Faculty Profiles

• Ph.D. — Literacy and Language Education, Purdue University (2022)
• M.Ed. — Elementary Education, Purdue University Northwest (2001)
• B.A. — Elementary Education, Purdue University (1988)

• 2023 – present
  Clinical Assistant Professor-Elementary Education
  Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
• 2022 – 2023
  Continuing Lecturer
  Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
• 2021 – 2022
  Graduate Assistant Instructor
  Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
• 2012 – 2021
  Title I/English Learners Director
  Lake Ridge New Tech Schools, Gary, IN
• 2010 – 2012
  District English Learners Coordinator
  School City of Hobart, Hobart, IN
• 2009 – 2010
  Literacy Coordinator (Grades 6-8)
  School City of Hobart, Hobart, IN
• 2001 – 2009
  Literacy Coordinator (Grades K-5)
  School City of Hobart, Hobart, IN
• 2001 – 2005
  Title I (Grades K-5) and Reading Recovery Teacher
  School City of Hobart, Hobart, IN
• 1989 – 2001
  Primary Grades Classroom Teacher
  School City of Hobart, Hobart, IN

Member

• American Educational Research Association (AERA)
• International Literacy Association (ILA)
• Literacy Research Association (LRA)
• National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC)
• National Council for Teachers of English (NCTE)
• Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Fellow 2024-2026