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• As an education professor working in the Teacher Preparation Program (TPP) since the year 2000, Dr. Bellido has taught the following courses: Human Development, Educational Psychology, Learning Evaluation; Theory and Methodology in the Teaching of History and Social Sciences, and Student Teaching of Mathematics and of Social Studies in Secondary School among others. As a collaborator in the Psychology Department, she teaches Introduction courses to School Psychology, Fundamentals of Psychology, and the grad course of Learning and Cognition. As the UPRM Resource Center for Education Research and Services Center (CRUISE) coordinator since 2002, she has directed or evaluated more than twenty-five educational research, professional development, and outreach projects from 2002 to 2023. These educational research and service projects include higher-education ecosystems for retention and graduation of STEM scholars, STEM teachers scholarships, professional development and induction, project-based learning instruction, classroom action research, professional and virtual learning communities, creating online educational materials, professional development and training for pre-service and in-service teachers, professional development for higher education faculty and a major Math and Science Partnership project.