Diane R. Collier Associate Professor Curriculum Vitae 2018-06-13 Address Brock University, Faculty of Education 1812 Sir Isaac Brock Road St. Catharines, ON L2S 3A1
Contact Work Phone: (905) 688-5550 ext. 6146 Mobile Phone: (289) 696-7186 Email: dcollier@brocku.ca
EDUCATION PhD
University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver, Canada Language and Literacy Education, 2013 Being tough, staying good, and playing inside the box: An ethnographic case study of one boy’s multimodal textmaking
MEd
Memorial University, St. John’s, Canada Teaching and Learning: Early Literacy Education, 1998 Fellow of the School of Graduate Studies Implementing early intervention in reading and writing in the primary grades: Encouraging reflection and strategic thinking
BEd
York University, Toronto, Canada Primary/Junior, 1993
BA (Hons.)
Memorial University, St. John’s, Canada Psychology (Minor in Women’s Studies)
PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT Brock University, Department of Teacher Education, Associate Professor, July 2017 to present Brock University, Department of Teacher Education, Assistant Professor, July 2013 to June 2017 Brock University, Department of Teacher Education, Lecturer, 2012-2013
1
PUBLICATIONS Edited Volume Kendrick, M., Rowsell, J., & Collier, D. (2013). Special issue: New literacies in Canadian classrooms. Language and Literacy, 15(1). http://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/langandlit/issue/view/1447 Peer-Reviewed Monograph Purcell-Gates, V., Anderson, J., Collier, D., & Gagne, M. (2010). Literacy for Life: A handbook for literacy practitioners (78pp.). Canadian Council on Learning. Peer-Reviewed Publications Collier, D. (In Press). Doodling, borrowing, and remixing: Children inquiring across digitized spaces. The Reading Teacher, accepted March 9 2018. Harwood, D. & Collier, D. (In Press). “Talk into my GoPro, I’m making a movie!”: Using digital ethnographic methods to explore children’s sociomaterial experiences in the woods. In N. Kucirkova & J. Rowsell, (Eds.), The Routledge international handbook of learning with technology in early childhood. Routledge. Accepted January 2018. Perry, M. & Collier, D. (2018). What counts as creativity in education: An inquiry in the intersections of public, political, and policy discourses. Canadian Journal of Education, 41(1), 24-43. Jaipal-Jamani, K., Figg, C., Collier, D., Gallagher, T., Winters, K., & Ciampa, K. (2018). Developing TPACK of university faculty through technology leadership roles. Accepted by Italian Journal of Educational Technology, published online Mar 27, 2018 http://ijet.itd.cnr.it/article/view/984. Collier, D. (2017). Rescripting lives and imagining audiences through online multimodal composition. In R. Zaidi & J. Rowsell, (Eds.), Literacy lives in transcultural times (pp. 136-154). New York, NY: Routledge. Invited. Harwood, D. & Collier, D. (2017). The matter of the stick: Storying/(re-)storying children’s literacies in the Forest. Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 17 (3), 336-352. Invited. Rowsell, J. & Collier, D. (2017). Researching multimodality in language and education. In K. King & L. Yi-Ju (Eds.), Research methods in language and education. Vol. 10, 14 pp. 311-324. Burke, A. & Collier, D. (2017). “I was kind of teaching myself”: Teachers’ conversations about social justice and teaching for change. Teacher Development, 21 (2), 269-287.
2
Collier, D. (2017). What kind of writer are you?: Glancing sideways at writers becoming. In T. Cremin & T. Locke (Eds.), Writer identity and the teaching and learning of writing (pp. 169-182). Oxon, New York: Routledge. Collier, D. R. & Kendrick, M. (2016). I wish I was a lion, a puppy: A multimodal view of writing-process assessment. Pedagogies, 11 (2), 167-188. Collier, D. & Rowsell, J. (2014). A room with a view: Revisiting the multiliteracies manifesto, twenty years on. Fremdsprachen Lehrer und Larnin, 43 (2), 12-28. Invited. http://periodicals.narr.de/index.php/flul/article/view/2150 Collier, D., Moffatt, L., & Perry, M. (2014). Talking, wrestling, and recycling: An investigation of three analytic approaches to qualitative data in education research. Qualitative Research, 15 (3), 389-404. Collier, D. (2014). “I’m just trying to be tough, okay”: Masculine performances of everyday practices. Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 15 (2), 203-226. Collier, D. (2013). Relocalizing wrestler: Performing texts across time and space. Language and Education, 27 (6), 481-497. Collier, D. (2010). Journey to becoming a writer: Review of literature about children’s identities as writers. Language and Literacy: An e-journal, 12 (1). http://dx.doi.org/10.20360/G2059M Keynote Presentation Collier, D., & Rowsell, J. (2017, July 4). Keynote: Revealing, retelling, and remaking family photos. Valuing the Visual conference, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom. Refereed Conference Presentations Collier, D. & Perry, M. (2018, April). Falling back into a digital divide: Youth and art in public and digital spaces. American Educational Research Association, New York, NY. Eaton, J., Zupancic, T., Gallagher, T. & Collier, D. (2018, February 23). Using descriptive feedback through a blogging platform to support literacy skill development. Reading for the Love of it conference, Toronto, ON. Harwood, D., & Collier, D. (2017, November 30). Playful stick-child entanglements in the morethan-human forest. Literacy Research Association, Tampa, FL. Perry, M., Collier, D., Rowsell, J. & Rogers, T. (2017, December). The Project Cafe: Exploring possibility and equality in youth mobilities through digital spaces and the arts. Literacy Research Association, Tampa, FL.
3
Perry, M., Collier, D., Rowsell, J. & Rogers, T. (2017, July). DigiYomo: Imagining collaborative visual, digital research with youth. Valuing the Visual conference, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK. Perry, M., Collier, D., Rowsell, J. & Rogers, T. (2017, June). DigiYomo: Co-research in a cross national and interdisciplinary project. 53rd Annual United Kingdom Literacy Association Conference, Glasgow, Scotland. Collier, D. (2017, May). Play in children’s writing: What a sideways glance affords. Canadian Society for the Study of Education, Ryerson University, Toronto, ON. Collier, D. & Rowsell, J. (2017, May). Playing with paper and PicCollage: Remaking family photographs. Canadian Society for the Study of Education, Ryerson University, Toronto, ON. Collier, D., Rowsell, J., & Jobb, C. (2016, December). Visualizing families: Children relocalizing and remaking family photographs. Literacy Research Association, Nashville, TN. Collier, D. (2016, December). Rescripting classes lives and imagining audiences as online cosmopolitan practice, Symposium: Mobilizing Literacies for Transcultural and Cosmopolitan Transformations. Literacy Research Association, Nashville, TN. Harwood, D., Collier, D., Khan, F. & McElhone, S. (2016, June). Being/teaching/learning in the woods-Exploring the enactment of forest school pedagogies. Canadian Society for the Study of Education, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. Collier, D. (2016, May). Visualizing families: Visual literacy and photography. Language and Literacy Researchers of Canada Pre-Conference, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. Harwood, D., Collier, D., Khan, F., Reichheld, S., McElhone, S. (2016, May). Using a GoPro camera to explore children’s experiences in a Forest School. The Qualitatives, Brock University, St. Catharines, ON. Jaipal-Jamani, K., Figg, C., Gallagher, T., Ciampa, K., Collier, D., & Winters, K.L. (2016. April). Building capacity for technology-enhanced teaching in higher education through faculty technology leadership roles. American Educational Research Association, Washington, DC. Burke, A. & Collier, D. (2015, July). “I was kind of teaching myself”: Teachers’ conversations about change and agency. United Kingdom Literacy Association Conference, Nottingham, UK. Collier, D. & Perry, M. (2015, July). What counts as creativity: An inquiry. United Kingdom Literacy Association Conference, Nottingham, UK.
4
Collier, D. & Rowsell, J. (2015, June). Generating and analyzing photographs through reflexivity and memory work. Resisting the Standard Conference, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK. Collier, D. & Rowsell, J. (2015, May/June). Multiliteracies online/Identities in digital spaces. Language and Literacy Researchers of Canada Pre-Conference, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON. Figg, C., Jaipal-Jamani, K., Collier, D., Gallagher, T., Winters, K. & Ciampa, K. (2015, May/June). Faculty stories: Developing TPACK knowledge through technology leadership roles. Canadian Society for the Study of Education, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON. Collier, D. & Moffatt, L. (2015, May/June). It's not in the bag: Literacy learning and inquiry. Canadian Society for the Study of Education, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON. Burke, A., Rowsell, J, Collier, D, & Kendrick, M. (2015, May/June). Purple, packaged girlhood: An examination of self-making through visual analysis, in symposium: Multimodality and research methods. Canadian Society for the Study of Education, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON. Jaipal-Jamani, K., Figg, C., Collier, D., Gallagher, T., Winters, K.L. & Ciampa, K. (March 2015). Transitioning into the role of technology leaders: Building faculty capacity for technology-enhanced teaching. Paper presented at the Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education (SITE) International Conference, Las Vegas, CA. Jaipal-Jamani, K., Figg, C., Collier, D., Gallagher, T., Winters, K.L. & Ciampa, K. (2015). In D. Rutledge & D. Slykhuis (Eds.), Proceedings of SITE 2015--Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference (pp. 3264-3271). Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). Las Vegas, NV. Collier, D. (2014, December). Worrying about children’s voices: Shifting roles in critical literacy research. Literacy Research Association, Marco Island, FL. Collier, D. (2014, December). “I’m just trying to be tough, okay”: Masculine performances of everyday practices. Literacy Research Association, Marco Island, FL. Collier, D. (2013, December). Telling stories about girlhood: Bedrooms as multimodal identity texts. Literacy Research Association, Dallas, TX. Collier, D. (2013, May). I wish I was a lion, a puppy: Becoming writer through a textmaking process. Canadian Society for the Study of Education, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC.
5
Johnston, I., Burke, A., Strong-Wilson, T., Phipps, H., Collier, D. & Yoder, A. (2013, February). ‘Speaking differently’ through imaginative explorations with Canadian literature: A panCanadian study of teaching for social justice. Sixth Biennial Provoking Curriculum Conference, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON. Collier, D., Moffatt, L., & Perry, M. (2012, May). Talking, wrestling, and recycling: An investigation of three analytic approaches to qualitative data in education research. Canadian Society for the Study of Education, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON. Collier, D. (2012, May). Being tough, staying good, and playing outside the box: An ethnographic case study of one boy’s multimodal textmaking. Canadian Society for the Study of Education, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON. Burke, A. M., Johnston, I., Wiltse, L., Ward, A., Dobson, T., Strong-Wilson, T., Courtland, M., Gonzalez, I., Phipps, H., Shariff, F. & Collier, D. (2012, May). Teachers negotiating responsive social change: Teacher inquiry and social justice through Canadian literature. Canadian Society for the Study of Education, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON. Collier, D. (2011, May). Recycling ‘wrestler’: Following a textmaking cycle. Literacy Researchers of Canada pre-conference at the University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB. Collier, D. (2011, May). Constructing identities, performing wrestler: “When you’re stylin’ and profilin’”. Qualitative Inquiry conference, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL. Collier, D. (2011, May). Recycling ‘wrestler’: Ethnographic data analysis and researcher role. LLED Graduate Student conference, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC. Collier, D. (2010, May). Constructing bedrooms as multimodal texts: ‘When you’re stylin’ and profilin’. Data analysis session at Language and Literacy Researchers of Canada PreConference, Concordia University, Montreal, QC. Collier, D. (2010, February). Now for the grand finale!: Multimodal analysis of one child’s texts. Data analysis session at Education and Ethnography Forum, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. Collier, D. (2009, May). Ethnography and multimodal analysis of children’s texts: Positionality, ethics, and interpretation. Language and Literacy Researchers of Canada Pre-Conference, University of Ottawa, ON. Collier, D. (2009, May). Multimodal literate identities: What can we learn from children’s visual and print texts? Language and Literacy Researchers of Canada at the Canadian Society for the Study of Education Conference, Ottawa, ON.
6
Collier, D. (2009, May). ‘Viewers, do not try this at home’: Research roles and one child’s multimodal texts. LLED Graduate Student Conference, UBC, Vancouver, BC. Collier, D. (2008, May). What kind of writer are you?: The construction of writer identities in classrooms. Language and Literacy Researchers of Canada at the Canadian Society for the Study of Education Conference, Vancouver, BC. Collier, D. (2008, March). Writing assessment as social and discursive practices: How are children’s identities, as writers, constructed through writing assessment practices in classrooms? Annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New York, NY. Invited Presentations Nagle, J.; Collier, D.; Waterhouse, M. & Rowsell, J. (2018, May). Peer review in language and literacy: Reading and writing for peer review. Panel presentation for LLRC/ACCLL at the Canadian Society for the Study of Education, University of Regina. Collier, D. (2018, May). Inquiring across material and digitized spaces with family photos. Presentation to ED599, Digital literacy at University of British Columbia. Collier, D. (2017, October). Re-imagining research partnerships: Thinking through ‘co-research’ and ethical practice with young people (Invited presenter). Child and youth engagement, civic literacies and digital ecologies – Social Justice Research Institute 2017 Symposium, Brock University, St. Catharines, ON. Collier, D. & Burke, A. (2015, December). Teachers’ voices for change and agency: Exploring social justice issues in Canadian schools with children’s literature. Teaching and Learning Series, Faculty of Education, Memorial University, St. John’s, NL. Collier, D. (2015, April). Rescripting lives and imagining audiences through online multimodal composition. Paper presentation as part of think-tank: Transcultural Cosmopolitanism in Multimodal Times, funded by a Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), held at University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. Book Reviews Collier, D. (2011). “Who do you think you are?”: Growing up in the GirlZone. [Review of the book Girls, feminism, and grassroots literacies: Activism in the GirlZone by Mary P. Sheridan-Rabideau]. Mind, Culture, and Activity, 18 (1), 79-83. Collier, D. (2008). [Review of the book Ethnography by Brian Street and Shirley Brice Heath]. Education Review, August 14, 2008.
7
Manuscripts in Preparation Collier, D. & Perry, M. (In Review). Young people, old researchers, academics, and artists: Working across some great divides in digital literacy research. Submitted to Journal of Literacy Research, June 2018. Collier, D. (In Review). Re-imagining research partnerships: Thinking through ‘co-research’ and ethical practice with young people, Special Issue, Studies in Social Justice, submitted June 2018. Perry, M. & Collier, D. (draft stage). Falling back into a digital divide: Youth and art in public and digital spaces. To be submitted to Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, July 2018. Collier, D. & Rowsell, J. (draft stage). Revealing, retelling, and remaking family photos. In K. Pahl & J. Rowsell (Eds.). Living literacies: Literacy for social change. To be finalized July 2018 Collier, D. (draft stage) Purple, packaged girlhood: An examination of self-making through visual analysis. To be submitted to Girlhood Studies, Fall 2018. Collier, D., Perry, M., Rowsell, J., & Rogers, T. (proposed). Different and connected stories of youth, artists, and academics playing in digital literacy research. In E. Morrell and J. Rowsell (Eds.). Stories from the digital divide, to be submitted September 2018. AWARDS, HONOURS, AND GRANTS
Title: Teacher Education Research and Practice in 21st Century Language and Literacies Type: Match of Minds – Summer employment funding for pre-service teacher as research assistant Role: Principal Investigator Source: Brock Match of Minds Funded, ongoing Title: Youth Mobilities in Public and Digital Spaces Type: Research and Development Grant (employ research assistant) Role: Principal Investigator Source: Faculty of Education, Brock University Funded, complete Title: Youth Mobilities in Public and Digital Spaces Type: GRAD funding (employ research assistant) Role: Principal Investigator Source: Faculty of Education, Brock University Funded, complete
Value
Year
$5000
2018
$982
2018
$1472
2017
8
Title: Youth Mobilities in Public and Digital Spaces Type: SSHRC Institutional Grant (SIG)/International conference, Role: Principal Investigator Source: Brock BSIG Funded, complete
$1000
2017
Title: Blogging and Descriptive Feedback in Junior Classrooms Type: Research & Development Grant Role: Principal Investigator Source: Faculty of Education, Brock University Funded, complete
$982.01
2017
Title: YOMO: Youth Mobilities in Public and Digital Spaces Type: SSHRC Insight Development Grant (emerging scholars) Role: Principal Investigator Source: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Funded, ongoing
$58,589
2016
Title: Visualizing Families Type: Graduate Student Funding (60 hours) Role: Principal Investigator Source: Faculty of Education, Brock University Funded, complete
$1332
2016
Title: Literacy Learning and Inquiry Type: Research & Development Grant Role: Co-Investigator (with Dr. L. Moffatt) Source: Faculty of Education, Brock University Funded, complete
$568
2016
Title: Visual Literacy and Photography: Family, School and Community Practices Type: Graduate Student Funding (60 hours) Role: Principal Investigator (with Drs. J. Rowsell & P. Vietgen) Source: Faculty of Education, Brock University Funded, complete
$1332
2015
Title: “If you go out in the woods today, you’re sure of a big surprise!”: Forest School Project Type: SSHRC Institutional Grant (SIG): Role: Co-Applicant with Dr. D. Harwood Source: Brock SIG Funded, complete
$4500
2015
9
Title: What Counts as Creativity: An Inquiry Type: SSHRC Institutional Grant (SIG)/International conference, United Kingdom Literacy Association Role: Co-investigator (with Dr. M. Perry) Source: Brock BSIG Funded, complete Title: Visual Literacy and Photography: Family, School and Community Practices Type: SSHRC Institutional Grant (SIG) Role: Principal Investigator (with Drs. J. Rowsell & P. Vietgen) Source: Brock BSIG Funded, complete Title: Visual Literacy and Photography: Family, School and Community Practices Type: Research & Development Grant Role: Principal Investigator (with Drs. J. Rowsell & P. Vietgen) Source: Faculty of Education, Brock University Funded, complete Title: Making/Re-Making Canadian Families: A Visual, Narrative, and Longitudinal Study of Family Practices and Family Photographs Type: SSHRC Insight Grant (5 years): Role: Co-Applicant (P.I. Dr. A Doucet, Sociology, Brock; CoApplicant Dr. J. Rowsell, Education) Source: SSHRC Funded, ongoing Title: Literature Circles and Book Clubs Type: Graduate Student Funding (60 hours) Role: Sole Principal Investigator Source: Faculty of Education, Brock University Funded, complete
$1000
2015
$2500
2015
$1000
2014-15
$309 116
2014-19
$1332
2013-14
Title: Research with, for, and about Children: Identity and Power in an Ethnographic Study of Two Children’s Textmaking Practices Type: Research & Development Grant Role: Sole Principal Investigator Source: Faculty of Education, Brock University Funded, complete
$1000
2012-13
Faculty of Education, Graduate Funding Grant, Brock University Role: Doctoral Candidate
$6000
2009-10
10
Faculty of Education Graduate Award, UBC Role: Doctoral Candidate
$2725
2008-9
$650
2008-9
Social Policy Conference Travel Grant, UBC Role: Doctoral Candidate
$1500
2008-9
Fellow of the School of Graduate Studies, Memorial University of Newfoundland (honorary position) Role: Master’s student
$1500
2007-8
Margaret and Peter Lukasevich Memorial Prize in Early Childhood Education, UBC Role: Doctoral Candidate
Graduate Studies Fellowship, Memorial University Role: Master’s student
$10019
1998
Ethel M. Janes Memorial Scholarship in Education (MEd), Memorial University Role: Master’s student
$2000
1996-97
$15600
1992-94
Memorial University Graduate Fellowship-declined Role: Master’s applicant (Psychology)
$6500
1992-93
Memorial University Graduate Assistantship-declined Role: Master’s applicant (Psychology)
$4500
1992-93
NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship-declined Role: Master’s applicant (Psychology)
TEACHING- UNIVERSITY
Year
Institution/Course
2017 to present
Department of Teacher Education, Faculty of Education Brock University Associate Professor - Early Literacy Team leader and instructor of Primary/Junior Language Arts
2013-2017
Department of Teacher Education, Faculty of Education Brock University Assistant Professor - Early Literacy Team leader and instructor of Primary/Junior Language Arts
11
2012-2013
Department of Teacher Education, Faculty of Education Brock University Lecturer (tenure-track)- Early Literacy Team leader and instructor of Primary/Junior Language Arts
2010-2012
Faculty of Education, Memorial University of Newfoundland Instructor for seven sections of Children’s Literature, for pre-service teachers in primary/elementary education.
2007-2009
Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology and Special Education (ECPS), Faculty of Education, UBC Instructor of record for Educational Psychology (middle years)
2007-2009
Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology and Special Education (ECPS), Faculty of Education, UBC Teaching assistant for six sections in Learning, Measurement, and Teaching (secondary), Educational Psychology (elementary)
RESEARCH ASSISTANT 2011-2012
Department of Education –Memorial University Research Assistant Engaging Teachers with Canadian Literature for Social Justice Education, SSHRC-funded study
2010
Department of Language and Literacy Education –UBC Research Assistant Developed online database of instructional literacy videos for pre-service teachers.
2008-2009
Department of Language and Literacy Education –UBC Research Assistant Parents as Literacy Supporters (PALS)
2006-2008
Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology, and Special Education –UBC Graduate Administrative Assistant & Research Assistant Managed four research projects, ran workshops, engaged in qualitative data analysis.
12
1996-1998
Faculty of Graduate Studies and Faculty of Education, Memorial University of Newfoundland Graduate Assistant and Research Assistant Professional development support for faculty and international graduate students, writing centre research and writing support for students.
1994-1995
Government of Newfoundland and Labrador Writing Criterion-Referenced Assessment Committee Member, seconded position.
1990-1991
Department of Psychology, Memorial University of Newfoundland Science Technician- Pre-school children’s oral storytelling research (NSERC-funded, PI, Dr. C. Peterson)
SUPERVISION OF GRADUATE STUDENTS Min Huang-accepted January 2018 Exploration of quick response codes in promoting motivation in ESL learning [working title] (Doctoral advisor) Jason Heemskerk – began Fall 2016 Building community in Mennonite schools [working title] (MRP 2nd Reader) Rose Walton – began Summer 2017 How do men contribute to the literacy development of preschool children? (Doctoral committee member) Heather Ferretti – began September 2017 Co-research in action research: Building community in Intermediate classrooms [working title] (Master’s thesis advisor) Tyler Chin – began September 2017 Educational policy to practice in high school literacy practice: Marginalization through discourse [working title] (Master’s thesis co-advisor) Jinyi Li – began Summer 2017 Best practices in using conversation to teach English to Cantonese-speaking adult English Language Learners [working title] (MRP 2nd reader)
13
Alexandrea Middlemiss - completed April 2018 Decolonizing education through outdoor learning: A descriptive case study based on the learning story and practice of an indigenous Kindergarten teacher (MRP 2nd reader) Ana Vinton - completed May 2018 Collaboration to support ESL instruction (Master’s thesis committee member) Nina Lee-completed January 2017 Teaching learners of English as an additional language: Re-conceptualizing mainstream teacher preparedness in the growing linguistic mosaic of Ontario (Doctoral committee, joined committee September 2016) Danielle Stayzer –completed October 2017 Topic: Producing strong and effective writers using the peer feedback process (MRP Advisor) Nazila Eisazadeh- supervision began February 2016 Exploring the literacy discourses that permeate the lives of young children: A critical look at children’s literate identities (Doctoral Committee member – OISE, CTL) Catherine Willard –completed May 2017 *Most Outstanding Thesis Award 2016-17* Improvisation at the piano: An action research study (Master’s thesis Advisor) Emily Pearson – completed March 2017 Memoir writing as an education tool: Implications for student voice and identity (MRP 2nd reader) Leila Farzinpur –completed August 2016 English language learners, writing challenges, and writing identities: Experiences of graduate student writers in education (MRP Advisor) Enoka Makulloluwa –began July 2012 Vocabulary development and undergraduate English Language Learners (Doctoral committee member) Sandra Starmans –completed September 2016 A steep trajectory: An educational autoethnography of a working class late bloomer (Master’s thesis committee member)
14
Matthew Thompson –completed April 2016 Research-based support for elementary school reluctant readers of the 21st century (MRP 2nd reader) Krissa Donahue –completed July 2015 Exploring the design process and components of an elementary literacy guide in an Ontario school board initiative (MRP 2nd reader) Jennifer Weiler - completed December 2015 Handbook of Reading Instructional Strategies for Adult English Language Learners (MRP 2nd reader) Julianne Burgess –completed July 2014 Disquietude: A Sonata-form Inquiry into Multiliteracies Practices in an English as an Additional Language Classroom (MRP 2nd reader) Laura Gleeson –completed June 2014 Handbook: The Effective Use of 21st Century Learning iPad Applications in the Primary/Junior Literacy Classroom (MRP 2nd reader) Supervision of Research Assistants Elizabeth Nash (BA, complete; in Teacher Education) May 2018 to present Anastasia Chernova (MEd, international) October 2017 to present Stephanie Gumieniak (MEd, complete) October, 2016 to June, 2017 Metka Manfreda (Med, international) January – April 2016; January – June 2017 Cory Jobb (MEd) June-August 2016 Monica Taylor (MEd) –May/June 2015; April 2016 to present Nadine Litwin (MEd) –January –April 2013 John Gordon (MEd) –June –December 2014
15
SERVICE Profession Co-editor, Literacy (journal of United Kingdom Literacy Association), with Natalia Kucirkova, starting in November 2018, 3 year term. President, Language and Literacy Researchers of Canada (LLRC/ACCLL), June 2017 to present Associate editor, Language and Literacy: An E-journal, May 2016 to present North American book reviews editor, Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, November 2014 to present. Program Chair and 2nd Vice-President for Language and Literacy Researchers of Canada (LLRC), May 2013-2015.
Pre-Conference committee member, Language and Literacy Researchers of Canada at CSSE, June 2013. Pre- Conference Chair, Language and Literacy Researchers of Canada at CSSE, May 2012. Reviewer: • Qualitative Research: 2016 to present • Journal of Literacy Research: 2014 to present • Journal of Early Childhood Literacy: 2013 to present • Brock Education (journal): 2012 to present • Teaching and Learning (journal): 2012 to present • Literacy Research Association (conference): 2012 to present • Language and Literacy Education Graduate Student conference, UBC, 2011 • Language and Literacy pre-conference & CSSE: 2009 to present • Language and Literacy (e-journal): 2008 to present Department/University Brock University Research Office Review Committee, Faculty of Education, January 2018 to present Concurrent Program Steering Committee, January 2018 to present. Department of Educational Studies, Normal Workload Standards Committee, January 2018 to present. Master of Education Admissions Committee (Sociocultural stream), January 2018 to present 16
Program Chair of Teacher Education program committee, January 2018 to present Social Justice and Equity Studies (Masters) Progress Reports Committee, June 2017 to present Teacher Education Program Committee, January 2017 to present Research and Development committee, December 2016 to present Environmental Education ad hoc committee for Teacher Education, September 2015 to present Admissions Committee Chair, Master’s of Social Justice and Equity Studies program, 2016, 2017 Program Committee, Master’s of Social Justice and Equity Studies program, May 2015 to June 2017 Graduate Admissions Committee, Social Justice and Equity Studies, 2015-2016 Grants Adjudicator, Social Justice Research Institute, 2015-2016; 2016-2017 Curriculum Committee member, Teacher Education Course Planning and Overview Committee, 2-year extended program, Fall 2014 – June 2017 Faculty of Education Restructuring Scenarios Committee –August 2014 to May, 2015 Workshop presenter, “Using online polls in teaching” – session for faculty members, Faculty of Education, August 14, 2014; August 21, 2015 Hiring Committee member –Math Instructional Limited Term Faculty Appointment (ILTA), June 2014 Toronto Montessori School placement team member (with Dr. J. Graham) –created new final placement option for teacher candidates, 2013-2014 Distinguished Speakers Series/Professional Development Committee member, Faculty of Education, October 2013 to present Fine Arts Advisory Committee member, Faculty of Education, September 2013 to present Social Justice and Equity Studies ad hoc committee member and affiliate, August 2013 to present Concurrent Program Committee, Faculty of Education, June 2013 to July 2014 Teacher Education Extended Program Renewal Committee member, Primary-Junior, April 2013 to February 2014 17
Graduate Program in Teacher Education Committee member and writing sub-committee member, March 2013 to December, 2014 Joint PhD Director Selection Committee member, Faculty of Education, November 2012 to March 2013 Team Leader, Primary/Junior Language Arts, Teacher Education, Brock University, July 2012 to present (involves overseeing curriculum development, hiring, and implementation of all Primary/Junior Language classes) Affiliations Centre for Multiliteracies, Associated Member, Brock University, April 2014 to present Social Justice Research Institute affiliate, Transdisciplinary Institute, Brock University, November 2013 to present Social Justice and Equity Studies affiliate, Interdisciplinary Master’s Program, Brock University, May 2013 to present Community Niagara Emergent Literacy Consortium, member September 2016 to present. Blogging and descriptive feedback in the Junior classroom, a collaboration with Hamilton Wentworth Catholic District School Board – enrichment activity for teacher candidates to work with teachers and their students blogging about books, April 2016 to present. Treasurer, Ontario Literacy Association Niagara, Affiliate of International Literacy Association (previously International Reading Association), October, 2014 to present. Niagara Social Justice Forum volunteer, February, 2014. Adjudication committee member, Regional Chair Early Years Niagara Literary Award, 2013 University of British Columbia (during doctorate) Graduate Student participant, volunteer, and commentator, New Literacies Conference, May 15-17, 2012, Department of Language and Literacy Education, University of British Columbia Committee member, Peer advisory group for Language and Literacy Education, UBC November 2008 to June 2009 Workshop presenter, 2007 - 2009 –Facilitator of a range of workshops on conference presentations and academic writing for graduate students, Faculty of Education, UBC
18
TEACHING-SCHOOLS 1994-2012
Teacher in Newfoundland and Labrador: Fulfilled a range of roles in a range of schools and settings, including learning resources teacher, literacy support teacher, classroom teacher, teacher trainer, assessor of student writing from large-scale assessments, community and parent literacy worker; taught in the public-school system at all levels, but primarily in the middle years of elementary school.
CERTIFICATES AND LICENSURES First Steps Tutor, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada –2001 Primary/Elementary Certified Teacher, Level VII, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, 1998 Certified Teacher, Primary/Elementary Teacher, Ontario, Canada –1993
19