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 |  | Ernest Morrell is Associate Professor of Urban Education and Cultural Studies and Associate Director of Youth Research at the Institute for Democracy, Education, and Access (IDEA) at UCLA. He is a writer of poems, plays, essays, novels, and academic books, book chapters, articles, reviews, and encyclopedia entries. For more than a decade he has worked with adolescents, drawing on their involvement with popular culture to promote academic literacy development. Morrell is the author of, Linking Literacy and Popular Culture: Finding Connections for Lifelong Learning and Becoming Critical Researchers: Literacy and Empowerment for Urban Youth. Morrell has been invited to give numerous keynote addresses for postsecondary institutions and national organizations and he consults with schools in urban areas including Boston and Los Angeles.
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Ernest Morrell's Selected Presentations
Conference Presentations
| Ernest has been asked to present on these topics at various conferences: Critical Media Production and Literacy Development in Urban English and Social Studies Classrooms; Critical Pedagogy, Popular Culture, and Literacy Development in K–12 Classrooms; Critical Research and Urban Youth: Methodological Insights from a Summer Research Seminar; Literacy Development During the Making of an iMovie: and Multimodal Literacy Instruction for Urban Adolescents. |
Invited Keynote Addresses
| Ernest has been invited to present keynotes on youth pop culture in the English curriculum, new media in ways not intimidating, powerful pedagogies, social justice for ethnic minority youth, and more. |
Consulting Experience
| Ernest is working in urban schools across the country including the Boston Public School District and schools in Los Angeles and Chicago. In addition, he consults with Paramont Pictures where he uses hip-hop music and culture to increase language and literacy learning among pre-school children. |
Ernest's NCTE Web Seminar Presentation
|  View the PPT from Ernest’s Web seminar presentation "Powerful English" on March 11, 2008. The On Demand version of this web seminar is available in the NCTE Store. |
Lesson Plans Pertinent to Ernest’s NCTE Web Seminar Presentation
|  View several ReadWriteThink lesson plans related to Ernest's presentation "Powerful English: Innovative Practices in Diverse 21st Century Classrooms." |
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Published Works by Ernest Morrell
Book Publications
| Ernest has authored several books including, Linking Literacy and Popular Culture: Finding Connections for Lifelong Learning and Becoming Critical Researchers: Literacy and Empowerment for Urban Youth.
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Journal Articles
| Morrell writes on youth as critical reseachers, a new model of teacher development, youth pop culture in the English classroom, and other challenges of reading and writing in the 21st century. |
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Related Resources
Education and Experience
| Ernest has a Ph.D. and M.A. in Language, Literacy, and Culture from the University of California at Berkeley. (Recipient of the 2001 Outstanding Dissertation Award.) He is a former secondary English teacher and is the current associate director, Institute for Democracy, Education, and Access, UCLA. |
Awards and Honors
| Morrell has won significant awards including the 2002
Outstanding Dissertation Award, University of California, Berkeley, Graduate School of Education; Recipient of the AERA/OERI Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2001–2004; and Dorothy Wright Award for Teaching Excellence, awarded to exemplary high school English teachers, 1997.
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