Recent Refereed Research Presentations
Pedagogy to Support White Teacher Candidates in Developing Their Racial Identities. Co-presented with Fiebiger, P. A. Research presented at Ohio Confederation of Teacher Education, Dublin/Columbus, OH, October 24, 2019.
Raising Race/Culture Discussions in P-12 Classrooms. American Reading Forum, Sanibel Island, FL, December, 2018.
Moving the Race/Culture Discussion Forward in P-12 Classrooms, World Literacy Summit, Oxford, UK, March, 2018.
A Look Back to Move Forward: Transforming an Education Department Toward Multiculturalism. Goss, A. C., Kieffer, R. D., Garlough, D. K., Cordi, K. D., Akyeampong, A. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New York, NY. April 2018.
Teaching is Identity Work: Multicultural Literature as a Means to Teach about Diversity, Co-presenting with teacher candidates Silva, C., Waldroup, M., and Wilson, W. Ohio Confederation of Teacher Education Organizations (OCTEO), Dublin, OH, March 2017.
Engaging Readers Through Lessons Taught in Award-Winning U.S. Picture Books, International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY), Auckland, NZ, August 2016.
Departmental Makeover: How One Department Approaches Identity Transformation to Prepare Pre-Service Teachers for Diverse Classrooms, OCTEO, Dublin, OH, March 30, 2016.
Raising Race/Culture Discussions in P-12 Classrooms. American Reading Forum, Sanibel Island, FL, December, 2018.
Moving the Race/Culture Discussion Forward in P-12 Classrooms, World Literacy Summit, Oxford, UK, March, 2018.
Peer Reviewed Presentations based on Best Practices and Teaching Innovation
Discussions in Elementary Classrooms Promote Racial Healing: Using Award-Winning Picture Books and a Four-Fold Process, Midwest Sociological Society Conference, Chicago, IL, March 2016.
Multicultural Children's and Adolescent Literature at Ohio Council of the International Reading Association's Regional Conference, October 2013.
The Possibilities of Flight, 5th Conference of South African Children's and Youth Literature, North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa, September 2012.
Silent Partners in Teacher Education Programs: Teacher Candidates, Co-presented with teacher candidates: Clapp, A., Jones, E., and Rife, K. Ohio Confederation of Teacher Education Organizations, Dublin, OH, October 2012.
From Conflicting Cultures to a Shared Vision, The Association of Independent Liberal Arts Colleges for Teacher Education, Chicago, IL, February 2012.
Being and Giving: Journeying Towards Transforming a University Education Department into a Viable and Relevant Partner with Local Public Schools, Ohio Confederation of Teacher Education Organizations, Dublin, OH, March 2011.
Curriculum Projects Based on Student-Faculty Research on Democracy in a South African Village, Midwest World History Association Inaugural Conference, Chicago, IL, October 2010.
Making the Strange Familiar, Perspectives on Democracy, Ohio Confederation of Teacher Education Organizations, Dublin, OH, October 2010.
A New Model for Teacher Professional Development in South Africa, Association for Childhood Education International Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, March 2009.
Partnership South Africa: Making a Global Connection, The Association of Independent Liberal Arts Colleges for Teacher Education Annual Meeting and Conference, Chicago, IL, February 2009.
Using Children's Literature to Enhance Comprehension: Reading Comprehension Strategies, Third Annual Conference of Children's Literature, presenter at North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa September 19, 2007.
Democratic Decision-Making as a Means of Creating Equity in an International Partnership between a U.S. Teacher Education Program and a South African School, Michigan Academy of Science, Arts and Letters, March 2008.
Partnership South Africa: Making a Global Connection, The Ohio Confederation of Teacher Educators, October 2008.
Literacy Education in South Africa 30 Years After the Student Uprisings, Michigan Academy of Science, Arts and Letters, March 2007.
State Executive Board Membership
Ohio Association of Colleges of Teacher Education (OACTE) Executive Board 2016- present
OACTE Advocacy Committee 2016-2018
OACTE Inquiry Committee 2016- present, Chair 2019-present
OAPCTE Representative on the Ohio Educators Standard Board, subcommittee 2019- present
Ohio Literacy Association- Formerly the Ohio Council of the International Reading Association (OCIRA) Executive Board member. 2013-14
OCIRA Exemplary Reading Award committee. March 2014.
OCIRA Annual Conference Proposal Reviewer committee member (2013), chair (2014). Buckeye Children/Teen Book Award (BCTBA) OCIRA representative. 2013-15.
Creative Works
Picture Book Website: http://webstu.onu.edu/awmpb/. The purpose of this website it to provide teachers with concrete ways to begin discussions with students through teacher read-alouds, a strategy many teachers are comfortable with. I provide discussion questions for the texts selected for this site that are based on a framework for racial healing proposed by Howard (2016). The framework helps guide discussions by allowing teachers and students to look at each story in four ways, through: honesty, empathy, advocacy, and action. The website was launched in 2016 and remains a work in progress.