Valentina Arango-Correa
The Boggs Center on Developmental Disabilities

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Valentina Arango-Correa, MEd, is a training and consultation specialist at The Boggs Center on Developmental Disabilities. She provides project training and technical assistance on the Person-Centered Approaches in Schools and Transition (PCAST) project, working closely with schools, students, and families.

Prior to joining The Boggs Center, Mrs. Arango-Correa worked as a K–12 Title I language arts coach in Roselle Park School District. In this district, she wrote curriculum to help shape the ELA curriculum to be more representative of the student body and provided anti-bias professional development. She was also a high school language arts teacher.

Mrs. Arango-Correa received her Master’s degree in English Education from the Rutgers Graduate School of Education. She is currently in the dissertation phase of the Educational Doctorate program. The focus of her doctoral studies is education, culture, and society.

Conference Presentation: Exposing Invisible Walls: Understanding Transition for Students with Disabilities and Undocumented Immigration Status