Graduate Student, School of Social Transformation
Research Assistant
Mary Lou Teachers College
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About
David Isaac Hernandez-Saca is a second and a half year doctoral student in Curriculum and Instruction with an emphasis in Special Education Leadership for School-Wide Equity and Access. He is new to Arizona State. He arrived to the Tempe area in January of 2010 from Berkeley, California. His Bachelors and Masters degrees are from the University of California, at Berkeley. His undergraduate major was in Race-Relations in U.S. History and a Minor in Education with a Concentration in Equity and Participatory Research. His Masters in Education was in the field of Language, Literacy, Culture, and Society Studies (LLCS). During his masters program of study he focused on problematising the construct of Learning Disabilities (LD). Before receiving his masters in education he had the privilege of working at Golden Gate Apple School, an independent private school, in northern California, for students who were labeled with Learning Disabilities, Emotional Behavioral Disorders, and Autism in the public school system and he was able to work in a culture that left those labels at the door and created an environment for each student's social, academic, and human development by tailoring the curriculum for their student's best interest. He provided educational programs from homeschooling to individualized instruction. He was there for 2 years and was both an interim director and multi-subject teacher for grades 8-12.
His current research interests include the emotion and social impact of Learning Disability (LD) labeling on identity and human development as it relates to culture, language, literacy, society and equity issues in (special) education; and the disproportionality of historically marginalized and culturally and linguistically diverse students in (special) education.
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