Barbara Vallejo Doten
Carol Marquis Global Understanding Award
MOTTO
Education is improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.
- Marian Wright Edelman
SHORT BIO
Barbara Vallejo Doten the Regional Director of the California Global Education Project (CGEP) at CSU Long Beach where she works with K-12 educators in bringing a global lens to their curriculum. Using the CGEP Global Competence Framework educators create learning experiences that help students understand what it means to be knowledgeable, active, compassionate global citizens. As a history/social studies educator for 36 years, Barbara is bilingual (Spanish) and has worked in LA Unified and Long Beach Unified where she joined with the LA County Office of Education and established one of the first Democracy Schools in the county.