Dr. Huong Tran Nguyen
Director of STEELI Project

tel: 562-985-4536
email: hnguye1@csulb.edu

Dr. Huong Tran Nguyen is the Principal Investigator (PI) of the 5-year federally funded grant, Secondary Teacher Education for English Learner Integration (STEELI). STEELI is an innovative professional development project for higher education faculty at California State University, Long Beach (CSULB) and prospective teachers in the Single Subject Credential Program (SSCP) in collaboration with the Long Beach Unified School District (LBUSD) in Los Angeles County. STEELI aims to meet the needs of English Language Learners who are not succeeding within the current K-12 educational system.

Dr. Nguyen is an Assistant Professor at CSULB in the College of Education (CED), and has been teaching upper division courses, both in the SSCP and Multiple Subject Credential Program (MSCP). From 1998-2005, she was on loan from LBUSD to CSULB as Distinguished Teacher in Residence and Lecturer in the CED. Her research, teaching, and policy interests focus on professional development of teachers, issues related to language, culture, race, class, and equity in education, and teacher education.

Dr. Nguyen's career in education spans over three decades in three urban school districts as a classroom teacher, resource teacher, ELD specialist, and central office administrator at the K-12 levels. In 1994 she received the National Outstanding Teacher of the Year and National Outstanding Teacher in Foreign Language/English as a second language, sponsored by the Disney American Teacher Awards. She also served as Senior Fellow, in 1995-96, at the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Bilingual Education and Language Minority Affairs (OBEMLA now OELA).