Associate Professor
University of Alaska Southeast
Lisa received her doctorate in Language, Reading, and Culture from the University of Arizona, with a minor in Rhetoric and Composition. Her areas of research include classroom discourse and effective literacy instruction, disciplinary literacies, and the acquisition of academic language and literacy for students who are learning English as an additional language. Her work with immigrant and refugee students in Tucson, AZ, as well as her work with secondary students on a Navajo reservation in NM, inform both her research and teaching. She has spent the past ten years working with educators from across the state of Alaska as they pursue their M.Ed. in Reading. Lisa is currently teaching graduate-level courses in literacy for teachers in the Masters of Reading/Reading Specialist program.
Her current research includes supporting graduate candidates in deepening their reflective capacities and building confidence and agency through ongoing inquiry into practice.
Saturday, February 17, 2024
1:30 PM – 2:30 PM MST