1963, El Escorial, Spain

Education and Academic Degrees:

University of Wisconsin-Madison, M.S. in Foreign Language Education with a focus on Spanish and ESL; University of Wisconsin-Madison, B.S. in Spanish Education

Areas of Specialization:

Foreign language pedagogy, teacher training, and the web as an educational tool

Publications:

	Anímate textbook, Student Activities Manual, and other ancillaries with Marcela Domínguez and Lucía Caycedo Garner. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2009.
	¡Claro que sí! textbook, Student Activities Manual, and other ancillaries, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th editions, with Lucía Caycedo Garner and Marcela Domínguez. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1990, 1993, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008.
	Imágenes textbook, Student Activities Manual, and other ancillaries, 1st and 2nd editions with Marcela Domínguez and Lucía Caycedo Garner, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2003, 2007.
	Fuentes: Conversación y gramática textbook, Student Activities Manual, and other ancillaries, 1st, 2nd, and 3rd editions, with Marcela Domínguez and Lucía Caycedo Garner. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1996, 2000, 2005.
	En Parejas 1, 2, 3, 4, with Marcela Domínguez and Lucía Caycedo Garner, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1991.

Grants:

Prof. Rusch received an Academic Technology Innovation Grant from Boston College to create a website to teach Spanish accentuation. 2009. Prof. Rusch has received numerous grants to create websites. See her personal website to access them.

Representative Presentations:

"Learning to Read While Reading to Learn." With Emmanuelle Vanborre and Andrea Javel, Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, New York City, NY, March 29, 2008.

"Do You Function in the French or Spanish Classroom?" Invited speaker at Boston University, Boston, MA, Nov. 7, 2006.

"Grammar Presentations That Function." Invited speaker as part of the Lecture and Workshop Series of Foreign Language Teaching Strategies - Spanish, Bridgewater State, MA, Nov. 8, 2006.

"Keeping it in the L2." Workshop at Quincy North High School, Quincy, MA, Oct. 3, 2005.

"Click to Learn." With Emmanuelle Vanborre, Massachusettes Foreign Language Association (MaFLA), Sturbridge, 2003.

"Click to Learn." With Elena Ivanova and Emmanuelle Vanborre, Annual Conference of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL), Salt Lake City, 2002.

"Using Technology to Enhance a Communicative Methodology." With Marcela Domínguez and Andrea Javel, ACTFL, Boston, 2000.

"Getting Off to a Good Start: Contextualizing Input." With Marcela Domínguez, ACTFL, Dallas, 1999.

"Get 'Write' to It: Explanation and Implementation of Writing Strategies." With Marcela Domínguez and Jennifer Sopko, ACTFL, Chicago, 1998.

Course Calendar:

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