2018 MIDWINTER CONFERENCE FEATURED SPEAKERS
We are pleased to introduce the confirmed keynote speakers for the 2018 NCTEAR Midwinter Conference. Check back to see additional keynote speakers as they become confirmed.
Dr. Doug Baker
Eastern Michigan University
Dr. Baker is a Professor in the Department of English. His research interests include classroom discourse and the role it plays in how students learn disciplinary knowledge; the role of reflexivity in teaching; assessment of student learning; and ethnographic approaches to studying classroom interactions.
Eastern Michigan University
Dr. Baker is a Professor in the Department of English. His research interests include classroom discourse and the role it plays in how students learn disciplinary knowledge; the role of reflexivity in teaching; assessment of student learning; and ethnographic approaches to studying classroom interactions.
Dr. Lisa Barker
Towson University
Dr. Barker is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Secondary and Middle School Education. She designs research on how the principles and practices of improvisational theatre can inform the work of educators, and teaches courses on English education and young adult literature.
Towson University
Dr. Barker is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Secondary and Middle School Education. She designs research on how the principles and practices of improvisational theatre can inform the work of educators, and teaches courses on English education and young adult literature.
Dr. David Bloome
The Ohio State University
Dr. Bloome is an EHE Distinguished Professor of Teaching and Learning in the Department of Teaching and Learning. His research focuses on (1) the social construction of intertextuality as part of the reading, writing, and learning processes, (2) discourse analysis as a means for understanding reading, writing, and literacy events in and outside of classrooms, (3) narrative development among young children as a foundation for learning and literacy development in schools, (4) students as researchers and ethnographers of their own communities, (5) literacy as a set of social relationships connecting people to each other in urban environments, and (6) the teaching and learning of argumentative writing.
The Ohio State University
Dr. Bloome is an EHE Distinguished Professor of Teaching and Learning in the Department of Teaching and Learning. His research focuses on (1) the social construction of intertextuality as part of the reading, writing, and learning processes, (2) discourse analysis as a means for understanding reading, writing, and literacy events in and outside of classrooms, (3) narrative development among young children as a foundation for learning and literacy development in schools, (4) students as researchers and ethnographers of their own communities, (5) literacy as a set of social relationships connecting people to each other in urban environments, and (6) the teaching and learning of argumentative writing.
Dr. Ayanna Brown
Elmhurst College
Dr. Brown is an Associate Professor and Associate Chair in the Department of Education. Her research focuses on discussions of “race,” contemporary African American studies, and discourse analysis. Of particular interests is examining how discussions of race in secondary classroom settings do not always align with curricular goals but support students and teachers' experiences with literacies that involve greater understandings of social contexts and the role they play in building forms of equity.
Elmhurst College
Dr. Brown is an Associate Professor and Associate Chair in the Department of Education. Her research focuses on discussions of “race,” contemporary African American studies, and discourse analysis. Of particular interests is examining how discussions of race in secondary classroom settings do not always align with curricular goals but support students and teachers' experiences with literacies that involve greater understandings of social contexts and the role they play in building forms of equity.
Dr. David Bwire
The College of New Jersey
Dr. Bwire is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Special Education, Language, and Literacy. His research interests include transcultural literacy practices, digital literacy, multimodal pedagogy in K-12 classrooms, new literacy studies, discourse analysis, ethnography of communication and qualitative research methods, collaborative and online learning communities, and social justice in education.
The College of New Jersey
Dr. Bwire is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Special Education, Language, and Literacy. His research interests include transcultural literacy practices, digital literacy, multimodal pedagogy in K-12 classrooms, new literacy studies, discourse analysis, ethnography of communication and qualitative research methods, collaborative and online learning communities, and social justice in education.
Dr. Gerald Campano
University of Pennsylvania
Dr. Campano is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Reading/Writing/Literacy Division at the Graduate School of Education. His current project examines the literacy practices and discourses employed when individuals negotiate social, cultural, linguistic, and institutional boundaries that promote educational justice and immigrant rights.
University of Pennsylvania
Dr. Campano is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Reading/Writing/Literacy Division at the Graduate School of Education. His current project examines the literacy practices and discourses employed when individuals negotiate social, cultural, linguistic, and institutional boundaries that promote educational justice and immigrant rights.
Dr. Jocelyn Chadwick
National Council Teachers of English
Dr. Chadwick is President of the National Council Teachers of English and author of The Jim Dilemma: Reading Race in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Jocelyn A. Chadwick is an English teacher and scholar, lecturing occasionally and conducting a seminar at Harvard Graduate School of Education.
National Council Teachers of English
Dr. Chadwick is President of the National Council Teachers of English and author of The Jim Dilemma: Reading Race in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Jocelyn A. Chadwick is an English teacher and scholar, lecturing occasionally and conducting a seminar at Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Dr. Jamal Cooks
San Francisco State University
Dr. Cooks is a Professor in the Secondary Education department and Interim Associate Director of the Ed.D. in Educational Leadership Program. His research interests include language, literacy, and culture, with a focus on urban education.
San Francisco State University
Dr. Cooks is a Professor in the Secondary Education department and Interim Associate Director of the Ed.D. in Educational Leadership Program. His research interests include language, literacy, and culture, with a focus on urban education.
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Dr. Ana Christina da Silva
Vanderbilt University Dr. da Silva is the Director of Learning, Diversity, and Urban Studies in the Department of Teaching and Learning. She studies the learning ecologies of linguistically/culturally diverse students, family and community resources in diverse urban in- and out-of-school contexts; and partnerships between family, community, school, and university that support the literacy learning of linguistically diverse learners and emphasize educational opportunity and equity. |
Dr. Maria Paula Ghiso
Teachers College, Columbia University
Dr. Ghiso is an Associate Professor of LIteracy Education in the department of Curriculum and Teaching. Her scholarly interests include young children's writing; critical literacies; multilingualism and immigrant identities; children's literature; university-school partnerships.
Teachers College, Columbia University
Dr. Ghiso is an Associate Professor of LIteracy Education in the department of Curriculum and Teaching. Her scholarly interests include young children's writing; critical literacies; multilingualism and immigrant identities; children's literature; university-school partnerships.
Dr. Judith Green
University of California, Berkeley
Dr. Green is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Education, where she worked from 1990-2016. Her teaching and research focus on teaching-learning relationships, disciplinary knowledge as socially constructed, and ethnographic research and discourse studies of the patterns of everyday life in classroom.
University of California, Berkeley
Dr. Green is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Education, where she worked from 1990-2016. Her teaching and research focus on teaching-learning relationships, disciplinary knowledge as socially constructed, and ethnographic research and discourse studies of the patterns of everyday life in classroom.
Dr. Latrise Johnson
University of Alabama
Dr. Johnson is an assistant professor of secondary English Language Arts and literacy. Her past experiences as a middle and high school English teacher in Atlanta Public Schools inform her current work with preservice teachers, current practitioners, and underserved student populations.
University of Alabama
Dr. Johnson is an assistant professor of secondary English Language Arts and literacy. Her past experiences as a middle and high school English teacher in Atlanta Public Schools inform her current work with preservice teachers, current practitioners, and underserved student populations.
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Dr. Guafong Li
University of British Columbia Dr. Li is a Professor in Transnational/Global Perspectives in Language and Literacy Education of Children and Youth in the Department of Language and Literacy Education. Her recent research interests are longitudinal studies of immigrant children’s bicultural and bi-literacy development through the educational systems, immigrant children’s new literacies practices in and out of school, technology-infused ESL/EFL instructional approaches, diversity and equity issues, and teacher education and professional development for culturally and linguistically diverse children and youth |
Dr. Gilda Martinez-Alba
Towson University
Dr. Martinez-Alba is Department Chair and Professor in the Department of Educational Technology and Literacy. Her research focuses on English Language learners, reading motivation, technology for motivation, and adolescent literacy.
Towson University
Dr. Martinez-Alba is Department Chair and Professor in the Department of Educational Technology and Literacy. Her research focuses on English Language learners, reading motivation, technology for motivation, and adolescent literacy.
Dr. Tonya Perry
University of Alabama Birmingham
Dr. Perry is an Associate Professor of Secondary English Language Arts in the department of Curriculum and Instruction. Her research focuses on literacy instruction in the secondary schools, primarily in the areas of writing, urban education, and teacher preparation, particularly the ways in which we prepare middle and high school students to meet the writing demands for themselves (personal), college, and career.
University of Alabama Birmingham
Dr. Perry is an Associate Professor of Secondary English Language Arts in the department of Curriculum and Instruction. Her research focuses on literacy instruction in the secondary schools, primarily in the areas of writing, urban education, and teacher preparation, particularly the ways in which we prepare middle and high school students to meet the writing demands for themselves (personal), college, and career.
Dr. Bryan Ripley Crandall
Fairfield University
Dr. Ripley Crandall is Director of the Connecticut Writing Project and Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of Education and Allied Professions. His scholarly work includes the teaching of writing, urban education and professional development, young adult literature, and multiliteracies, especially those of refugee-background youth.
Fairfield University
Dr. Ripley Crandall is Director of the Connecticut Writing Project and Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of Education and Allied Professions. His scholarly work includes the teaching of writing, urban education and professional development, young adult literature, and multiliteracies, especially those of refugee-background youth.
- Dr. Darlene Russell
- William Paterson University
Dr. Robert J. Tierney
University of British Columbia
Rob Tierney is a Professor of Education at the University of British Columbia, an Honorary Professor of the Faculty of Education and Social Work at the University of Sydney, a Visiting Distinguished Scholar at Beijing Normal University and a conjoint Professor for the Wollotuka Centre at the University of Newcastle. His recent projects include research on global epistemologies and cross-cultural research, digital literacy and meaning making, the nature of educational scholarship across countries, teacher development projects in China and indigenous developments in Australia.
University of British Columbia
Rob Tierney is a Professor of Education at the University of British Columbia, an Honorary Professor of the Faculty of Education and Social Work at the University of Sydney, a Visiting Distinguished Scholar at Beijing Normal University and a conjoint Professor for the Wollotuka Centre at the University of Newcastle. His recent projects include research on global epistemologies and cross-cultural research, digital literacy and meaning making, the nature of educational scholarship across countries, teacher development projects in China and indigenous developments in Australia.