⚫️ 29 years of working in literacy and English education as well as on professional development projects as an instructional coach.

⚫️ Teacher education instructor since 2007.
• Teaching English and Communication Skills to Middle and Secondary School Learners
• Teaching of Writing
• Teaching Academic English to Adolescent Learners
• Reading and Teaching Banned Books
• Communities and Identities in Digital Worlds
• Teaching of Multiethnic and Multicultural Literature
• Teaching as Transformation
• Digital Literacies
• Studies in Writing, Rhetoric and New Media
• Contexts and Issues in the Teaching of English
• Children’s Literature and Childhood Trauma
• Writing about Literature:
• Content Area Reading
• Digital Literacies and Technology
• Literacy Assessment and Instruction
• Teaching Literacy in the 21st Century
• Approaches to Reading Instruction
• Issues and Trends in Literacy Education
• Content Area Literacy

⚫️ 12 years as Program Director of Pedagogy (Secondary English) at UNC Charlotte.

⚫️ Digital storytelling instructor since 2007.

⚫️ Experience as an SME in Education AI trainer as part of research and development teams.

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