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Rosa Fraga, '72 & '82
Retired with more than 30 years of service in bilingual education,
Rosa Fraga, ‘72 continues to be engaged in immigrant communities.
Along with her husband, Fraga opened a Spanish and Vietnamese
translation service business, WIN Services, in 2006.
Before
retiring from Grand Rapids Public Schools, Fraga worked as director,
regional director, interim director, and principal. During her time
with GRPS, Fraga focused her work on the immigrant communities. Among
other accomplishments, she developed English as a Second Language
curriculum, implemented service learning projects with several local
non-profit organizations, partnered with Kent Career Technical Center
to give vocational training to limited-English-speaking students, and
a comprehensive School Reform Development Project Grant through Yale
University.
Fraga earned her B.A. in Spanish and social
studies and M.A. in education from Grand Valley State University. She
later went on to receive certification in secondary teaching and
central office administrator and her K-12 bilingual education
endorsement from the State of Michigan. Fraga also earned more than 15
credit hours of post-graduate educational leadership at Michigan State
University.
Fraga currently lives with her husband in Ada.
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