Education

• PhD (In progress) - University of Minnesota - 2021-Present

  • Curriculum and Instruction, Literacy Education

• Master of Arts - University of Texas at Austin - 2004-2006

  • American Studies

• Bachelor of Arts - University of Minnesota - 2000-2004 (Summa cum Laude)

  • American Studies

    • Winner of Mulford Q. Sibley Prize for Outstanding Senior Thesis

  • English Literature

  • Women’s Studies (Minor)

Certifications

• Communication and Language Arts, 5-12 (Minnesota)

  • Coursework completed at the University of Texas at Austin and Augsburg University

• Reading, K-12 (Minnesota)

  • Coursework completed at Hamline University

Achievements and Highlights

• Presenter, Literacy Research Association Conference (2022)

  • "What's the Point?" Disrupting Reading Intervention in the Multilingual Classroom through Translanguaging Pedagogies and Borderlands Theory

• Presenter, National Council of Teachers of English Homecoming (2022)

  • “I Never Even Thought of That”: Translanguaging Pedagogies as Sites of Possibility in Language Arts—LLA Track

  • Queering Elementary Literacy Curriculum: Supporting Preservice Teachers through Anti-Oppressive Pedagogy—LLA Track (With Scott Sundstrom)

• Presenter, International Congress for Qualitative Investigation (2022)

  • Decolonizing Reading Intervention for Multilingual Learners

  • Queering Elementary Education: The Impact of Teacher Identity (With Scott Sundstrom)

• Poster, College of Education and Human Development Research Day

  • Decolonizing Reading Instruction through Translanguaging Pedagogies

• Participant and Mentor, Quality Teaching for English Learners Leadership Cohort

• Demonstration Classroom, National Association for Bilingual Education National Conference

• Presenter, National Council of Teachers of English Annual Convention (2016)

  • Supporting Standards through Culturally Responsive Writing: The Storytelling Project (With Emily Bollinger)

• Presenter, Des Moines Public Schools Summit on School Culture and Climate (2017)

  • Supporting Standards through Culturally Responsive Writing: The Storytelling Project (With Emily Bollinger)

• Presenter, MRA Day at Hamline Literacy Institute (2016, 2017)

  • Supporting Standards through Culturally Responsive Writing: The Storytelling Project (With Emily Bollinger)

  • Rigor and Responsiveness: Scaffolding Literacy Tasks in Diverse Classrooms (With Mary Lillestol)

• Featured, Education Week magazine (November 2010)

Memberships

• National Council of Teachers of English

• Minnesota Reading Association

• International Literacy Association

• Literacy Research Association

• American Educational Research Association

Professional Learning and Involvement

• Pacific Education Group

  • Beyond Diversity 1 and 2

  • Coaching for Racial Equity

• International Baccalaureate, MYP Training

  • Level 2 - Language Arts

  • Level 3 - Assessment

  • Level 3 - Interdisciplinary Unit Design

  • Level 3 - Community Service and Action

• Healthy Classroom

• Benchmark Workshop

• PRESS Reading Interventions

• Sonday

• Pre-AP English

• Quality Teaching for English Learning

• ENVoY Certified