Valley View Gets New Assistant Director of Bilingual Education

A veteran Valley View School District 365U bilingual teacher has been named VVSD’s Assistant Director of Bilingual Education, according to a district news release.

B.J. Ward Elementary School Student Resource Team Leader and Interventionist Elva Corona will begin her duties immediately, succeeding Yadira Mendoza who left the district to take a position with another school district.

Corona joined the VVSD team in 2004 as a bilingual teacher at Valley View Elementary School (now the VVSD Administration Center and Early Childhood Center) before serving in various positions including a bilingual teacher, ESL teacher and bilingual supported education resource teacher at Beverly Skoff Elementary School for 10 years. She moved to the B.J. Ward position last year.

A graduate of the University of St. Francis with a Bachelor of Arts in Education, she holds Master’s Degrees in Teaching and Learning as well as Educational Leadership from USF as well.

Corona has been involved in a variety of school and district-level activities during her career, including the development of a standards-based report card, the piloting of several bilingual reading series, creation of a bilingual intervention program and the creation of en ELL reporting tool to assess students’ language acquisition.