Faculty Awards and Leadership Positions in the Areas of Research, Teaching, and Service.

Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor, an associate professor in language and literacy education,  has begun a new blog to promote her work and that of her students titled,  “Teachers Act Up!”

Check out this new publication by TWLE doctoral student, Stephanie Baker: Baker, S. (2011). Creating a space for critical talk, writing, and action in the elementary classroom. Radical Teacher, 91, 41-49.

Both Writing in the Dialogical Classroom: Students and Teachers Respond to the Texts of Their Lives (NCTE) and Teaching for the Students: Habits of Heart , Mind, and Practice in the Engaged Classroom (Teachers College Press) focus on the possibilities and complications of teaching in dialogical ways within literacy classrooms.