Lan Quach Kolano
Lan Quach Kolano is professor and chair of the Department of Middle, Secondary and K-12 Education . She is also the the Graduate Program Director for the M.Ed. Program in Curriculum and Instruction. She completed her Ph.D. at UNC-Chapel Hill and has been on UNC Charlotte's faculty since 2004. Her research focuses on the language and identity development of immigrant learners and the development of critical multicultural efficacy of teachers. Dr. Kolano is currently working on an ethnographic project that examines and documents the experiences of Southeast Asian immigrant girls with limited formal education as they negotiate language, race, gender and culture and school in North Carolina. She teaches foundational courses that emphasize culturally responsive pedagogies in urban school contexts. Her research, teaching, and service agendas work in concert in ways that deepen teachers' cultural and linguistic understanding of English Language Learners in order to promote the development of inclusive classroom environments in urban schools.