CED+Literacy+Faculty

Steve Amendum

Dr. Amendum is an assistant professor of literacy education in the Elementary Education department at North Carolina State University. He earned his Ph.D. in 2008 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Amendum currently teaches literacy courses on literacy research and methods in the elementary education undergraduate, masters, and MAT programs. His research focuses on early literacy intervention for struggling learners, literacy issues for multilingual learners, and classroom-based literacy instruction reform efforts. Selected publications have appeared in the Journal of Literacy Research, The Elementary School Journal, Reading Research and Instruction, and Reading Psychology. As a former K-2 multiage teacher and literacy coach, Dr. Amendum’s research interests are grounded in classroom experiences and exchanges with students and teachers in diverse classroom and school settings.

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Ellen McIntyre

Dr. McIntyre is a professor of literacy education and the Department Head of Elementary Education. Dr. McIntyre teaches courses on literacy research, theory, and methods and courses on diversity issues in schools and communities. Her research has focused on children's literacy development and instructional practices, especially for populations of students who have historically struggled in schools.

Carol Pope

Dr. Pope, professor of English language arts and middle grades education in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, has been at NC State since 1987. She earned her doctorate at the University of Virginia and was an assistant professor at the University of Houston before coming to NC State. She teaches undergraduate courses in Teaching Writing across the Curriculum and Young Adult Literature, graduate courses in Teachers as Leaders, Trends & Issues in ELA Education, and Teaching Literature for Young Adults. She was the founding editor of the English Education section of //Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education// as well as the founder of the Conference on English Education Technology and Teacher Education Commission. She is a member of the New Literacies Collaborative and focuses her research and practice on preparing the next generation of teachers via active partnerships with middle grades students through multi-modal technologies and instruction.

Ruie Pritchard

Dr. Pritchard was a middle and high school and college teacher in Missouri and New Orleans before coming to NC State University in Raleigh, NC. Currently, she is Professor of Curriculum and Instruction, emphasis English Education. Her responsibilities include working in graduate and undergraduate education, as well as research. Since 1983, she has served as Director of the Capital Area Writing Project (CAWP), an award winning National Writing Project site that offers fellowships to K-12 teachers to enhance their abilities as writers and teachers of writing. For her outreach contributions, in 2002 she received the Alumni Distinguished Service Award, one of three on the NC State campus. She also established writing projects in New Zealand while she was on a Fulbright Senior Researcher Award with the NZ Ministry of Education. Seventeen New Zealand teachers have come to Raleigh to participate in the summer CAWP institute. Her research area is the impact of professional development of teachers, writing and technology, and school district organization that enables teachers to grow. She has chapters devoted to the research on the process approach to teaching writing and on best practices in teaching writing in the books //Handbook of Research on Teaching Writing// (2006) and //Best Practices in Literacy Instruction// (2007), Guilford Press.

Hiller A. Spires

Dr. Spires, who has been on the NC State faculty since 1986, is a Professor of Literacy and Technology in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction. She received her Ph.D. in literacy education with a cognate in English from the University of South Carolina. Dr. Spires served as the founding director of The William and Ida Friday Institute for Educational Innovation from 2002-2006 and currently serves as FI Senior Research Fellow. Dr. Spires' research focuses on the effects of digital literacies on learning, including emerging literacies associated with gaming environments and Web 2.0 applications. She is co-PI on the NSF-funded projects, Crystal Island and| NarrativeTheatre. She has published in Journal of Educational Psychology, Cognition & Instruction, Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, Literacy Research & Instruction, Reading Psychology, among other journals. She coordinates the New Literacies & Global Learning graduate program. Dr. Spires and Dr. John Lee co-direct the Friday Institute’s New Literacies Collaborative. She also co-created the annual New Literacies Teacher Leader Institute and the biennial Summit on US and China Education. Check out Dr. Spires' website.

Angela Wiseman

Dr. Wiseman is an assistant professor of literacy education and teaches reading and language arts methods courses in the elementary education program. Her research interests focus on two interrelated strands: 1. Understanding classroom practices that promote an expanded view of learning by bridging the gap between in and out of school literacies and focusing on student strengths and 2. Supporting inservice and preservice teachers’ understanding of diversity in the classroom. Dr. Wiseman’s teaching and research have been guided by the concepts of social justice and the importance recognizing students’ “funds of knowledge”. As a former elementary school teacher and reading specialist, Dr. Wiseman’s understanding of literacy learning is grounded in her classroom experiences and interactions with students in diverse urban and suburban settings.

Carl A. Young

Dr. Young, a former middle grades and high school English teacher, is associate professor of English education in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at North Carolina State University. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia. At NC State, he teaches courses in English methods, teaching composition, content area reading and writing, and new literacies and emerging technologies. He conducts research on new literacies, participatory media, eportfolios, and other technology applications in English education. In addition, Dr. Young serves as chair of the CEE Commission on Technology and Teacher Education and as co-editor for the English language arts section of Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education. He is a member of the New Literacies Collaborative and co-facilitator for the annual [|New Literacies Teacher Leader Institute], a summer professional development initiative. Selected publications have appeared in //English Education//, //English Journal//, //Journal of Literacy Research//, and //Learning & Leading with Technology//. He is currently co-editing a book highlighting research in technology and English education.