Dr. Duarte Silva continues to serve in the role of Executive Director Emeritus of the California World Language Project (CWLP) in the Graduate School of Education at Stanford University. The Project, designed to strengthen and enhance professional learning opportunities for California's language educators, currently has seven regional sites at campuses of the California State University, independent colleges and universities, as well as the University of California. As the founding Executive Director, Dr. Silva was responsible for providing leadership to the Project’s programs statewide, as well as, for overseeing the evaluating of the programs outcomes implemented in each of CWLP’s regional sites.

Dr. Silva currently serves on the Editorial Board of Foreign Language Annals, Advocacy Committee of the California Language Teachers’ Association (CLTA), Leadership Council for the California Global Education Network (CGEN), and the Board of Advisors for Asia Society’s Chinese Early Language and Immersion Network (CELIN). Until recently, he served on the Washington DC-based Joint National Committee for Languages (JNCL), the Advocacy Committee of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) and the California Language Teachers’ Association Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Task Force.

As a former member of the California Curriculum Commission, Dr. Silva chaired the World Language Subject Matter Committee and was a member of several other committees that directly advise the California State Board of Education on a variety of educational issues. In his capacity as Commissioner, and of CWLP’s Executive Director, he has chaired several state adoptions of instructional resources for World Language and English Language Development students and oversaw the development of criteria for the role of technology in supporting the teaching of languages. He was appointed by the California State Superintendent of Public Instruction to serve as a member of the Professional Development English Learner Advisory Committee, and by the Commission on Teacher Credentialing (CTC) as a member of its English Language Development Credential Panel and served as Chair of the Recruitment and Retention Committee for Language Educators for the New Vision in Action Project that proposed the establishment of the current ACTFL’s National Teacher of the Year initiative.

Dr. Silva holds a BA in in foreign language education, an MA in curriculum development and professional learning and a doctorate degree in international and multicultural education with a focus on Second Language Acquisition, teacher preparation and professional learning and has published numerous research studies in peer-reviewed journals in the areas of world language education, Second Language Acquisition, Chinese dual-immersion programs and professional learning for language educators.