Elizet Moret

Dr. Elizet Moret is an educational leader that advocates for the needs of culturally and linguistically diverse students and promotes access to equitable education that is centered in equity and social justice. She is the owner of Edu Lengua, an educational consulting company that serves school districts and charters across the nation. Her company focuses on the needs of emergent bilinguals, families, and their communities. Previous to her re-launch of Edu Lengua, LLC Dr. Moret served as the Director of Professional Learning at Velázquez Press, a recognized publishing company that works with researchers and known authors in the field of English learners. Previous to joining Velázquez Press, Dr. Moret has served as Texas' state coordinator at the Texas Education Agency, where she worked on the commissioner's state initiative of Dual Language programming and implementation. She has also collaborated and guided the revisions on Chapter 89, Subchapter BB in regard to the education of emergent bilinguals in the state of Texas. At the national level, Dr. Moret has been a contributing author for Drs. Wayne Thomas and Virginia Collier’s book Transforming Secondary Education: Middle and High School Dual Language Programs and has also served as a national bilingual consultant for the Center of Applied Linguistics (CAL).