teacher recruitment and retention chair

Duarte Silva
Teacher Recruitment and Retention Task Force Chair
CERAS
Room 125
Stanford, CA 94305-3084

Dr. Duarte Silva holds a Bachelors Degree in Foreign Languages and English from California State University Stanislaus, a Master’s Degree in Education Administration from Sacramento State University, Sacramento and a Doctorate in International and Multicultural Education from the University of San Francisco. He is presently the Executive Director of the California Foreign Language Project (CFLP) in the School of Education at Stanford University. He is responsible for providing leadership to the Project’s programs statewide, as well as for overseeing the evaluation of the programs outcomes implemented in each of the sites. Duarte has chaired several state adoptions of instructional materials for Foreign Language and English Language Development students, and has overseen the development of criteria for the role of technology in supporting the teaching of languages. Currently, he is a member of the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) Foreign Language Standards’ Committee.