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Dr. Brenda Rubio

Assistant Professor

University of North Texas

Department of Teacher Education and Administration

(940) 565-2253

Email: Brenda.Rubio@unt.edu

Education

  • PhD, University of Texas at Austin, 2018
    Major: Educational Leadership and Policy
    Specialization: Educational Policy and Planning
    Dissertation: Academia Cuauhtli teachers: additive teaching in subtractive contexts
  • MA, University of Texas at Austin, 2012
    Major: Curriculum and Instruction
    Specialization: Cultural Studies in Education
    Dissertation: Mexican immigrant newcomer students in central Texas : a study of immigrant adaptation
  • BS, New Mexico State University, 2007
    Major: Biology

Professional Memberships

  • Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social. (September 18, 2020 - Present).
  • American Educational Research Association. (January 1, 2012 - Present).
  • University Council for Educational Administration. (January 1, 2012 - Present).

Development Activities

  • Other, Intercultural Development Inventory, College of Education. United States of America. (October 5, 2021).
  • Workshop, Microaggressions, Teacher Education and Administration, COE. United States of America. (October 1, 2021).
  • Workshop, Faculty Grantsmanship Workshop, UNT Division of Research and Innovation. United States of America. (December 7, 2021 - December 10, 2021).
  • Seminar, Equity & Social Justice in Teaching & Learning by Dr. Keon McGuire, Teacher Preparation and Administration, COE. United States of America. (December 2, 2021).
  • Workshop, Promotion & Tenure Faculty workshop, UNT Faculty Success. United States of America. (October 21, 2021).
  • Seminar, Working with Inclusive Pedagogy and Cultural Responsiveness, Dr. Laura Rendon, UNT. United States of America. (October 19, 2021).
  • Workshop, Mentoring Luncheon, UNT Faculty Success. United States of America. (October 13, 2021).
  • Workshop, Promotion and Tenure Workshop, UNT Faculty Success. United States of America. (September 20, 2021).

Teaching

Teaching Experience

    University of North Texas

  • EDLE 5390 - Campus Level School Law, 3 courses.
  • EDLE 5400 - Management of School Resources, 1 course.
  • EDLE 5600 - Race, Class and Gender Issues in Education, 3 courses.
  • EDLE 5610 - School Communications and Public Relations, 1 course.
  • EDLE 5620 - Administration and Leadership for Student Educational Services, 5 courses.
  • EDLE 6150 - Equity, Ethics, and Policy in Change Leadership, 4 courses.
  • EDLE 6950 - Dissertation in Practice, 4 courses.

Directed Student Learning

  • Dissertation Committee Member, Teacher Education and Administration. (September 2024).
  • Dissertation Committee Chair, Teacher Education and Administration. (January 2024).
  • Dissertation Committee Chair, Teacher Education and Administration. (January 2024).
  • Dissertation Committee Member, Teacher Education and Administration. (January 2024).
  • Dissertation Committee Chair, Teacher Education and Administration. (March 2023).
  • Dissertation Committee Member, "THE IMPACT OF ADMINISTRATOR BIAS AND EXCLUSIONARY DISCIPLINE ON STUDENT OUTCOMES," Teacher Education and Administration. (March 2023).
  • Dissertation Committee Member, "SCHOOL LEADERS’ PERCEPTIONS OF THE IMPACT OF THEIR CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE SCHOOL LEADERSHIP FRAMEWORK," Teacher Education and Administration. (January 2023).
  • Dissertation Committee Member, Teacher Education and Administration. (November 2022).
  • Dissertation Committee Member, "USING STUDENT VOICE TO CREATE CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE SCHOOLS: A STUDY OF MUSLIM HIGH SCHOOL FEMALES IN A U.S. PUBLIC SCHOOL," Teacher Education and Administration. (October 2022).
  • Dissertation Committee Member, "WOMEN LEADERS OF COLOR TESTIMONIOS: PAST AND PRESENT EXPERIENCES THAT SHAPE RACIAL IDENTITY AND THE IMPACT ON SOCIAL JUSTICE LEADERSHIP," Teacher Education and Administration. (June 2022).
  • Dissertation Committee Member, "Disability Studies in General Educator Preparation Programs," Teacher Education and Administration. (September 2023 - December 2024).
  • Dissertation Committee Member, "PROFESSIONAL LEARNING COMMUNITIES AND THE SUPPORTIVE CONDITIONS FOR IMPROVED TEACHER INSTRUCTIONAL PRACTICES," Teacher Education and Administration. (October 3, 2022 - March 2023).

Research

Published Intellectual Contributions

    Book Chapter

  • CARMONA, J.F., Rubio, B. (2024). On Fronteriza Madre(hood)s: Una platica entre mujeres académicas. Frontera Madre(hood). 231-244. University of Arizona Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.17842148.22
  • Bell, R.C., Martinez, M., Rubio, B. (2022). Dialogical Relationships and Critical Reflexivity as Emancipatory Praxis in a Community-Based Educational Program. Critical Ethnography, Language, Race/ism and Education. 152-168. Channel View Publications. https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.22679748.12
  • Bell , R.C., Martinez, M., Rubio, B. Epistemic disobedience: Reimagining bilingual education within a community / public school sponsored culture and language revitalization program.
  • Rubio, B., Milk Bonilla , C., Bell, R.C. (2021). Decolonial Latinx urban educational leadership development through a community-based partnership. Handbook of Urban Educational Leadership. (2) Lanham, MD, Rowman and Littlefield.

    • Journal Article

  • Rubio, B., Flores Carmona, J., Hamzeh, M. Del dicho al hecho hay mucho trecho/Don’t talk the talk if you can’t walk the walk: Feminista scholars navigating the heightened horrors of academia a multiple pandemic reality.
  • Rubio, B., Palmer, D.K., Martinez, M. (2021). Si no estas defendiendo tus alumnos, que estas haciendo en el salon? A Mexican Immigrant Teacher’s Journey to Critical Consciousness. Other. 20 (1) 45--57. Routledge.
  • Milk Bonilla, C., Rubio, B., Alvarez-Sims, L. (2020). Building confidence through culturally sustaining spaces for teachers and students. Other. (8) Universite de Limoges. https://doi.org/10.25965/trahs.2744
  • Valenzuela, A., Zamora, E., Rubio, B. (2015). Academia Cuauhtli and the Eagle:" Danza Mexica" and the Epistemology of the Circle.. Other. 41 46--56. ERIC.

    • Other

  • Valenzuela, A., Rubio, B. (2018). Subtractive Schooling. The TESOL Encyclopedia of English Language Teaching. 1-7. Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118784235.eelt0139

Presentations Given

    Oral Presentation

  • Milk Bonilla, C. (Author & Presenter), Rubio, B. (Author & Presenter), Martinez, A. (Presenter), Martinez, M. (Presenter), American Educational Research Association, Nuestra herencia indígena (Our Indigenous Heritage): Culturally Sustaining Dialogue in an Elementary Ethnic Studies Unit, United States of America. (2023 - 2023).

    • Other

  • Mansfield, K. (Coordinator/Organizer), Newsome, T. (Moderator), Rubio, B. (Co-Chair), Goel, P. (Co-Chair), Welton, A. (Co-Chair), Martinez, M. (Co-Chair), University Council for Education Administration Annual Convention, Women Educators Continuing to Live the Gendered Challenges of Covid-19: A World Café Workshop in “Defense of Justice and Joy.”, University Council for Education Administration Annual Convention, Los Angeles, California, United States of America. (2024).

    • Panel Presentation

  • Heiman, D. (Panelist), Caldas, B. (Panelist), Rubio, B. (Panelist), Palmer, D. (Panelist), B_MEIS Webinar Series, Cultivating Bilingual Education leaders: Tensions, Success, and Lessons learned in graduate school, TESOL international, Virtual, United States of America. (2021).

    • Paper

  • Rubio, B. (Author), Milk Bonilla, C. (Author & Presenter), International Conference on Urban Education, The Role of a Community Rooted Sentido de Weber in Educator Leadership Development, Mexico. (2024).
  • Mansfield, K. (Author & Presenter), Rubio, B. (Author & Presenter), The American Educational Studies Association, Strategies for and Responses to Teaching Future Teacher-Leaders About Race, Gender, and Class Issues in Education, The American Educational Studies Association, Greenville, SC, United States of America. (2024 - 2024).
  • Stille , L. (Author & Presenter), Rubio, B. (Presenter), International Conference on Urban Education, Balancing Act: Employing Grow Your Own Programs for Recruiting and Retaining Educators of Color, Mexico. (2024 - 2024).
  • Newsome, T. (Author & Presenter), Mansfield, K. (Author & Presenter), Martinez, M.A. (Panelist), Rubio, B. (Panelist), Welton, A. (Panelist), Wong, L. (Panelist), Annual meeting for the University Council for Educational Administration, Reimagining a "hard reset" for women educators living the gendered challenges of COVID-19, University Council for Educational Administration (UCEA), Minneapolis, MN, United States of America. (2023).
  • Rubio, B. (Author & Presenter), Edwards, W.L. (Author & Presenter), Bilingual Pathways into the Principalship: Exploring the Demographics, School Characteristics, and Retention Patterns of Bilingual Principals in Texas, American Educational Research Association, United States of America. (2023 - 2023).
  • Rubio, B. (Author & Presenter), Edwards, W.L. (Author & Presenter), Kurochkina, T.L. (Presenter), Interrogating Consequential Education Research in Pursuit of Truth, Bilingual Pathways into the Principalship: Exploring the Demographics, School Characteristics, and Retention Patterns of Bilingual Principals in Texas, American Educational Research Association, United States of America. (2023).
  • Rubio, B. (Author & Presenter), Farahmandpour, Z. (Presenter), Interrogating Consequential Education Research in Pursuit of Truth, In their Own Words: The Impact of Newcomer School Policies on Students in Central Texas, American Educational Research Association, United States of America. (2023).
  • Rubio, B. (Presenter), Bell , R.C. (Presenter), Martinez, A. (Presenter), Cultivating Equitable Educational Systems for the 21st Century, Se Hace Camino al Andar, American Educational Research, San Diego, CA, United States of America. (2022).
  • Rubio, B. (Presenter), Contreras Aguirre, C.H. (Presenter), Emerging Stronger: Reuniting to Advance Educational Leadership, Exploring the Social and Academic Identities of Latina STEM Students in COVID-19 Times, University Council for Educational Administration, United States of America. (2021).
  • Rubio, B. (Presenter), Contreras Aguirre, H.C. (Presenter), Cultivating Justicia con Amor y Querencia: Embracing Healing through Policies and Practices that Transform Institutions for Latinx/a/o Communities, Dual Pandemic Intersection: COVID–19 and Latinas’ Persistence in STEM in the Borderlands, American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education, United States of America. (2021).
  • Rodriguez-Strawn, D. (Presenter), Velasquez, K.A. (Presenter), Apodaca, E. (Presenter), Rubio, B. (Presenter), Re/Buidling Home: Coloniality, Belonging, Educational Leadership, Sobreviviente: Examining the Effects of Spirit Murdering on the Bodymindspirit of Latinas Attending a Hispanic-Serving Institution, University Council for Educational Administration, United States of America. (2020).
  • Wise, W. (Presenter), Rubio, B. (Presenter), Serrano, B. (Presenter), Re/Building Home: Coloniality, Belonging, Educational Leadership, A Pandemic of Digital Coloniality in the Borderlands, University Council for Educational Administration, United States of America. (2020).
  • Milk Bonilla, C. (Presenter), Rubio, B. (Presenter), Bell, R.C. (Presenter), The Power and Possibilities for the Public Good When Researchers and Organizational Stakeholders Collaborate, Critical Bilingual Teacher Identities in a Community-Based Educational Collaboration as a Relational Healing Learning Space, American Educational Research Association, United States of America. (2019).
  • Rubio, B. (Presenter), Milk Bonilla, C. (Presenter), Bell, R.C. (Presenter), Where y'at: Validating subaltern forms of leadership and learning with/in and outside of schools, Decolonial Latinx Urban Educational Leadership Development through a Community-Based Partnership, University Council for Educational Administration, New Orleans, LA, United States of America. (2019).
  • Rubio, B. (Presenter), Milk Bonilla , C. (Presenter), “¡El pueblo unido jamás será vencido!”: Critical community building for social justice in divisive times, Decolonial Relational Space for Latinx Urban Leadership, American Educational Studies Association, Baltimore, MD, United States of America. (2019).

    • Project

  • Flores Carmona, J. (Presenter), Rubio, B. (Presenter), Multicultural Teaching in a Standards-Based Classroom, Las Cruces Public Schools, Bilingual Education Department, United States of America. (2021 - 2021).

    • Scholarly Meeting Contribution

  • Mansfield, K. (Coordinator/Organizer), Rubio, B. (Leader), Newsome, T. (Leader), University Council for Educational Administration, Women Educators Continuing to Live the Gendered Challenges of Covid-19: A World Café Workshop, University Council for Educational Administration, Los Angeles, United States of America. (2024 - 2024).

    • Sharing Session

  • Rubio, B. (Discussant), Where y'at: Validating subaltern forms of leadership and learning with/in and outside of schools, What No One Ever Tells You about Surviving and Thriving in the Educational Leadership Professoriate: A Frank and Open Conversation, University Council for Educational Administration, New Orleans, LA, United States of America. (2019).

Contracts, Grants, Sponsored Research

    Grant - Service

  • Sun, W. (Principal), Rubio, B. (Co-Principal), "Racial Divide: Equal Access to Education during the COVID-19 Pandemic," sponsored by American Educational Research Association (AERA), International, $5000 Funded. (2020 - 2022).

    • Sponsored Research

  • Rubio, B. (Co-Principal), Badoni, G. (Co-Principal), Lara, D. (Co-Principal), , J. (Co-Principal), "Re-Visioning Social Studies Community Convening and Writing Institute for Educators and Students," sponsored by Kellogg (W. K.) Foundation, Other, $150000 Funded. (2021 - 2022).

Service

University Service

  • University Senate Service, Faculty Senate. (September 2024 - Present).
  • Member, Student Affairs Committee. (2023 - Present).
  • Committee Member, Departmental Scholarship Committee. (2022 - Present).
  • Member, Doctoral Admissions Committee. (2022 - Present).
  • Committee Member, Principal Lecturer Hiring Committee. (September 2024 - December 2024).
  • Committee Member, Mike Moses Endowed Professor in EDLE Position. (2022 - 2023).
  • Co-Chair, Inclusive Curriculum Project. (2021 - 2022).
  • Committee Member, Mike Moses Endowed Professor in EDLE Position. (2021 - 2022).

Consulting

  • Academic, University of Minnesota, United States of America. (March 5, 2022 - March 5, 2022).