ABOUT
ME
Meet Martha Almendarez Langland
Martha has served as an Assistant Professor at Pacific University in Forest Grove. She is now completing her Doctor of Education in Educational Leadership with an emphasis in social justice and policy. Her research focuses on the use of color-evasive educational policy language used by Professors in teaching education programs.
Martha currently serves as a supervisor of future teachers at Pacific University with the specific goal to teach White student teachers with an anti-racist lens and BIPOC student teachers with an abolitionist, thriving lens that focuses on code switch, double consciousness/veil-walking.
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She partnered with Faubion Elementary teachers and administration to create and implement culturally responsive curriculum with Avid support systems. She provided emergency translation supports for school-based communities using her skills as a bilingual and biliterate communicator. In her years in higher education, she has served on the General Education Taskforce, the force for Undergraduate Education Curriculum, and on the College of Education and Equity Committee which equipped her to review policy and statements using an equity lens. Currently, she serves in the SE Guiding Coalition for Portland Public Schools as an advocate for Spanish speaking and immigrant communities in Portland with an emphasis on educational equity and access. She has taught courses that focus on anti-racist abolitionist pedagogy, with a specific assessment of theory and systematic policies and their effects on historically othered populations.
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Personally, Martha is an immigrant from El Salvador and immigrated without any English language skills. Her lived experiences as a student, immigrant, mother, educator and woman of color influences all that she does.
Anti-racism in education is not what she does, it is who she is.