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Jamie Myers

Professor of Education

The Pennsylvania State University

254 Chambers Building

University Park, PA 16802

(814) 865-2240- Office

[email protected]

Professional Experience

Aug. 1989 - present Professor, Language and Literacy Education, Department of

Curriculum and Instruction, College of Education, Pennsylvania

State University.

June 1986 - Aug. 1989 Research Associate, Center for Reading and Language Studies;

Associate Instructor, Content Area Reading, Indiana University.

Sept. 1980 - June 1986 Reading teacher, grade 7 and 9-12, and English teacher, grades 7 and

12, Liberty Center Schools, Liberty Center, Ohio.

June 1984 - Aug. 1985 Instructor, Content Area Reading, Study Skills, and Clinical

Diagnosis and Remediation, Bowling Green State University,

Bowling Green, Ohio.

Sept. 1984 - June 1985 Assistant Director, Reading Clinic, Bowling Green State University,

Bowling Green, Ohio.

Sept. 1979 - June 1980 Associate Instructor, Reading and Study Skills, Lima Technical

College-Ohio State University Lima Branch Campus.

Sept. 1977 - June 1979 English Teacher, grades 7-12, Old Fort Schools, Old Fort, Ohio.

Education

Oct. 1989 Ph.D. in Education, Reading and Inquiry, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana

June 1980 M.Ed. in Education, Reading, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio

June 1977 B.S. in Education, Secondary English, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio

Dec. 1976 B.A. in Arts & Sciences, English, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio

Professional Focus and Activity

My teaching, research, and service generate from the three themes of collaboration, culture, and

critique. These themes in my work are founded upon the theory that humans construct, negotiate,

and contest meanings through their use of signs in everyday social interaction. Although the

meanings of signs are never fixed or given, cultural patterns of activity shape how we construct

valued identities, relationships, and knowledge. My scholarship has explored how the social

contexts/cultural practices of individualistic, achievement oriented, and knowledge/skill

transmission school activities construct literacy and learning practices with consequences that are

problematic in a world of multicultural and negotiated truth. Since I value literacy activity that

helps participants negotiate their experience within and across diverse local and global

communities, my scholarship explores how curricular activities with print and digital tools can

support the collaborative generation, negotiation, and critique of representations of the self,

others, and the world. My service arises in my commitment to one's home, as well as

professional communities, seeking ways to heighten collaboration and communication, to create

the belonging necessary for beneficial critique and subsequent transformation of the self and

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one’s community. I believe that my actions help students, colleagues, and neighbors understand

our language and pedagogy as socially constructed activity, driven by value choices,

communicated through the metaphors we negotiate in our social interactions, dialectically shaped

by our historical-cultural contexts, and productive of our future cognitive and cultural identity

possibilities.

Research and scholarly publications

Articles in refereed publications

Myers, J. (1989). Making invitations that encourage active learning, Journal of Reading, 32/6,

562-565.

Myers, J. (1991). Now that Literacy happens in contexts, How do we know if the contexts are

Authentic? In Sandy McCormick & Jerry Zutell (Eds.) Learner Factors/Teacher Factors:

Issues in Literacy Research and Instruction, Fortieth Yearbook National Reading

Conference. Chicago, Illinois: National Reading Conference, Inc., 91-96.

Myers, J. (1992). Theoretical Visions and Cultural Blinders in The Writings of Frank Smith,

The Review of Education, 14/2, 163-167.

Myers, J. (1992). The social contexts of school and personal literacy, Reading Research

Quarterly, 27/4, 296-333.

Nelson, M. & Myers, J. (1993). Teaching Ethnic Cultures: Fiction and Fact, Teaching

Education, 5/2, 23-32.

Myers, J. (1993). Constructing Community and Intertextuality in Electronic Mail. In C.K.

Kinzer & D. J. Leu (Eds.), Examining Central Issues in Literacy Research, Theory, and

Practice, Forty-Second Yearbook of the National Reading Conference, 251-262.

Myers, J. & Simon, M. (1993). Authorizing mathematical knowledge in a classroom

community. In Joanne Rossi Becker & Barbara J. Pence (Eds.), Psychology of

Mathematics Education: Proceedings of the Fifteenth Annual Meeting, 2, 196-202.

Myers, J. (1994). Hypertext and Literacy: Technology and Ideology, The Review of Education/

Pedagogy/Cultural Studies, 16/1, 69-85.

Myers, J. (1995). Moving readers' response into cultural critique. Teaching and Learning

Literature, 4(5), May/June, 3-7.

Myers, J. (1995). The value-laden assumptions of our interpretive practices, Reading Research

Quarterly, 30/3, 582-587.

Berger, A., Brady, J., Fueyo, J., Gibson, R., Hawkins, B., Marshall, D., McCollum-Clark, K.,

Myers, J., Serrano, R., and Shannon, P. (1996). Space to Act, Time to Theorize, Journal

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of Teacher Research, 3/2, 52-67.

Myers, J. (1997). Internet Communication in Six Classrooms, Journal of Literacy Research,

29/2, 311-318.

Myers, J. & Pirrone, J. (1997). School-University Collaboration at the Secondary Level,

Pennsylvania Educational Leadership, 17/1, 38-46.

Hammett, R. & Myers, J. (1998). Possibilities for Technology in the Classroom: Tools for

Transformation rather than Oppression, The Review of Education, Pedagogy, and

Cultural Studies, 20/1, 99-115.

Myers, J., Leu, Jr., D., & Reinking, D. (1998). What are the implications of technology for

classroom literacy instruction in the future? New York State Reading Association

Journal, 8/1, 61-66.

Myers, J. & Beach, R. (2001). Hypermedia authoring as critical literacy. Journal of Adolescent

& Adult Literacy, 44(6), 538-546.

Myers, J. & Sung, Ki-Wan (2002). Texts, Technology, and Pedagogy. Multimedia-Assisted

Language Learning. 5(1), 151-166.

Myers, J. (2002). The Benefits of Student Hypermedia Authoring. A new paradigm for

innovative multimedia language education in the 21st

century: Proceedings of 2002

International KAMALL Conference, 27-36. Daejon, Korea: The Korean Association of

Multimedia-Assisted Language Learning.

Myers, J. (2004). Using technology tools to support learning in the English language arts.

Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education, 3(4), 436-442.

Myers, J & Beach, R. (2004). Constructing critical literacy practices through technology tools

and inquiry. Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education, 4(?), 257-268.

Beach, R., Bruce, B., Leander, K., & Myers, J. (2005). Commentary, Criticism and Kudos:

From the Reviews of “The Construction of Meaning and Identity in the Composition and

Reading of an Architectural Text.” Reading Research Quarterly, 40/1, online extra.

Retrieved 4/2/05:

http://www.reading.org/Library/Retrieve.cfm?D=10.1598/RRQ.40.1.4&F=RRQ-40-1-

Smagorinsky_supp-1.html

Myers, J. (2006). Literacy Practices and Digital Literacies: A Commentary on Swenson,

Rozema, Young, McGrail, and Whitin. Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher

Education, 6(1).

http://www.reading.org/Library/Retrieve.cfm?D=10.1598/RRQ.40.1.4&F=RRQ-40-1-Smagorinsky_supp-1.html

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Myers, J. (2007). Constructing English Language Learners as Intercultural Speakers

through Digital Technologies, STEM Journal, 8(1), 253-280.

Myers, J. & Eberfors, F. (2010). Globalizing English through intercultural critical literacy,

English Education, 42/2, 148-170.

Young, C. A., Long, S., & Myers, J. (2010). Editorial: Enhancing English language arts

education with digital video. Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher

Education, 10(1). Retrieved from

http://www.citejournal.org/vol10/iss1/languagearts/article1.cfm

Myers, J. (2012). Researching how and why we use technologies in literacy practices. In P. J.

Dunston, L. B. Gambrell, K. Headley, S. K. Fullerton, & P. M. Stecker, Eds., 61st

Yearbook of the Literacy Research Association. Oak Creek, Wisconsin: National

Reading Conference.

Books

Myers, J. (1989). Encouraging Your High School Student to Read. Newark, Delaware:

International Reading Association. (23,809 copies in circulation)

Beach, R. & Myers, J. (2001). Inquiry-Based English Instruction: Engaging Students in Life and

Literature. New York: Teachers College Press.

Parts of books

Myers, J. (1992). Bobby, Butch, and Jane. In Sally Hudson-Ross, Linda Miller-Cleary, & Marg

Casey (Editors). Children’s voices: Children talk about literacy. Portsmouth, NH:

Boynton-Cook-Heinemann, 150-155. (invited)

Myers, J. (1992). Curricular designs that resonate with adolescents’ ways of knowing. In R.

Learner (Editor) Early Adolescence: Perspectives on research, policy, and intervention,

191-206. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. (refereed)

Jonassen, D.H., Myers, J., & McKillop, A.M. (1996). From constructivism to constructionism:

Learning with hypermedia/multimedia rather than from it, in Wilson, B. (Ed.),

Constructivist learning environments: Case studies in instructional design, 93-106.

Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Educational Technology Publications. (invited)

Myers, J. & Alverman, D. (1997). A Critical Postmodernist Perspective on the Vignettes of

Conceptual Change. In C. Hynd & B. Buzzetti (Editors), Theoretical Perspectives on

Conceptual Change, . Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.

(invited)

Myers, J., Hammett, R. & McKillop, A.M. (1998). Opportunities for Critical Literacy/Pedagogy

in Student Authored Hypermedia. In D. Reinking, L. Labbo, M. McKenna, & R. Kieffer

(Editors) Literacy for the 21st century: Technological transformations in a post-

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typographic world, 63-78. Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.

(refereed)

Serrano, R. & Myers, J. (1999). Preservice teachers' collages of multicultural education. In L.

Semali & A.W. Pailliolet (Eds.), Teacher's Handbook of Critical Media Literacy

Intermediality: Teaching Critical Media Literacy, . Boulder, Colorado: Harper Collins

Publishers. (invited)

McKillop, A.M. & Myers, J. (1999). The Electronic and Pedagogical Contexts of Hypermedia

Authoring. In S.L. DeWitt & K. Strasma (Editors), Contexts, Intertexts & Hypertexts,

65-116. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press. (refereed)

Myers, J., Hammett, R., & McKillop, A.M. (2000). Connecting, Exploring, and Exposing the

Self in Hypermedia Projects. In M. Gallego & S. Hollingsworth (Editors), What Counts

as literacy: Challenging the school standard, 85-105. New York: Teachers College

Press. (refereed)

Myers, J. (2002). Semiotic Assumptions in the Social Practice of Critical Literacy. In L. Semali,

Ed., Transmediation in the classroom: A Semiotics-Based Media Literacy Framework,

133-148. New York: Peter Lang Publishers. (invited)

Myers, J. & Beach, R. (2003). Hypermedia Authoring as Critical Literacy. In B. Bruce, Ed.,

Literacy in the Information Age: Inquiries into meaning making with new technologies,

233-246. Newark, Delaware: International Reading Association. (reprinted refereed)

Myers, J. (2006). Constructing EFL learners as Intercultural Speakers through digital

technologies, New Trends in English Teaching in the Globalized Age: Proceedings of

2006 International English Education Conference, 1-8. Seoul, Korea: Kookmin

University Institute of Language and Literature Research & The Society for Teaching

English through Media(STEM), (conference proceedings).

Myers, J. (2008). Opportunities for critical literacy in boys’ video authoring. In Roberta F.

Hammett & Kathy Sanford, Editors, Boys, Girls, and the Myths of Literacies and

Learning, 169-184. Toronto, ON: Canadian Scholars’ Press, Inc. (refereed)

Myers, J. (in press). Re-presenting poetry using digital video authoring. In D. Stephens & J.

Harste (Eds.), Come Monday Morning.

Myers, J. (2012). Negotiating the privilege of print with the affordances of digital video

authoring. In C. Young and S. Kajder, Eds., Research on Technology in English

Education. Charlotte, North Carolina: Information Age Publishing.

Articles in nonrefereed publications

Myers, J. (1988). Literacy Paradigms and Language Research Methodology. ERIC

Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, 40 pp., ED300768, 1988.

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Myers, J. and Smitten, B. (1988). “The Turning of Assessment.” The Alpha PDK Newsletter,

82/2, 1-2.

Myers, J. (1991). Sajo and the Beaver People. In Frank N. Magill (Ed.), Masterplots II:

Juvenile and Young Adult Fiction. Pasadena, California: Salem Press, Inc., 1259-1262.

Myers, J. (1993). Values and Outcome Based Education, The Center Daily Times, 6, May 26.

Myers, J. (1993). Barrio Boy. In Frank N. Magill (Ed.), Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young

Adult Biography. Pasadena, California: Salem Press, Inc., 176-179.

Alsup, J., Myers, J., Cercone, J., Farrell, E., Jocson, K., Kynard, C., & McGrail, E. (2007).

Globalization and English Education. Conference on English Education Policy Summit

working group paper. Retrieved February 10, 2009 from

http://ncte.org/cee/2007summit/globalization.

Ulicna, D., Allinson, R., Myers, J., Yang, Sung Woo (2011). Study on the use of credit systems

in higher education cooperation between the EU and the US. European Commission,

Directorate-General for Education and Culture (http://ec.europa.eu/education/more-

information/doc/2011/us_en.pdf).

Research reports and monographs

Farr, R.; Fay, L.; Myers, J.; and Ginsberg, M. (1987). Then and Now: Reading Achievement in

Indiana, 1944-45, 1976, and 1986. Bloomington, Indiana: Center for Reading and

Language Studies, 140 pp. (Research Monograph)

Myers, J. (1991). Purpose-Need-Task: A case study of six respondents’ beliefs about why they

read. ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, 80 pp., ED324638.

Farr, R., Fay, L., Myers, J., Robbins, B., Smitten, B., Bintz, W.P. (1991). A Descriptive Profile

of High School Student Perspectives on Reading Value, Instruction, and Achievement

Between Sixth and Tenth Grade. Unpublished report of research funded by the Morris

M. and Mary Higgins Proffitt Foundation. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University.

Myers, J. (1993). The Student Teacher Network: Phase One. Unpublished report of research

supported in part by Apple and IBM equipment loans, The Pennsylvania Department of

Education, and the Pennsylvania State University Office of Telecommunications and

Colleges of Agriculture and Education.

Dana, N. & Myers, J. (1995). Evaluation Report: Goals 2000 Professional Development

Collaboration . Unpublished report evaluating a $25,000 grant to support action teams to

develop professional development relationships between The Pennsylvania State

University, The State College Area School District, and the Bellefonte Area School

District.

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Dana, N., Dana, T., Fueyo, J., Hade, D., Hernandez, D., Myers, J., Scanlon, J., & Tzur, R.

(1996). Powerful Partners: State College Area School District and Penn State's College

of Education Goals 2000 Final Evaluation Report 1995-1996. Report evaluating a

$50,000 grant to support the creation of professional development collaborations between

the school district and university.

Myers, J. (1997). Collaboration In the Secondary English/Language Arts. In N. Dana (Ed.)

Stories of Collaboration Continued: The State College Area School District-Penn State

College of Education Partnership. Goals 2000 Project Final Evaluation Report 1996-

1997.

Myers, J. (2006). 2003-2006 PICCLE Project Final Evaluation Report, retrieved December 6,

2006 from http://piccle.ed.psu.edu/PICCLEevaluation.doc.

Ulicna, D., Allinson, R., Myers, J., Yang, S. (2011). Study on the use of credit systems in higher

education cooperation between the EU and the US. Brussels, Belgium: Directorate-

General for Education and Culture, European Commission (248pp). Co-sponsored by the

U.S. Department of Education, Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education,

Atlantis Program. http://ec.europa.eu/education/more-information/doc/2011/us_en.pdf

Published Websites

Myers, J. (2003-present) PICCLE (Pedagogy for InterCultural Critical Literacy Education)

website http://piccle.ed.psu.edu/ provides an Internet location for faculty from anywhere

in the world to connect students to engage in discussions about the meanings of media

and print texts to develop intercultural perspectives.

Myers, J. (2001-present). Secondary English Professional Development School collaboration

with the State College Area School District: the website

http://www.ed.psu.edu/englishpds provides an archive describing the program since its

1998 beginning, and a current structure for PDS participant interaction. Newest additions

deal with video documentaries of classroom literacy practices by interns.

Myers, J. (1995-present). Hypermedia Resources at http://www.ed.psu.edu/k-12/. This

expansive website provides resources for teachers and student teachers and demonstrates

curricular uses of hypermedia authoring--continually expanded and updated.

Myers, J. (2005-present) Podcasting website (http://piccle.ed.psu.edu/podcasts). In early

development with secondary school English teachers, podcasts of essays, literature

discussions, and creative works are being published for internet listening.

Myers, J. (1995). A special site at http://www.ed.psu.edu/k-12/hypermedia/hypermedia.html.

This website reports early research using hypermedia authoring to support a critical

pedagogy/literacy.

http://piccle.ed.psu.edu/PICCLEevaluation.doc


http://piccle.ed.psu.edu/

http://www.ed.psu.edu/englishpds

http://www.ed.psu.edu/k-12/

http://piccle.ed.psu.edu/podcasts

http://www.ed.psu.edu/k-12/hypermedia/hypermedia.html

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Myers, J. (1998-99). Holmes Partnership Integrating Technology Web Site:

http://www.ed.psu.edu/k-12/holmes/. This website corresponded with the leadership role

of annual program leader for technology initiatives in the Holmes Partnership

Organization.

Creative accomplishments

Myers, J. (1993). "Placeholds and Juxtapositions." A 28 minute multimedia quick-time movie

produced on the Macintosh platform exploring readers' responses to multicultural

literature.

Myers, J. (1995). Teen Authors Electronic Journal, Editor. This journal was an electronic

journal available on the internet through file transfer, gopher, and world wide web. The

inaugural Junior High and High School issues were published in the Fall of 1994. Nearly

500 submissions of fiction, poetry, and essay were submitted for each issue by electronic

mail, fax, and post. The submissions were reviewed by undergraduates in LL ED 411 as

part of their experiences learning about writing instruction and response

Myers,J., Dana, N., Easley, J., J. (2002). "Penn State University & State College Area School

District Professional Development School." An 18 minute video analyzing the significant

aspects of the PDS collaboration in the elementary and secondary English classrooms.

Portions of this video were integrated into a video used during the national award

winning Distinguished Program in Teacher Education presentation of the Penn State PDS

at the 2002 Association of Teacher Educators annual convention.

Research projects and grants

2008- Center for Multimedia Assisted English Language Learning: Center established

in 2008 with support from Woosong University, South Korea to fund two doctoral

research assistantships, $60,000.

2007-2012 Consortium for Intercultural Reflective Teachers (CIRT): U.S. Department of

Education, Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education, European

Union-United States Atlantis Program. The CIRT program creates cohorts of 16

teacher education students from University of Chichester, UK, Jönköping

University Sweden, and Penn State who study together for two years, with one full

academic year at the transatlantic partner. Undergraduate students earn dual

degrees in Education from Penn State and Jönköping University School of

Education and Communication. Funding provides mobility grants to 48 students

for study abroad and to 36 faculty to align professional teacher education curricua

across the partner universities. Total: $408,000 and €408,000.

2010-2011 Study on the use of credit systems in higher education cooperation between the

EU and the US: U.S. Department of Education, Fund for the Improvement of

Postsecondary Education, European Union-United States Atlantis Program.

Project to co-author with an EU research team a study on the best practices in

http://www.ed.psu.edu/k-12/holmes/

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credit transfer and transparency for study abroad between European Union and

United States Higher Education Institutions. Supplemental Award to CIRT grant.

Total: $50,000.

2006 International Programs, Pennsylvania State University: Matching funds for group

study abroad at partner university in Jönköping, University.

2003-2006 PICCLE: A Pedagogy for Intercultural Critical Literacy Education, U.S.

Department of Education, Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education,

European Union-United States Collaboration Grant. Grant activity creates a

platform and modules to connect students for international discussion of common

issues and readings at Jonkoping University School of Education and

Communication, Kiel University of Applied Sciences, University of Vassa, St.

Cloud State University, Norfolk State University, and Penn State. Total: $80,

409.

2000-2001 Initiative to involve undergraduate students in PDS research and conference

presentations, Penn State Univeristy Office of Undergaduate Education, $2,000,

Project Director.

1999-2000 Higher Education Partnership Grant, Pennsylvania Department of Education, for

the Collaborative Teaching Initiative project linked to the Secondary English

Professional Development Collaboration with State College Area School District,

$15,000, Project Director.

1999 University Office of International Programs Global Fund award for initiating

critical ethnographic research in international settings: supported Marc Djamou to

study “College Students’ Perceptions of French as a National Language in Cote d’

Ivoire,” $1,500.

1995-97 Goals 2000 Professional Development Collaboration between The Pennsylvania

State University and The State College Area School District, $50,000. Research

Participant. Co-teacher in 9th grade English; consultant and co-teacher in the

11th-12th grade Technology, Humanities, and the Environment Option; study

group leader for the development of a year long certification internship in the

school for English education.

1994-95 Goals 2000 Professional Development Collaboration between The Department of

Curriculum and Instruction, Pennsylvania State University, The State College

Area School District, and The Bellefonte Area School District, $25,000. Research

and Proposal Writing Participant with Nancy Fitchman Dana, Bonnie D. Abrams,

and Mona McGraw.

1991-96 The Student Teacher Network Project, in which student teachers, supervisors, and

faculty are electronically linked. Research focuses upon the collaborative forms

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of interaction and knowledge. Computer workstations supplied by IBM and

Apple, with network support from the Pennsylvania Department of Education,

Penn State College of Agriculture, and the College of Education Alumni Society.

Project Director.

1990-92 Constructivist Elementary Mathematics Project funded by the National Science

Foundation and directed by Dr. Martin Simon, $200,000. My research role over

the two year project was to represent how participants construct the social

contexts which define their classroom roles and their sense of what it means to do

mathematics, and belong to a community of people who use mathematics.

Research Participant.

1991-93 The New American Scientist Initiative: the development of collaborative

activities between students in middle school, undergraduates in introductory

science courses, and pre-service teachers. This also involves the development and

evaluation of multi-media programs to provide interdisciplinary experiences for

middle school students. Supported by an AT&T equipment gift of $450,000.

Proposal participant.

1991-92 Awarded a $300 grant by the Pennsylvania State University Fund for the

Improvement of Undergraduate Education. These funds were used to support the

acquisition of multicultural texts and materials to support the instructional

experience in Language and Literacy 420: Adolescent Literature and Literacy.

1989 “The Social Contexts of School and Personal Literacy,” investigating the literacy

of eighth graders in a computer writing lab. Indiana University College of

Education Thesis Research Award, $500.

1987-88 A Descriptive Profile of High School Student Perspectives on Reading Value,

Instruction, and Achievement Between Sixth and Tenth Grade, Proffitt foundation

support, Indiana University, $10,000. Proposal Author and Project Director.

1986-87 A proposal to establish the Indiana College Placement and Assessment Center.

The center was funded by the Indiana Department of Education through

competitive grant application at $150,000 for the first year and has continued its

growth to over $1,000,000 funding in the current year. Principal Author of first

year proposal.

Honors and Awards

1995 Nominated by the College of Education faculty for the University Atherton Teaching

Award.

199? Selected by Class Valedictorian as Faculty Marshall for the College of Education

Summer Commencement Exercises.

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1999 Selected by Class Valedictorian as Faculty Marshall for the College of Education Fall

Commencement Exercises.

2000 Awarded Best Secondary Education Professor by the College of Education and the

Pennsylvania Student Education Association.

2000 Selected by Class Valedictorian as Faculty Marshall for the College of Education Fall


2001 Awarded Innovative Educator of the Year by the Penn State Chapter of Phi Delta Kappa.

2003 2003 CITE Journal Technology Leadership Award for Exemplary Use of Technology to

Teach Content in a Methods Course, Society for Information Technology & Teacher

Education.

2004 CIC Academic Leadership Program Fellow: Year-long fellowship to participate in CIC

workshops on University leadership held at various CIC Universities.

2004 Holmes Partnership Nancy Zimpher/Ken Howey Award for Best Partnership, received by

the members of the combined elementary and secondary English Professional

Development School programs.

2005 Invited scholar participant to the Conference on English Education Policy Summit I,

Atlanta, GA.

2007 Selected by Class Valedictorian as Faculty Marshall for the College of Education Spring


2007 Invited scholar participant, and Globalism Policy Strand co-leader, to the Conference on

English Education Policy Summit II, Chicago, IL.

Papers presented at professional meetings

10/87 Seventh Great Lakes Regional Conference of the International Reading Association:

“Testing and Curriculum: Two Sides of the Learning Coin.”

6/88 Indiana University Summer Reading Conference: “Sharing and Evaluating Small Group

Work.”

11/88 Seventy-eighth Annual Convention of the National Council of Teachers of English:

“Fluency, Not Lit. Crit.: Every Student Should be in the Novel.”

11/88 Indiana University Fall Language Arts Conference: “Structures for Classroom

Discussion.”

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12/88 National Reading Conference 38th Annual Meeting: “The Sense Pre-service Teachers

Make of Their Language Arts/Reading Methods Classes and Field Placement

Experience”

12/88 National Reading Conference 38th Annual Meeting: “Social Plus Academics Does Not

Equal Reading.”

5/89 CELT Rejuvenation Conference General Session Address, Asilomar, California: “The

Social Contexts of Adolescent Literacy.”

5/89 International Reading Association 34th Annual Convention: “Constructing an

Interpretive Classroom for Content Area Learning.”

2/90 Eleventh Annual Ethnography in Education Research Forum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania:

“Methods in Collaborative Interviewing: A Workshop.”

5/90 Bloomsburg University’s 26th Annual Reading Conference: “Experiential Approaches to

Teaching Meaning Making Strategies.”

5/90 International Reading Association’s 35th Annual Convention: “The Future of Reader

Response.”

11/90 National Reading Conference 40th Annual Meeting: “Responding to Professional

Literature: Computer Mediated Conversation” with Terence Ahern.

11/90 National Reading Conference 40th Annual Meeting: “Now That Literacy Happens in

Contexts, How Do You Know if the Contexts Are Authentic?”

11/91 National Reading Conference 41st Annual Meeting: “Research issues for teacher

research” with Jerome Harste.

11/91 National Reading Conference 41st Annual Meeting: “Using computers to change literacy

instruction and improve teacher education.”

3/92 Microcomputer Information Exchange Conference, University Park, Pennsylvania:

“Promoting Pre-service Teacher Reflections and Development Through a

Telecommunications Network,” with Linda Hoover.

5/92 International Reading Association’s 37th Annual Convention: “The Politics of

Authenticity,” Invited Speaker for the Psycho-sociolinguistics Special Interest Group.

5/92 International Reading Association’s 37th Annual Conference: “Doing Classroom

Research,” Invited Speaker for the Reading Research Quarterly session of the

Author’s Strand.

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6/92 The Eleventh International Human Science Research Conference, Rochester, Michigan:

“The multiple literacies adolescents socially construct in the school classroom.”

6/92 The Eleventh International Human Science Research Conference, Rochester, Michigan:

“Representing the ‘other:’ Going from notes in the field to themes in print.”

8/92 1992 Whole Language Umbrella Conference, Niagara Falls, New York: “Whole

Language for What?” with D. Deegan, J. Fueyo, and D. Hade.

12/92 National Reading Conference 42nd Annual Meeting, San Antonio, Texas: “Assumptions

Pre-service Teachers Examine.”

12/92 National Reading Conference 42nd Annual Meeting, San Antonio, Texas:

“Intertextuality and Community in Electronic Mail.”

3/93 Penn State Conference on Innovation in Education, University Park, Pennsylvania:

"Networking Central Pennsylvania Students in English Classrooms," with P.

Burlingame, J. Friel, K. McCollum, M. Myers, A. Sten, N. Chouinard, D. Crust, D.

McAndrews, and M. Theuer.

5/93 International Reading Association 38th Annual Convention, San Antonio, Texas:

"Empowering Students through the Visions of Project," with E. Martin and K.

McCollum.

5/93 International Reading Associations 38th Annual Convention, San Antonio, Texas:

"Semiotics and Subversion."

10/93 Psychology of Mathematics Education North American Chapter's 15th Meeting,

Asilomar, California: "Authorizing Mathematical Knowledge," with M. Simon.

10/93 Pennsylvania Department of Education Educational Technology Conference, Altoona,

Pennsylvania: "Using Telecommunications to Enhance the Language Arts

Curriculum," with P. Burlingame, A. Sten, K. McCollum, and J. Friel.

11/93 National Council Teachers of English Annual Convention, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania:

"The Medium is the Message," in the session "More than Method: Literacy for

Democracy/Democracy for Justice."

12/93 National Reading Conference 43rd Annual Meeting, Charleston, South Carolina:

"Unpacking Our Discourse: Conversations about Ideology and Purpose in Literacy

Research," with M. Siegel, D. Bressler, B. Flores, G. Kamberelis, W. McGinley, C.

Panofsky, P. Cousin, and discussants B. Altwerger, J. Green, and J. Harste.

12/93 National Reading Conference 43rd Annual Meeting, Charleston, South Carolina:

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"Expanding the Possibilities: How Feminist Theories Inform Traditions and

Positions in Reader Response, Classroom Discussion, and Critical Thinking,"

Chair/Discussant with D. Alverman, B. Bruce, and M. Commeyras.

2/94 Fifteenth Annual Ethnography in Education Research Forum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania:

"How Ethnography and Educational Innovations Make Each Other Problematic,"

with Ramon Serrano, Kimberly McCollum-Clark, Brenda Hawkins, and Judy Fueyo.

2/94 International Reading Association 3rd North American Conference on Adult and

Adolescent Literacy, Washington, D.C.: "What makes school literacy authentic and

does it marginalize or empower?"

4/94 Children's Literature Matters, University Park, Pennsylvania: "Using electronic mail with

middle school students to share responses to their reading."

5/94 International Reading Association 39th Annual Convention, Toronto, Canada: "Crossing

Borders of Geography, Age, and Traditionally Structured School Activity" in the

session "Using Telecommunications to Support Authentic Literacy," with P.

Burlingame, K. McCollum, L. Eisenhart, and A. Sten.

5/94 International Reading Association 39th Annual Convention, Toronto, Canada:

"Paradigms and Pedagogy: A Town Meeting on the Politics of Literacy," Moderator

with R. Figueroa, Y. Goodman, and D. Taylor.

12/94 National Reading Conference 44th Annual Meeting, San Diego, California: "Critical

Literacy in Pre-Service Teacher Education".

12/94 National Reading Conference 44th Annual Meeting, San Diego, California: "The social

construction of literacy (invited presentation)."

12/94 National Reading Conference 44th Annual Meeting, San Diego, California: "A

Technology Museum: Examining Assumptions and Directions; Young authors with

internet tutors and audiences."

3/95 National Conference of Teachers of English, Minneapolis, Minnesota: "Curricular

innovations in literacy pedagogy," with Kim McCollum-Clark and Ramon Serrano.

4/95 American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, California: "What led you

to have that response?: Unpacking the discourses of reader response."

4/95 Children's Literature Matters, University Park, Pennsylvania: "Multimedia Responses to

Literature."

8/95 Adult Basic Literacy Education Summer Institute, University Park, Pennsylvania:

"Literacy lessons as ideological practice: A montage of personal poetry, adolescent

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voices, and theorists' beliefs (invited presentation)."

10/95 Kent State University 1995 Reading Conference, Kent, Ohio: "Poetry & problem

solving: A connection between mathematics and reading," with Mike Mikusa.

10/95 Pennsylvania Council of Teachers of English 1995 Conference, York, Pennsylvania:

"Integrating emerging technology in to the English Classroom," with Ann Margaret

McKillop, Edwin Wargo, Pat Yost and Josephine Pirrone.

10/95 1995 Pennsylvania State University Education Summit, University Park, Pennsylvania:

"Teacher Construction and Use of Internet in the Curriculum."

10/95 1995 Pennsylvania State University Educational Summit, University Park, Pennsylvania:

"Learning with Technology: Student Design of Multimedia/Hypermedia," with Ann

Margaret McKillop and David Jonassen.

11/95 Pennsylvania School Boards Association - Technology in the Schools: The Last and

Next 100 Yearsz, University Park, Pennsylvania: "Designing Classroom Home

Pages for the World Wide Web."

11/95 Pennsylvania School Boards Association, University Park, Pennsylvania: "Learners as

Designers: Learning by Producing Multimedia," with Ann Margaret McKillop and

David Jonassen.

11/95 Education Conference, Kent, Ohio: "Constructivist connections between Math and

Language Instruction," with Mike Mikusa.

12/95 National Reading Conference 45th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana:

"Multimedia/Hypermedia Authoring as Critical Literacy/Pedagogy," with Ann

Margaret McKillop and Roberta Hammett.

12/95 National Reading Conference 45th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana: "The

Direction of Research Workshops," with Dorothy Deegan and Dan Madigan.

12/95 National Reading Conference 45th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana:

"Reflexivity in teacher education: Critical reflection on pedagogy," with J. White

and A. Neilsen.

3/96 Multicultural Summit: Building Community Partnerships for Multicultural Education,

University Park, Pennsylvania: "Ethnic Fact and Fiction use in the Secondary and

Middle School Classroom," with Murry Nelson.

4/96 Children's Literature Matters, University Park, Pennsylvania: "Multicultural Literature:

The Self in the Other"

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4/96 College of Education Board of Visitors, University Park, Pennsylvania: "Using

Technology in the Classroom: Student Authored Hypermedia and World Wide

Web Pages."

10/96 Penn State University Department of Curriculum and Instruction Kern Research Display,

University Park, Pennsylvania: "Using Electronic Literacies and Collaboration:

Transforming Relationships Between the Self, Knowledge, and Culture."

10/96 Literacy and Technology for the 21st Century, Atlanta, Georgia: "Transforming Readers

and Writers: Opportunities for Critical Literacy/Pedagogy in Student Constructed

Hypermedia," with Roberta Hammett and Ann Margaret McKillop.

11/96 Pennsylvania School Boards Association, University Park, Pennsylvania: "Classroom

World Wide Web Home Pages," with Josephine Pirrone and fourteen State College

High School students from our 1995-96 ninth grade English class.

12/96 National Reading Conference 46th Annual Meeting, Charleston, South Carolina:

"Pedagogical Contexts of Electronic Space."


"Gender, Authority and Consumerism in the Uses of Computers in the Classroom:

Issues of Reproduction and Contexts of Empowerment in Technology," with

Roberta Hammett, Ann Margaret McKillop, and Josephine Pirrone.


"Constructing Knowledge and Critique in Electronic Classroom Communities."

1/97 The Holmes Partnership Gateway Conference, Saint Louis, Missouri: "Actualizing The

Professional Development School at the Elementary and Senior High Levels:

Promises, Possibilities, Problems and Pitfalls," with Nancy Dana, Lynn Dobash,

Josphine Pirrone, and Judy Fueyo.

4/97 The Fifth Annual Teaching and Learning with Technology Symposium, University Park,

Pennsylvania: "Hypermedia as a Generative Knowledge Production Tool," with

Roberta Hammett.

4/97 National Conference of Teachers of English, Spring National Conference, Charlotte,

North Carolina: "Letters and e-mail connections and community."

9/97 Education Technology: Asking the Right Questions, University Park, Pennsylvania:

"Hypermedia Authoring," with Roberta Hammett.

11/97 New York State Reading Association 31st Annual Conference, Kiamesha Lake, New

York: "Literacy and Technology," with Donald Leu, Jr. and David Reinking.

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11/97 Making Good Teachers Better, Heredia, Costa Rica: "Qualitative Research in the

Classroom."

11/97 Making Good Teachers Better, Heredia, Costa Rica: "Qualitative Research in an

Elementary Classroom."

12/97 National Reading Conference 47th Annual Meeting, Scottsdale, Arizona: "Structuring a

Literacy Community: A School-University Teacher Education Collaboration," with

Josephine Pirrone.

12/97 National Reading Conference 47th Annual Meeting, Scottsdale, Arizona: "Social

Constructivism and Intermediality."

12/97 National Reading Conference 47th Annual Meeting, Scottsdale, Arizona: "Girlfiend in a

Coma: A discussion of reading practices demonstrated in students' hypermedia

compositions about Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet," with Roberta Hammett, Ann

Margaret McKillop, and Josephine Pirrone.

1/98 The Holmes Partnership Annual Meeting: Imagine Tomorrow: "Integrating Information

Technologies into the Curriculum," Work Team Leader with Josephine Pirrone.

1/98 The Holmes Partnership Annual Meeting: Imagine Tomorrow: "Powerful Partners:

Penn State's College of Education and State College Area School District's Stories

of Elementary and Senior High Collaboration," with Nancy Dana, Judith Fueyo,

Peter Rubba, Tom Dana, Genevieve Duque, Josephine Pirrone, Evan McClintock,

Sandra Winggard, and Lynn Dobash.

3/98 The Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development Annual Meeting, San

Antonio, Texas: "Professional Development Dilemmas," with Brenda Hawkins and

Tim Shannon.

4/98 Childern's Literature Matters, University Park, Pennsylvania: "Hypermedia authoring in

response to literature."

7/98 Literacy, Arts and Learning: Crossing Boundaries, Boise, Idaho: "Authoring

Hypermedia in Response to Literature and Life," Keynote Conference Address.

7/98 Literacy, Arts and Learning: Crossing Boundaries, Boise, Idaho: "Structuring Classroom

Uses of Computer Technologies for Literacy Projects.

10/98 New Media Colloquim, Pennsylvania State University: "Constructing Community and

Critique in Student Authoring of Hypermedia.”

10/98 Learning/Teaching Fair, Office of Undergraduate Education, Pennsylvania State

University: “Hypermedia Representations of Knowledge.”

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11/98 New York State Reading Association 32nd Annual Conference, Saratoga Springs, New

York: Pre-Conference 2 day Institute-- "Expanding Literacy Through Hypermedia."


York: "Critical Literacy, Social Practice, and Hypermedia."

12/98 National Reading Conference 48th Annual Meeting, Austin, Texas: "Who's Creating the

State Assessments."

12/98 National Reading Conference 48th Annual Meeting, Austin, Texas: "The Consequences

for Literacy and Pedagogy when Integrating Multimedia Hypertext Tools: A

Museum of Classroom Practices," with Michelle Black (High School Senior);

Lincoln Blaisdell, Regina Derrico, Josephine Pirrone, & Lisa Zolnowski (High

School Teachers); and Roberta Hammett and Ann Margaret McKillop (University

Professors).

12/98 National Reading Conference 48th Annual Meeting, Austin, Texas: "Semiotics and

Subversion: The Sign is a Site of Struggle. . . The Sign of a Sign of Whose Sign."

12/98 National Reading Conference 48th Annual Meeting, Austin, Texas: “Constructing

Identity as a teacher through dialogue journals: Negotiating multiple perspectives.”

With Roberta Hammett, Jim Albright, Peg Vlasak, and Denise Savini.

1/99 Colloquy V Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennslyvania: "Live Poster

Session on Integrating Technology Tools in Undergraduate Education."

1/99 The Holmes Partnership Annual Meeting: Interdependence Days, Boston, MA: “A

Secondary English Education Internship Collaboration,” with Ben Brigham, Dana

Salter, Denise Savina, Heather Turner (Interns); Ellen Campbell, Carol Paul, Jenn

Simons, Peg Vlasak, Sandra Wyngaard (Mentor Teachers); and Jim Albright,

Rochelle Brock, Rod Pederson (Doctoral Students).

1/99 The Holmes Partnership Annual Meeting: Interdependence Days, Boston, MA: Work

Team #4 Leader: Integrating Information Technologies into the Curriculum.

3/99 National Council of Teachers of English Spring Conference, Cincinnati, Ohio: "Powerful

Technologies for Powerful Literacies," a 2 hour workshop with Ann Margaret

McKillop and Josephine Pirrone.

5/99 Project UNLOC: Understanding Narratives, Literacy and Ourselves in Cyberspace,

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: “Hypermedia Literacy and Secondary School Students”


York: Pre-Conference day-long Workshop -- "Authoring Hypermedia in the

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Classroom."


York: "Integrating Technology Projects."

12/99 National Reading Conference 49th Annual Meeting, Orlando, Florida: “Literacy,

Identity, and Relationships—Constructing Collaboration in a Secondary English

Professional Development School, “ with Carol Paul, Jen Simons, Peg Vlasak,

Larry Ferguson, Rod Pederson, Rochelle Brock, Jim Albright, Denise Savini, Dana

Salter, and Ben Brigham.

12/99 National Reading Conference 49th Annual Meeting, Orlando, Florida: “Inquiry from a

Semiotic Perspective, “ with Beth Berghoff and Joby Copenhaver.

1/00 The Holmes Partnership Annual Meeting: Powerful Partnerships, Cincinnati, Ohio:

“Collaborative Classroom Research Projects,” with Betsy Fetchko, Ann

Vandervelde, Kelly Bertoty, Leah Hunter, Karen Morris, and Andrea Acker.

1/00 The Holmes Partnership Annual Meeting: Powerful Partnerships, Cincinnati, Ohio:

“Museum of Technology Integration Projects,” with Dana Salter, Jason McMurtrie,

Amy Taylor, Kelly Bertoty, Larry Ferguson, Karen Morris, and Richard Sawyer.

3/00 Horgskolan for Language and Communication, Jonkoping, Sweden: Eight Presentations

on the use of Instructional Technology in the classroom—the different groups were

Headmasters of schools grades 1-12, Education students in all disciplines, English

language classes, majors in Communications, and Faculty in all disciplines.

3/00 Horgskolan at Halmstad, Halmstad, Sweden: Projects with Instructional Technology for

majors in English and Education.

7/00 Pusan, South Korea: Teaching English through authoring hypermedia critiques of

cultural literacy practices.

12/00 National Reading Conference 50th Annual Meeting, Scottsdale, Arizona: “Challenging

and Changing School Literacy Practices through Professional Development School

Collaboration.” With Carol Paul, Amy Taylor, Ellen Campbell, Karen Morris,

Sarah Green, Larry Ferguson, Rod Pederson, and Denise Savini.

12/00 National Reading Conference 50th Annual Meeting, Scottsdale, Arizona: “Literacy As

Context Awareness, not Textual Reproduction.”

2/01 38th Annual Conference on Learning Disabilities, New York, New York: “Secondary

Collaboration for Inclusion of Students with Learning Disabilities.” With Patrick J.

Moore, Marcia Kramer, Barbara DeShong, Ellen Campbell, and Deb Hagg.

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3/01 22nd Annual Ethnography in Education Research Forum, University of Pennsylvania,

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: “Constructing New Practices of Literacy and Pedagogy

in a PDS.” With David Jagger,, Corey O’Brien, Stephen Fonash, and Rod

Pederson.

3/01 3rd Multicultural Education Conference, State College, Pennsylvania. Facilitator for

Morning Break-out Session: Implementing Multicultural Education.

4/01 International Reading Association 46th Annual Convention, New Orleans, Louisiana: All

Day Institute—“Building a Professional Development School for Secondary School

Literacy.” With Denise Savini, Kaylene Brummett, Rod Pederson, Ellen Campbell,

Osayimwense Osa, Kimberly McElhatten, Jason McMurtrie, Dana Salter, Corey

O’Brien, Melissa Troise, Andrew Serano, Mary Nasatka, Amy Taylor, Kelly

Bertoty, Margaret Vlasak, Sarah Green, Daina Dexheimer, Barbara DeShong, Larry

Ferguson, and David Jagger.

9/01 Horgskolan at Halmstad, Halmstad, Sweden: Hypermedia Authoring for Critical Second

Language Learning.

10/01 Phi Delta Kappa International Luncheon, State College, Pennsylvania. International

Experience: A means to Enriching Teaching, panel speaker.

11/01 91st Annual Convention, Recreating the Classroom, National Council of Teachers of

English, Baltimore, Maryland. "Generating New Literacies and Renewed

Professionals in a Secondary English Professional Development School." With

Barbara DeShong, Ellen Campbell, Anne Vandervelde, Michael Goldfine, Kaylene

Brummett, Corey O'Brien, David Jaggar, John Gildea, Julie Hendershot, Casey

Brady, Arlene Morris, Arianne Bumbarger, Will Aurandt, Sabrina Ehmke, Sarah

Rito, Sangmin Lee, Allison Becker, Ann Slonaker, Michele Pavlov, Larry Ferguson,

and Mauricio Molina.

12/01 National Reading Conference 51st Annual Meeting, San Antonio, Texas: "Aligning our

Practice: An Inquiry Discourse for the Literacy Classroom, for Teacher Education,

and for Professional development." With Corey O'Brien and Larry Ferguson.

6/02 Teacher Education in a Digital Age, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York:

Authoring hypermedia for critical literacy.

10/02 International Conference of the Korean Associate of Multimedia-Assisted Language

Learning, Seoul, Korea. Conference Keynote Speech: The benefits of student

hypermedia authoring.

10/02 . International Conference of the Korean Association of Multimedia-Assisted Language

Learning, Seoul, Korea. “Distance Learning Platforms and Experiences,” with

Christer Morheden.

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11/02 92nd Annual Convention, Celebrating the Languages and Literacies of Our Lives,

National Council of Teachers of English, Atlanta, Georgia. "Critical Inquiry

Projects: Exploring how literacy constructs identities, relationships, and values in

our social worlds.” With Denise Savini, Deb Steinberg, Anne Slonaker, and

Richard Beach.


National Council of Teachers of English, Atlanta, Georgia. Conference on English

Education Colloquium-- Is there madness in our methods?: New directions for the

English methods course. Invited Presentation: “Critical Inquiry in a Year-Long

Internship Program.”


National Council of Teachers of English, Atlanta, Georgia. Critical Classrooms for

Critical Times Workshop—Presentation: “Critical Inquiry into Social Worlds in the

High School English Classroom through hypermedia.”

12/02 52nd

Annual Meeting of the National Reading Conference, Miami, Florida. “Linking

Theory and Practice in Digital Literacies,” Symposium with Elizabeth Baker, Linda

Labbo, Mary Love, Richard Beach, Aaron Doering, and John McEneaney.

12/02 52nd

Annual Meeting of the National Reading Conference, Miami, Florida. “The Role of

Sign Systems in K-12 and Preservice Teacher Literacy.” Symposium with Janet

Richards, Linda Labbo, Michael McKenna, Peggy Albers, Dana Grisham, and

Deborah Begoray.

5/03 Information Technology Center ANGEL Day: A symposium of Faculty Examples,

Pennsylvania State University: “Supporting an Inquiry Community.”

5/03 College of Education Alumni Open House, Pennsylvania State University: “Enhancing

Student Learning with Technology.”

6/03 State College Rotary Club, South Korean Group Study Exchange: “Authoring webpages

to explore language and culture.”

11/03 93rd Annual Convention, National Council of Teachers of English, San Francisco:

“Connecting Diverse Literacies: Examples from inclusion classrooms.”

11.03 93rd Annual Convention, National Council of Teachers of English, San Francisco:

Conference on English Education, Invited Panelist Presentation: “Technology Issues

in English Teacher Preparation.”

12/03 53rd Annual Meeting, National Reading Conference, Scottsdale, Arizona: “The Texts of

Teacher Education: Diversity in Research and Practice,” with Larry Ferguson,

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Margaret Finders, & Lucretia Penny Pence, Presenter.

12/03 53rd Annual Meeting, National Reading Conference, Scottsdale, Arizona: “Pulling on

Our Moorings: Pluralistic Literacy at the intersection of Existential, Critical, and

Post-Structural Perspectives,” Discussant.

12/03 53rd Annual Meeting, National Reading Conference, Scottsdale, Arizona: “New

Literacies in K-12 and Teacher Education: Examining Expanding

Perspectives/Exploring Practical Applications,” Chair.

3/04 Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference,

Atlanta, Georgia: “Integrating technology in the English Language Arts.”

3/04 Innovations in International Education: The Third Schreyer National Conference, State

College, Pennsylvania: “Exploring Cross Cultural Values through International

Discussion in Courses.”

4/04 American Educational Research Association, 2004 Annual Meeting, San Diego,

California: “The Place of Writing in Hypermedia Authoring: Tension and Paradox

in English Class,”

11/04 94rd Annual Convention, National Council of Teachers of English, Indianapolis: “How

technologies support literacy strategies and professional development in secondary

English inclusion classrooms,” with Denise Savini, Keith Thompson, Chris McKee,

Veronica Iacobazzo, Sue Olenoski, Rebecca Pangborn, Donna King, and Allison

Becker.

11/04 EU-Canada-US International Programs Meeting, Washington, D.C.: “A Pedagogy for

Intercultural Critical Literacy- Complementary Activities,” with Christer Morheden.

12/04 54th Annual Meeting, National Reading Conference, Scottsdale, Arizona: “Stances of

Situated Literacy: Moving from Situation to Situation,” with Ronald Kieffer, Karen

Smith, Sherry Macaul, and David Lund.

3/05 16th International Conference, Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education

International Conference, Phoenix, Arizona: “Authoring video inquiries as a reflective

process for English student teachers.”

3/05 16th International Conference, Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education,

Phoenix: “Developing a global forum for intercultural critical literacy,” with Christer

Morheden, Helmut Dispert, and Larry Ferguson. http://piccle.ed.psu.edu/

5/05 Researching and Teaching Language in These Critical Times, Indiana University: “The

semiotics of critical literacy.”

http://piccle.ed.psu.edu/

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11/05 95th Annual Convention, National Council of Teachers of English, Pittsburgh: “Diverse

Programs, Divergent Strategies: Effective assessment of preservice educators,” with

Josephine Pirrone, Dana Ciciliot, Julia Grove, Veronica Iacobazzo, Mary Nasatka, Dana

Zuhlke.

11/05 95th Annual Convention, National Council of Teachers of English, Pittsburgh:

“Integrating iMovie authoring as critical literacy practice in the 7-12 English

Curriculum,” with Patty Owens, Rebecca Pangborn, Sarah Rito, and Ali Hobbs

11/05 95th Annual Convention, National Council of Teachers of English, Pittsburgh: “Piccle

Forum: A website for intercultural critical literacy and global identity construction,” with

Jeanne Anderson, Carol Davenport, Larry Ferguson, and Donna King.

12/05 55th Annual Meeting, National Reading Conference, Miami: “The development of

critical pedagogy through authoring digital video: Secondary English Teachers.”

3/06 1 to 1 Computing Conference, University Park, PA: “1 to 1 in the Language Arts,” panel

speaker.


Orlando: “An international forum for intercultural critical literacy: Critical analysis

of film,” with Larry Ferguson and Donna King.

10/06 International English Education Conference, Kookmin University Institute of Language

and Literature Research & The Society for Teaching English through Media(STEM),

Kookmin University, Seoul, Korea: “Constructing EFL learners as Intercultural

Speakers through digital technologies.”

11/06 National Council of Teachers of English, 96th Annual Convention, Nashville, Tennessee:

“Classroom Literacy Practices in Digital Spaces,” with Christine Merritt, Veronica

Iacobazzo, Denise Savini, and Ryan Walsh.

11/06 National Council of Teachers of English, 96th Annual Convention, Nashville, Tennessee:

“Intercultural online communication in preservice teacher education,” with Donna King

and Leticia Ortega.

12/06 National Reading Conference, 56th Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, California: “Coaxing

Theory Out of Identity In Literacy Events with Future English Teachers,” with Shanetia

Clark, Leticia Ortega, Donna King, Sunyoung Park, Mke Bates, Nalova Westbrook, and

Alisa Hobbs.

01/07 Holmes Partnership, 11th Annual Conference, San Antonio, Texas: “How Ambiguity

Nurtured our Secondary School English PDS,” with Mary Nasatka and Leticia Ortega.


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San Antonio, Texas: “Collaborative video analysis tools for teacher reflection.”

04/07 3rd Annual Meeting of Pennsylvania Conference on English Education, Harrisburg, PA:

“Secondary English Professional Development School Program.”

06/07 5th Asia TEFL International Conference, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: “PiccleForum:

Joining a website for intercultural critical literacy and global identity construction.”

11/07 National Council of Teachers of English, 97th Annual Convention, New York City, New

York: “Multimodal Collaborations in English Education.”


York: “Popcorn and an iMovie: Using video technology to motivate students and

promote deeper understanding of the secondary language arts curriculum,” with Dana

Zuhlke, Jeff King, Jennifer Schroeder, Jennifer Evans, and Allison Becker.


York: “Using online discussions to expand engagement, interpretation, and discourse

awareness,” with Corey O’Brien, Lindsay Grosso, Mary Lou Manhart, and Leticia

Ortega.

04/08 National Assoication for the Teaching of English, United Kingdom, 45th Annual

Conference, University of Warwick, UK: “Responding to Literature through ICT –

Multimodal Digital.”

04/08 National Assoication for the Teaching of English, United Kingdom, 45th Annual

Conference, University of Warwick, UK: “PiccleForum: A Forum for Intercultural

Critical Literacy.”

04/08 Professional Development Schools National Conference, National Association for

Professional Development Schools, Orlando, Florida: “PDS Structures of Site-Based

Leadership, Collaboration, and Inquiry,” with Jeff King, Melissa Parker, Marianne

Bowers, and Hyunmyoung Lee.

04/08 One-to-One Computing Conference, University Park, PA: “Digital literacies for the

English classroom,” with Jeff King, Kevin Hulburt, Anne Maddox, and Andrew

Cunningham.

11/08 National Council of Teachers of English, 98th Annual Convention, San Antonio, TX:

“Shifting dialog using online forums: Literary exploration, intercultural inquiry, and

pedagogical reflection,” with Katherine Pezanowski, Hyunmyoung Lee, Curtis Porter,

Corey O’Brien, Laura Vernikoff, and Jason Lee.

12/08 National Reading Conference, 58th Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL: “A semiotic

pedagogy for critical literacy research and teaching.”

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12/08 National Reading Conference, 58th Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL: “Are we there yet?

Experienced and novice researchers reflect on research, theory, and career paths,” with

Stephen Goss and Mary McVee.


Charleston, SC: “Online discussion with PICCLE Forum,” with Rusty Myers.


Charleston, SC: “Print versus Image: Privilege and Pedagogy with old/new media in the

English classroom.”

06/09 2009 Conference on English Education, Fast Forward in English Education: Policy into

Practice, Chicago, IL: “Tensions and potentials between “English” and 21st Century

Literacy Practices.”

11/09 National Council of Teachers of English, 99th Annual Convention, Philadelphia, PA:

“Global Perspectives on Literacy,” with Kierstin Furberg, Catarina Schmidt, Ulla

Lundgren, and Vivian Yenika-Agbaw.


“English Education as Ideological Practice: Creating Online Spaces for Change,” with

Corey O’Brien, Rachel Miller, Yunjoon Lee, Curtis Porter, Jason Whitney,

Hyunmyoung Lee, Alison Veneziano, and Rebecca Thorsen.


“Books Matter,” with Dana Zuhlke, Jennifer Evans, Kevin Hulbert, Gina Motter, and

Jeffrey King.

12/10 National Reading Conference, Fort Worth, Texas: “Critical Literacy in Elementary

teacher education literature study,” response to Jerome Harste, Christine Leland, and

Mitzi Lewison.

Supervision of graduate theses and undergraduate honor theses

Ph.D. Thesis Supervision

6/91 D.Ed., Wilber Ward: Using Historical Fiction to Personalize History

6/92 Ph.D., Linda Hoover: Analytic writing during the student teaching field experience: A

case study on the use of writing to shape reflective thinking.

6/92 Ph.D., Juan Toro Lopez: Perceptions of parental competence among four Puerto Rican

families living in the continental United States.

6/93 Ph.D., Lydia Blasini: Increasing participation of members of the Hispanic community in

agencies that develop AIDS prevention programs in York, Pennsylvania

6/94 Ph.D., Dick O'Grady: Supporting Student Teachers with a Computer Network during the

Practicum Experience.

8/94 Ph.D., Ramon Serrano: A semiotic analysis of students' perceptions of multicultural

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education.

8/94 D.Ed., Carolina Diez de Andino: The need for multicultural faculty development in

higher education.

5/95 Ph.D., Timothy Shannon: Perceptions of Change: A Study of an Integrative Learning

Community within a Middle School.

5/95 Ph.D., Rita Bruzzi: High school teachers' beliefs and practices about science life-world

connections, and the teaching-learning process.

8/95 Ph.D., Ray Simmers-Wolpow: Trauma, Literacy and the Pedagogy of Hope

12/95 Ph.D., Kimberly McCollum-Clark: National Council of Teachers of English, Corporate

Philanthropy, and National Education Standards: Challenging the Ideologies of English

Education Reform.

8/96 Ph.D., Ann Margaret McKillop: The Pedagogical Implications of Student-Constructed

Hypermedia.

12/96 Ph.D., Deok-Gi Min: The Effects of Topic Familiarity, Prelistening Activity, and

Question Type on Korean Junior High School Students' Listening Comprehension.

10/98 Ph.D., Josephine Pirrone: Theorizing a Place for technology within a classroom

dialectic: A teacher research investigation.

10/98 Ph.D., Ki-Wan Sung: A critical ehtnograhpic [sic] study on the concept of

communicative competence

5/01 Ph.D., Brenda Hawkins: Reflections of teachers who lead in literacy education:

Learning, teaching, pedagogy, and professional development

5/01 Ph.D., Rene Quesada Inces: Washback overrides the curriculum: An exploratory study

on the washback effect of a high-stakes standardized test in the Costa Rican EFL high

school context

5/01 Ph.D., Minkung Park: Low Income Mothers’ Perceptions of Early Childhood Education

12/02 Ph.D. Yuehchiu Fang, Taiwanese student and teacher views of the English language

curriculum: A multi-case study (Co-thesis advisor)

5/03 Ph.D. Mary Farone, Reading Student Alienation

5/04 Ph.D. Namhee Kim, Cultural and Linguistic Identity of ESL Students in a U.S. High

School

8/04 Ph.D. Sangmin Lee, The role of online discussion and web authoring in creating

community and identity.

8/04 Ph.D. Cecelia Mecca, Negotiating Interdisciplinary Teaming in a Middle-Level Context

12/04 Ph.D. Chin-Ying Lin, Taiwanese Students in a U.S. University: Expectations, Beliefs,

Values, and Attitudes about Learning and Teaching.

12/05 Ph.D. Hyun-Soo Hur, Literature-based activities and language socialization in an

elementary ESL classroom.

8/06 Ph.D. Bo-kyung Cho: The use of item response theory (IRT) in a study of Korean High

School students’ attitudes toward the effectiveness of improving English proficiency by

preparing for the English section of the Korean University Aptitude Examination. (co-

advisor)

5/08 Ph.D. Larry Ferguson: Joining the Technology Literacy Club: From the Projects to a

Ph.D.

8/08 Ph.D. Leticia Ortega: Digital practices and literacy identities in English education:

From deterministic discourses to a dialectic framework

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Ph.D. Donna King, Curriculum and Instruction,

12/09 Ph.D. Sunyoung Park, Pedagogical challenges and possibilities: Adapting critical

literacy in EFL college writing using a video-authoring project.

12/09 Ph.D. Jenna Shim, Location Matters: Investigation of responses to intercultural

differences and tensions as represented in fictional short stories and films, Department

of Reading, School of Education, University at Albany, State University of New York

(Chair and Thesis Advisor)

8/10 Ph.D. Hyun Myoung Lee, Interns' professional knowledge and professional identity

formation in online Peer-led dialogue

8/10 Ph.D. Donna King, A study of student teachers' perceived resistance to teaching

multicultural education: will the pedagogy be "colored that I teach?"

8/11 Ph.D. Denise Schwab, An autoethnographic case study of a collaboration within a

secondary co-teaching inclusive setting.

12/11 Ph.D. Curtis Porter, Local Knowledge and Narration: A Philosophical and Pedagogical

Inquiry into International English Teacher Education in South Korea.

12/11 Ph.D. Mike Ridgeman, Translating Overseas Student Teaching to First Year Teaching:

An Exploration.

M.Ed. Paper and M.S. Thesis Supervision

8/91 M.Ed., Stephanie Williams: Cultural diversity at Penn State

8/92 M.Ed., Linda Dobbie: The reading-writing connection and adults.

8/92 M.Ed., Laura Parmele: Planning reading and writing activities for holistic social studies.

8/92 M.Ed., Gaie Wilt: Tangible to abstract: A paradigm shift. Analysis of the family literacy

project.

5/93 M.Ed., Nancy Sommers: An experience teaching the writing process

8/93 M.Ed., Judith Meder: Bridging the Gap

8/93 M.Ed., Elizabeth Wilkinson Szott: The Semiotics of Coaching Diving

8/93 M.Ed., Dale Troxell: Play in the Secondary Language Arts Curriculum

12/93 M.Ed., Amy Sten: "It Made You Look Important"

12/93 M.Ed., Patty Burlingame: Student perceptions of collaborative writing techniques: An

enterprise in the authentic, critical analysis of two young adult novels.

5/94 M.Ed., Nancy Chiounard: Reading, Writing, and Knowing: A research based approach

to teaching literature.

5/95 M.Ed., Heather Morgan: Reflections on the Student Teaching Experience.

5/95 M.Ed., Wednesday Raya-Willoughby: Intrinsic vs Extrinsic Motivation.

8/95 M.Ed., Amalia Bauza: Multiculturalism: The Solution to Inequity in our Schools.

8/95 M.Ed., Patricia Helt: First Field Experience: A Look at Pre-Student Teaching.

8/95 M.Ed., Tom Yoder: Teaching Minority Literature in the Rural High School Classroom.

12/95 M.Ed., Larry Ferguson: Learned Helplessness, Computer Anxiety, and the Effect of

Attribution Retraining.

8/96 M.Ed., Ann Vandervelde: Connecting Text to Life Through Art and Music.

12/96 M.Ed., Jodi Bartley: Postmodernism and Literacy.

12/96 M.Ed., Richard Hines: An Investigation of the 180 Day School Year.

5/97 M.Ed., Meredith Tracy: From Student to Teacher: Personal Experiences with "Banking"

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Education and the Democratic Classroom.

5/97 M.Ed., Jenny Turner: Making Sense of the Pre-Student Teaching Experience.

5/97 M.Ed., Sangmin Lee: How Do Adults' Attitudes Affect Margaret's Behavior During

Literacy Events at Home.

5/97 M.S., Jennifer Hammond: "I Did the Summer Coping THing": Program Effects on First

Year GPA and Persistence.

6/97 M.Ed., Gregg Rogers: On the Wrong Track?: Ability Grouping in English at State

College Area High School.

6/97 M.Ed., Anna Burke: A Brief History of Writing Instruction in High School and Some

Effects on Current Classroom Practices.

12/97 M.Ed., Muhmad Noor Wan Chik: Internet in Education: Using the internet in teaching

of English as a second language.

12/97 M.Ed., Steven Bercik: Reflections on a Structural Pedagogy.

6/98 M.Ed., Sharon Myers: The Co-Teaching Model in Student Teaching.

6/98 M.Ed., Danielle Marrara: Manipulated Children and Adults? In Today's World, You

Don't Get Something for Nothing.

4/99 M.Ed., Heather Turner: Building a Partnership

4/99 M.Ed., Chrissy Franks: Critical Media Literacy as a Means to Expose and Combat

Socially Constructed Negative Body Image.

8/99 M.Ed., Denise Savini: Professional Development Collaboration: An Intern’s Perspective

on the Structure of a Pilot Program.

8/99 M.Ed., John Chaya: At Cross Purposes: Getting Between Schooling.

8/99 M.Ed., Stacy Frank: Cooperative Learning.

8/99 M.Ed., Margaret Vlasak: The Trials and Triumphs of a Professional Development

School from the Perspective of a Mentor Teacher.

8/99 M.Ed., Tammy L. Nelson: Creative Writing in the Fifth Grade Classroom Using Prompts

and Student-Chosen Topics.

12/99 M.Ed., Gretchen J. Caruso: Using Learning Strategies in the Content Area Classroom.

8/00 M.Ed., Dana Salter: I looked in the mirror and saw the teacher: the teacher looked in the

mirror and saw me.

8/00 M.Ed., Betsy Fetchko: PDS 1999-2000: An exploration of power and hierarchy in

defining a pedagogy

8/00 M.Ed., Leah Hunter: Collaboration: An Intern’s Perspective

8/00 M.Ed., Andrea Acker: Creating a democratic classroom: The gradual process

8/00 M.Ed., Karen Morris: Technology in the English classroom

12/00 M.Ed., Elizabeth Holtzinger: The Wrong Side of the Tracks: An overview of the

evolution of tracking and its implications for today’s low-track students

8/01 M.Ed., Adrianne Flower: Text and Community

8/01 M.Ed., Sean Coffron: Building Community in the Classroom

8/01 M.S. Melissa Troise: Constructing Classroom Communities

8/01 M.Ed., Marilyn Jones: Ninth grade students' perceptions of English Class as conditioned

by their parents and society versus the creation of a humane literacy program in this

technological multi-cultural multi-socioeconomic society.

5/02 M.Ed., Robin Black: The stammerings and discoveries of new voices.

8/02 M.Ed., Mauricio Molina: Learning the Teacher Discourse.

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8/02 M.Ed., Arriane Bumbarger: Place-based pedagogy for Active Learning in the English

Classroom.

8/02 M.Ed., Arlene Morris: Identity and Self-Efficacy as PDS Intern.

8/02 M.Ed., Sabrina Ehmke: Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The search to find a

meaningful and practical way to assess student writing.

8/02 M.Ed., Krista Wegman: Active Reading Strategies.

8/02 M.Ed., Alison Colwell: An Exploration of inquiry in the English Classroom.

8/02 M.Ed., Gregory Miller: Creative Projects in the English Class as Accurate Methods of

Assessment for Deep Thought and Relevant Personal Connections.

8/02 M.Ed. Jeanne Yaggi: Common Themes: A web page poetry project.

5/03 M.Ed., Ellen Campbell: Questions of Being.

5/03 M.Ed., Mary Nasatka: Mentor-Intern Relationships

8/03 M.Ed., Leah Haslam: Problems of engagement: Motivating students/motivating

ourselves

8/03 M.Ed., Thomas Correll: Giving the silent student a voice: Strategies to encourage active

participation.

8/03 M.Ed., Kristina McGrath: Authentic Audience

8/03 M.Ed., Eric Blackburn: Strategies to promote writing.

8/03 M.Ed., Rebecca Pangborn: Exploring our practice: Teaching reading in the secondary

English classroom.

8/03 M.Ed., Angela Single: A student teacher’s reflections: What can be discovered through

reflection facilitated by daily journaling

8/03 M.Ed., Veronica Iacobazzo: Developing my teacher identity

8/03 M.Ed., Kathleen Dudley Perry: Confessions of an ex-gradeaholic: Redirecting student

motivation

8/03 M.Ed., Sara Kasper: A teacher’s technological odyssey: Integrating an online discussion

board into English classroom curriculum

12/03 M.Ed., Michele Pavlov Fowkes: Reading Fluency Uncovered: What Is Its Place in the

High School Classroom?

5/04 M.A., John Zinck: A Focused Intervention into Language Arts Issues of English Majors

at Thaksin University, Thailand,, Linguistics and Applied Language Studies Department,

Liberal Arts

8/04 M.Ed., Melissa Beattie-Moss: Controversies in Gifted Education: From Racist Roots to

Progressive Pedagogy.

8/04 M.Ed., Kimberly Dennis: Building Classroom Community by Exploring Our Values

8/04 M.Ed., Lyndie Hess: High Quality Teachers, Low Quality Schools: A remedy for

Educational Inequality.

8/04 M.Ed., Kevin Hulburt: The Role of Grammar in an English Curriculum.

8/04 M.Ed., Kathleen Kline: How did the Professional Development School Facilitate my

Philosophy of Education?

8/04 M.Ed., Jessica Lackey: Using Reading Logs in the Classroom: My Never-Ending

Inquiry.

8/04 M.Ed., Melinda Reda: Painting with Words: The Bond between Art and Writing in the

English Classroom.

8/04 M.Ed., Mariel Yuhas: The Socratic Method in the Secondary English Classroom.

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8/04 M.Ed., Katherine Maslanik: Using Technology to Promote Literacy in the Middle School

English Classroom.

5/05 M.Ed. Kelly Benson: A plan to use film to teach secondary English students

Shakespeare. 5/05 M.Ed., David Hermenau: Finding some middle ground between democratic education

and cultural literacy.

8/05 M.Ed., Melissa Glitzer: Let’s Give Them Something to Talk About: A first-year teacher’s

experiences with discussion in a college prep 11th grade English class.

8/05 M.Ed., Nicholas Delgrego: Discussing Views on ESL Education: A Survey of ESL

Students, Non-ESL Students, and Educators

8/05 M.Ed., Danielle Carpenter: Peer Review Sessions in Middle School

8/05 M.Ed., William Zeruth: How does classroom community affect student engagement with

text?

8/05 M.Ed., Dana Zuhlke: Supporting student writers in a secondary English classroom: An

Inquiry.

8/05 M.Ed., Martin Graff: Engagement in the ESL classroom

8/05 M.Ed., Kenji Darby: The integration of media, culture, and literature.

12/05 M.Ed., Lindsay Tamburlin: The value of incorporating media and popular culture into

contemporary language arts classrooms

12/05 M.Ed., Tara Lagoda: Enviromental education

5/06 M.Ed., Deborah Snyder: Visual representation as an alternative literacy approach to

writing instruction

8/06 M.Ed., David Rutter: Breaking boundaries into the classroom frontier

8/06 M.Ed., Dana Webber: Pedagogical use of instant messaging for Spanish in the secondary

classroom

8/06 M.Ed., Partick Lewis: Celebrating success

8/06 M.Ed., Christina Manbeck: Motivation in the classroom

8/06 M.Ed., Nicole Bobitski: The classroom “audience” and its impact on student effort

8/06 M.Ed., Lisa Kellert: Discovering our diversity consciousness

12/06 M.Ed., Sarah Rito: Intersections between grammar and style: A teacher’s investigation

into new approaches

12/06 M.Ed., Melissa Hrico: Taking a critical glance at MTV: Deconstructing the myth

12/06 M.Ed., Kathy Yingling: Moving unsuccessful students toward successful learning: An

everyday approach

8/07 M.Ed., Andrew Cunningham: Technology in the Classroom.

8/07 M.Ed., Chihyun An: Proofreading with Technology for Improving EFL Students’

Writing Competence.

8/07 M.Ed., Melissa Kalwanaski: Wikipedia, Plagiarism, and Citation.

8/07 M.Ed., Rachel Livesey: Text of America: Where Do Our Students Fit In?

8/07 M.Ed., Scott Collins: The Consequences of Technology in Education.

5/08 M.Ed., Steven Coraor: What is the “Alternative” in Alternative Education.

8/08 M.Ed., Luthien Baker: “Just another grade to put in the grade book: Exploring student

perceptionsa bout writing.”

8/08 M.Ed., Robert Campbell: “Theatrical Education: Narrative and research based inquiry

merging past, present, and future identities with online reflective practice.”

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8/08 M.Ed., Laura Vernikoff: “This feels weird: Talking about race and other forms of

difference in the secondary English classroom.”

8/08 M.Ed., Mary Ann Brosnan: “The Play’s the Thing: Implementing activities and humor

when studying Shakespeare.”

8/08 M.Ed., Jessica Deangelo: “Ice breakers don’t cut it: A guided inquiry on the communities

of two 9th grade classrooms.”

8/08 M.Ed., Anthony Scaltz: “The effects of experiential pedagogy on student engagement and

achievement.”

8/08 M.Ed., Anne Maddox: “Technology’s impact on student engagement.”

8/08 M.Ed., Latrice Thompson: “Students’ home influences.”

8/08 M.Ed., Morgan Ilgen: “What does literacy look like in a project based, technology

supported school?”

8/08 M.Ed., Lisa Harpster: “Negotiation of student identity inside and outside of the ESL

classroom.”

12/08 M.Ed., Barbara Reinhart:

12/08 M.Ed., Bonie Peters: “Reading Strategies.”

5/09 M.Ed., Katherine Pezanowski: “Classroom Collaboration Considerations.”

8/09 M.Ed., Amanda Bricker: “Truth, Troth, and Authentic Learning.”

8/09 M.Ed., Meghan Noecker: “21st Centruty Literacy- How has literacy changed?”

8/09 M.Ed., Evan Allison: “Educational Responses to Students with Gender Identity

Disorder.”

8/09 M.Ed., Casey Staib: “Assessing Students’ Colorblindness and its place in the English

Language Arts Classroom.”

8/09 M.Ed., Kristina McKenna: “Why Reflect? And Where the Heck is My Grade!”

8/10 M.S., Chorong Jang: “Planning Multicultural Society and Planning Inequality in

Education on Immigrant Women: A case study of multicultural education policy and

language program in South Korea.”

8/10 M.Ed., Rachael Barash, “Confidence in the struggling student. Getting from “I can’t,” to

“I can.”

8/10 M.Ed., Christopher P. Brown. “Using tools to reach beyond their current abilities.”

8/10 M.Ed., Nicholas Ward. “Media Literacy in the English Classroom.”

8/10 M.Ed., Jessica Lehmann. “How does the introduction of a unit affect how students will

learn?”

8/10 M.Ed., Nicholas Marzano. “Raising social capital through education.”

8/11 M.Ed., Paul, Margaret Ann. “Walk a Mile in My Moccasins…” Is it possible to Teach

Empathy to Students?“

8/11 M.Ed., Newhouse, Andrew. “Creating Connections: Making Texts Meaningful to

Students.”

8/11 M.Ed., Veres, Joseph II. “Vocabulary Learning and Engagement.”

8/11 M.Ed., Heeter, Heather. “Classroom Collaboration”

8/11 M.Ed., Rice, Mollie. “How do Students Learn? Differently! Meeting Diverse Academic

Needs.”

8/11 M.Ed., Mao, Zhenzhen. “English Language Curriculum Designs in China and the United

States.”

8/12 M.Ed., Reeder, Emily. “More choices for more voices: Using online forums to hear

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from quiet students.”

8/12 M.Ed., Kaye, Melissa. “Talking in class. What are ways to encourage students to

participate?”

8/12 M.Ed., Rys, Nicholas. “Culture, Text, and Cultural Response.”

8/12 M.Ed., Roman, Zachary. “To rubric or not to rubric: Using student-centered methods for

providing authentic feeback.”

8/12 M.Ed., Gordon, Michael. “Reel recognition: Examining why film and images should be

used more in English and history classrooms.”

8/12 M.Ed., Chavey, Lauren. “He’s only human! How students connect to classic literature.”

8/12 M.Ed., Cunningham, Laura. “Avoiding the Ferris Bueller Effect: How to facilitate

effective full-class discussion.”

8/12 M.Ed., Griffin, Virgil K. “Open Thinking.”

Undergraduate Honors Thesis Supervision

5/92 Honors, Tasha Rushatz: Cooperative learning: An examination of attitudes toward

cooperative learning and its effectiveness.

5/92 Honors, Mark Granger: Comparing leadership characteristics in male and female

children.

5/93 Honors, Sara Conley: Mass media and eating disorders: When thin is in, is the mass

media to blame?

5/93 Honors, John Tether: Teaching for the test - who benefits?

5/95 Honors, Jonathan Bickle: Adolescent Literature Electronic Data Base

5/95 Honors, Melissa Troise: Literacy for Real Life.

5/96 Honors, Charity Long: Traditional Grading: Is It Really Worth It?

5/96 Honors, Matthew Taron: Creative Writing.

5/98 Honors, Brian Baczkowski: Literature Web Site: http://cac.psu.edu/~bjb162

5/98 Honors, Laura Nicole Massaro: Poetry Web Site: http://www.personal.psu.edu/lnm105

12/99 Honors, Benjamin Brigham: Socializing the Self: Implications for the language and

literacy classroom at the secondary level.

5/00 Honors, Michele Pavlov: Yearning to Breathe Free: Reading about our Immigrant

Heritage.

12/00 Honors, Melissa Griffith: Cooperative Learning

5/02 Honors, Abby K. Martin: Mixed Messages: the Sugar-Coated poison of hollywood

makeover movies.

12/02 Honors, Jenna Groff: Maximizing our resources: Enriching education through the

multiple intelligences and co-teaching.

5/03 Honors, Kathryn E. Maher: A Standards-Based Unit of Instruction: The Glass

Menagerie by Tennessee Williams.

5/05 Honors, Kristin Measel: The Effectiveness of Reading Strategies with Literature

5/05 Honors, Kristin Daigle: Supporting student development through social and emotional

learning

12/05 Honors, Brittany Marie Carlino, Fostering Multifaceted Literate Individuals through

Multiple Intelligences and Transmediation Theories.

5/07 Honors, Mark Scarpitti, The grammar of music and language.

5/07 Honors, Maura Fitzgerald, Competing Voices of Student Writing: Creative and Academic.

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12/07 Honors, Sara Silver, Apples & Oranges: The Mismatch Between Early Adolescent

Development and U.S. Middle Level Schools.

05/08 Honors, Jaclyn Gruber, Comparative study of classroom practices in varying cultural

contexts.

12/10 Honors, Stefan Wisniewski. Using literature to develop morality in a secondary English

classroom.

05/12 Honors, Kristen McKnight. The importance of implementing foreign languages into

public elementary and middle schools as a mandatory subject.

05/12 Honors, Heather Schooley. Student-centered learning in the elementary classroom.

Speaking and consulting activities

Date Organization Service Performed

1983 Henry County Schools, Ohio Instructional Consultant

Writing Curriculum & Process

1984 Northwest Ohio Research Invited Speaker, Liberty Center’s

Foundation Drive-In Service Reading Program

1984 Bowling Green City Schools, Ohio Instructional Consultant Middle School

Reading Instruction and Materials

1984 Toledo Public Schools, Ohio Instructional Consultant Critical

Comprehension Instruction

1984 Findlay City Schools, Ohio Instructional Consultant

Reading Instruction/Evaluation

1985 Holgate Secondary Schools, Ohio Instructional Consultant

Reading Program Development

1985 Liberty Center Schools, Ohio Inservice Coordinator - School-wide

Instruction in Language Arts

1987 Tri-County Education Service Keynote Speaker, New Directions

Center, Illinois in Reading

1986-88 Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich Language Curriculum Consultant:

developed reading assessments,

instructional booklets, reading lessons

for Laurate Edition, inservice video tapes

1989 Psychological Corporation Consultant in development

of portfolio assessment materials

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1989 State College Area School Curriculum Consultant to develop

District culturally diverse literature program

1989 Indiana University Department Invited Speaker Research Seminar

of Language Education on Ethnographic Research

1989 Penn State Department of Invited Speaker to Research Seminar

Curriculum and Instruction on Ethnographic Research

1990 Penn State School of Arts & Invited Speaker in Doctoral Seminar

Architecture, Music Education on Ethnographic Research Methodology

1990 Penn State Department of Invited Speaker in Research Seminar

Educational Psychology EDPSY 450 on Ethnographic Research

1990 Pa. Intermediate Unit 10 Workshop Leader, Writing: Composing

Texts in PCRP II

1990 Clearfield School District, Workshop Leader, Learning, Knowledge,

Pennsylvania Writing, and Reading: Whole Language

in the Secondary Classroom

1990 & Pennsylvania Department of Creative Writing Judge for Governor’s

1991 Education, Arts in Education, School of the Arts, Spring Admissions

Intermediate Unit 10

1990 Green Castle-Antrim School Workshop Leader for Inservice Day:

District, Pennsylvania Writing Across the Curriculum

1991 Penn State College of Education Invited Respondent in Symposium Series

session on Historical Research Methods

1991 Penn State Department of Invited Speaker in Research Seminar

Curriculum and Instruction C I 400 on Ethnographic Research

1991 Northern Tioga School District Two days consulting with district

Elkland, Pennsylvania English Teachers on curriculum revision

1992 National Conference Teachers of Recorder/Reactor for "Authenticity,

English Spring Convention Image, and Pedagogy in Children's

Literature."

1992 Phi Delta Kappa and the Penn Seminar Panel Speaker on Pros and Cons

State College of Education of Qualitative Research

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1992 Phi Delta Kappa and the Penn Seminar Panel Speaker on Evaluating

State College of Education Qualitative Research

1993 Penn State Department of Speaker for C I409/411W on the topic of

Curriculum and Instruction "Communities for Learning"

1993 & Westmont Hilltop School District Using internet resources in the English

1994 Johnstown, Pennsylvania classroom and Teacher as Researcher

1995 State College Area School District Facilitator for a faculty discussion of

Inservice, State College, PA. Internet use in the classroom

1995 Penn State Eco-Action Committee Judge of poetry contest

1996 Curriculum and Instruction Research Building School-University Partnerships:

Seminar, University Park, PA. The Goals 2000 Project.

1997 College of Education Board of Visitors, Presentation on Technology in the

University Park, PA Classroom

1996-97 State College Area School District Hypermedia Authoring for student

Technology, Humanities, and the projects

Environment Option

1997 Curriculum and Instruction Invited Speaker to research class on

C&S 597A, Spring 1997 Ethnographic/Qualitative Research

Pennsylvania State University

1997-98 Williamsville School District Secondary School Student Authored

Buffalo Area, New York Hypermedia in English classrooms

1997 College of Education, Sabbatical Leaves: Planning, Managing

University Park, PA and Evaluating-- Faculty Development

Seminar

1999 Colloquy V: Implementing Reform Invited Participant


1999 Shikellamy High School Day-long workshop on Technology

Pennsylvania Projects—Authoring and Integrating

2000 Schreyer Honors College Winter Film Forum Facilitator 1/19

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2000 Colloquy 2000: Building Synergy Invited participant

Between Research and Teaching,


2003 Colloquy IX: Making Connections: Invited participant

Campus Cultures that Foster Student

Learning, Pennsylvania State University

2003 State College Area School District Literacy Initiative: Learning, Applying,

High School Sharing New Strategies, with Denise

Savini & Sue Olenoski – 7 days

2003 State College Area School District Reading Strategies Across the

Middle School Curriculum, with M.S. teachers

4 days

2004 State College Area School District Social Studies Literacy Workshop:

High School Effectively using the textbook, 1 day

2005 State College Area School District Literacy Strategies Inservice, 1 day

Middle School

1998-2010 State College Area School District Consultant for English teachers, yearly

Middle & High School part of PDS faculty role

2008 Texas Higher Education Coordinating Council, Site Reviewer for Proposed Doctoral

Program in Literacy Education at University of Texas-San Antonio

2008 Kyunghee University, S. Korea Workshops on Inquiry based English

60 middle/high school English teachers Language Learning activities, 2 wks

Teaching activity (1989 to present)

Courses taught on a regular basis:

Language and Literacy 411: English methods I (RCLED 411)

Language and Literacy 420: Adolescent Literature and Literacy (RCLED 420)

Language and Literacy 412: English methods II (RCLED 412)

Language and Literacy 412/495C: Integrated English methods and field experience

Language and Literacy 512: Graduate course in English classroom pedagogy.

Language and Literacy 520: Graduate course in Adolescent literacy.

Language and Literacy 500: The Reading Writing Classroom

Curriculum and Instruction 501: Graduate course in Classroom Inquiry

Curriculum and Instruction 503: Qualitative Data Analysis

Special Topics Classes 597 numbers:

Ethnographic Approaches to Educational Inquiry

Critical Ethnography

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Semiotics and Subversion

Sociolingujistics and Symbolic Interactionism

Social construction of Language and Literacy

Ethnic Cultures: Fiction and Fact

Internet and Multimedia Technology in the classroom

Issues in the secondary English curriculum

Middle School Theory and Practice

Developing School University Collaborations

Supervised field experiences in the Integrated English methods class (1993-2000), and in the

Secondary English Professional Development School (1998 to present)

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Summary of Student Ratings of Teaching Effectiveness

Course/Num. Enrollment Semester/ Percent of Overall Quality

Section Year Response of course* of Instructor*

RCLED 420 51 Fall/89 51 (100%) 5.33 5.63

RCLED 412 33 Fall/89 32 (97%) 6.09 6.41

C I 597A 8 Su/90 8 (100%) 6.75 7.00

C S 497A 19 Sp/91 11 (61%) 6.55 6.64

RCLED 597B 14 Su/91 14 (100%) 6.07 6.21

RCLED 597C 16 Su/91 14 (88%) 6.79 6.79

RCLED 412 38 Fall/91 36 (94%) 6.36 6.50

RCLED 597C/420 15 Fall/91 11 (73%) 6.80 7.00

C I 597A 40 Su/92 28 (79%) 6.46 6.50

C I 597 7 Su/93 7 (100%) 6.29 6.43

LL ED 520 11 Fall/93 10 (91%) 6.44 6.78

LL ED 412/495C 25 Fall/93 20 (80%) 5.45 6.40

LL ED 412/495C 35 Sp/94 28 (80%) 5.46 5.21

C I 597G 17 Su/95 13 (76%) 6.50 6.67

LL ED 411 15 Sp/95 15 (100%) 5.93 6.47

CI 597C 16 Su/97 13(81%) 6.58 6.92

CI 597D 18 Su/98 10( 6.50 6.50

CI 503 24 Su/99 24(100%) 5.91 6.25

LLED 597D Su/00 26( 6.54 6.65

CI 501 Su/01 12(100%) 5.33 4.75

CI 503 19 Su/01 15( 6.50 6.60

CI 412W (02-03 PDS) Sp/03 13(100%) 6.46 6.54

CI 503 22 Su/03 16(73%) 5.31 5.81

LLED 411 10 Su/04 10(100%) 5.80 6.50

CI 501 (03-04 PDS) Su/04 12(86%) 6.50 6.42

CI 501 (04-05 PDS) 14 Su/05 14(100%) 5.62 5.92

CI 503 Su/05 15(65.2%) 6.40 6.60

LLED 597.001 7 Su/07 7(100%) 6.71 6.86

LLED 597.002 3 Su/07 3(100%) 6.00 6.33

CI 412W (06-07 PDS) Sp/07 15 (100%) 6.67 6.67

CI 503 15 Su/08 9 (60%) 6.33 6.89

LLED 597F 13 Su/08 13 (100%) 6.85 6.92

CI 412W (08-09 PDS) Sp/09 14 (100%) 6.77 6.85

CI 503 Su/09 10(100%) 6.90 7.00

LLED 597.001 Su/09 8(100%) 7.00 7.00

LLED 597.901 Su/10 10(83%) 6.80 6.90

CI 503 Su/11 9(60%) 6.33 6.44

LLED 480 (PDS) Fa/11 9(53%) 7.00 7.00

CI 597K Fa/11 5(83%) 6.40 6.80

*Mean scores are based on a scale of 1 to 7.

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Advising 89-90 90-91 91-92 92-93 93-94 94-95 95-96 96-97 97-98

Undergraduate 36 23 28 18 15 21 39 31 32

Simultaneous Degree 0 0 0 10 4 5 4 0 0

University Scholars 0 12 12 12 12 15 9 12 8

Certification 0 0 2 3 0 0 0 0 0

Master’s Advising 0 3 12 12 14 23 20 5 6

Doctoral Advising 0 1 3 3 6 6 7 5 6

Total 36 39 57 58 51 70 79 53 52

Advising Continued 98-99 99-00 00-01 01-02 02-03 03-04 04-05 05-06 06-07

Undergraduate 30 26 28 33 22 23 25 25 13

Simultaneous Degree 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

University Scholars 10 7 7 7 10 8 10 7 8

Certification 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Master’s Advising 25 12 30 24 29 33 32 14 11

Doctoral Advising 8 10 16 14 24 20 18 8 8

Doctoral Committees 32 17 24 26 28 17 28 30 30

Total 105 72 105 104 113 101 113 84 70

Advising Continued 07-08 08-09 09-10 10-11 11-12 12-13 13-14 14-15 15-16

Undergraduate 22 16 15 17 19

Simultaneous Degree 2 0 0 0 0

University Scholars 8 5 4 1 1

Certification 0 0 1 2 2

International 8 22 9 10 11

Master’s Advising 14 5 4 5 8

Doctoral Advising 11 15 13 12 13

Doctoral Committees 20 8 10 10 12

Total 85 71 56 57 67

New programs and courses developed

Ethnographic Approaches to Educational Inquiry is a doctoral level course which provides an

introductory experience to the philosophical and methodological issues in conducting qualitative

research from various interpretive perspectives. I developed this course in 1990 as a special

topic, then worked with a departmental team of faculty to transform it into the permanent CI 502

Qualitative Research course and the CI 503 Qualitative Data Analysis courses in 1996.

Ethnic Cultures: Fiction and Fact was a graduate special topics course that I developed in

collaboration with Murry Nelson in social studies education. This course provides an experience

reading novels written by various ethnic authors and exploring the self and the other in responses

to the texts. We have co-taught this course twice and I have taught it once.

Teacher as Researcher is a graduate special topics course that I taught in 1994. In 199?, a

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committee of department faculty developed it as CI 501 Classroom Inquiry as an every semester

research offering for Master's students. This course teaches the process of engaging in the

simultaneous actions of teaching, data collection, and analysis, for publication/presentation in

forums for teacher classroom inquiry.

Adolescent Literature and Literacy (LL ED 520) is a graduate course that I designed to explore

literature for adolescents and issues involved in its pedagogical experience. This course is

offered each Fall semester.

Secondary School Language, Literature, and Literacy (LL ED 512) is a graduate course that I

designed to explore the English curriculum and pedagogical experience in junior high and high

school. This course is offered each Spring semester.

The Secondary Education Major Certification option of English and Communications was

redesigned in 1993 and again in 1999 through my leadership and collaboration with Ladi Semali

and faculty in the departments of English, Comparative Literature, Theater, Speech

Communications, Linguistics, Instructional Systems, the School of Communications and College

of Arts & Architecture. By combining the separate certification programs into one program we

developed a media literacy core in addition to a more culturally diverse literature and language

core to improve the understanding of secondary teachers of the mutlimedia-multicultural society

in which we live.

Integrating LLED 412 and CI 495C. The pre-student teaching experience (C I 495C) was

redesigned to integrate the field experience with the on-campus secondary English methods

course (LL ED 412). This integrated offering was taught with the help of doctoral students in

Language and Literacy specializing in English education. In this new design, the supervision of

students in the field was done by myself and the doctoral students. This revision improved the

preparation of students by providing new opportunities to design and teach a unit, conduct a

small teacher as researcher project in a collaborative and supportive context, and have a tenure-

line faculty from the department of Curriculum and Instruction in the public school on a regular

basis to work with cooperating teachers for the first time in years. In the development and

conducting of the course over the first year (1993-94), I spent over 300 hours of time in school

English classrooms working with students and teachers. Until 2000, I arranged the field

placement of English education students for this experience. In 1996-7, I consulted with the

Science education faculty to redesign their 412 block in a similar manner. In 2002-4 the entire

secondary education faculty initiated a revision of the 412 block of courses to more fully

integrate all the disciplinary on-campus experiences with the field experience in ways very

similar to this 1993-2000 English education integration. The increased relationship with public

schools generated collaborative projects and, for all involved, a better understanding of the issues

connecting theory and practice in teacher education.

The State College Area School District-Penn State University Secondary English Professional

Development School. The PDS has most recently been recognized at the Holmes Partnership

conference as the 2004 Nancy Zimpher/Ken Howey Award for Best Partnership. I collaborated

with faculty Peter Rubba and Nancy Dana, and school district personnel from 1996 to 1998 to

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develop and initiate a Professional Development Collaboration in the 1998-99 school year at the

elementary and secondary English levels. The following activities highlight some of the

activities that support this initiative that brings together the university missions of teaching,

research, and service:

1) Co-taught a full year of ninth grade English 1995-96 with Josehphine Pirrone in which

we integrated students from on-campus methods courses and implemented innovative

classroom practices.

2) Developed a new field experience during the SECED 411 semester in conjunction with

collaboration with Josephine Pirrone and the Goals 2000 Professional Development

School Initiative. The piloting of this field experience as an entirely on-school-site

experience during the May 1996 intersession supported the formulation of a year-long

internship plan for site-based English teacher education within a professional

development collaboration between the university and the State College Area School

District.

3) Piloted a group of four M.Ed. students in linked placements during Fall 1996-Spring

1997 semesters as a precursor to a year-long internship experience.

4) Met with a committee of English teachers at State College High School over the 1996-98

school years to develop a structure for a Professional Development collaboration in the

form of a year-long internship.

5) Implementation of the internship pilot in 1998-99 in which four secondary education

majors seeking English/communications certification worked in the State College Area

School District with a team of 5 mentor teachers for the entire school year. University

methods courses were accomplished with mentor teacher participation as teacher inquiry

projects contextualized by the needs of students and the development of the school

curriculum in particular for ninth grade students. Co-teaching activity, the involvement

of four doctoral students as co-teachers and co-inquirers, and weekly seminars for

reflection and response to relevant readings structured the collaboration.

6) The PDS implementation in year two, 1999-2000, matched 5 interns and 11 mentor

English teachers and developed a new structure for mentor teacher involvement in the

Professional Development School.

7) Participated in the development of a new school district initiative in 1999-2000 called the

Collaborative Teaching Initiative (CTI). The CTI program is an inclusion initiative that

supports two teachers with a diverse group of students, two thirds of which are identified

with special education or reading needs. CTI has grown from 13 classrooms in the first

year to 47 classes across grades 9-12 in 2004-05.

8) Institutionalized the secondary English PDS program at the high school by going to a full

cohort size of 13-15 English interns per year since the 2000-01 school year

9) Provided leadership to develop a middle school specific Professional Development

Collaboration by involving department colleagues in Science, Social Studies, Math,

World Languages, and Educational Leadership in a collaboration with State College and

Bellefonte middle schools. The collaboration involves a weekly graduate course and the

placing of teacher education candidates across the Fall and Spring semesters in a linked

student teaching experience.

Editorial activity and professional service

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2009 Conference on English Education, Policy and Leadership Summer Conference, Co-

Leader of “21st Century Literacies” strand.

2008 Elected, Conference on English Education Nominating Committee Member,

National Council of Teachers of English.

2008-pres. Co-Web Editor, Conference on English Education, National Council of Teachers of

English

2007 Conference on English Education, Policy and Leadership Summit II, invited

participant and co-leader of strand on “Globalizing English education.”

2006-pres. Co-Editor, Contemporary Issues in Technology & Teacher Education, English

Language Arts section, Association for the Advancement of Computing in

Education, http://www.aace.org/pubs/cite/default.htm.

2005 Conference on English Education, Policy and Leadership Summit I, invited

participant.

1995-pres. Editorial Policy Board Member of Journal of Literacy Research.

1996-pres. Member of the Editorial Review Board of Reading Research Quarterly, published by

the International Reading Association.

1995-pres. Member of the Editorial Review Board of Reading Behavior: A Journal of Literacy,

published by the National Reading Conference.

1999-pres Member of Proposal and Manuscript Review Board, International Reading

Association.

1995-98 Member of the Editorial Review Board for the annual National Reading Conference

Yearbook.

1999-pres Member of the Editoral Review Board for the Literacy Studies Series, co-published

by the International Reading Association and the National Reading Conference.

1990-95 Editor, Sociolinguistics-Psycholinguistics Special Interest Group, International

Reading Association.

1994-95 Member of the Future of NRC Committee of The National Reading Conference.

1994 Member of the Editorial Advisory Review Board for the 43rd National Reading

Conference Yearbook.

1993-94 Member of Oscar Causey Research Award Selection Committee of The National

Reading Conference.

12/93 Program Coordinator, with Dorie Deegan and Dan Madigan, of 16 research

workshops for the National Reading Conference 43rd Annual Meeting, Charlestown.

The workshops bring together prominent researchers in the field of literacy to

informally discuss research methodologies and areas of needed literacy inquiry.

12/92 Program Coordinator of 12 research workshops for the National Reading Conference

42nd Annual Meeting, San Antonio.

1992-93 Invited participant in a National Reading Conference Committee to discuss the need

for an Ad Hoc Committee on Alternative Perspectives on Research.

12/91 Program Coordinator of 16 research workshops for the National Reading Conference

41st Annual Meeting, Palm Springs.

1992- Manuscript Reviewer, Journal of Reading, Reading Research Quarterly, Evaluation

Present and Program Planning: An International Journal, National Reading Conference

Yearbook, Journal of Literacy Research, English Education.

1991- Text Reviewer, Literature for Young Adults, Developing Readers and Writers in the

http://www.aace.org/pubs/cite/default.htm

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Present Content Areas K-12, and Teaching Secondary English: Readings and Applications,

Longman Publishing Group, Allyn & Bacon, International Reading Association.

1991-02 Proposal Reviewer, National Reading Conference Annual Convention

1996-99 Member of Long Range Planning Committee, National Reading Conference

1999 Chair of Long Range Planning Committee, National Reading Conference

1997-99 Member of Ethics Committee, National Reading Conference

1996-98 Member of Critical Spaces Committee, National Reading Conference

1995-97 Master of Ceremonies, Annual Town Meeting, National Reading Conference

1998 Nominated for election to the National Reading Conference Board of Directors

1998-00 The National Holmes Partnership Team Leader for Conference Sessions in 1998,

1999, and 2000: Work Team on Integrating Technology

2003-04 Facilitated African American Read-In Day classroom events in the State College

Area School District, sponsored nationally by the National Council of Teachers of

English, and locally by Elaine Richardson, College of Liberal Arts and the Africana

Research Center.

2003 Program Area Co-Chair for the 2003 Conference in Area 8: ; National Reading

Conference.

2003 Master of Ceremonies, Annual Town Meeting, National Reading Conference

2003-04 Member of National Reading Conference Diversity Committee.

2004 Program Area Co-Chair for the 2004 Conference in Area 1: Pre-Service Teacher

Education in Literacy; National Reading Conference.

2001-pres External reviewer for promotion and tenure papers: University of Missouri-

Columbia, Oakland University, The University of Georgia, University of Kentucky

College, Department, and University Services

College of Education

1989-90 Committee to Review the Instructional Support Center

1990-91 Joint Arts/Education Concerns Committee

1990-92 College of Education Library Committee

1990-91 Task Force on the Core Content of Teacher Education Programs at Penn State

1990-92 Teacher Certification Coordinating Council

1990-92 Committee for Admission Standards for Teacher Education Programs

1990-93 Committee on Faculty and Student Concerns

1991 Search Committee for Chair of Curriculum and Instruction

1991 Search Committee for the Waterbury Chair in Secondary Education

1991 Search Committee for the Head of Clinical Experiences

1992 Chair, Search Committee for Assistant Professor in Language and Literacy

1993-96 Faculty Senate Representative for College on Senate Council

SU 1993 Selected as Faculty Marshal for College of Education Summer Graduation.

1995-99 Committee on Technology

1995-96 Faculty Council Committee on Graduate Study and Research Policy

Search Committee for Teacher Education Candidate

Administrative Council Representative for the University Senate

Faculty Council Representative for the University Senate

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1996-99 College Promotion and Tenure Review Committee

1997-98 Administrative Council Representative for the University Senate

1998 Search Committee for Second Language Acquisition Faculty

1999-2001 Task Force to Study the Utilization of Instructional Technology

2000-2002 Faculty Council, elected Department Representative

2000-2002 Faculty Council subcommittee on Doctoral Student Research Proposals

2000-2002 Faculty Council subcommittee on Graduate School Fellowships

2001-2002 College of Education Outreach Fund Committee

2004-08 Reviewer for the Africana Research Center’s Annual Undergraduate Research

Symposium, College of Liberal Arts

Department of Curriculum and Instruction

1989- Secondary Education Faculty Program

1989-91 Doctoral Program Admissions Committee

1990-92 Professor in Charge of Secondary Education Program. In this administrative

position, I chaired the meetings of the secondary education faculty group. I also

directed the review of the secondary certification programs by the Pennsylvania

Department of Education, for which I synthesized information from various

program groups in the department, and drafted the bulk of the institutional report

for the Secondary Education Major.

1990-92 Curricular Affairs and Graduate Studies as PIC of Secondary Education

1990-92 Professors in Charge Committee

1993-94 Chair, Task force for Bilingual and Foreign Language Education

1993-96 Graduate Studies Advisory Committee (elected)

1995-96 Department Representative to Faculty Council Committee on Graduate Study and

Research Policy (elected)

1996-97 Co-Professor in Charge of Language and Literacy

1997-99 Professor in Charge of Language and Literacy

1997-99 Member of Curricular Affairs

2000 Member of Mentoring group for new faculty

2007-10 Elected Member of Department Promotion and Tenure Committee

The Pennsylvania State University

1991-2011 Elected University Senator, 5 terms of 4 years.

1991-93 Senate Committee on Undergraduate Instruction

1991-92 Senate Subcommittee on Retention and Transfer

1991-92 Senate Subcommittee on Basic Skills

1992-93 Senate Subcommittee on Writing Across the Curriculum

1992-93 Chair, Undergraduate Instruction subcommittee on Quality of Instruction

1993-96 Elected Senate Council Representative for the College of Education

1995-96 Faculty Senate Special Committee for the Salary Compensation Committee

1996-98 Elected Faculty Senate Committee on Committees and Rules

1998-99 Vice-Chair of Faculty Benefits Committee, Faculty Senate

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1999-2001 Chair of Undergraduate Education, Faculty Senate

1996-2001 University Classroom Improvement of Facilities Subcommittee on Technology

1997-99 Education Technologies Services Advisory Committee, Center for Academic

Computing

1997-98 New Media Minor Committee, Center for Academic Computing

2000-01 Affiliate Team Member, University Teaching and Learning Consortium

2001 Vice-Chair of Committee on Outreach, Fall Semester

2002 Senate Council Representative for College of Education, Spring Semestes

2003-04Elected Secretary of the University Faculty Senate

2003 Judge for 12th Annual Undergraduate Exhibition, Schreyer Honors College

2004-05Elected Chair-Elect of the University Faculty Senate

2004 Review Team member, Unit reports for “A Framework to Foster Diversity at Penn

State: 1998-2003 and 2004-09”

2005-06 Chair, University Faculty Senate

2006-07 Immediate Past Chair, University Faculty Senate

2003-07 Faculty Advisory Committee to the President, University Faculty Senate

2007-11 Elected Member of Senate Committee on Committees and Rules

2007-10 Elected Member of University Faculty Rights and Responsibilities Committee

2009-10 Elected Chair of the University Faculty Rights and Responsibilities Committee

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