2007 Research Foundation Grant Recipients

Teddi Beam-Conroy, University of Texas at San Antonio, “Deconstructing the Framework”

Wanda Brooks, Temple University, “Investigating Teenage Girls’ Reading Pastimes and Literary Perspectives:  Canonized:  African American Young Adult Fiction and a Rival Out of School Genre”

Amy Suzanne Johnson, University of South Carolina, “Literacy-in-Persons:  Practicing Literacy in an African-American Community in the Rural South”

Rebecca Rogers, University of Missouri at St. Louis, “Literate Lives and Life Pathways:  The Treader Family Six Years Later”

Lisa Scherff, Karen Spector and Hannah Gerber, University of Alabama, “We the Children:  A Symphony of Lives”

Amanda Thein, Megan Guise, DeAnn Long Sloan, University of Pittsburgh, “Examining Social Class Specific Interpretive Practices in Students’ Responses to Literature Across Texts and Contexts”

Maria E. Torres-Guzman, Teachers College, Columbia University, “In Search of Metaphors for Enrichment & Diversity Strategies in Read Alouds”

Deborah Wells Rowe, Carin Neitzel, Vanderbilt University, “The Write Start! Project:  An Investigation of 2- to 5- Year-olds’ Participation in Writing in Preschool Classrooms”

Kelly Wissman, University at Albany, Austin Cowper, Schenectady High School, Victoria Frank, Sand Creek Middle School, Kerry Lambobard, Schuylerville Junior High School, Larry Drew, Central Park Middle School, Melissa Vecchio, Colonie High School, “Exploring Adolescents’ Multimodal Literacies in an Inquiry Community:  Reconstructing Understandings and Curriculum”