RECENT  FACULTY  ACCOMPLISHMENTS

PUBLICATIONS, PRESENTATIONS, AWARDS, GRANTS...

                                 

JANICE ALMASI

• Board of Directors -  National Reading Conference (2008-2011)
• Board of Directors - International Reading Association (2008-2011)
   
•  Presented at International Reading Association's 23rd World Congress, New Zealand (2010)
  "First Year Implementation Gains & Response to Intervention (RTI)"    

• Presented at International Reading Association Annual Convention, Chicago (2010)  
  "Peer discussion of texts in on-line environments"
• Co-author of the lead article in May 2010 issue of the Journal of Educational Psychology, 102 (2), 257-280 
  "The impact of a comprehensive strategy-based intervention on the comprehension and strategy use of struggling adolescent readers." 
• Co-authored a chapter in the Handbook of Reading Disability Research, August 2010
  "Interventions to enhance narrative comprehension" pp. 329-344
  Almasi, J.F., Palmer, B.M., Madden, A., Hart, S. 

ANGARY ANGLIN

• Book:  Instructional Technology Past, Present, and Future, 3rd Edition, 2011

 

SHARON BRENNAN

• Presented at AACTE - American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, Atlanta (2010)
  "Using technology to enhance globally focused teaching and field experiences"

 

ELINOR BROWN

•  The Critical Role of Black religious Institutions in Educating African-American Youth.
  Martin Dowson and Stuart devenish (Eds.), Religion and Spirituality (pp 195-214)
  Charlotte, NC:  Information Age Publishing, Inc.
• Grant -  from Kentucky  Dept of Education to upgrade Business Education course in teacher education programs. $2,000.00
• Taskforce on Inclusiveness, 2010 

 

 

  

 

LESLIE BURNS  

Central Ky Educational Cooperative's Content Leadership     Network,Higher Education Representative for English Language Arts.

• Chief Consultant, KDE  Kentucky Curriculum and Assessment Reform Enterprise (KCARE), Model Curriculum Framework.
• Language education and social justice in English education policy.   In s.
  Miller & D. Kirkland (Eds.).  Change matters:  Critical essays on moving social justice research
   from theory to policy, 189-196.  New York:  Peter Lang. 
• Burns, L.D. (2011).Language education and social justice in English education policy.  In s.j. Miller and D.E. Kirkland (Eds.), Change Matters:  Critical essays on moving social justice research from theory to policy, (pp.189-196).  New York:  Peter Lang. Nominated, National Council of Teachers of English, Outstanding Research in English Education,  Richard Meade Award.   
• Book:  Hall, Leigh A., Burns, Leslie D., Edwards, Elizabeth
  Empowering Struggling Readers, Practices for the Middle Grades, 2011

 SUSAN CANTRELL 

•  Kentucky Colonel honor for working to improve adolescent literacy in the commonwealth (2010) 
  
•  Presented at National Reading Conference, Fort Worth (2010)
  "Variations in the strategic processing of expository text by proficient and struggling sixth graders over time"
• Presentation at the Striving Readers Spring Conference, "Kentucky Striving Readers: Insights from Years 1-3, 2010 
• co-authored the lead article in the May edition of the Journal of Educational Psychology
  "The Impact of a strategy-based reading intervention on the comprehension and strategy use of struggling adolescent readers" 2010

 

LAURIE HENRY

•    Lincoln Heritage Reading Council, President Elect (2010)
•    Kentucky Reading Association, Board of Directors (2010)
•    National Council of Teachers of English, National Consulting Network (2010)
•   University of Kentucky, Wethington Award (2010) 
•   Presented at Learning International Networks Consortium, MIT, Cambridge (2010)
   "Inquiry strategies for the information society in the 21st centrury (ISIS-21)"
•   Presented at AERA, Denver (2010)
   "Designing a 21st century literacy skills curriculum for Plug GED In."
•   Presented at IRA, Chicago (2010)
   "Travel Buddies Project connects 1st and 2nd graders"
•  Presented at Ky Adult Education Program Directors Institute, Louisville (2010)
  "Career readiness in a flat world:  Building skills for the 21 century"
•  Presented at the National Science Teachers Association, Philadelphia (2010)
  "Increasing 21st century science and literacy skills" 
•  Presented at American Association of Colleges for Techer Education, Atlanta (2010)
  "Using technology to enhance clinical experiences and promote globally focused teaching"  

 LINDA LEVSTIK  

• Presented at the  Organizatin of American Historians, Washington, 2010
  "What Educational Research Says about Teaching Women's History"
• Presented at American Educational Research Association, Denver (2010)
  "Discussant:  Teaching History with  Film"
  History Instruction Using Sociocultural Tools: Teaching History for the Common Good
•  (in press)   Learning History.  In P.  Alexander & R. Mayer (EDs.) 
  Handbook of Research on Learning and Instruction. Routledge
• (in press) L.S. & Barton, K.C.  Doing History:  Investigating with Children in Elementary and Middle School
  Fourth edition.  Routledge
• (in press)  Henderson, A. G. & Levstik, L. S.  What's caught; What's taught:  Children interpreting material culture
  Winterthur

 

CHRISTINE MALLOZZI

• Dollar General Foundation Literacy Grant, UK family literacy program, UK Literacy Clinic, 2010

 

JOAN MAZUR & GERRY SWAN

 http://www.centralkynews.com/amnews/news/amn-danville-kids-university-bring-111610,0,713101.story

 

NANCY McCRARY            

        Research Fellowship (awarded), University of Kentucky, Summer 2010

• Presentation at World Conference on Educational Sciences, Bahcesehir University, Istanbul, Turkey
  "Invisible differences:  A pedagogical approach to personalizing diversity for pre-service teachers" 2010
• Presentation at George Williams College, Williams Bay, WI
  "The impact of hidden curriculum on the development of a high school Gay/Straight Alliance" 2010
• Presentation at US Social forum:  Another World is Possible. Another US is Necessary. A New Detroit is Underway, Detroit, MI
  "Exploring the social context of schools and how to transform the training of teachers to create a more liberatory education"   2010

KRISTEN PERRY  

•   Dollar General Foundation, University of Ky Family Literacy Program, UK Literacy Clinic, Grant 

    Collaborative Center for Literacy Development, ESL and Adult Literacy Provision for Refugee Lex 2010
             

• Award - Teacher Who Made A Difference, College of Education, University of Kentucky, 2010
   
• Presentation National Reading Conference/Literacy Research Association in Fort Worth, Texas, 2010
  "Literacy and ESL Programs for Adult Refugees: How Prepared are Tutors and Instructors"
  "Adult Literacy Paradigms in Dialogue, symposium  
   
• Research in the Teaching of English, Volume 45, Number 3, February 2011.
  Television, Language, and Literacy Practices in Sudanese Refugee Families: "I Learned how to Spell English on Channel 18"

   

 KATHY SWAN

•  University of Kentucky, Kentucky:  An American Story, Summer grant  2010
• The Calvin K. Kazanjian Economic Foundation, Inc. Econocast:  The Production, consumption and distribution of economic podcasts for the K-12 classroom. Summer 2010
• Library of Congress, Midwest Center for Teaching Primary Sources:  Digital Docs in a Box, summer 2010

 

SUSAN WOOD

• P-20 Civic Engagement Lab. University of Kentucky, College of Education, 2010
  one year planning lab to design and pilot an innovative curriculum integrating civic edu, critical iiteracy, and new literacies.
• Florida State University Writing Project, National Writing Project supporting PD for teachers K-16 to improve student writing skills, 2010
• National Writing Project, National evaluation of writing professinal development, four-year study examines the impact of teacher participation in the FSU Writing Project on 8th grade student writers, 2010 

• Book - Literacy instruction for today's classroom:  Implementing strategies based on 20 scholars and their ideas, 2010
   
• Presentation - Indiana University Southeast Writing Project
• Writing toward and away from home, New Albany,  2010

 
PARKER FAWSON

 

• Editorship, Literacy Research and Instruction referred Publication of the Association of
  Literacy Educators and Researcfhers, 2010

 

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