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Tiffany Farias-Sokoloski, Ph.D.

Professor of Instruction, Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching

Tiffany Farias-Sokoloski, Ph.D.

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Dr. Farias-Sokoloski is an Associate Professor of Instruction and assistant chair for the Department of Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching (ILT) at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Her service to the San Antonio community includes her time as an elementary teacher, instructional coach, principal intern, as well as her current role of associate professor of instruction and residency coordinator. Her research interests include teacher preparation, teacher identity, and culturally responsive practices in the classroom. Along with her research and teaching, Dr. Farias-Sokoloski remains grounded in the community through her leadership of the UTSA-Edgewood ISD Teacher Residency program. In collaboration with Edgewood ISD, she fosters opportunities for teacher resident and host teachers to critically and continuously reflect on and implement culturally reflective and responsive practices. Dr. Farias-Sokoloski was recently awarded the UTSA Strategies for Teaching, Assessment & Retention (STAR) Award for her work with the UTSA-Edgewood ISD Teacher Residency. In the Fall 2023, the Texas Association of Teacher Educator (TxATE) awarded Dr. Farias-Sokoloski and Edgewood ISD with the Exemplary Partnership Award.

 

Teaching

  • Teaching
  • Learning
  • Classroom Culture

Research Interests

  • Teacher Education
  • Social Context of Education
  • Classroom Practices

 

Degrees

  • Ph.D., Culture, Literacy and Language, University of Texas at San Antonio, 2015
  • M.A., Bicultural-Bilingual Studies, University of Texas at San Antonio, 2010
  • B.A., Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Texas at San Antonio, 2006

 

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Honors and Awards

  • President’s Distinguished Diversity Award: UTSA 1882 Dual Language Community Lab Schools Partnership Team  
    • Year Awarded: 2023
  • TxATE Exemplary Partnership Award
    • Year Awarded: 2023

Presentations

ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS (PEER REVIEWED)

  • Farias-Sokoloski, T., Montaña, T. (2023, October). Leading and learning: the story of a first year residency.
    • Venue: 2023 Consortium of State Organizations for Teacher Education (CSOTTE)
    • Presentation Date: October 2023  
  • Farias-Sokoloski, T., Montaña, T. (2023, June). UTSA-Edgewood ISD teacher residency: building teacher confidence, competency, and capacity.
    • Venue: Texas Association of Teacher Educators (TxATE) Summer Conference
    • Presentation Date: June 2023
  • Li, Y., Ryan, A. M., Swoyer, J. Farias, T. (2023, February). Creating an accessible and inclusive classroom: translating research to practices step-by-step. [Paper Presentation].
    • Venue: 2023 UDL-IRN International Summit
    • Presentation Date: February 2023
  • Swoyer, J., Garcia, C., Farias-Sokoloski, T. (2021, October). The evolution of an evidence based culturally efficacious evaluation & support system for clinical teachers. [Paper Presentation].
    • Venue: Consortium of State Organizations for Texas Teacher Education (CSOTTE)
    • Presentation Date: October 2021 
  • Farias-Sokoloski, T., Garcia, C., Swoyer, J. (2021, October). Cultivating a culturally efficacious TEA-vetted teacher residency. [Paper Presentation].
    • Venue: Consortium of State Organizations for Texas Teacher Education (CSOTTE)
    • Presentation Date: October 2021 
  • Albrecht, M., Farias-Sokoloski, T. (2021, June). Authentic social-emotional learning [Paper presentation].
    • Venue: Texas Association of Teacher Educators (TxATE) Summer Conference
    • Presentation Date: June 2021 
  • Farias-Sokoloski, T., Swoyer, J., Garcia, C., Santillan L. (2021, June). Fostering culturally efficacious mentoring practices [Paper presentation].
    • Venue: US PREP Virtual Convening
    • Presentation Date: June 2021 
  • Farias-Sokoloski, T., Swoyer, J., Garcia, C., Santillan, Sohn, L., Yim, J., Chavez, L., Alday, E. (2021, April). Building culturally efficacious university school partnerships [Learning Lab Series].
    • Venue: AACTE Diversified Teacher Workforce Virtual Learning Lab
    • Presentation Date: April 2021 
  • Flores, B.B., Claeys, L., Farias-Sokoloski, T. (2021, March). Critically-minded culturally efficacious mentors [Paper presentation].
    • Venue: Kansas State University’s 2021 Teachers of Color Virtual Conference
    • Presentation Date: March 2021 
  • Farias-Sokoloski, T., Swoyer, J., Garcia, C., Santillan, R. Stortz, L. (2020, December). Cultivating culturally efficacious agents of change [Paper presentation].
    • Venue: 10th Conference on Education and Social Justice Virtual Conference
    • Presentation Date: December 2020 
  • Swoyer, J., Garcia, C., Santillan, L., Juarez, L., Sohn, L., Farias-Sokoloski, T. (2020, June). Doing the fieldwork and making it count [Paper presentation].
    • Venue: TxATE Virtual Summer Conference
    • Presentation Date: June 2020 
  • Farias-Sokoloski, T. (2017, July). “What’s in a title?”: An exploration of social constructs engendering teacher-student differences in title 1 schools [Paper presentation].
    • Venue: III International Colloquium on Languages, Cultures, Identity, in Schools and Society, Soria, Spain
    • Presentation Date: July 2017 
  • Farias-Sokoloski, T. (2016, July). “These kids are different”: An exploration of how ideologies and personal experiences influence teachers’ identities [Paper presentation].
    • Venue: II International Colloquium on Languages, Cultures, Identity, in Schools and Society, Soria, Spain
    • Presentation Date: July 2016 
  • Farias-Sokoloski, T. (2015, February). Teacher identity: An exploration of how a teacher’s identity forms in conjunction with socio-economically diverse students [Paper presentation].
    • Venue: 36th Ethnography in Education Form, Philadelphia, PA
    • Presentation Date: February 2015 
  • Langman, J., Hansen-Thomas, H., Farias-Sokoloski, T. (2014, June). The role of language objectives: Building math and science teachers’ language awareness in secondary classrooms [Paper presentation].
    • Venue: 12th International Conference for the Association of Language Awareness, Hamar, Norway.
    • Presentation Date: June 2014

 

PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS

  • Swoyer, J., Farias-Sokoloski, T. (2024, April). Unveiling the power of teacher supervision: coaching, observation, and data utilization.
    • Venue: US PREP spring 2024 webinar series
    • Presentation Date: April 2024 
  • Farias-Sokoloski, T., Montaña, T., Anguiano, M. (2024, March). UTSA and Edgewood recruitment and retention.
    • Venue: 2024 Strategic Staffing Texas Conference in San Antonio, TX
    • Presentation Date: March 2024 
  • Farias-Sokoloski, T., Montaña, T. (2023, September). Talent spotlight #1 - Edgewood ISD.
    • Venue: 2023 Texas Strategic Leadership (TSL) Learning Lab Spotlight in Houston, TX
    • Presentation Date: September 2023