Dr. Cindi Koudelka (@cmkoudelka) is a Curriculum Specialist with National Board Certification in Adolescent Young Adulthood/English Language Arts at Fieldcrest School District in Illinois and an Adjunct faculty member at Aurora University. She holds multiple certifications from PreK – 12 and is an active member …
Henry “Cody” Miller is an assistant professor of English education at SUNY Brockport. During his seven years as a high school English teacher and in his current role, he positions texts as vehicles to discuss broader socio-political issues in students’ lives and worlds. He leads …
Leilya A. Pitre is an Assistant Professor and English Education Program Coordinator with experience in secondary school and college teaching. She taught English as a foreign language in the Ukraine and ELA/English in public schools in the US. Currently, she teaches methods courses for preservice …
Kimberly Slusser currently works with pre-service teachers at Ithaca College. She began her teaching career in rural Pennsylvania (where she still lives with her family), more than 20 years ago. She earned her Bachelor’s degree at Mansfield University in Pennsylvania, her Masters degree in Reading …
Dr. Sarah Fleming received her doctorate in Literacy Education at Syracuse University in May of 2020, and she currently works as an English teacher at Westhill High School in Syracuse, New York. She works primarily with students in the 1oth-12 grades, and her pedagogy centers …
With over 25 years of K12 experience that include elementary classroom teacher, campus reading specialist and district literacy coach, Sheri Vasinda now supports preservice and inservice teachers in developing deep understandings of literacy processes and practices at Oklahoma State University. She is passionate about supporting …
Welcome to the 2021 Ethical ELA Teacher Educator Series. As we step into 2021, many of us carry wounds from 2020, some more visible than others. Education does not look like it did when we entered this profession (some much longer ago than others), but …
Christine DeStefano is a writer and master’s student in teaching with an emphasis in secondary English/language arts. She enjoys reading pretty much anything she can get her hands on, but especially books for young people. She lives with her husband and cat in Tulsa, Oklahoma. …
Presence, Connection, Listening and Reflection: Considerations for Community Building in Online Teaching by Brooke Eisenbach and Paula Greathouse As schools and districts around the country find themselves leaning towards a hybrid or online approach to education in the coming Fall semester due to COVID-19, it …
Poetry is not only a dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before. Audre Lorde Before I was a teacher, I was a …