Our Team

MERIT Leadership Team

Meet our Leadership Team and the authors of With a Little Help from My Friends: Conversation-Based Instruction for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CLD) Classrooms.

Jodi P. Weber, Ed.S.

Associate Director of Professional Development

Rebecca K. Hixon, Ph.D.

Associate Director of Program Development and Research


IC Coaches

Our IC Coaches help us with our on-the-ground, (wo)manpower when it comes to ongoing support for professional educators in the implementation of the IC Pedagogy.

 

Our Admin and Tech Support Team

This team supports MERIT’s research, outreach, and professional learning projects!

 

Ailing Zhang

Administrative Assistant

Monica Sanchez

Graduate Student pursuing a doctorate degree in Counseling Psychology

Sahir Chowdhury

Undergraduate Student majoring in Computer Science