Elsa Roberts Auerbach elsa.auerbach@umb.edu 617-287-5763

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Community Collaborations Professor Auerbach has worked with local community-based organizations and city-wide initiatives to enhance ESL and literacy services for adults in the Boston area for many years. Among the community-based agencies with which she has worked (curriculum consultation, advising, and teacher education workshops) are the following: Alianza Hispana, Boston Asian American Civic Association Cambridge Community Learning Center, Cambridge Centro Presente, Cambridge Dudley Literacy Center, Roxbury Cardinal Cushing Center/Centro del Cardenal, Boston Haitian Multi-Service Center, Dorchester Harborside Community Center, East Boston Jackson-Mann Community Center, Allston Mujeres Unidas in Accion, Dorchester Reach Out and Read, Boston SCALE, Somerville Vietnamese Civic Association, Dorchester Professor Auerbach was the Coordinator of three grant-funded collaborative community-university projects: English Family Literacy Project (U.S. DOE Title VII grant to UMass Boston), a collaboration between the Cardinal Cushing Center, Jackson-Mann Community Center, Cambridge Community Learning Center and UMass Boston (1986-89). Bilingual Community Literacy Training Project (U.S. DOE Title VII grant to UMass Boston), a collaboration between Jackson-Mann Community Center, Cambridge, Harborside Community Center, the Haitian Multi-Service center and UMass Boston (1989-92). Community Training for Adult & Family Literacy Project (National Institute for Literacy grant to the Boston Adult Literacy Fund), a collaboration between Jackson-Mann Community Center, Cambridge, Harborside Community Center, the Haitian Multi-Service center and UMass Boston (1992-93). Professor Auerbach has worked with public school teachers (K-12) in the greater Boston area through: The Boston Writing Project (Advisory Board and workshops) Workshops for the Boston Public Schools and Chelsea Public Schools A collaborative teacher inquiry project with two Cape Verdean bilingual literacy teachers at the Burke High School Professor Auerbach has worked on the following city and state-wide initiatives to enhance literacy provision and professional development: English for New Bostonians, Member, Community Advisory Board Read Boston Advisory Board member Adult Literacy Resource Institute (workshops) SE Regional SABES (System for Adult Basic Education Support), workshops, conference presentations) Professor Auerbach is also the editor of a volume entitled Community Partnerships, in the Case Studies in TESOL Practice Series (Alexandria, VA: TESOL, 2002).