMPIO) on two projects: a) analysis of
research data collected during the Diplomado in Communal Initial Education in 2011-2012; and, b)
planning and local facilitation of a Oaxacan research team to collaborate in the COE Summer Research
Grant submitted by V. Werito, G. Martinez, and L. Meyer, and funded by the COE in May 2014. In
addition, continued data collection and teacher workshop at the University of Cuenca, Ecuador.
Meyer, L. 2013. Successful request for a UNM One-Time Assistantship in FA 2013, to fund an RA to
do background investigation regarding the possible creation of a Translation Center in LLSS.
Meyer, L. 2008. Indios who teach: Reclaiming cultural identity in Oaxacan classrooms and
communities. Unfunded book proposal submitted to the international competition, California Series in
Public Anthropology.
Meyer, L. 2007. Successful sabbatical proposal (SPR and FA 2008) for continuing collaboration with
the Coalition of Indigenous Teachers and Promoters of Oaxaca (CMPIO) on three projects: a) an
alternative and communal teacher preparation program for novice indigenous teachers; b) development
of the Language Nests for indigenous language revitalization in Oaxaca; and c) investigation of
communal approaches to early childhood language and culture socialization in Oaxacan indigenous
communities.
Meyer, L. 2005. Transcription of interviews for No Child Left Bilingual research. Research
supported by a $500.00 grant from the Multicultural Education Center, UNM.
Meyer, L. 2003. Language Assessment Instruments for Tireman Library. $1000 grant from the
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Meyer, L. 2003. English language use and instruction and their impact on indigenous language
and culture survival in rural Oaxaca, Mexico. Research supported by an OFAC Grant ($700)
from the College of Education.
Meyer, L. (P.I). 2001. Tequio Pedagógico: Pedagogical collaboration in community. Two-year
($50,000) grant in collaboration with the Coalition of Indigenous Teachers and Promoters of Oaxaca,
Mexico, awarded by the Spencer Foundation, Chicago, IL, as part of the Practitioner-Research
Communication and Mentoring Grant program.
Meyer, L. (P. I.). 2001. Indigenous teachers’ lives and work histories: Analysis and reflection on
sociolinguistic and pedagogical aspects of indigenous teachers’ personal stories in Oaxaca,
Mexico. Research supported by a grant ($3,500) awarded by the Research Allocation Committee
(RAC) of UNM. Later amended to incorporate a comparative study of NM Pueblo language
teachers, conducted by Dr. Joseph Suina, UNM.
Meyer, L. 2001. School reform and teacher preparation for linguistically and culturally diverse
communities in Mexico and Latin America. Research supported by a grant ($1000) from the
College of Education OFAC Committee.
Meyer, L. 2000. Prototype instructional materials for first and second language literacy and
teacher professional education in Oaxaca, Mexico. Unsuccessful proposal submitted to the
Research Allocation Committee of UNM.
Meyer, L. 1998. Vecinos/Neighbors: One hundred years of relationships with Mexico: Successful
Lottery Fund Budget Request ($2000) for a series of two panels addressing Mexico-California
relations, which was selected for participation in the San Francisco State University Centennial
Celebration, and organized jointly by faculty from the College of Education and Chicano Studies.
Lewis, H. & L. Meyer. 1990. Creative Arts, Student Empowerment, and the Public Schools: What
is possible? Successful Lottery Fund Budget Request ($3200), later all awards were rescinded
because lottery funding was cut from the state budget.
Meyer, L. 1989. Successful Distinguished Visiting Professor Lottery Grant award ($2500), to bring to
the San Francisco State campus the Brazilian educator, Paulo Freire, and to edit a videotape of his
presentation as an oral history document.
AWARDS / HONORS
Research/Scholarship Honors and Awards
2008- Invited participant in the American Science Foundation funded Research Group on

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2011 Intent Community Participation, P.I. Dr. Barbara Rogoff, UC Santa Cruz. All participants
(primarily Latin Americans) research early childhood socialization practices in indigenous
communities and cultures of Latin America.
2001- P. I. for the collaborative research project “Tequio Pedagógico: Pedagogical
2003 collaboration in community,” which was awarded a Teacher-Researcher Mentoring and
Communications Grant by the Spencer Foundation, Chicago, IL, June 2001.
2001 P. I. for a RAC grant from UNM: Indigenous teachers’ lives and work histories: Analysis
and reflection on sociolinguistic and pedagogical aspects of indigenous teachers’
personal stories in Oaxaca, Mexico. Identified as an exemplary RAC proposal, to be made
available to other interested faculty as a model.
2000 Invited guest editor of Children and Languages at School [Special Issue], Theory Into
Practice, Autumn 2000, Vol. 39:4. Issue was nominated by the TIP Editorial Board to receive
special recognition by the Association of Educational Publishers. One of its articles (Wong
Fillmore, L. Loss of Family Languages: Should Educators be Concerned?) was selected for a
Distinguished Achievement Award in the Learned Article category in the annual competition of
the Educational Press Association.
1999 Fulbright Senior Researcher award, Teacher Education for Diversity in Oaxaca, Mexico.
Research carried out in Oaxaca, Mexico, during the 1999-2000 academic year.
1997 Recommended by the Superintendent of San Francisco Unified School District, Dr. Waldemar
Rojas, to serve as a consultant concerning the education of Limited English Proficient students
to the California State Department of Education monitoring team of the Consent Decree for
desegregation of the San Francisco Unified School District.
1995 Children’s book (Meyer, L. 1993. Grandma’s Helper) highlighted in L. Morrow (1995),
Multicultural books about families. In Reading Today, June/July, 1995.
Teaching / Practice Honors and Awards
1998, Center for the Enhancement of Teaching (CET) Outstanding Teaching Awards, San
1997, Francisco State University.
1996
1997 Dr. Waldemar Rojas Award for Risk-taking, Persistence and Courage in Education,
presented by Dr. Cecelia Wambach, co-director of the Muir Alternative Teacher Education
Program, and Dr. Waldemar Rojas, Superintendent of San Francisco Unified School District,
San Francisco, CA.
1996 Honored at SFSU’s Celebration of Scholarship and Creative Activities (November).
My university teaching has been profiled in:
 Merryfield, M., ed. 1996. Making connections between multicultural and global education,
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I was identified by AACTE as an innovative teacher educator in the way I incorporate multicultural and
global perspectives into my teaching. Profile includes a summary of my philosophy and approach to
teacher education. Merryfield then selected me as one of nine teacher educators in the U.S. who
were shadowed for several days and studied in depth.
 Cummins, J. 2001. Negotiating Identities: Education for empowerment in a diverse society,
192-193. Ontario, CA: California Association for Bilingual Education
Cummins describes my teaching as “one illustration of how teacher education can extend itself into
the transformative domains.” Commenting specifically on L. Meyer (1994), Barrio Buddies: Learning
through letters about kids, cultures, communities, and self-confrontation, Cummins writes: “Meyer’s
article makes fascinating reading not only as documentation of a highly creative innovation in teacher
education but also as a reminder of how many middle-class students and members of the general
public are still almost totally isolated and insulated from the realities of cultural diversity and inner-city
life…Meyer’s article illustrates how powerful the learning experience can be when these “two
solitudes” come together in a process of negotiating identities” (p. 193).
CONSULTING - International
2014 External evaluator of the English Language Program at the University of Cuenca in Ecuador.
Final report submitted in March 2015.
2007- Advisor to the Coalition of Indigenous Teachers and Promoters of Oaxaca and to
Present the National Congress on Indigenous and Intercultural Education on the conceptualization,
implementation, and evaluation of language nests for indigenous language revitalization in
Oaxaca and other Mexican states.
2007- Planning facilitator with the Coalition of Indigenous Teachers and Promoters of
2008 Oaxaca on the development and implementation of a training program for newly contracted
teachers for communal-bilingual-intercultural education in rural Oaxacan indigenous schools,
titled Formación Comunal e Intercultural para Maestros de Pueblos Originarios
(Communal Intercultural Preparation for Teachers from Indigenous Peoples).
2003 Invited presenter/participant at a meeting on teacher preparation for indigenous
communities, convened by the Department of National Standards of Mexico’s Secretariat
of Public Education, October 2003.
2000 Consultant for the Mexican-North American Commission (COMEXUS) to design and
guide the implementation of a special program for 70 Mexican ESL teachers concerning the
instruction of English in Mexican middle schools, Mexico D.F., Mexico, February-August
2000.
1994 Member of a Development Associates consultation team evaluating a national curriculum
development project in El Salvador called “Strengthening Achievement in Basic Education.”
My responsibility was to evaluate the Ministry of Education’s response to educational needs
in the formerly conflictive areas of the country. San Salvador, El Salvador, June 1994.

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1992 Program consultant with the American School of Laguna Verde, Escuela El Farallon,
Veracruz, Mexico. Invited to evaluate the English program of the school and to conduct in-
service training for teachers of English.
CONSULTING – National/State
2003– Member of the Advisory Board for Postcards from Buster, a children’s series
2005 produced by public television (WGBH in Boston, MA) and the Department of Education.
Boston, MA.
2003- Consultant to the Taos Language Immersion Preschool at Taos Pueblo concerning
2004 immersion strategies and priorities under federal Head Start requirements.
2001 Consultant for the Matanuska-Susitna Borough School District regarding federal bilingual
programs and programs for limited-English proficient students. Contracted for 2001-2002
school year, Palmer, AK.
1997 Consultant to Juarez and Associates, Inc., Los Angeles, on the development of a bilingual
education program proposal (Maya/Spanish) for the Quiche region of Guatemala.
1997 Consultant to the State Consent Decree Monitor regarding the needs of Limited English
Proficient (LEP) students in the San Francisco Unified School District.
SERVICE – International
2014 Committee member for Lorena Córdoba, doctoral candidate at the Centro de Investigación y
Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social (CIESAS), Mexico, DF. Defended Sept. 10,
2014.
2014 Reviewer of the draft version of a new Education Law for the State of Oaxaca, Mexico,
especially sections focused on language issues and bilingual education, at the request of the
committee composed of teachers´ union, community and legislative members. May 2014.
2013 Reviewer of manuscript, “El diálogo de saberes educativos como base para el aprendizaje de
la lengua y cultura indígena,” at the request of Perfiles Educativos, international professional
journal of the Instituto de Investigaciones sobre la Universidad y la Educación, Universidad
Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), México, DF, September 9, 2013.
2011 Submission reviewer for Australian international journal Teacher Education, Manuscript ID
CTED-2011-0068 "Cross-Cultural Experiences of Mexican-Origin English Learners:
Transitioning from Jalisco to California".
2010 Panelist at welcoming ceremony at the Escuela Superior de Educación Física de Jalisco,
Guadalajara, Jalisco, MX, May 25.

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2010 Dialogue with English teachers and administrators of the Benemérita y Centenaria Normal de
Jalisco, Guadalajara, Jalisco, MX, May 25.
2008- Member of the editorial board of Educación Comunal: Revista Oaxaqueña para el
Present diálogo intercultural (Communal Education: Oaxacan journal for intercultural dialogue), a
journal published twice yearly by the National Congress of Indigenous and Intercultural
Education, the Secundarias Comunitarias of Oaxaca, the Benito Juárez Autonomous
University of Oaxaca, and World Learning.
2008 My activities during this sabbatical year in Oaxaca (workshops, presentations, advising,
research, publications, as listed above) were uncompensated service.
2007- Advisor to the Pedagogical Committee of the Coalition of Indigenous Teachers and
2008 Promoters of Oaxaca (CMPIO) on the planning and implementation of a year-long alternative
teacher preparation course for novice indigenous teachers, called Formación Comunal e
Intercultural para Maestros de Pueblos Originarios (Communal Intercultural Preparation
for Teachers from Indigenous Peoples).
2007 Reviewer of a manuscript titled “Nuevos retos y roles intelectuales en metogologías
participativas” (New challenges and intellectual roles in participative methodologies) for the
Revista Mexicana de Investigación Educativa (Mexican Journal of Educational
Research), April 2007.
2007 Co-facilitator of the working group on First and Second Language Instruction at the National
Congress of Indigenous and Intercultural Education, Oaxaca, MX, October 24-27.
2006 Reviewer of a manuscript titled “Beyond the Alienating Alphabetic Literacy: Multiliteracies in
Indigenous Education in Mexico.” Review submitted to Diaspora, Indigenous and Minority
Education: An International Journal (DIME), December 2006.
2006 Co-organizer and commentator at an Albuquerque Teachers Federation fundraiser for striking
Oaxaca teachers, at the Guild Theater in ABQ on November 25, 2006.
2004 Presenter of a workshop on the teaching of Spanish as a second language to the faculty of the
Emiliano Zapata Elementary School, San Dionisio Ocotepec, Tlacolula, Oaxaca, June 25.
2003 Coordinator of a workshop for Mixteco bilingual teachers and village authorities from the
communities of Nochixtlan, Huajuapan, and Juxtlahuaca, to apply bilingual education models
and strategies to their particular communities and schools, Oaxaca, Mexico (June).
1999- Coordinator of two series of workshops and repeated collaborator with the Coalition of
2003 Indigenous Teachers and Promoters of Oaxaca, to guide the inservice professional
development of indigenous teachers in bilingual pedagogy and bilingual literacy strategies and
materials. This occurred especially in two projects, Tequio Pedagogico Project, and Our
Word in our Languages: Bilingual Literacies for Indigenous Students and Classrooms.
Oaxaca, Mexico.

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1999- Collaborator on educational planning and teacher and staff professional development
2003 with the Department of Educational Projects of the General Coordination of Educational
Planning, State Institute for Public Education of Oaxaca, Mexico.
1998 Assisted Dr. Tove Skuttnab-Kangas with the creation of a dossier regarding California’s
Proposition 227, selected as a case for adjudication in the first public hearing about violations
of conventions concerning international language rights, International Hearing on Language
Rights and Linguicide, The Hague, Nethelands.
1995 Participant with the Eugene Education Association, OR, in a month-long Oaxaca Project, to
engage in pedagogical dialogue and present methodology workshops with teachers from the
Oaxaca teachers’ union (Sección 22).
SERVICE – National / State
2013 Arranged the logistics for a trip through California for 5 Oaxacan colleagues and myself, from
Los Angeles to Santa Cruz, Pescadero, Palo Alto, and San Francisco, immediately prior to
our symposium at the American Educational Research Association conference in San
Francisco in May 2013. The purpose was to dialogue with Oaxacan migrant communities
and then with researchers at Stanford University.
2007- Expert consultant and witness for immigration lawyer Judith Seed Miller in Los Angeles
Present (2007) regarding the potential educational issues that would be faced by a special needs child
if deported with his undocumented parents to Oaxaca, MX. Follow-up telephone
consultations by other immigration lawyers.
2010 External reviewer of the tenure and promotion file of Dr. Luciana de Oliveira, Associate
Professor, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, Purdue University, Lafayette, IN.
2007 Participant in the “Call to Action” event at the NM Roundhouse, organized by Dual Language
Education of New Mexico, to lobby for preservation of the NM Bilingual/Multicultural
Education Act. Dec. 13, 2007.
2007 Presenter of a teacher workshop on effective school and curricular planning to meet the needs
of English Language Learners to the faculty of Little Earth Preschool and Elementary School,
Santa Fe, NM, Aug. 31, 2007.
2007 Member of a lobbying group from the Institute for Language and Education Policy speaking
with members of Congress regarding the impact of No Child Left Behind on English Language
Learners, July 2007.
2006 External reviewer of the tenure and promotion file of Dr. Rod Case, Associate Professor,
Department of Educational Specialties, University of Nevada, Reno.
2003- Advisory board member, Postcards from Buster, children’s TV program produced by
2005 KGBH Public Television, Boston, MA.

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