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Sembrando Keynote 2024

 

 

Luis F. Cruz PhD is a sought-after consultant, coach, thought leader, and accomplished author in the field of education. His over 30 years of practical experience as a teacher and an administrator at the elementary, middle, and high school levels, coupled with his ability to effectively communicate research-based approaches focused on the need to ensure high levels of learning for all students, has earned him acknowledgement and praise from an array of education communities around the country.

Born to immigrant parents from South America, Dr. Cruz blends his experience as an English Learner raised in a low-income community of Los Angeles with his professional experience and insight, to advocate the need for public-school educators to acknowledge that there is a disconnect between our inherited and antiquated public-school system and the diverse student population we aim to serve today. He therefore advocates that public-school educators learn and commit to redesigning a school system never designed to ensure high levels of learning for all the students currently present in schools and classrooms across our country.

In addition to being an accomplished and highly desired keynote speaker, Dr. Cruz has established a skilled and effective manner for helping audiences both small and large learn about the PLC and RTI at work processes, transformational leadership, school culture, role of a guiding coalition, and creating environments conducive to the success of students learning English as an additional language, to name a few of the themes for which he is contacted.

Dr. Cruz is the best-selling author of Time for Change: Four Essential Skills for Transformational School and District Leaders which he co-authored with Dr. Anthony Muhammad and is currently working on several books focused on strengthening multi-tiered systems of support for student intervention and enhancing learning outcomes for emergent bilingual students.