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Selected Publications


Professional Learning for ESL Teachers: A Randomized Controlled Trial to Examine the Impact on Instruction, Collaboration, and Cultural Wealth

Journal Article Education Sciences · July 1, 2024 Using a randomized controlled trial, we examined the impact of a teacher professional learning (PL) program on English as a Second Language (ESL) teachers’ use of evidence-based instructional strategies for multilingual learners, collaboration with classro ... Full text Cite

Writing with Dignity Among Youth in Urban Communities: Using Mentor Texts as a Reflective Tool for Transformation

Journal Article Urban Education · June 1, 2024 This article describes a three-year qualitative study on how youth of color in one community-based organization, Durham Community Youth, used the mentor text, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “What’s your life’s blueprint?” speech, as a reflective tool to tran ... Full text Open Access Cite

“We Tell Our Story”: The Power of Critical Literacy with Refugee-Background Students

Journal Article The Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas · January 2, 2024 Full text Cite

Displaced

Journal Article VUE (Voices in Urban Education) · February 24, 2023 Full text Cite

Voicing vulnerability: Narratives of healing among culturally diverse adolescent girls in a community-based organization

Chapter · November 29, 2021 This volume brings together leading scholars in their fields who offer much needed and wide-ranging perspectives on the intersections of genders, cultures, and literacies. ... Cite

Understanding myself through my student's eyes

Other Oregon English Journal · 2021 Cite

It just feels different

Other Journal of Language and Literacy Education · 2021 Link to item Cite