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Rob Simon, Ph.D., OISE/UT – Curriculum Vitae 1
CURRICULUM VITAE
ROB SIMON Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto 252 Bloor Street West
Toronto, ON, CANADA M5S-1V6 (1) Data of preparation
October 31, 2017 (2) Rank
Associate Professor Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto
(3) Degrees
Ph.D., Reading/Writing/Literacy University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education Philadelphia, PA, USA 2009
Dissertation: “We are all becoming teacher/theorists”: Collaborative inquiry into the intellectual, relational, and political work of learning to teach. Committee: Susan L. Lytle (Chair), Brian V. Street, and Vivian Gadsden. Awarded the 2009 Ralph C. Preston Award for Scholarship and Teaching Contributing to Social Justice and Educational Equity.
MA in Secondary Education San Francisco State University San Francisco, CA, USA 2003 Single-Subject Teaching Credential, English San Francisco State University San Francisco, CA, USA 2001
Master’s of Theological Studies Harvard University Boston, MA, USA 1997
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Graduate Coursework, English and American Literature University of Massachusetts, Amherst Amherst, MA, USA 1992-1993 BA, Liberal Arts Hampshire College Amherst, MA, USA 1991
(4) Employment History
July 2015 – Present Associate Professor, Multiliteracies in Education Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto Toronto, ON, CANADA July 2010 – June 2015 Assistant Professor, Multiliteracies in Education Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto Toronto, ON, CANADA
July 2009 – June 2010 Post-Doctoral Fellow University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education Philadelphia, PA, USA July – December 2009 Interim Coordinator Master’s Program in Secondary Education University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education Philadelphia, PA, USA August 2005 – June 2009 Instructor Master’s Program in Secondary Education University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education Philadelphia, PA, USA August 2005 Instructor Program in Reading/Writing/Literacy University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education Philadelphia, PA, USA
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August 2003 – June 2009 Graduate Teaching and Research Assistant Program in Reading/Writing/Literacy University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education Philadelphia, PA, USA 1998 – 2003 English Department Chair (2001-2003) Teacher, English, History/Social Studies (1998-2003) Administrator (1998-2003) Life Learning Academy High School San Francisco, CA, USA 1998 – 2001 Implementation Team Member/Consultant Juvenile Justice Implementation Team Mayor’s Office of Juvenile Justice Co-Director Mission Safe Haven Mentor Early Risk and Resiliency Program Grant Writer City and County of San Francisco San Francisco, CA, USA 1998 – 2003 Consultant Delancey Street Foundation San Francisco, CA, USA
(5) University Administrative Leadership
January 2016-Present Interim Academic Director, Centre for Urban Schooling Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto
(6) Research
External Research Grants – Funded Year 2015 Source Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation Type Early Researcher Award Amount $100,000 Role Principal Investigator
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Title/Purpose Addressing Injustices: Teachers and Adolescents Coauthoring Social Justice-Oriented Literacy Curriculum
Year 2014 Source Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Type Insight Development Grant Amount $73,245 Role Principal Investigator Title/Purpose The Minecraft Project:
Exploring videogames as a platform for teaching, learning, and curriculum Year 2011 Source Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Type Standard Research Grant Amount $155,562 Role Collaborator
(Principal Investigator: Dr. Clare Kosnik, OISE) Title/Purpose Literacy Teacher Educators: Their Backgrounds, Visions, and Practices Year 2011 Source Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada x Aid to Research Workshops and Conferences Amount $25,000 Role Collaborator
(Principal Investigators: Dr. Julian Sefton-Green, and Dr. Jennifer Rowsell, Brock University)
Title/Purpose Revisiting learning lives: Longitudinal perspectives on literacy education research
Internal Research Grants – Funded
Year 2014 Source Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Type Institutional Grant Amount $2,400.00 Role Principal Investigator Title/Purpose Critical Literacy through Collaborative Inquiry: Teachers and Adolescents
Coauthoring Social Justice-Oriented Literacy Curriculum Year 2014 Source Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Type Institutional Grant Amount $2,882.00 Role Principal Investigator Title/Purpose Adolescents and educators as co-authors of curriculum
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Year 2013 Source Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Type Institutional Grant Amount $7,177 Role Principal Investigator Title/Purpose Pokémon Literacies: Investigating Strategic Card Games as a Form of Literate
and Curricular Engagement Year 2013 Source Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Type Departmental Research Grant Amount $4,000 Role Principal Investigator Title/Purpose Exploring videogames as a platform for curriculum and engagement Year 2012 Source Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Type Institutional Grant Amount $2,780 Role Principal Investigator Title/Purpose Intergenerational Practitioner Research as a Framework for
Critical Literacy Education Year 2011 Source Connaught Type New Researcher Grant Amount $10,000 Role Principal Investigator Title/Purpose Teaching to Learn: Collaborative Teacher Research in Community Year 2011 Source Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Type Institutional Grant Amount $1,952 Role Principal Investigator Title/Purpose Teaching to Learn: Building a Collaborative Teacher Research Network
Internal Grants – Funded Year 2014 Source Centre and New Initiatives Funding Proposal Amount $20,000 Role Member of Design Team, Centre for Urban Schooling
(Principal Investigator: Dr. Tara Goldstein, OISE; Co-Investigator: Dr. Nicole
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West-Burns, OISE; Project Leader: Karen Murray, TDSB) Title/Purpose Critical Practitioner Research at The Centre for Urban Schooling Year 2014 Source OISE Visiting Scholar Program Type 4-Day Visit Amount $1,500 Role Applicant, Centre for Media and Culture in Education Visiting Scholar
Fall 2014 Year 2013 Source OISE Visiting Scholar Program Type 2-Day Visit Amount $1,000 Role Co-Applicant, with Dr. Lance McCready, Centre for Urban Schooling Visiting
Scholar: Winter 2013 Year 2013 Source OISE Visiting Scholar Program Type 2-Day Visit Amount $1,000 Role Nominator Title/Purpose Nomination of Susan L. Lytle, Professor Emeritus, University of
Pennsylvania, as Visiting Scholar Year 2012 Source OISE Visiting Scholar Program Type 2-Day Visit Amount $1,000 Role Nominator Title/Purpose Nomination of Dr. Gerald Campano, University of Pennsylvania, as Visiting
Scholar: March 6-7, 2013 Year 2010 Source OISE/University of Toronto Type Start-Up Grant for New Faculty Amount $10,000 Role Principal Investigator Title/Purpose Funds for establishing research agenda at OISE
Internal Travel Grants – Funded Year 2012 Source Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Type Institutional Travel Grant
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Amount $500 Role Principal Investigator Title/Purpose New Literacy Studies, New London, and their discontents:
Theorizing literacy from and in practice Year 2011 Source Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Type Institutional Travel Grant Amount $500 Role Principal Investigator Title/Purpose Learning to teach writing as collaborative inquiry. Paper presented at
Ethnography in Education Research Forum, Philadelphia, PA. (7) Courses Taught
Masters of Teaching Courses, OISE Curriculum and Teaching in English: Intermediate and Secondary, CTL 7020Y Two-semester course 2010-2016
(Taught 6 times)
Graduate Education Courses, OISE Critical Practitioner Research in Education, CTL 5017H 2017
(Taught 1 times) Practitioner Inquiry in Education, CTL 1799H 2013-2016
(Taught 4 times) New Literacies: Making Multiple Meanings, CTL 3034H 2011-2016
[Course number changed in 2014 from CTL 1799H] (Taught 6 times)
Graduate Teacher Education Courses, University of Pennsylvania Teaching English/Language and Literacy 2003-2010 in Middle and Secondary Schools
(Taught 7 times) Teaching English/Language and Literacy in Middle and Secondary Schools (R/W/L Master’s Course Section) 2005
(Taught 1 time) Field Seminar, Secondary Education 2009
(Taught 1 time) Advanced Field Seminar for Master’s Students in 2010 Secondary Education
(Taught 1 time)
Doctoral Courses at University of Pennsylvania Literacy: Social and Educational Perspectives 2010
(Taught 1 time) Practitioner Inquiry (Graduate assistant) 2008-2010
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(Taught 3 times) Theories of Reading (Graduate assistant) 2006
(Taught 1 time) Research on Writing and the Teaching of Writing 2007 (Graduate assistant)
(Taught 1 time) (8) Graduate Supervision
Graduate Supervisions (In Progress) PhD 9 MA 4 Graduate Co-Supervision (In Progress) PhD 2
Graduate Supervisions (Completed) PhD 1 (co-supervision) MT 29 MA 8 MEd (Thesis) 1 Graduate Memberships (In Progress) PhD 14 MA 3 Graduate Memberships (Completed) PhD 15 MA 2 Final Oral Examination Committee Member (Completed) PhD 8 Pre-service Field Supervision 2010-2011 4 Research Assistants 2017-2018 7 2016-2017 6 2015-2016 6 2014-2015 4 2013-2014 2 2012-2013 3 2011-2012 2 2010-2011 1
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Work-Study Students 2014-2015 1
Graduate Supervisions
PhD Supervisions (In Progress): 1. Tabi, Emmanuel. I, too, know why the caged bird sings: Hip hop and spoken word as
a lens into the lived experiences of Black male youth. (Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning, OISE)
2. Kalan, Amir. An Ethnographic Case Study of the Literate Lives of Three Multilingual English Writers. (Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning, OISE)
3. Brennan, Jason. Working title: It’s all Geek: New Media, Nerds, and Adolescent Literacies. (Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning, OISE)
4. Edwards, William. Working title: “Downgraded into Upgrading”: Co-authoring Curriculum Alternatives with Adults in an After-School Reading and Writing Group. (Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning, OISE)
5. Silver, Alexandria. Learning in the Land of Ashes: Towards an Understanding of the
Curricular Implications of Holocaust Education in Poland. (Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning, OISE)
6. Douglas, Velta. Reading environmental texts: Environmental education in English
language arts. (Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning, OISE)
7. Houtman, Eveline. What Shapes Academic Librarians’ Personal Theories of Their Teaching Practice? A Qualitative Study of Reflective Practitioners. (Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning, OISE)
8. Gallagher, Ben. [No title yet] (Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning,
OISE)
9. Walkland, Ty. [No title yet] (Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning, OISE)
PhD Co-Supervisions: 1. O’Sullivan, Sarah. Ways of Knowing: A Practitioner Research Study on a
Community-University Partnership. [Co-supervision with Dr. Tara Goldstein] (Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning, OISE)
2. Murray, Karen. [No title yet]. [Co-supervision with Dr. Tara Goldstein] (Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning, OISE)
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PhD Co-Supervision (Completed): 1. Sharma, Manu. (2013). Promoting Culturally Responsive and Relevant Pedagogy in
Teacher Education: An Action Research Project [Co-supervision with Dr. Tara Goldstein] (Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning, OISE)
MA Supervisions (In Progress): 1. Cheung, Monica. Student-Centered Critical Literacy: Exploring methods and
practices for teaching critical literacy that incorporate student voice, increase student engagement, and promote student success and learning. (Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning, OISE)
2. Benedikt, Dahlia. When Youth Co-Construct Critical Pedagogies as Localized Hubs
for Systemic Transformation: A Reflexive Analysis Among Young Critical Practitioners on their Own Educational Project. (Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning, OISE)
3. Valencia, Andrés Fernando. [No title yet] (Department of Curriculum, Teaching and
Learning, OISE)
4. Evis, Sarah. [No title yet] (Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning, OISE)
MA Supervision (Completed): 1. Walkland, Ty. (2017). “Something to Just Hold On To”: Occasional Teaching and
Collaborative Inquiry in Precarious Times. Unpublished Masters Thesis. Toronto, ON: OISE.
2. Tsuchida, Jenna. (2016). Tracking in Ontario High Schools: Learning from Student Experiences. Unpublished Masters Thesis. Toronto, ON: OISE.
3. Stephens, Airin. (2016). (Re)Making of Identities: Practitioner Inquiry into the Steps to University Program. Unpublished Masters Thesis. Toronto, ON: OISE.
4. German, Katie. (2015). Schoolyard farmers: Youth writing food literacy curriculum.
Unpublished Masters Thesis. Toronto, ON: OISE.
5. Grinberg, Tania. (2015). “Critical Embodiment”: Exploring the possibilities of teaching embodiment through critical pedagogy. Unpublished Masters Thesis. Toronto, ON: OISE.
6. Abarbanel, Misha. (2015). Holistic or Autonomous: Educators’ Conceptions of
Literacy and their Implications for Practice and Teacher Development. Unpublished Masters Thesis. Toronto, ON: OISE.
7. Hainer-Violand, Julia. (2013). (Re)defining Priorities: Teachers’ Perspectives on
Supporting Diverse Learners within a Flexible Curriculum in a High-Stakes Testing Atmosphere. Unpublished Masters Thesis. Toronto, ON: OISE.
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8. Sheppard, Emma. (2013). Telling Our Truths: Exploring Issues of Immigration,
Identity and Literacy with Adult Language Learners. Unpublished Masters Thesis. Toronto, ON: OISE.
MEd Thesis Option Supervision (Completed): 1. Jackson, Lotoya. (2013). Literacy, Standardization, and the Digital Age: Exploring
the Digitally Mediated Literacy Practices of Students who Failed the Ontario Secondary School Literacy Test. (Department of Theory and Policy Studies, OISE)
MT Supervisions (Completed): 1. Sedaghat, Matine. (2015). Deaf-ining Literacy: Teacher Perspectives on Issues in
Secondary Deaf Literacy Education. Unpublished Master of Teaching Research Project. Toronto, ON: OISE.
2. O’Leary, Kevin. (2015). Weighing the Social and the Academic: The Effectiveness of the ESL Program in Reference to the High School Social Sphere. Unpublished Master of Teaching Research Project. Toronto, ON: OISE.
3. Canny, Joanna. (2015). Mass Media Education in the Classroom: Preparing Young Learners to Live in a Mass Media Saturated World. Unpublished Master of Teaching Research Project. Toronto, ON: OISE.
4. Redley-Smith, Marlon. (2015). Sociopolitical Movements and Social Justice Education: Looking at Educators’ Perspectives and Understandings of Sociopolitical Movements and Social Justice Education within School Settings. Unpublished Master of Teaching Research Project. Toronto, ON: OISE.
5. Bernard, Martin. (2015). The Good Teacher: An Investigation of the Core Competencies and Attributes of an Effective Educator. Unpublished Master of Teaching Research Project. Toronto, ON: OISE.
6. Galloro, Bianca. (2014). Genocide Education is not the Study of “Gloom and Doom and Terror”: Investigating Experiences of Genocide Educators in Ontario Secondary Schools. Unpublished Master of Teaching Research Project. Toronto, ON: OISE.
7. Walkling, Laura. (2014). Taking the “Dis” out of “Disability”: How a School’s Community of Teachers Works to Empower Students with Disabilities in an Ableist Education System. Unpublished Master of Teaching Research Project. Toronto, ON: OISE.
8. Fellin, Jessica. (2014). All Students Are English Language Learners: Strategies To Better Accommodate English Language Learners in Traditional Secondary. Unpublished Master of Teaching Research Project. Toronto, ON: OISE.
9. Heimpel, Ryan. (2014). Creating the Critical Classroom: Examining the Effective
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Use of New Media Technologies in Elementary Schools. Unpublished Master of Teaching Research Project. Toronto, ON: OISE.
10. Merpaw, Amanda. (2014). “We teach who we are”: A Case Study of Individual and Communal Constructions of Teaching Philosophies at a Global Education School. Unpublished Master of Teaching Research Project. Toronto, ON: OISE.
11. Bucciarelli, Nadia. (2014). Teaching for Social Justice: Culturally Responsive and Relevant Pedagogy in Urban Schools. Unpublished Master of Teaching Research Project. Toronto, ON: OISE.
12. Petrov, Anton. (2014). Using Minecraft in Education: A Qualitative Study on Benefits and Challenges of Game-Based Education. Unpublished Master of Teaching Research Project. Toronto, ON: OISE.
13. Farragher, Heather. (2013). Beyond Literate: How Educators Help Students Develop Identities and Self-confidence as Writers. Unpublished Master of Teaching Research Project. Toronto, ON: OISE.
14. Leibovitch, Yael. (2013). “That Questioning Agenda”: Exploring Teachers’ Perspectives on Critical Literacy Pedagogy. Unpublished Master of Teaching Research Project. Toronto, ON: OISE.
15. Azizmohammadi, Amir. (2013). Teaching ESL academic writing and intercultural rhetoric: A grounded theory study of practice in Ontario secondary schools. Unpublished Master of Teaching Research Project. Toronto, ON: OISE.
16. Salisbury, Shannon. (2013).“I see it as a justice issue, a human issue”: Teacher perceptions of disabled students and self-advocacy. Unpublished Master of Teaching Research Project. Toronto, ON: OISE.
17. Butwell, Samantha. (2013).“Trying to Think Past Words”: Teachers’ Perspectives On Juxtaposing Text and Image in the High School English Classroom. Unpublished Master of Teaching Research Project. Toronto, ON: OISE.
18. Barrett, Laura. (2013). Original Thought(s), Fulfilling Acts, Innovative Society: The Imperative of Creative Education. Unpublished Master of Teaching Research Project. Toronto, ON: OISE.
19. Cooper, Emma. (2013). Towards A Design for a Philosophy of Education: Defining Semiotic Theory in the Elementary Classroom. Unpublished Master of Teaching Research Project. Toronto, ON: OISE.
20. Starling, Trish. (2013). Critical Action: Investigating Critical Literacy in the Primary Classroom. Unpublished Master of Teaching Research Project. Toronto, ON: OISE.
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21. Moosajee, Zahra. (2013). Awakening The Writer Within: Strategies For Improving ELL/ESL Writing. Unpublished Master of Teaching Research Project. Toronto, ON: OISE/University of Toronto.
22. Bresba, Alessandro. (2012). Critical Fidelity: Constructivist Pedagogy in Catholic Religious Education. Unpublished Master of Teaching Research Project. Toronto, ON: OISE.
23. Cha, Jessica. (2012). Teaching Critical Literacy through Multimodality in High School. Unpublished Master of Teaching Research Project. Toronto, ON: OISE.
24. Kim, Elizabeth. (2012). Teaching Literacy with Identity in Mind: Strategies for Respecting Minority Students’ Identities in the English High School Classroom. Unpublished Master of Teaching Research Project. Toronto, ON: OISE.
25. Moldovan, Sasha. (2012). Bridging the Literacy-Mathematics Divide: Ontario Secondary School Mathematics Teachers’ Views and Strategies for Integrating Mathematics and Literacy in their Instruction and Assessment of Grade Nine to Twelve Mathematics Courses. Unpublished Master of Teaching Research Project. Toronto, ON: OISE.
26. Scheepers, Samantha. (2012). Re-thinking Metacognition: Metacognitive Strategies in the Secondary English Classroom. Unpublished Master of Teaching Research Project. Toronto, ON: OISE.
27. Tedesco, Giulia. (2012). The Challenge of Inclusive Education in Relation to Differentiated Instruction. Unpublished Master of Teaching Research Project. Toronto, ON: OISE.
28. Snyder, Meredith. (2012). Approaches to Multicultural Literacy: Insights for Elementary Language Programs. [Co-supervision with Mira Gambhir]. Unpublished Master of Teaching Research Project. Toronto, ON: OISE.
29. DeAngelis, Sara. (2011). Using Visual Art to Interest, Motivate, and Engage Students in the Secondary English Classroom. Unpublished Master of Teaching Research Project. Toronto, ON: OISE.
Graduate Memberships
PhD Memberships (In Progress): 1. Lowe, Julia. Informal Educational Content on YouTube: A Portal to Authentic
Learning. (Department of Social Justice Education, OISE)
2. Ng, Tiffany. The academic effects of literacy engagement and translanguaging in the context of an intercultural partner-class project. (Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning, OISE)
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3. Smitka, Julie. Coming to know the self in arts education: An embodied
phenomenological journey. (Department of Curriculum, Teaching & Learning, OISE)
4. Koecher, Austen. [No title yet] (Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning, OISE)
5. Swartz, Diane. [No title yet] (Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning, OISE)
6. Ritchie, Allison. How do students learn science? Exploring the place of context, interactions, and participation in the school-community and curriculum. (Department of Curriculum, Teaching & Learning, OISE)
7. Baer, Pamela. Dramatic encounters: Performance, affect, and anti-oppression education. (Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning, OISE)
8. Guthrie, Christy. [No title yet] (Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning, OISE)
9. Cardwell, Nancy. [No title yet] (Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning, OISE)
10. Cherry-Reid, Katherine. [No title yet] (Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning, OISE)
11. Bascuñán, Daniela. A Pedagogy of Ethical Relationality: A Métissage of Young Students’ Life Stories Braided with Stories of Indigenous Presence. (Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning, OISE)
12. Carroll, Shawna. Negotiating subjectivities: Reading anticolonial counternarrative fiction. (Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning, OISE)
13. Burns, Leah. Equity and Community Arts Education in the University. (Department of Leadership and Higher Education, OISE)
14. Fiorini, Franco. Teaching and Researching for Social Justice in the High School English Classroom: A Practitioner Inquiry into Critical Literacy Pedagogy. (Department of Reading/Writing/Literacy, University of Pennsylvania)
MA Memberships (In Progress): 1. Nathan, Colleen. [No title yet] (Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning,
OISE)
2. Atkins, Lindsey. Being on the Inside of a Professional Learning Community: A Self-Study. (Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning, OISE)
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3. Rajeswaran, Dargine. [No title yet] (Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult
Education, OISE)
MA memberships completed: 1. hicks, benjamin lee. (2017). ALL-WAYS in Transition: De-sensationalizing Beliefs
About Trans Identities in Schooling Through Participatory Action Research. Unpublished masters thesis. Toronto, ON: OISE.
2. Yusef, Hinna. (2012). Muslim Immigrant Parental Perspectives on New Literacies. Unpublished masters thesis. Toronto, ON: OISE.
PhD memberships completed: 1. Truman, Sarah. (2017). Perambulatory Pedagogies: Walking, Writing & Research-
Creation. Unpublished doctoral thesis. Toronto, ON: OISE.
2. Rusoja, Alicia. (2017). “We Are Our Own Best Advocates”: Latin@ Immigrants Learning and Teaching for Their Rights. Unpublished doctoral thesis. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania.
3. Jennings, Anita. (2017). What pedagogical knowledge do clinical nurse educators utilize to teach undergraduate nursing students in the clinical arena? Unpublished doctoral thesis. Toronto, ON: OISE.
4. Makos, Alexandra. (2017). Like it? Adopting Facebook’s Like Button in Online Discussion-Based Courses to Stimulate Discussion. Unpublished doctoral thesis. Toronto, ON: OISE.
5. Wilton, Lesley. (2017). Examining Collaborative Online Learning Environments through a New Literacies Lens. Unpublished doctoral thesis. Toronto, ON: OISE.
6. Menna, Lydia. (2016). Negotiating Multiple Literacies: The Experiences of Middle School Student Teachers. Unpublished doctoral thesis. Toronto, ON: OISE.
7. LeBlanc, Robert. (2016). The Political Economy of Religious Literacies: Reading, Writing, and Religion in Urban Education. Unpublished doctoral thesis. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania.
8. Broderick, Debora. (2015). Arts integration in an early pre-service teacher preparation program: Examining teacher identities through the arts. Unpublished doctoral thesis. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania.
9. Morrison, Sarah Jean. (2015). The Development of Self-Directed Learning Through Collaboration and Reflection in Music Education. Unpublished doctoral thesis. Toronto, ON: OISE.
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10. Doyle-Jones, Carol. (2015). Building multimodal curriculum: Creating opportunities through digital literacies. Unpublished doctoral thesis. Toronto, ON: OISE.
11. Jacobs, Katrina Bartow. (2014). Fieldwork as text and context: Graduate students’ narration and negotiation of field experiences within an inquiry community. Unpublished doctoral thesis. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania.
12. Dzaldov, Brenda. (2012). An Observational Study of a Resource-Rich 21st Century Grade 1 Classroom: An Analysis of Teacher Pedagogy and Students’ Literacy Practices. Unpublished doctoral thesis. Toronto, ON: OISE.
13. Meyers, Beth A. (2012). A Spectrum of Reflections: Exploring the Autobiographical Inquiries of Adolescents with Autism. Unpublished doctoral thesis. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania.
14. Muir, Lorna. (2012). Black Male Teachers’ Perspectives of the Systemic, Structural and Cultural Conditions that Contribute to Underachievement Problems for Black Male Students. (Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning, OISE)
15. Swisher, Laurie. (2011). Examining Practicing Teachers Understandings of Mentoring and the Student Teaching Experience. Unpublished doctoral thesis. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania.
PhD Final Oral Examination Committee Memberships (Completed): 1. Lloyd, Jeff. (2015). A Novel Idea: A Narrative Inquiry into Queer Engagements with
Fiction. Unpublished doctoral thesis. Toronto, ON: OISE.
2. Rennie, James Joseph. (2015). Making a Scene: Producing Media Literacy Narratives in Canada. Unpublished doctoral thesis. Toronto, ON: OISE.
3. Lui, Michelle. (2015). Designing EvoRoom: An immersive simulation environment for collective inquiry in secondary science. Unpublished doctoral thesis. Toronto, ON: OISE.
4. Guerrero, Cristina. (2014). Rethinking Latin@ Student Engagement: Identification, Community Engagement, and Transformative Learning through Youth Participatory Action Research. Unpublished doctoral thesis. Toronto, ON: OISE.
5. Harris, Tiffany. (2014) Multiliteracies theory into practice: An inquiry into junior level literacy classrooms. Unpublished doctoral thesis. Toronto, ON: OISE.
6. McKernan, Catherine. (2013). Uncovered voices: Life stories of Lebanese immigrants and their adaption to a Northern Ontario mining frontier. Unpublished doctoral thesis. Toronto, ON: OISE.
7. Yaman Ntelioglou, Mukaddes Burcu. (2012). Drama Teachers’ Pedagogical
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Practices: The Teaching of Linguistically Diverse Students in Urban High Schools. (Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning, OISE)
8. Kahn, Ranya. (2011). Meeting the Needs of English Language Learners with Interruptions in their Formal Schooling: A Case Study of Two Teachers’ Classrooms. Unpublished doctoral thesis. Toronto, ON: OISE.
Research Assistants 2017-2018 William Edwards
benjamin lee hicks Ben Gallagher Ty Walkland Sarah Evis Pamela Baer Shawna Carroll 2016-2017 Pamela Baer William Edwards Jason Brennan benjamin lee hicks Ben Gallagher Ty Walkland 2015-2016 Velta Douglas
Pam Baer William Edwards
Jason Brennan benjamin lee hicks
Ty Walkland
2014-2015 William Edwards Jason Brennan Amir Kalan Ty Walkland 2013-2014 William Edwards
Amir Kalan
2012-2013 Jason Brennan William Edwards Emmanuel Tabi
2011-2012 William Edwards
Alessandro Bresba
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2010-2011 Jennifer Hancock
Work-Study Students 2014-2015 Shiny Balachandra
(9) Publications
Lifetime Summary Book 1 Edited Book 1 Book Chapters 11 Book Chapters: In Progress 1 Refereed Journal Articles 10 Refereed Journal Articles: Accepted 1 Refereed Journal Articles: In Progress 6 Handbook Chapters 2 Handbook Chapter: In Progress 1 Encyclopedia Chapter 1 Edited Special Issue of Refereed Journal 1 Non-Refereed Journal Articles 3 Refereed Conference Papers and Presentations 52 Refereed Conference Papers and Presentations: Accepted 2 Refereed Conference Papers and Presentations: Under Review 2 Invited Plenary 1 Invited Talks 27 Creative Professional Achievement Films 3 Art Exhibits 5 Curricula 3 Media Interviews and Articles 8 Book 1. Beach, R., Appleman, D., Fecho, B., & Simon, R. (2016). Teaching Literature to
Adolescents, 3rd Edition. New York: Routledge. Edited Book 1. Kosnik, C., Rowsell, J., Williamson, P., Simon, R. & Beck, C. (Eds.). (2013). Literacy
Teacher Educators: Preparing Teachers for a Changing World. Rotterdam: Sense. Book Chapters * Indicates collaboration with current or former students 1. Simon, R. (2015). “Just don’t get up there and ‘Dangerous Minds’ us”: Taking an inquiry
stance on adolescents’ literacy practices in urban teacher education. In J. Lampert & B.
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Burnett (Eds.), Teacher Education for High Poverty Schools (pp. 235-251). NY: Springer.
2. Simon, R., *Brennan, J., *Bresba, S., *DeAngelis, S., *Edwards, W., *Jung, H., & *Pisecny, A. (2014). Investigating literacy through intergenerational inquiry. In H. Pleasants & D. Salter (Eds.), Community-based multiliteracies and digital media projects: Questioning assumptions and exploring realities (pp.159-180). NY: Peter Lang.
3. Simon, R. (2014). Creating a Holocaust exhibit: A multimodal integrative online resource for educators. In Voices into action: Fighting anti-Semitism together. Toronto, ON: FAST. Available at: http://www.voicesintoaction.ca/Learn/Unit5/Chapter1/
4. Simon, R., *Acosta, A., *Houtman, E. (2014). “Memeration”: Exploring academic authorship in online spaces. In Pytash, K., and Ferdig, R. (Eds.), Exploring Multimodal Composition and Digital Writing (pp. 54-68). Hershey, PA: IGI Global.
5. Simon, R. (2013). Literacy teacher education as critical inquiry. In C. Kosnik, J. Rowsell, P. Williamson, R. Simon & C. Beck (Eds.). Literacy Teacher Educators: Preparing Teachers for a Changing World (pp. 121-134). Rotterdam: Sense Publishers.
6. Kosnik, C., Rowsell, J., & Simon, R. (2013). The shifting landscape of literacy teacher education: Working with integrity, commitment, skill, and vision. In C. Kosnik, J. Rowsell, P. Williamson, R. Simon, & C. Beck (Eds.). Literacy Teacher Educators: Preparing Teachers for a Changing World (pp. 191–204). Rotterdam: Sense Publishers.
7. Simon, R. (2012). Theorizing literacy and identity from the location of the classroom. In K. Pahl & J. Rowsell, Literacy and education: The New Literacy Studies in the classroom, 2nd edition (pp. 114-115). London: Sage.
8. Campano, G., & Simon, R. (2010). Practitioner research as resistance to the normal curve. In C. Dudley-Marling & A. Gurn (Eds.), The myth of the normal curve (pp. 221-240). New York: Peter Lang.
9. Simon, R. (2009). Constructing a language of learning to teach. In M. Cochran-Smith and S.L. Lytle (Eds.), Inquiry as stance: Practitioner research for the next generation (pp. 275-292). New York: Teachers College Press.
10. Simon, R. (Contributor to collaborative text). (2009). Practitioner voices in trying times. In M. Cochran-Smith and S.L. Lytle (Eds.), Inquiry as stance: Practitioner research for the next generation (pp. 343-377). New York: Teachers College Press.
11. Simon, R. (2005). Bridging life and learning through inquiry and improvisation: Literacy practices at a model high school. In B.V. Street, (Ed.), Literacies Across Educational Contexts (pp. 124-144). Philadelphia: Caslon.
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Refereed Journal Articles * Indicates collaboration with current or former students + Indicates collaboration with youth 1. Simon, R., Evis, S., *Walkland, T., *Kalan, A., *Baer, P., with + youth in the Addressing
Injustices Project (2016). Navigating the “delicate relationship between empathy and critical distance”: Youth literacies, social justice, and arts-based inquiry. English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 15(3), pp. 430-449.
2. Simon, R. (2015). “I’m fighting my fight, and I’m not alone anymore”: The influence of communities of inquiry. English Education, 48(1), 41-71.
3. Simon, R., and The Teaching to Learn Project: *Bailey, A., *Brennan, J., +Calarco, A., +Clarke, K., *Edwards, W., *Fujiwara, C., *Kalan, A., +Kruja, J., *McInnes-Greenberg, E., & *Pisecny, A. (2014). “In the swell of wandering words”: The arts as a vehicle for adolescents’ and educators’ inquiries into the Holocaust memoir Night. Perspectives on Urban Education, 11(2), 90-106. Available online at: http://www.urbanedjournal.org/archive/volume-11-issue-2-summer-2014/“-swell-wandering-words”-arts-vehicle-youth-and-educators’-inq
4. Simon, R. (2014). Making critical sense and critical use of the Common Core State Standards. Language Arts, 91(4).
5. Simon, R. (2013). “Starting with what is”: Exploring response and responsibility to student writing through collaborative inquiry. English Education, 45(2), 115-146. Available at: http://www.ncte.org/library/NCTEFiles/Resources/Journals/EE/0452-jan2013/EE0452Starting.pdf
6. Ghiso, M.P., Campano, G., & Simon, R. (2013). Grassroots inquiry: Reconsidering the location of innovation. Language Arts 91(2), 105-112.
7. Simon, R. & Campano, G. (2013). Activist literacies: Teacher research as resistance to the “normal curve”. Journal of Language and Literacy Education, 9(1), 21-39. Available at: http://jolle.coe.uga.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Teacher-Research.pdf.
8. Simon, R., Campano, G., *Broderick, D., & *Pantoja, A. (2012). Practitioner research and literacy studies: Toward more dialogic methodologies. English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 11(2) July 2012, 5-24. Available at: http://edlinked.soe.waikato.ac.nz/research/files/etpc/files/2012v11n2art1.pdf
9. Simon, R. (2012). “Without comic books there would be no me”: Teachers as connoisseurs of adolescents’ literate lives. Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, 55(6), 516-526.
10. Simon, R. (2011). On the human challenges of multiliteracies pedagogy. Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 12(4), 362-366.
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Refereed Journal Article: Accepted * Indicates collaboration with current or former students 1. Simon, R., *hicks, b.l., *Walkland, T., *Gallagher, B., Evis, S. (Forthcoming, January,
2018). “But in the end, you are all beautiful”: Exploring gender and identity through digital composition. English Journal.
Handbook Chapters 1. Simon, R., & *Kalan, A. (2017). Adolescent literacy and collaborative inquiry. In D.
Appleman & K. Hinchman (Eds.), Adolescent Literacy: A Handbook of Practice-based Research (pp. 398-420). NY: Routledge.
2. Simon, R., & Campano, G. (2015). Hermeneutics of literacy pedagogy. In K. Pahl & J. Rowsell (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Literacy Studies (pp. 476-482). NY: Routledge.
Handbook Chapter: In Progress 1. Edwards, W., Nichols, P., Simon, R., & Campano, G. (In Progress). Critical stances on
coloniality: Exploring the possibilities of “resistant readings” in an intergenerational young adult novel group. Handbook of Cultural Studies and Education. S. Jagger and P. Trifonis (Eds.). NY: Routledge.
Encyclopedia Chapter 1. Rowsell, J., & Simon, R. (2017). Engaging with artifactual worlds. K. Peppler (Ed.). The
SAGE Encyclopedia of Out-of-School Learning (pp. 40-42). NY: SAGE
Book Chapters: In Progress 1. Campano, G., & Simon, R. (In Progress). Working through self-reflexivity in the contexts
of critical literacy research. Edited Special Issue of Refereed Journal 1. Youth literacies and social justice. (2016). Special issue of English Teaching: Practice
and Critique. Co-edited with Korina Jocson and Keisha L. Green. Published: December 2016.
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Refereed Journal Articles: In Progress * Indicates collaboration with current or former students + Indicates collaboration with youth 1. Simon, R. (In Progress). “I will not be teacher-proofed”: Student teachers’ critical
perspectives on literacy policy.
2. Simon, R., Campano, G., *Edwards, W., & Nichols, P. (In Progress). Working Title: States of Exception: Adolescents and teachers respond to Nancy Farmer’s House of the Scorpion.
3. Simon, R., Evis, S., *Walkland, T., & *Kalan, A. (In Progress). Working title: Youth literacies, social justice, and arts-based inquiry: Adolescents and teachers respond to Maus.
4. Simon, R., *Brennan, J., *Walkland, T., & Rowsell, J. (In Progress). Playful Rigor and Rigorous Play: Youth Literacy, Identity, and Cultural Production in Minecraft.
5. Simon, R. (In Progress). Pokémon literacies.
6. Simon, R., Rowsell, J., *Yaman Ntelioglou, B., *Tabi, E., & Street, B.V., (In Progress). What’s new in New Literacy Studies now?: Traditions, tensions, and directions in “new” literacy research.
Non-Refereed Journal Articles 1. Jocson, K., Green, K.L., & Simon, R. (2016). Introduction: Youth literacies and social
justice. English Teaching: Practice & Critique, 15(3), 310-312.
2. Simon, R., & Edwards, W. (2016). The Toronto Writing Project: Supporting educators to address equity issues in their classrooms through writing. Centre for Urban Schooling Research Brief, Issue 7, Summer 2016, 2-3. Available at: http://cus.oise.utoronto.ca
3. Simon, R., & Evis, S. (2016). Transforming research into “something more lively and radical”: Collaborative inquiry as public scholarship for diverse democracies. Teacher as Researcher SIG Newsletter, pp. 6-9. American Educational Research Association. Available at: http://www.aera.net/Portals/38/Users/047/55/87855/TARSIGNewsletter_Winter2016.pdf
4. Simon, R. (2006). The poems we see. Invited article, Language and Literacy News. 2006, 17.
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Refereed Conference and Paper Proposals: Accepted * Indicates collaboration with current or former students + Indicates collaboration with youth 1. Simon, R., Evis, S., *Walkland, T., *hicks, b.l., *Baer, P., & *Gallagher, B. (Accepted).
Making Beautiful Music: Adolescents’ and Teachers’ Collaborative Inquiry into All-Gender Identity and Inclusion. Alternative session proposal submitted to the Literacy Research Association (LRA).
2. Simon, R., Evis, S., *Walkland, T., * hicks, b.l,, *Baer, P., & *Gallagher, B. (Accepted). “Are We Allowed Going Off the Sheet?”: Exploring Adolescents’ Resistant Readings of a Trans YA Novel. Paper proposal submitted to the Literacy Research Association (LRA).
Refereed Conference and Paper Proposals: Under Review * Indicates collaboration with current or former students 1. Simon, R., Evis, S., *Walkland, T., * hicks, b.l,, *Baer, P., & *Gallagher, B. (Submitted:
July 2017). Gender is like the Ocean: Exploring All-Gender Identity in Response to a Young Adult Novel. Alternative session proposal submitted to the American Educational Research Association (AERA).
2. Simon, R., Evis, S., *Walkland, T., * hicks, b.l., *Baer, P., & *Gallagher, B. (Submitted: July 2017). “Breaking Gender Expectations as a Whole”: Exploring Adolescents’ Critical Rewriting of a Trans YA Novel. Paper proposal submitted to the American Educational Research Association (AERA).
Refereed Conference Papers and Presentations * Indicates collaboration with current or former students 1. Simon, R., Evis, S., *Walkland, T., * hicks, b.l., *Baer, P., *Douglas, V., & *Gallagher,
B. (2017, February). (Re)writing Gender, (Re)reading Resistance: Middle School Students’ Explore All-Gender Identity, Inclusion, and Representation Through Arts-Based Inquiry. Paper presented at the Ethnography in Education Research Forum, Philadelphia, PA.
2. *Edwards, W., *Tabi, E., *Guerrero, C., Shahnazarian, A., Simon, R., Campano, G. (2017, February). Reflections on the Dissertation Process: A View from OISE. Panel presentation at the Ethnography in Education Research Forum, Philadelphia, PA.
3. Simon, R., & *Kalan, A. (2016, December). Adolescent literacy and collaborative inquiry. Presented at the Literacy Research Association (LRA) Annual Meeting, Nashville, TN.
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4. Simon, R., *Brennan, J., & *Walkland, T. (2016, April). Playful Rigor and Rigorous Play: Youth Literacy, Identity, and Cultural Production in Minecraft. Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association (AERA), Washington, DC.
5. *Edwards, E., *Stephens, A., *Bascuñán, D., *Hainer-Violand, J., *Broderick, D., & Simon, R. (2016, April). Centering Student Identity in our Practitioner Research: Crossing Borders, Systems and Educational Lifespans. Symposium presented at the American Educational Research Association (AERA), Washington, DC.
6. Simon, R., Evis, S., *Walkland, T., & *Kalan, A. (2016, February). Youth literacies, social justice, and arts-based inquiry: Adolescents’ and teachers’ critical curriculum in response to Maus. Paper presented at The Ethnography in Educational Research Forum, Philadelphia, PA.
7. Simon, R., *Brennan, J., *Walkland, T., & Rowsell, J. (2015, December). Playful Rigor and Rigorous Play: Youth Literacy, Identity, and Cultural Production in Minecraft. Paper presented at the Literacy Research Association (LRA) Annual Meeting, Carlsbad, California.
8. Simon, R. (2015, April). Pokémon creations: Investigating the intersection of identity, social practice, and critical literacy in youth engagement with Pokémon. Paper presented for symposium, Comics and Critical Engagement in Literacy Education and Research. American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.
9. Campano, G., & Simon, R. (2015, April). Working through self-reflexivity in the contexts of critical literacy research. Paper presented for symposium, Re-visiting Longitudinal Language Ethnographies: The case of Bourdieu and Reflexivity. American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.
10. Invited Session Leader. (2015, April). Language and Social Processes Mentoring Workshop: Creating Dialogue Across ‘Generations’. Session at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.
11. Chair. (2015, April). Critical Engagements with Graphic Novels and Fantasy Texts. American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.
12. Simon, R., *Brennan, J., *Walkland, T. (2015, February). The Minecraft Project: A Case
Study of Youth Gaming Practices. Paper presented at The Ethnography in Educational Research Forum, Philadelphia, PA.
13. *Edwards, W., West-Burns, N., *Murray, K., *Stephens, A., *Koecher, A., & Simon, R. (2015, February). Critical Practitioner Research Across Urban Contexts: Inquiries into Supporting the Learning of Racialized and Historically Marginalized Students. Panel presented at The Ethnography in Educational Research Forum, Philadelphia, PA.
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14. Simon, R. (2014, December). Exploring the arts as a vehicle for critical literacy: Adolescents’ and educators’ inquiries into the Holocaust memoir Night. Paper presented to the Literacy Research Association Annual Meeting, Marco Island, FL.
15. Honeyford, M., Serebrin, W., Ghiso, M.P., Sanchez, L., Vander Zanden, S., Simon, R., *Kalan, A., *Edwards, W., & Campano, G. (2014, December). E/merging Theory & Practice in Literacy Research Partnerships: An Inquiry into Our Experiences. Alternative session presented to the Literacy Research Association Annual Meeting, Marco Island, FL.
16. *Sheppard, E., *Tabi, E., *Kalan, A. *Edwards, W., Simon, R., & Jocson, J. (2014, December). As the Soil nurtures fruit: Critical poetry pedagogy as vehicle for individual and social change. Session paper presented to the Literacy Research Association Annual Meeting, Marco Island, FL.
17. Ghiso, M.P., & Simon, R. (2014, April). Reconsidering the location of innovation: Grassroots inquiry and educational change. Paper presented as part of symposium, Communities of Inquiry as Literacy Innovation: The Role of the Imagination and Local Knowledge in a Period of Common Core Standards. American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA.
18. Ghiso, M.P., Campano, G., Stornaiuolo, A., Castanheira, M. L., Rowsell, J., Street, B.V., & Simon, R. (2014, April). Cosmopolitan Literacies: Examining the Transnational Turn in Research and Pedagogy. Symposium presented at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA.
19. *Shepherd, E., *Edwards, W., *Kalan, A., *Tabi, E., Simon, R., & Jocson, K. (2014, February).“I am from the place that shaped me into what I am”: Critical poetry pedagogy as a vehicle for individual and social change. Symposium presented at the Ethnography in Education Research Forum, Philadelphia, PA.
20. Simon, R. (2013, December). Pokémon literacies: Investigating strategic card games as a form of literate and social engagement. Paper presented at the Literacy Research Association Annual Meeting, Dallas, TX.
21. Simon, R., & *Acosta, A. (2013, December). Multimodal scholarship: Academic writing
in online spaces. Paper presented at the Literacy Research Association Annual Meeting, Dallas, TX.
22. Simon, R. (2013, April). Teaching writing “As if your life depended on it”: Student
teachers’ critiques of literacy policy. Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA.
23. Simon, R., *Brennan, J., & *Edwards, W. (2013, April). Investigating literacy through intergenerational inquiry. Paper presented as part of symposium, Writing ourselves into the work: Critical reflections on community-based digital literacies, practitioners’
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knowledge and experiences. American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA.
24. Simon, R. & *Acosta, A. (2013, February) Academic writing in online spaces:
Multimodal practices as forms of scholarly engagement. Paper presented at the Ethnography in Education Research Forum, Philadelphia, PA.
25. Simon, R., *Brennan, J., *Edwards, W., & *Pisecny, A., *DeAngelis, S. (2013, February). “Where I’m From”: Intergenerational Investigations of Literacy and Identity Through Young Adult Novels. Presentation at the Ethnography in Education Research Forum, Philadelphia, PA.
26. Invited Respondent. Ghiso, M.P., Campano, G., *Jacobs, K., *Yee, M., *LeBlanc, R., Ngo, L., *Mostafa, K., Low, D., *Pantoja, A. (2013, February). “One world to encompass many worlds”: Coalitional literacies and community partnering. Panel presentation at the Ethnography in Education Research Forum, Philadelphia, PA.
27. Simon, R. (2012, November). “I will not be teacher-proofed”: Student teachers’ critical perspectives on literacy policy. Presentation at the Literacy Research Association Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA.
28. Simon, R. & Campano, G. (2012, November). Theorizing literacy in practice. Presentation at the Literacy Research Association Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA. Awarded distinction by program chair.
29. Simon, R. & *Edwards, W. (2012, November). Legacies of communities of inquiry. Presentation at “Revisiting learning lives: Longitudinal perspectives on literacy education research,” seminar funded by Social Science and Humanities Research Council Aid to Workshops. J. Rowsell and J. Sefton-Green, co-principal investigators.
30. Simon, R., *Doyle-Jones, C., *Menna, L., *Edwards, W., & *Yaman Ntelioglou, B. (2012, May). The Multiliteracies Inquiry Group: Building a community of inquiry and in graduate literacy education. Panel presentation at the Canadian Society for the Study of Education (CSSE) Annual Conference, Waterloo, ON.
31. Simon, R. & Campano, G. (2012, April). New Literacy Studies, New London, and their
discontents: Theorizing literacy from and in practice. Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC.
32. Simon, R., Campano, G., Ghiso, M., Sanchez, L., Low, D., *Yee, M., Hall, T., & Street, B.V. (2012, April). Activist literacies: Theorizing literacy in and across communities of practice. Symposium presented at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC. Note: This symposium inspired a conference on the theme of activist literacies at the University of Georgia, entitled “Activist literacies: Inspire, engage, create, transform,”
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February 22-23, 2013 (http://jolle.coe.uga.edu/2013conference/), and a special issue of the Journal of Language and Literacy (http://jolle.coe.uga.edu/volume-91-2013/).
33. Simon, R. (2012, April). Response and responsibility: Exploring student writing through collaborative inquiry. Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC.
34. Invited respondent. Schultz, K., Del Savio, *Gioia, G., *Hentges, M., Kaloustian, T., Morrison, K., *Zwillenberg, J. (2012) Teacher preparation before and during full-time teaching: A comparative analysis of learning to teach. Symposium given at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC.
35. Simon, R., & *Edwards, W. (2012, February). The Teaching to Learn Project: Building a community of inquiry. Paper presented at the Ethnography in Education Research Forum, Philadelphia, PA.
36. Simon, R., & Campano, G. (2012, February). Theorizing literacy from and in practice. Paper presented at the Ethnography in Education Research Forum, Philadelphia, PA.
37. Simon, R., Campano, G., Ghíso, M., Sanchez, L., Low, D., *Yee, M., Hall, T., & *Edwards, W. (2012, February). Activist Literacies: Theorizing literacy in communities of inquiry. The Ethnography in Education Research Forum, Philadelphia, PA.
38. Simon, R. (2011, November). Fostering noticing: Collaborative response and responsibility to student writing. Paper presented at the Literacy Research Association (LRA) Annual Meeting, Jacksonville, FL.
39. Simon, R. (2011, February). “Starting with what is”: Learning to teach writing as collaborative inquiry. Paper presented at the Ethnography in Education Research Forum, Philadelphia, PA.
40. Simon, R. (2010, November). “Co-Authoring a chapter in an anthology having thirty
editors”: The relational dimensions of learning to teach. Paper presented at the Literacy Research Association Annual Meeting, Fort Worth, TX.
41. Simon, R. (2010, February). “Without comics there would be no me”: Student teachers
unlearning and learning about urban students and adolescent literacies. Paper presented as part of panel on “Inquiry as stance: Practitioner inquiry across the educational spectrum.” Ethnography in Education Research Forum, Philadelphia, PA.
42. Simon, R. (2009, February). “Have you tried transparency?” Constructing a language of
learning to teach. Paper presented at the Ethnography in Education Research Forum, Philadelphia, PA.
43. Simon, R. (2008, March). Practitioner voices in trying times. Collaborative presentation,
American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting, New York.
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44. Simon, R. (2008, February). Is this inquiry? Conceptualizing student teacher learning as
educational research. Presentation at the Ethnography in Education Research Forum, Philadelphia, PA.
45. Simon, R. (2007, February). Practitioner Voices. Invited to participate in a 20-person
collaborative presentation in celebration of the 30th anniversary of Practitioner Research Day at the Forum. Ethnography in Education Research Forum, Philadelphia, PA.
46. *Zeiders, M., *Willard, E., Simon, R., *Rowley, M., *McCartney, A., *Kreft, J., *Greco,
K., & *Carlough, S. (2007, February). Collaborative teacher inquiry in trying times. Panel presentation at the Ethnography in Education Research Forum, Philadelphia, PA.
47. *Carlough, S., *Greco, K., *Kreft, J., *McCartney, M., *Rowley, M., Simon, R., &
*Zeiders, M. (2006, October). Collaborative inquiry in a time of accountability: A collage of new teacher voices. Roundtable presentation at the New Educator Conference, City College of New York, NY.
48. *Carlough, S., *Greco, K., *Kreft, J., *McCartney, M., *Neumeister, M., *Rowley, M.,
Simon, R., *Willard, E. & *Zeiders, M. (2006, February). From theory to life: Perspectives on student teaching in Philadelphia public schools. Panel presentation at the Ethnography in Education Research Forum, Philadelphia, PA.
49. Simon, R. & Lytle, S. (2006, April). The literacies of teaching teachers: Troubling
inquiry in a time of certainty. Presented as a part of collaborative panel called “Critical perspectives on the literacies of teaching in the public sphere.” Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting, San Francisco.
50. Simon, R., & Lytle, S. (2006, February). The literacies of teaching teachers. Presentation
at the Ethnography in Education Research Forum, Philadelphia, PA.
51. Lytle, S., & Simon, R. (2005, April). The literacies of teaching about teaching. Presented as a part of collaborative panel called “Whose public? Whose interests? Teacher research and the literacies of teaching.” Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting, Montreal, ON.
52. Lytle, S., & Simon, R. (2005, February). The literacies of teaching about teaching. Presentation at the Ethnography in Education Research Forum, Philadelphia, PA.
Invited Plenary * Indicates collaboration with current or former students + Indicates collaboration with youth 1. Simon, R., and The Teaching to Learn Project: *Bailey, A., *Brennan, J., +Calarco, A.,
+Clarke, K., *Edwards, W., *Fujiwara, C., *Kalan, A., +Kruja, J., *McInnes-Greenberg, E., & *Pisecny, A. (2014, February). “In the swell of wandering words”: The arts as a
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vehicle for adolescents’ and educators’ inquiries into the Holocaust memoir Night. Plenary presentation for the Communities of Inquiry Symposium. Ethnography in Education Research Forum, Philadelphia, PA. Available at: www.afternightfilm.com or www.gse.upenn.edu/video/player?video=ETHNO-SIMON2014.mp4
Invited Talks 1. Simon, R., Baer, P., Evis, S., Walkland, T., hicks, b.l., (2017, October). Invited screening
and discussion of film “Gender is like an ocean.” Gender and Sexualities in Schooling. Dr. Tara Goldstein. Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning, OISE/University of Toronto, Toronto, ON.
2. Simon, R. (2017, February). Invited Presentation: Senior Scholars Roundtable. Ethnography in Education Research Forum, Philadelphia, PA.
3. Simon, R. (2016, February). Invited talk. Understanding Multiliteracies Pedagogy, Dr. Carol Doyle-Jones. Faculty of Education, Western University.
4. Simon, R. (2016, February). Invited presentation. Curriculum Studies and Teacher Development Proseminar, Dr. Rubén A. Gaztambide-Fernández. Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning, OISE/University of Toronto, Toronto, ON.
5. Panel presentation on career pathways. (2015, November). Curriculum Studies and Teacher Development Proseminar, Dr. Tara Goldstein. Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning, OISE/University of Toronto, Toronto, ON.
6. Panel presentation on doctoral supervision. (2015, October). Curriculum Studies and Teacher Development Proseminar, Dr. Tara Goldstein & Dr. Rubén A. Gaztambide-Fernández. Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning, OISE/University of Toronto, Toronto, ON.
7. Simon, R. (2015, February). Invited presentation. Curriculum Studies and Teacher Development Proseminar, Dr. Rubén A. Gaztambide-Fernández. Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning, OISE/University of Toronto, Toronto, ON.
8. Simon, R. (2014, February). Senior Scholars Roundtable. Ethnography in Education Research Forum, Philadelphia, PA.
9. Simon, R. (2014, February). Practitioner inquiry and the arts. Panel presentation.
Introduction to Practitioner Inquiry, Dr. Gerald Campano and Dr. Matt Hartley. University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
10. *Shepherd, E., *Edwards, W., *Kalan, A., *Tabi, E., & Simon, R. (2014, February). The
poetics of the possible: Exploring critical poetry pedagogy in urban classrooms as a vehicle for individual and social change. Panel Presentation co-sponsored by The Centre
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for Urban Schooling and Centre for Media and Culture in Education. Convergences in Urban Education, OISE/University of Toronto.
11. Simon, R. (2014, January). Invited Presentation. Multiliteracies: Texts and Contexts, Dr. Burcu Yaman Ntelioglou. Western University, Faculty of Education, London, ON.
12. Panel presentation on doctoral supervision. (2014, January). Curriculum Studies and Teacher Development Proseminar, Dr. Tara Goldstein. Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning, OISE/University of Toronto, Toronto, ON.
13. Simon, R. (2013, November). Invited presentation. Curriculum Studies and Teacher Development Proseminar, Dr. Rubén A. Gaztambide-Fernández. Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning, OISE/University of Toronto, Toronto, ON.
14. Simon, R. (2012, March). Literacy evaluation as critical social practice: Collaborative investigations into adolescent writing. Invited talk. Second Language Education Colloquium Series, Centre for Educational Research in Language and Literacy, OISE/University of Toronto, Toronto, ON.
15. Simon, R. (2012, February). Genealogies of communities of Inquiry: Honoring the work of Dr. Susan L. Lytle. Invited symposium presenter. Ethnography in Education Research Forum, Philadelphia, PA.
16. Simon, R. (2012, February). “I am from the place that shaped me into what I am”: Introducing Linda Christensen. Invited introduction of plenary speaker. Ethnography in Education Research Forum, Philadelphia, PA.
17. Simon, R. (2012, February). Invited participant. Introduction to Practitioner Inquiry, Dr. Susan L. Lytle and Dr. Matt Hartley. University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
18. Simon, R. (2012, February). Invited presentation. Curriculum Studies and Teacher Development Proseminar, Dr. Rubén A. Gaztambide-Fernández. Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning, OISE/University of Toronto, Toronto, ON.
19. Simon, R. (2011, October). Issues in academic publishing. Presentation to doctoral students in Multiliteracies Inquiry Group (MIG), OISE/University of Toronto, Toronto, ON.
20. Simon, R. (2011, May). Invited presentation. CTL1606H: Computers in the Curriculum, Dr. Kim MacKinnon. Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning, OISE/University of Toronto, Toronto, ON.
21. Simon, R. (2011, May). Invited presentation. CTL7016H: Integrating Technology into the Classroom: Issues and Activities, Dr. Kim MacKinnon. Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning, OISE/University of Toronto, Toronto, ON.
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22. Simon, R. (2011, March). “Starting with what is”: The phenomenology of responding to student writing. Invited talk. Works in Progress Series, Centre for Media and Culture in Education, OISE/University of Toronto, Toronto, ON.
23. Simon, R. (2010, February). Inquiry as stance. Invited Panelist, Ethnography in Education Research Forum, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
24. Simon, R. (2009, December). Learning from student teachers’ intellectual, relational, and political work. Invited talk. Reading/Writing/Literacy Speaker Series, University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
25. Simon, R. (2009, November). On research and writing. Doctoral Proseminar, Foundations and Practices in Education, Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
26. Simon, R. (2009). Issues in research design. Qualitative research course, Foundations and Practices in Education, Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
27. Simon, R. (2008). Presentation on current research. Doctoral Proseminar, Foundations and Practices in Education, Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
Creative Professional Achievement Films 1. Simon, R. (Producer), Baer, P. (Director), with Evis, S., *Walkland, T., * hicks, b.l., and
teachers and youth in the Addressing Injustices Project (2017). Gender is like an ocean. (Documentary film). Toronto, ON.
2. Simon, R. (Producer), Kalan, A. (Director), and the Teaching to Learn Project (2015). After Night. (Documentary film). Toronto, ON. Available at: www.afternightfilm.com. Premier screening: University of Toronto, February 19, 2015.
3. Simon, R., Brock, W., with Students of Life Learning Academy (2003). Life Learning. (Documentary film). San Francisco, CA. Screenings: California State Board of Corrections, San Francisco State University, University of Pennsylvania, University of Toronto/OISE.
Art Exhibits 1. Simon, R., & The Teaching to Learn Project. (2014). After Night. Exhibition of paintings
on book pages from Elie Wiesel’s Holocaust memoir Night. Ethnography in Education Research Forum, Philadelphia, PA.
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2. Simon, R., & The Teaching to Learn Project. (2013). After Night. Exhibition of paintings made on book pages from Elie Wiesel’s Holocaust memoir Night. February 18 – March 3, 2013. Main Hall, Hart House. University of Toronto. Toronto, ON.
3. Simon, R., Miller, C., Bloch, N., Students of Life Learning Academy (2006). Civil rights art installation/gallery exhibit, Mayor’s Office of San Francisco, CA.
4. Simon, R., Miller, C., Bloch, N., Students of Life Learning Academy (2002). Civil rights art installation/gallery exhibit. Life Learning Academy, San Francisco, CA.
5. Rollins, T. & Kids of Survival (K.O.S.), Simon, R., Chadroff, C., Students of Life Learning Academy, & Students of Mission High School. (2001). Tzedakah and social justice art installation, produced with artist Tim Rollins and 20 participating students. San Francisco Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA.
Curriculum 1. Simon, R., Evis, S., with students from Delta Middle School and teachers from The
Teaching to Learn Project at University of Toronto/OISE. (In Progress). Curriculum for Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, a young adult novel by Sherman Alexie.
2. Simon, R. (2003). Teaching within a media milieu. Media literacy curriculum, adopted at Life Learning Academy, San Francisco, CA. From unpublished master’s thesis. San Francisco, CA: San Francisco State University.
3. Simon, R. (1998-2003). Published curricula with Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP). Life Learning Academy High School. San Francisco.
Media Interviews and Articles 1. “Minecraft in the classroom.” Zaidi, S. (March/April 2016). Teach Magazine, pp 10-12.
Available online at: http://www.teachmag.com/latest-issue
2. “Youth and Teachers Respond Collectively to Art Spiegelman’s Maus Through Art and Inquiry: An Interview with Professor Rob Simon and Delta Senior Alternative School Teacher Sarah Evis.” Interview with Jasmine Wong, Facing History and Ourselves, December 22, 2015. Available at: http://onnetwork.facinghistory.org/youth-and-teachers-respond-collectively-to-art-spiegelmans-maus-through-art-and-inquiry-an-interview-with-professor-rob-simon-and-delta-senior-alternative-school-teacher-sarah-evis/
3. “Critical practitioner research at the Centre for Urban Schooling: An interview with Dr. Rob Simon.” Interviewed by Audrey Hudson. CUS Research Brief, Issue 5, April 2015. Available at: http://cus.oise.utoronto.ca/UserFiles/File/CUS-Simon-Final.pdf
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4. “Exploring the KGO Literacy Landscape.” (2013). Interviewed for film about family literacy. Produced by The Reading Partnership. Toronto, ON.
5. “Minecraft game being hailed as teaching tool.” Toronto Star, May 31, 2013, by Joseph Hall. Available at: http://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2013/05/31/minecraft_game_being_hailed_as_teaching_tool.html
6. “Collaborative Inquiry using NIGHT: An Interview with Professor Rob Simon.” Interview with Jasmine Wong, Facing History and Ourselves, April 8, 2013. Available at: http://onnetwork.facinghistory.org/collaborative-inquiry-using-night-an-interview-with-professor-rob-simon/.
7. “Student appreciation most important reward for Distinguished Contributions to Teaching recipient.” Interview with Fred Michah Rynor, OISE, April 2, 2013. Available at: http://www.oise.utoronto.ca/oise/About_OISE/robsimon2013DCT_20130402.html.
8. “After Night: The Power of Language and Memoir.” Article in Grad Life about “After Night” exhibit, March 5, 2013, by Trish Starling. Available at: http://blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca/gradlife/2013/03/05/after-night-the-power-of-language-and-memoir/
(10) University and Professional Service
University Service
Departmental Leadership
Academic Director, Centre for Urban Schooling
CTL Department July 2016 – Present
Chair, Appeals Committee Acting Academic Director, Centre for Urban Schooling
CTL Department CTL Department
2017-2018 December 2015 – June 2016
Vice Chair, CTL Council CTL Department August 2012 – 2014
Program Leadership
Member, Research Advisory Committee
MT Program CTL Department, OISE
September 2015 – Present
Research Coordinator MT Program August 2011 –
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CTL Department, OISE
September 2015
Administrative Coordinators Committee MT Program CTL Department, OISE
August 2011 – September 2015
Chair, Master of Teaching Research Project (MTRP) Committee
MT Program CTL Department, OISE
2011 – 2013
Departmental Committees
Member, Research Advisory Committee (RAC)
CTL Department OISE
December 2015 – Present
Member, Search Committee, Assistant Professor, Early Childhood Literacy
CTL Department OISE
September 2015 – Present
Member, Comprehensive Exam Review Committee
CTL Department OISE
December 2015 – Present
Member, Ad Hoc Workload Committee
CTL Department OISE
October 2015 – December 2015
Member, Progress Through the Ranks (PTR) Assessment Committee
CTL Department OISE
2015 – 2016; 2013 – 2014
Member, Awards Committee CTL Department, OISE
2010 – Present
Member, CTL Council CTL Department OISE
2011 – 2014
Member, Search Committee, Assistant Professor, Language and Literacies Education
CTL Department OISE
December 2013 – 2014
Member, Language, Literacy and Curriculum in Aboriginal Education Search Committee
CTL Department OISE
December 2012 – April 2013
Member, CTL Transitional Council CTL Department OISE
September 2011 – July 2012
Member, Transitional Committee for program in Languages and Literacies Education (LLE)
CTL Department OISE
November 2011 – July 2012
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Program Committees Member, Research Committee Member, Program Committee Member, Comps Committee Member, Admissions Committee
MT Program CSTD Program CTL Department, OISE CSTD Program CTL Department, OISE LLE Program CTL Department, OISE
2017-2018 2017-2018 2017-2018 2015 – Present
Member, Comprehensive Exam Review Committee
CSTD Program CTL Department, OISE
December 2015 – Present
Member, Program Committee MT Program CTL Department, OISE
February 2015 – September 2015
Member, Committee on Culminating Project MT Program CTL Department, OISE
February 2014 – June 2015
Communications Committee
MT Program CTL Department, OISE
September 2011 – June 2015
Master of Teaching Research Project Subcommittee
MT Program CTL Department, OISE
February 2015- May 2015
Member, Course and Program Planning Committee
LLE Program CTL Department, OISE
September 2013 – June 2014
Member, Comprehensive Exams Committee CSTD Program CTL Department, OISE
July 2011 – September 2014
Master of Teaching Research Journal (MTRJ) Editorial Committee
MT Program CTL Department, OISE
2011 – 2012
Post-Graduation Committee
MT Program CTL Department, OISE
January 2012 – July 2012
Member, Program Cluster Committee CSTD Program CTL Department, OISE
June 2011 – July 2012
Member, CSTD Program Review Committee CSTD Program CTL Department, OISE
October 2011 – March 2012
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Member, Committee to Revise Master of Teaching Research Project (MTRP)
MT Program CTL Department, OISE
2011
Member, Committee to Draft Program Overview
MT Program CTL Department, OISE
2011
Research Centre and Other University Committees Director, Toronto Writing Project
Centre for Urban Schooling OISE
October 2015 – Present
Centre for Urban Schooling Administrative Team
Centre for Urban Schooling OISE
June 2014 – Present
Critical Practitioner Research Collaborative
Centre for Urban Schooling OISE
September 2015 – Present
Miyumi Sasaki Initial Teacher Education Fund Committee
Centre for Urban Schooling OISE
May 2015
William Waters Scholarship in Urban Education Competition Committee
Centre for Urban Schooling OISE
April 2015; April 2016
SSHRC Peer Review
OISE Office of the Associate Dean, Research, International & Innovation
September-October 2014
Critical Practitioner Research Reading Group
Centre for Urban Schooling OISE
May-July 2014
Participant, Dean’s Working Session on Initial Teacher Education
OISE June 2012
Initial Teacher Education Intermediate/Secondary English Secondment Search Committee
Initial Teacher Education OISE
March – May 2011
Beyond The Bricks Town Hall Forum Planning Committee, Centre for Urban Schooling
Centre for Urban Schooling OISE
March – May 2011
Conference Planning Committee, Centre for Teacher Education and Development
Centre for Teacher Education and Development OISE
2011
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Streaming Research and Action Group Centre for Urban Schooling OISE
2010 – 2011
Participated in focus groups, institute-wide long-range planning meetings initiated by OISE Dean’s Office
OISE 2010 – 2011
Research and Publication Committee, Center for Collaborative Research and Practice in Teacher Education
University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education, Foundations and Practices in Education
2008 – 2010
Planning Committee, Center for Collaborative Research and Practice in Teacher Education
University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education
2007
Curriculum Planning Committee for Redesigning Content Area Methods Courses, Teach for America
University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education
2007
Planning Committee, Penn-King’s Link University of Pennsylvania GSE; King’s College, London
2005
Research Centre Affiliations
Centre for Urban Schooling. (Academic director, 2016-present)
CTL Department, OISE
2010 – Present
Centre for Urban Schooling. Member of administrative team (2014-present)
CTL Department, OISE
2010 – Present
Centre for Media and Culture in Education CTL Department OISE
2010 – Present
Centre for Educational Research in Language and Literacy
CTL Department OISE
2010 – Present
Centre for Teacher Education and Development
CTL Department OISE
2010 – 2012
Center for Collaborative Research and Practice in Teacher Education
University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Ed
2007 – 2010
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Professional Service
Leadership in Professional Associations
Program Chair, Area 1: Pre-service Teacher Education in Literacy Literacy Research Association
2014 – Present
Secretary, Literature SIG American Educational Research Association
2014 – 2015
Leadership on Editorial Boards
Co-Editor, special issue of English Teaching: Practice and Critique, on Youth Literacies and Social Justice. With Dr. Korina Jocson (University of Massachusetts) & Dr. Keisha Green (University of Massachusetts)
2015 – 2016
Co-Editor, Master of Teaching Research Journal (MTRJ), OISE/University of Toronto
2012
Co-Editor, Language and Literacy in Education Newsletter University of Pennsylvania
2007 – 2008
Membership on Editorial Boards
Member, Advisory Board, The New Educator
2016 – Present
Member, Faculty Advisory Board, Curriculum Inquiry
2014 – Present
Member, Faculty Advisory Board, In:Cite Editorial Review Board Member, Exploring Technology for Writing and Writing Instruction (Kristine Pytash & Rick Ferdig, Editors)
2017 2012 – 2013
Editorial Review Board Member, Exploring Multimodal Composition and Digital Writing (Kristine Pytash & Rick Ferdig, Editors)
2013
Manuscript Review (2011-Present)
Reviewer, Research in the Teaching of English 2015 – Present Reviewer, The New Educator 2016 – Present Reviewer, Teachers College Press 2014 Reviewer, Routledge English Language and Linguistics 2013 Reviewer, In the Library with the Lead Pipe 2013 Reviewer, Education Research International 2012 Reviewer, Sage 2012
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Reviewer, English Education 2011 – Present Reviewer, Language and Literacy 2011 – Present Reviewer, Pedagogies: An International Journal 2011 – Present Reviewer, Journal of Classroom Research in Literacy 2011 – Present Reviewer, Curriculum Inquiry 2010 – Present Reviewer, Special Issue of Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood on early childhood literacy education
2011
Conference Proposal Review (2011-Present)
Reviewer, American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting, Writing and Literacies SIG; Literature SIG
2012 – Present
Reviewer, Literacy Research Association (LRA) Annual Meeting
2011 – Present
Reviewer, Language and Literacy Researchers in Canada Pre-Conference, Canadian Society for the Study of Education (CSSE)
2013
Membership on Advisory Panels and Boards of Directors
Member, Board of Directors, Life Learning Academy High School, San Francisco, CA
2012 – Present
Invited Member, Adolescent Literacy Advisory Panel, Curriculum and Assessment Policy Branch, Ontario Ministry of Education
2013
Invited Member, Grade Ten Advisory Panel, Facing History and Ourselves, Toronto, ON
2012
Invited Participant, English and Literacy GAINS Working Group Ontario Ministry of Education, Curriculum and Assessment Policy Branch
2011
Professional Associations and Organizational Affiliations
American Educational Research Association 2003 – Present Division B: Curriculum Studies Division G: Social Context of Education Division K: Teaching and Teacher Education SIG – Writing and Literacies SIG – Language and Social Processes SIG – Literature SIG – Critical Issues in Curriculum And Cultural Studies SIG – Media, Culture, and Curriculum SIG – Teacher as Researcher
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National Council of Teachers of English 2003 – Present Conference on English Education Conference on English Leadership
Literacy Research Association
2008 – Present
International Reading Association
2008 – Present
Canadian Society for the Study of Education 2011 – Present Canadian Association for Teacher Education Canadian Association for Curriculum Studies Language and Literacy Researchers of Canada
Facing History and Ourselves
1999 – Present
Rethinking Schools
2003 – Present
Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development 2002 – 2005 (11) Honours and Awards Recipient of the Early Researcher Award from the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation
2015
Nominated for Mentorship Award, AERA Division G: Social Contexts of Education
2015
Recipient of the Award for Distinguished Contributions to Teaching, OISE
2013
Post-doctoral fellowship University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education
2009 – 2010
Recipient of the Ralph C. Preston Award for Scholarship and Teaching Contributing to Social Justice and Educational Equity Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania
2009
Thesis honored with distinction
2009
Oral defense honored with distinction
2009
Recipient of the Graduate Student Award for Distinguished Achievement, San Francisco State University
2003
“Teacher Who Most Changed My Life” 2001
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Awarded by students of Life Learning Academy (12) Consultations Consulted with school literacy department in TDSB about revising curriculum to better support struggling students.
Downsview Secondary
2016
Consulted with neighborhood family literacy project in Kingston-Galloway-Orton Park (KGO) community in Toronto, ON.
The Reading Partnership
2013
Developed and facilitated collaboration with Ontario community-based organizations and US-based Beyond the Bricks Project, with the Centre for Urban Schooling at OISE
Beyond the Bricks Project, Centre for Urban Schooling, OISE, community organizations
May 2011-2012
Coordinated workshops with Facing History and Ourselves for Masters of Teaching students
OISE 2010 – 2012
Directed and researched strategic gaming club at St. Peter’s School in collaboration with a 4th grade teacher. 40-plus students, ages 6-10, participated
St. Peter’s School
2008 – 2010
Co-founder and participant, teacher research group, Teacher Inquiry Collaborative
University of Pennsylvania
2005 – 2008
Developed university-school partnership with teachers and student writing center fellows
University of Pennsylvania; Freire Charter School
2008 – 2009
Reviewer for senior project presentations Parkway Northwest High School for Peace, Social Justice & Conflict Resolution
2008, 2009
Invited participant, Curriculum Colloquium School District of Philadelphia
2007
Facilitated panel presentation of Life Learning Academy Students and Faculty
University of Pennsylvania
2007
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Founded and participated in inquiry community with pre-service teachers, including collaborative online writing
University of Pennsylvania
2006 – 2007
Site-Coordinator, California State Digital High School Program
Life Learning Academy
2001 – 2003
Site-coordinator, Mural arts project, California College of Arts & Crafts
Life Learning Academy
2001
Site-coordinator, Music Appreciation Program, Alexander String Quartet
Life Learning Academy; San Francisco Performances
2001
Facilitated collaborations with The San Francisco Art Institute, including youth after school arts program
Mission Safe Haven; Life Learning Academy
1998 – 2003
Technology Site Supervisor, Weed and Seed Project, U.S. Department of Corrections
Mission Safe Haven
2000 – 2002
Helped facilitate weekly father’s group for Delancey Street residents
Delancey Street Foundation
1998 – 2003
(13) Fundraising Activities Authored fundraising narratives Life Learning
Academy
2007 – 2014
Authored and co-authored grants to organizations including:
US Department of Education; US Department of Labor; US Department of Justice; Gap Foundation; Giants Foundation: Hewlett Packard Foundation
Life Learning Academy; Delancey Street Foundation
1998 – 2003
(14) Other Teaching, Research, and Service Activities Director, Penn/OISE Link. Research collaborative for graduate students at OISE and University of Pennsylvania
OISE October 2012-Present
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Director, Multiliteracies Inquiry Group (MIG), graduate student research collaborative
OISE 2011-2014
Member, Critical Qualitative Educational Research Community
OISE April 2012-Present
Invited to meet with program reviewers as part of departmental self-study
CTL Department OISE
March 5, 2012
Faculty Facilitator, Philosophy of Education Presentations
Masters of Teaching Program, OISE
2012-2015
Session Chair, Master’s of Teaching Program Research Celebration
OISE 2011-2015
Organized talk for visiting scholar, Dr. Maureen Walsh, Australian Catholic University, “Multimodal literacy in classroom contexts.” Funded by grant from the Knowledge Network for Applied Education Research (KNAER).
Centre for Educational Research in Language and Literacy/Centre for Teacher Education and Development OISE
May 2011
Program portfolio reader, Master’s Program in Secondary Education
University of Pennsylvania
2005 – 2010
Onsite supervisor for student teachers, San Francisco State University
Life Learning Academy; SF State University
2001 – 2003