Assistant Professor of Practice Ada Parra received a Bachelor of Arts in Elementary Education and a Master of Arts in Bilingual and Multicultural Education from the University of Arizona. She is a career track professor who teaches the reading and language arts methods courses in the Elementary Education program as well as courses in the B.A.S. Early Childhood Education program. Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Arizona, she taught kindergarten for 14 years in bilingual and ESL classrooms in border cities of Southern Arizona.