Biographical Sketch -- Noma LeMoineNoma LeMoine is Director of the Los Angeles Unified School District's ACADEMIC ENGLISH MASTERY PROGRAM. http://www.lausd.k12.ca.us/lausd/offices/bilingual/ldpaas.html . In that role, she is responsible for overseeing the design, development, coordination and implementation of a program that serves over 25,000 students, 2,000 teachers and 800 paraeducators. The Program, which has been featured on "60 Minutes" and in periodicals including Education Week and Teacher Magazine, has as its primary goal facilitating mastery of standard American English in students who are speakers of non-standard languages, while fostering in them an appreciation for their home language and culture. She is also the Director of Operations and Principal Investigator of the Maxine Waters Saturday Academy for Student Advancement in Math, Science, and Communications.
EDUCATION
Ms. LeMoine holds a Master's degree in Language and Speech Pathology and Audiology from California State University at Los Angeles, a second Master's degree in Education from California Lutheran University and is presently a candidate for Ph.D. in Language, Literacy, and Learning at the University of Southern California (USC). She has served over ten years as an adjunct professor at several California universities and colleges and has taught courses in Language Acquisition in Children, Speech and Language Development and Disorders, and Language and Speech Development in Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Populations. Noma has served as a Language and Speech consultant to Los Angeles based Headstart programs, a Special Education classroom teacher and "Mentor" teacher, a Language and Speech Disorders Diagnostic Specialists program supervisor, and coordinator of the Los Angeles Unified School District's Speech, Language, and Aphasia Programs. She served two years as Commissioner on Education for the California Speech, Language and Hearing Association and currently serves as a member of the National Citizen's Commission on African American Education, an arm of the Congressional Black Caucus Education Brain Trust.
LeMoine travels often and far lecturing on language and educational issues related to African American students including educational exchanges to Africa, India, Japan, and the Caribbean.
HONORS
Noma has received many professional honors including the California Speech, Language and Hearing Association, District 6 "Outstanding Achievement Award (1988), the "Distinguished Service Award" from the Southern California Affiliate of the National Black Association for Speech, Language and Hearing (1990), and was the recipient of the Lois V. Douglass, "Distinguished Alumnus Award" from the Department of Communication Disorders at California State University, Los Angeles in November of 1991. In April of 1992, Noma LeMoine was named Fellow of the California Speech Language and Hearing Association, one of the organization's highest honors, and in June of 1995, she was the recipient of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, "Black Woman of Achievement Award." In 1997 Mount St. Mary's College awarded Ms. LeMoine the "Cultural Fluency Award" in recognition of outstanding contributions to the developoment of cross-cultural understanding in the Los Angeles Community.