has had as a classroom teacher and mother, she has held deeply in her heart the people, purposes and passions that shaped and have had a profound effect on the educational leader she is today. Many of these experiences remain in her institutional memory and call her to create and share this work through publishing books, developing curriculum and consulting work across the nation. Included in this repertoire of tools and resources are a profession- al development model called Cultural Practices that are Relevant (CPR) that supports and
strengthens Culturally and Linguistically Respon- sive Teaching. Most recently she has published her first culturally responsive children’s book called, “Dreaming In Ethnic Melodies” that shares the hopes and dreams she has held for her own three sons. She formerly served as Wisconsin’s Statewide Culturally Responsive Practices Co- ordinator at the Wisconsin Response to Inter- vention Center. She led that work along with a team of colleagues, training practitioners across the state of Wisconsin and nation- ally from a model she co-created called the Model to Inform Culturally Responsive
Practices that focuses on what it means to be culturally responsive starting with self and moving that work across an entire equitable multi-level system of support. As a result of this work An- dreal has received various awards. She was the recipient of the NBC 15 News Crystal Apple Award in 2000, UW-Madison Lois Gadd Nemec Distinguished Elementary Educa- tion Alumni Award in 2004, Order of the Eastern Star Mother Full of Grace in 2004, the Milken Nation- al Educator Award in 2004 and the YWCA woman of Distinction Award in 2013.
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