Selected Presentations

• Knowing What Matters: Theory, Leadership, and Voice in the Art and Science of Teaching.  Annual meeting of the National Council of Teachers of English, San Antonio, TX, November, 2008.
• Literacy Research Impacts for Community Learning Programs. Carnegie Center for Literacy Learning, Lexington, KY, March 2006.
• Shared Inquiry as a Means of Enhancing Reading Comprehension in an Urban School.  Annual meeting of the National Council of Teachers of English, Pittsburgh, PA, November, 2005.
• Positionality and the Negotiation of Authority in the Writing Class.  University of New Hampshire Composition Studies Conference, Durham, October, 2004 (with L. Dich, M. Haddix, & L. Tobin).
• Reading Reform and the De-Professionalization of Teachers.  Summer Teacher  Seminar, University of New Hampshire, Durham, June, 2004.
• Urban Parents’ Perceptions of Home-to-School Literacy Initiatives.  Annual meeting of the Northeast Educational Research Organization, Portsmouth,  NH, April, 2004.
• Basals and Struggling Readers.  Annual meeting of the National Council of Teachers of English, San Francisco, CA, November, 2003.
• Stories matter: The Complexity of Cultural Authenticity in Children’s Literature (Panel presentation).  Annual meeting of the National Council of Teachers of English, San Francisco, CA, November, 2003.
• Reforming Reading Instruction: Making Teachers Matter.  Keynote speaker, Annual conference of the Kentucky Reading Project, Louisville, March, 2003.