Honors, Awards and Distinctions

2007  Distinguished Program in Teacher Education, Georgia Association of Teacher Educators.  Award and cash prize presented to the TEEMS English Education MAT Degree Program Faculty (Drs. Peggy Albers, Dana Fox, Frances Howard, Ewa McGrail, and Michelle Zoss), October 11, 2007.

2007  Awarded the August Book of the Month Award for Albers, P. (2007). Finding the artist within: Creating and reading visual texts in English language arts classrooms. Newark, DE: International Reading Association.

2007  Ten-year service award. College of Education, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA.

2007  Invited to serve as a member of the Editorial Review Board for the Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy (for fifth time). Published eight times a year by the International Reading Association, JAAL is a peer-reviewed publication created to provide a scholarly research and practice-based forum for teachers, researchers, and others committed to improving classroom instruction for literacy learners ages twelve and older.

2007  Invited to serve as a guest reviewer for English Education, the official journal of the Conference on English Education of the National Council of Teachers of English. EE is a peer-reviewed publication created to provide a scholarly research and practice-based forum for teachers, researchers, and others committed to improving classroom instruction for English language arts for learners across all ages.

2007  Invited to participate in the Conference English Education Summit, an honor to serve on this national committee is bestowed to those in English education who signify and demonstrate scholarship and research in this field. Only 50 are selected to participate.

2006  Invited keynote address, Reading art, reading lives: Connecting art to literacy, and workshop on visual discourse analysis and the grammar of visual design. Child-based Experience-Centered Learning (CEL). Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Co-presenter, Jerome C. Harste.

2006  Invited keynote address and workshop. The arts, literacy and instruction. Ohio Public Schools, Columbus, OH.

2006  Invited to serve as a member of the Editorial Review Board for the Voices from the Middle.  Published four times a year by the National Council of Teachers of English, VM is a peer-reviewed publication created to provide a scholarly research and practice-based forum for teachers, researchers, and others committed to improving classroom instruction for literacy learners ages ten to fourteen.