Faculty

Betty Shockley Bisplinghoff, Associate Professor.

She received her Ph.D. in Language Education at The University of Georgia in 2001. She has been a classroom teacher in the Clarke County and Barrow County public schools for fourteen years and was named teacher of the year for Clarke County and runner-up teacher of the year for the state of Georgia (1988-89). For three years, she directed the School Research Consortium, a primary strand of the National Reading Research Center at UGA. She has extensive experience in teacher education and involvement in school reform. Her research interests include qualitative, classroom-based, literacy research connected to issues of induction, professional development, and school culture. Representative publications are:

Bisplinghoff, B. (1999). Reading like a researcher. In R. S. Hubbard, & B. M. Power (Eds.), Living the questions: A guide for teacher-researchers. York, ME: Stenhouse.

Shockley-Bisplinghoff, B., & Allen, J. (1998). Engaging teachers: Creating teachers and researching relationships. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.

Shockley, B., Michaelove, B., & Allen, J. (1995). Engaging families: Connecting home and school literacy communities. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.

Allen, J., Michalove, B., & Shockley, B. (1993). Engaging children: Community and chaos in the lives of young literacy learners. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.