W&L Featured Summer Podcast Series Ep. 2 - Upcoming Research in Literacies Development & Assessment

This episode features: - Meagan J. Meehan, @artsycr8tor - University of Buffalo (SUNY) Meagan J. Meehan is an artist and author who holds a Bachelors in English Literature from New York Institute of Technology (NYIT), a Masters in Communication from Marist College, and is pursuing a Ph.D. in Curriculum, Instruction and the Science of Learning at University at Buffalo (SUNY). Meagan’s research focuses on using Entertainment-Education to increase vocabulary scope and application. - Sarah W. Beck, Karis Jones, Scott Storm, @swbook411; @karis_m_jones; @ScottWStorm - New York University Sarah W. Beck is a teacher educator and writing researcher based at NYU whose work with teachers and scholarship focuses on classroom writing assessment, writing instruction, and disciplinary literacy. Karis Jones is a PhD candidate in NYU's Teaching & Learning English Education program. She is currently working on her dissertation, which examines issues of power and transformation at the intersection of students' fandom and disciplinary literacies and implications for designing more equitable contexts for learning in English classrooms. Scott Storm is a doctoral student in English Education at New York University. He has taught students English in urban public schools for over a decade; he was founding English teacher at Harvest Collegiate High School where he served as Department Chair and Professional Learning Community Organizer. Scott studies disciplinary literacies, critical literacies, and adolescents’ literary sensemaking. His work has appeared in English Journal, Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacies, English Teaching Practice and Critique, and Schools: Studies in Education. - Ted Kesler, @tedsclassroom - Queens College (CUNY) Ted is an associate professor in the Elementary and Early Childhood Education Department. He is Chair of the NCTE Poetry and Verse Novel Notables Committee. Recently, Ted’s research has focused on weaving children’s social semiotic resources into their classroom-based work, transforming writing workshop into composing workshop. - Sue Nichols, @suemarynichols - University of South Australia Sue Nichols is a literacy researcher and teacher educator, holding the position of Associate Professor at UniSA, Australia. While Sue’s research has often taken her out of institutional sites to explore diverse literacy practices and identities, she is also very interested in the preparation of multiliterate educators for inclusive, diverse, connected classrooms. - Jayne C Lammers, @JayneLammers - University of Rochester Jayne is an Associate Professor of Education at the University of Rochester’s Warner School of Education and Human Development. She’s the Director of English Teacher Preparation and a founding Associate Director in the Center for Learning in the Digital Age. She recently spent 5 months in Indonesia as a Fulbright U.S. Scholar learning about the digital literacies of secondary students in Central Java. This video was compiled by members of the W&L SIG Grad Student Board Podcast Team: April Camping, Karis Jones, Gemma Cooper-Novack, Alex Corbitt