Alejandra Meneses

Alejandra Meneses, Associate Professor, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Her research focuses on language for school literacy and science learning. She earned her doctorate in Linguistics at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso and conducted ethnographic research on discursive representations of reading and writing. As postdoctoral fellow at HGSE, she collaborated with the CALS team and subsequently led the development of the Spanish CALS. Currently, Alejandra leads a four-year grant to test her CLIC intervention, designed to advance scientific understanding through multimodal and academic language supports for 4^th graders attending low-income schools. Viewing teachers as agents of social change, she works with educators to develop novel practices for teachers’ ongoing learning.