The National Council of Teachers of English
Standing Committee on Research
Announces its
2008 Promising Researcher Award Winners...
 Elizabeth Dutro What 'hard times' means: Mandated curricula, middle-class assumptions, and the lives of poor children.
Elizabeth Dutro is Assistant Professor in the Literacy program in the School of Education at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Before earning her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, she taught elementary school in California. In her research, she collaborates with teachers and kids to examine the intersections among children’s and youth’s identities and life experiences and the literacy practices with which they engage in high-poverty urban classrooms.
 Amy Suzanne Johnson Literate Practice as Answerable Response: Sally Harris' Mandate for Literacy in the Rural South.
Amy Suzanne Johnson is Assistant Professor in the Language and Literacy program in the Department of Instruction and Teacher Education at the University of South Carolina. Before earning her Ph.D. in 2005 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, she taught elementary school in Baltimore and Milwaukee. Her research interests include sociocultural and historical approaches to understanding how individuals (of various ages and backgrounds) practice literacy across their life spans. Currently, she is particularly interested in how literacy teaching and learning takes place in schools and communities in the rural South.
 Leah Zuidema Give 'Em Some Space: Online Induction Networks for Beginning Teachers.
Leah Zuidema is Assistant Professor of English at Dordt College in Sioux Center, Iowa. She began her career as a high school English teacher in Michigan, and in 2007, she completed her Ph.D. in the Critical Studies in the Teaching of English program at Michigan State University. Her teaching and research focuses on English teacher education, and she is particularly interested in teacher induction, networks for teacher learning, teachers as writers, and teaching for adolescent literacy learning. Currently, she is exploring the unique roles of small colleges in preparing, supporting, and partnering with secondary school English language arts teachers.
FINALIST
Brenda Glascott Evangelical Literacy and the Public Sphere: American Tract Society Literature and Nineteenth-Century Constructions of Literacy.
The 2008 Promising Researcher Award will be presented at the NCTE Annual Convention in San Antonio, TX at the Opening Session of the Day of Research, Saturday, November 22, 2008.
Sarah Freedman, Chair of the Standing Committee on Research.
Interested in applying for the 2009 Promising Researcher Award?
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