Dr. Endia Lindo. Endia is an Associate Professor of Special Education at Texas Christian University. She also is an executive board member and past president of the Council for Exceptional Children’s (CEC) Division for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Exceptional Learners (DDEL). Her research focuses on improving the reading comprehension of students with learning difficulties and disabilities and educators’ cultural competence. Dr. Lindo engages as a critical quantitative researcher whose work examines what is known and needed to establish, implement, and sustain school and community-based intervention practice especially for those students in which multiple vulnerabilities (e.g., disability, poverty, and cultural and linguistic differences) intersect.

“Choices have invoices.” ~ Busta Rhymes

Websites and clickable links:

Endia’s faculty page

DDEL’s website

What is PALS?

PALS on What Works Clearinghouse

Children of the Code

Other Think Aloud guests/episodes we mentioned:

Mark Schneider - E41 was the Director of the Institute for Educational Sciences (IES)

Jessica Toste - E31 is at the University of Texas

To read: (Check out your local bookstore or favorite online provider)

Unstuck & Unstoppable: Shake Off the Past, Find Your Purpose, Get on with Your Life by Jimn Kyles

Jim Crow’s Pink Slip: The Untold Story of Black Principal and Teacher Leadership by Leslie T. Fenwick et al.

Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams by Matthew Walker et al.

Intersectionality in Education: Toward More Equitable Policy, Research, and Practice by Wendy Cavendish et al.