Profile for Kaycee Rogers

Kaycee Rogers Pronouns: She/Her/Ella

Lecturer

Global Cultures & Languages

Brief biography

Kaycee Rogers is a lifelong educator with a BA in Elementary Education from Luther College and certifications in ESL, Spanish, and Reading. She began teaching in Colombia and later worked in MN and WI as an Elementary, Spanish, and ESL teacher. After earning her Master’s from UW-La Crosse, she moved into teacher education. She served as the Director of Education at Augsburg–Rochester and as the ESL Program Coordinator at UW–Madison. Now at CESA 2, she coordinates the CLASS program and teaches across licensure areas. She holds a PhD from UW–Madison; she researches rural ESL teacher identity, agency, and support. She serves as a part-time Instructor in the Department of Global Cultures and Languages at UW La Crosse.

Current courses at UWL

GCL 310 Theories and Research in Second Language Acquisition

GCL 320 World Language Education Field Experience II

GCL 420 Teaching World Languages: Design & Application

Education

BA, Luther College- Elementary Education with certifications in Spanish, ESL, and Reading

MEPD, UW La Crosse- Professional Development: Instructional Pedagogy & Teacher Leadership

PhD, UW Madison- Curriculum and Instruction

Areas of Research: Teacher Education, Multilingual Education, Rural Education, Narrative Inquiry, Community Engaged Research

Career

Research and publishing

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

Rogers, K., & Velarde, L. (2025) Why not both? Balancing equitable approaches to multilingual education for linguistically minoritized students. MinneTESOL Journal, 42(2). Retrieved from https://minnetesoljournal.org/why-not-both-balancing-equitable-approaches-to-multilingual-education-for-linguistically-minoritized-students/

Santiago, R., Román, D., & Rogers, K. (2025). Family–School Partnerships for Rural U.S. Latine English Learners: A Systematic Review. Journal of Latinos and Education, 24(5), 1395–1413. https://doi-org.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/10.1080/15348431.2025.2477496

Public Scholarship

Lettau, G., Veguilla, F., Rogers, K., & Worple, K. (2025) “Utilizing translanguaging pedagogy to bridge multilingual programs in districts with small multilingual populations.” CESA 2.

https://www.cesa2.org/whitepapers/Utilizing_Translanguaging_Pedagogy.pdf

Rogers K. (2023) Planting the Seeds in Ag Ed: Cultivating the Future of Agroecology. Rural Education SIG Newsletter- Fall 2023

Arroio A., Subramanian I., Rogers K., Lewis C., Lee C.K.E., Kusahara K.,& Kim J. (2022) Peace Education and Lesson Study for Teacher Educators (PELSTE) 2022: Localizing Lesson Study. Bulletin of the EVRI Research Project (7). Hiroshima University Educational Vision Research Institute (EVRI).