L CEE Summer Conference

2011 Biennial CEE Summer Conference
New York City
Rediscovering Praxis: Connections and
Community in English Teacher Education
June 16-19, 2011
Co-sponsored by the NCTE Conference on English
Education
&
Graduate School of Education of Fordham University
Conference Program

Thursday, June 16 FRIDAY, June 17 SATURDAY, June 18 SUNDAY, June 19
9:00 Conference Planning
Committee Planning Breakfast
10:30 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
CEE Executive Committee Summer
Meeting
Butler Commons Room
3 rd Floor
Duane Libarary
Dormitories Available for
Check-in
2:30-6:30
6:30 Welcome Cookout
On the Lawn
7:30 MAKING CONNECTIONS
English Teacher Educator “Speed
Dating” Event
McGinley Ballroom
8:30 Film Screening
NCTE Centennial Film: Reading the
Past, Writing the Future
7:30-8:30 a.m. BREAKFAST in
The Marketplace at McGinley Center
9:00 a.m. OPENING SESSION:
Connections & Community in English Teacher
Education
MARSHALL GEORGE, CEE CHAIR
9:20 a.m. GENERAL SESSION
English Teacher Education as Literacy Teacher
Education
JOHN MAYHER
10:30 GENERAL SESSION PANEL
The New Stakeholders: Informing Literacy
Education Reform from the Grassroots
KENT WILLIAMSON, CATHY FLEISCHER,
ANNE GERE, KAILONNIE DUNSMORE
11:45-12:45 LUNCH
The Marketplace at McGinley Center
1:00-2:00
BREAK OUT SESSIONS A
Roundtable: English Methods
2:15-3:15
1:00 BREAK OUT SESSIONS B
Roundtable: Literature
3:30-4:30
BREAK OUT SESSIONS C
Roundtable: Social Justice
4:45-6:00 MAKING CONNECTIONS
COMMISSION MEETINGS
THINK TANKS
Dinner on Your Own
7:30-8:30 a.m. BREAKFAST in
The Marketplace at McGinley Center
9:00 WELCOME BACK—REVIEW OF DAY 1, OVERVIEW
OF DAY 2
9:15 GENERAL SESSION
Writing as Praxis
BOB YAGELSKI
10:15-11:15
BREAK OUT SESSIONS D
Roundtable: Grad Students
11:30-12:30
BREAK OUT SESSIONS E
Roundtable: English Methods
12:30-1:15 LUNCH
The Marketplace at McGinley Center
1:15 MAKING CONNECTIONS:
COMMISSION MEETINGS
THINK TANKS
2:15-3:15
BREAK OUT SESSIONS F
Roundtable: Social Justice
3:30-4:30
BREAK OUT SESSIONS G
Roundtable: Arts and Literacy Teacher Education
4:45 GENERAL SESSION:
Politics and the English Teacher Educator
KENT WILLIAMSON, NCTE
5:30 WINE AND CHEESE HAPPY HOUR
Dinner on Your Own
7:30-8:30 a.m. BREAKFAST
in
The Marketplace
9:30 MAKING
CONNECTIONS:
COMMISSION MEETINGS
THINK TANKS
CONFERENCE ENDS
CHECK OUT OF DORMS BY
10:00
ENJOY THE DAY IN NEW
YORK CITY BEFORE
HEADING HOME!
NOTE: All General Sessions and Roundtables will be held in the McGinley Ballroom in the McGinley Center. All Panel Sessions and Workshops will be held in
Dealy Hall (room numbers provided).

Session
and
Room
A1
DE 203
A2
DE 204
A3
DE 206
A4
DE 302
A5
DE 307
Friday: Session A
Time: 1:00-2:00 pm
Title Type 1 Presenter(s) Strand(s) 2
“But that’s just the way they are!”
Young adult Literature and the
“problem” of Essentialized Discourses
Addressing Homophobia in Secondary
English Classrooms: Engaging in
Reflective Practices Through Media
Literacy and Popular Culture
Creating Connections and Sites for
Enacting ELA Teaching Practices:
Using Discourse Oriented Concepts
and Flexible Teaching Practices in
Methods Courses
Graphic Shifting: Re-orienting ELA
Teachers' Understandings of
Literature to Include the Medium of
Sequential Art
Teaching Educators in a Time of
Common Core Standards
P Sophia Sarigianides, Westfield State University
Alison Eitel, NYC Lab School for Collaborative Studies
Tanya Krohn, Alyssa Niccolini,
Teachers College, Columbia University
P Joseph Jones, Radford University
Alyson Linn, Rush-Henrietta Central School District,
Rochester, NY
P Steven Engel, Danielle Lillge,
University of Michigan
Melinda McBee Orzulak, Bradley University
W Brian Kelley, Fordham University
Gina Gagliano, First-Second Books, NYC
P Anne Gere, Sarah Swofford, Elizabeth Homan,
University of Michigan
Tonya Perry, University of Alabama-Birmingham
NOTE: All General Sessions and Roundtables will be held in the McGinley Ballroom in the McGinley Center. All Panel Sessions and Workshops will be held in
Dealy Hall (room numbers provided).
LIT
SJ; TECH
MTHD
LIT
GEN;
MTHD
1 P = Panel; W = Workshop
2 MTHD = English Methods Courses; LIT = Literature in Teacher Education; SJ = Social Justice; TECH = Technology in Teacher
Education; GEN= General Interest

METODS ROUNDTABLES
MCGINLEY
FRIDAY SESSION A ROUNDTABLES: McGinley Ballroom
Time: 1:00-2:00 pm
Presentations
A) Restructuring Methods Courses to
Improve Candidate Preparation to Teach
Diverse Students
B) Re-examining the Philosophy of
Education with Pre-Service Teachers
During Their Early Practice
C) Stories from the Beginning: Writing
Case Studies in Methods Courses
D) Preservice Writing Teacher
Development in a Literacy Methods
Course
E) Pedagogies of Enactment and the
Teaching of Discussion in English
Methods
F) The Case is Afoot: Teaching with New
Innovative and Interactive Case Studies
for the English Classroom
Presenters
A) Nelson Graff, San Francisco State University
B) Dawn Finely, University of Missouri-St. Louis
C) Valerie Mulholland, University of Regina,
Saskatchewan, Canada
D) Kelly Simon, University of California-Santa
Barbara
E)Peter Williamson, University of San Francisco
F) Kathleen Travers, University of Maryland-College
Park
1 MTHD = English Methods Courses; SJ = Social Justice; WRITE = Writing Teacher Education
NOTE: All General Sessions and Roundtables will be held in the McGinley Ballroom in the McGinley Center. All Panel Sessions and Workshops will be held in
Dealy Hall (room numbers provided).
Strand 1
A) MTHD;
SJ
B) MTHD;
GEN
C) MTHD;
WRITE
D) MTHD;
WRITE
E) MTHD
F) MTHD

Session
and
Room
B1
DE 203
B2
DE 204
B3
DE 206
B4
DE 302
B5
DE 307
Friday: Session B
Time: 2:15-3:15 pm
Title Type 3 Presenter(s) Strand 4
Literacy Learning with the
Incarcerated: Implications for English
Educators
Pre-service English Teachers' Work
with Homeless Adolescents
Self-reflection and Inquiry: The Use of
Multi-Modal Tools to Foster Preservice
English Teachers’ Thoughtful Practice
Co-Teaching: An Urban Teacher
Preparation Literacy Initiative
Service Learning in English Education
Teacher Preparation
Recharging the Batteries: Personal
Journeys to Classroom Transformations
P Deborah Appleman, Carleton College
Erick Gordon, Lehman College-CUNY
Heidi Hallman, University of Kansas-Lawrence
P Nicole Olcese, Katie Frazer, Elsie Olan-Rios
Pennsylvania State University-University Park
P Chet Laine, Steve Kroeger, John Kelly
University of Cincinnati
P Michael Moore, Georgia Southern University
Lindy Louise Johnson, University of Georgia
W Kia Richmond, Northern Michigan University
Sheryl Rinkol, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Kristen Turner, Fordham University
3 P = Panel; W = Workshop
4 MTHD= English Methods Courses; SJ = Social Justice; TECH = Technology in Teacher Education; GEN=General Interest
NOTE: All General Sessions and Roundtables will be held in the McGinley Ballroom in the McGinley Center. All Panel Sessions and Workshops will be held in
Dealy Hall (room numbers provided).
SJ
TECH
MTHD;
GEN
SJ; GEN
MTHD

ADOLESCENT LITERATURE ROUNDTABLES
MCGINLEY
FRIDAY SESSION B ROUNDTABLES: McGinley Ballroom
Time: 2:15-3:15 pm
Presentation
How Should We Teach the Young
Adult Literature Course?
A) The YA Course: Current Research
and Resources
B)The YA Course: Common Core
Standards and Comprehensive
Curriculums
C) The YA Course: Service-Learning and
Community Engagement
D)The YA Course: Best Practices for
Classroom Use
Presenters
Commission on Study & Teaching of Adolescent
Literature
A) Jeffrey Kaplan,
University of Central Florida
B) Judith Hayn,
University of Arkansas at Little Rock
C) Jacqueline Bach,
Louisiana State University
D) Steven T. Bickmore,
Louisiana State University
NOTE: All General Sessions and Roundtables will be held in the McGinley Ballroom in the McGinley Center. All Panel Sessions and Workshops will be held in
Dealy Hall (room numbers provided).
Strand
LIT
LIT
LIT
LIT;
MTHD

Session
and
Room
C1
DE 203
C2
DE 204
C3
DE 206
C4
DE 302
C5
DE 307
Friday: Session C
Time: 3:30-4:30 pm
Title Type 5 Presenter(s) Strand(s) 6
The Secret History of English Language
Arts Standards in the U.S.
P Michael Moore, Georgia Southern University
Don Zancanella, University of New Mexico
Creating Community in the Classroom P Deborah Bieler, Jill Flynn
University of Delaware
Composing Teaching: Reflecting
Writing Workshop Commitments in
English Education Methods
Literature as a Transformative
Teaching Tool for Preparing English
Teachers for Diverse Classrooms
Learning to Teach Writing: From Not
Knowing How to Collaborative
Mentoring Relationships
W Christine Dawson, Michigan State University
Leah Zuidema, Dordt College, Sioux Center, IA
P Mariana Souto-Manning, Teachers College, Columbia
University
Debra Price-Dennis, University of Texas-Austin
Marcelle Haddix, Syracuse University
Delicia Greene, Syracuse University
P Angela Browning, Florida State College,
Jennifer Chevalier, Jane Townsend.
University of Florida
Alan Nail, Columbia College, SC
5 P = Panel;
6 MTHD = English Methods Courses; LIT = Literature in Teacher Education; TECH = Technology in Teacher Education;
WRITE = Writing Teacher Education; GEN = General Interest
ASSESS;
GEN
MTHD
MTHD,
WRITE
NOTE: All General Sessions and Roundtables will be held in the McGinley Ballroom in the McGinley Center. All Panel Sessions and Workshops will be held in
Dealy Hall (room numbers provided).
LIT
WRITE,
TECH

SOCIAL JUSTICE ROUNDTABLES
MCGINLEY
FRIDAY SESSION C ROUNDTABLES: McGinley Ballroom
Time: 3:30-4:30 pm
Presentations
A) “She Does Not Approve of
Progressive Approaches”: Theoretical
Tensions in the Teacher Candidate-
Cooperating Teacher Relationship
B) Understanding Poverty: Disrupting
and Displacing Pre-Service Teachers
Mis/Perceptions
C) Female agency, collaboration and
children’s literature as doorway to
literacy development and social justice
for minority children and youth
D) Beyond “Minimally Adequate”: A
Study into Critical Issues of Social
Justice with Pre-Service High School
English Teachers
A) Janet Johnson,
Rhode Island College
Presenters
B) Crag Hill,
Washington State University
C) Ileana Cortes Santiago, Zaira Arvelo-Alicea,
Purdue University, West Lafayette
D) Mary Styslinger, Temple Bowers,
University of South Carolina, Columbia
NOTE: All General Sessions and Roundtables will be held in the McGinley Ballroom in the McGinley Center. All Panel Sessions and Workshops will be held in
Dealy Hall (room numbers provided).
Strand
SJ
SJ
SJ; LIT
SJ

Session
and
Room
D1
DE 203
D2
DE 204
D3
DE 206
D4
DE 302
D5
DE 303
D6
DE 308
Saturday: Session D
Time: 10:15-11:15 am
Title Type 7 Presenter(s) Strand(s) 8
Assessing Effective English Teachers in an
Age of Accountability: (Dis)Connection
and Cohesion in English Teacher
Education
(Mis)Reading of Race in American and
Young Adult Literature
Reframing English Teacher Methods
Courses
Expanding Perspectives on Narrative
Writing Pedagogy in English Teacher
Education
P Emily Smith, Betsy Bowen,
Fairfield University
P Clarissa West-White, Florida State University,
Genyne Boston, Florida A&M University
W Michael Sherry, Bloomsburg University of
Pennsylvania
P April Baker-Bell, Amanda Smith, Mary Juzwik,
Michigan State University
Anne Whitney, Pennsylvania State University
Identity Work with Pre-Service Teachers W Amy Vetter, University of North Carolina-
Greensboro
Melissa Schieble, Hunter College – CUNY, NY
21st Century Literacy: Models of Blended
Learning in K-12 and
English Teacher Education Environments
ASSESS
NOTE: All General Sessions and Roundtables will be held in the McGinley Ballroom in the McGinley Center. All Panel Sessions and Workshops will be held in
Dealy Hall (room numbers provided).
LIT
MTHD
WRITE
MTHD
P Mark Cacciatore, Drew University TECH
7 P = Panel; R = Roundtable; W = Workshop
8 ASSESS = Assessment in English Teacher Preparation; MTHD = English Methods Courses; LIT = Literature in Teacher
Education; WRITE = Writing Teacher Education; TECH=Technology in Teacher Education

GRADUATE STUDENT ROUNDTABLES
MCGINLEY
Presentations
SATURDAY SESSION D ROUNDTABLES: McGinley Ballroom
Time: 10:15-11:15 am
The Literacies of Graduate Studies in
English Education: What’s Working,
What’s Next?
This session invites graduate students and
faculty to consider what’s working and
what’s needed in graduate studies in
English Education. We will encourage
cross-institutional idea-sharing around
effective practices in graduate studies as
well as lay the groundwork for the
incoming leadership group of the CEE-
Graduate Strand to consider future
directions.
Presenters
Mark Lewis, Loyola University Maryland
Luke Rodesiler, University of Florida
Alan Brown, The University of Alabama-Tuscaloosa
Kelli Sowerbrower, Georgia State University
Lindy Louise Johnson, University of Georgia
NOTE: All General Sessions and Roundtables will be held in the McGinley Ballroom in the McGinley Center. All Panel Sessions and Workshops will be held in
Dealy Hall (room numbers provided).
Strand

Session
and
Room
E1
DE 203
E2
DE 204
E3
DE 206
E4
DE 302
E5
DE 307
Rediscovering our Praxis through
Returning to the Classroom: From
Anecdote to Best Practice
Saturday: Session E
Time: 11:30 am -12:30 pm
Title Type 9 Presenter(s) Strand(s)
10
English Teacher Identity at a Time of
Change, a View from England
Using Schemas to Teach Writing: A
Process Approach
Making the Case for Creativity and
Imagination in the Age of
Accountability
Powerful English Education for the 21 st
Century: Teaching, Teacher Education,
Research, Assessment, and Advocacy
P Leila Christenbury, Virginia Commonwealth
University
Deborah Appleman, Carleton College
P Andy Goodwyn,
University of Reading, Berkshire, England
Bethan Marshall, King’s College London
MTHD
NOTE: All General Sessions and Roundtables will be held in the McGinley Ballroom in the McGinley Center. All Panel Sessions and Workshops will be held in
Dealy Hall (room numbers provided).
GEN
W Timothy Bostic, Old Dominion University WRITE
P Amanda Gulla, Lehman College/CUNY
David Hyman, Lehman College/CUNY
John Mayher, New York University
P Lisa Scherff, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
sj Miller, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Korina Jocson, Washington University
MTHD
SJ, TECH,
ASSESS,
MTHD
9 P = Panel; W = Workshop
10 MTHD = English Methods Courses; SJ = Social Justice; TECH = Technology in Teacher Education; WRITE= Writing Teacher
Education; GEN = General Interest

METHODS ROUNDTABLES
MCGINLEY
SATURDAY SESSION E ROUNDTABLES: McGinley Ballroom
Time: 11:30 am -12:30 pm
Connecting Past, Present, and Future:
What is the English Methods Course in
the 21st Century?
Individual Presentations
A) Addressing standards and testing
regimes in our courses
B) Teaching English language learners
C) Integrating technology into the English
language arts
D) Integrating field work and university
coursework in partnerships with area
schools
E) Teaching reading/writing skills and
strategies
Presenters
A) Samantha Caughlan, Michigan State University,
East Lansing
B) Heidi Hallman, University of Kansas,
C) Donna Pasternak, University of Wisconsin,
Milwaukee
D) Laura Renzi, West Chester University of
Pennsylvania
E) Leslie Rush, University of Wyoming, Laramie
MTHD = English Methods Courses; SJ = Social Justice; TECH = Technology in Teacher Education; WRITE= Writing Teacher
Education; GEN = General Interest
NOTE: All General Sessions and Roundtables will be held in the McGinley Ballroom in the McGinley Center. All Panel Sessions and Workshops will be held in
Dealy Hall (room numbers provided).
Strand
MTHD;
ASSESS
MTHD
MTHD;
TECH
MTHD;
GEN
MTHD
MTHD;
GEN

Session
and
Room
F1
DE 203
F2
DE 204
F3
DE 206
F4
DE 302
F5
DE 307
F6
DE 308
Title Type
11
A) Connecting Research and Practice in
a Grammar Methods Course
B) Using Grammar Rants to Develop
Critical Thinking and Savvy Writing
Introducing Pre-Service and Practicing
Teachers to the Framework for Success
in Postsecondary Writing
English Methods Courses: Preparing
“Dialogic Habits of Mind”?
The Quest for a Culture of Uncertainty:
English Education as an Activist
Conversation
Which theory and what praxis?
Supporting and investigating
meaningful technology integration in
English methods courses
Linguistic Dimensions: Helping
Teachers Think about Primary and
Secondary Discourses
Saturday: Session F
Time: 2:15-3:15 pm
Presenter(s) Strand(s)
12
P A) Jon Ostenson, Brigham Young University
B) Patricia Dunn, Ken Lindblom,
Stony Brook University
MTHD,
WRITE
W Cathy Fleischer, Eastern Michigan University WRITE
P Jonathan Budd, Stuart Easton, Ian Lindsay,
Jessica Parnasso,
Quinnipiac University, Hamden, CT
P Todd DeStigter, Brian Charest, Sarah Rutter,
University of Illinois-Chicago
P Desi Krell, University of Florida
Luke Rodesiler, University of Florida
W Kristen Turner, Meredith Jeta Donovan,
Fordham University
; P = Panel; R = Roundtable; W = Workshop
12 MTHD = English Methods Courses; LIT = Literature in Teacher Education; SJ = Social Justice; TECH = Technology in Teacher
Education; WRITE = Writing Teacher Education
NOTE: All General Sessions and Roundtables will be held in the McGinley Ballroom in the McGinley Center. All Panel Sessions and Workshops will be held in
Dealy Hall (room numbers provided).
MTHD
SJ, WRITE
TECH
WRITE,
MTHD

SOCIAL JUSTICE ROUNDTABLES
MCGINLEY
Presentations
SATURDAY SESSION F ROUNDTABLES: McGinley Ballroom
Time: 2:15-3:15 pm
A) Service-Learning in English Education
Course Work: Promoting Field Based
Practice and Social Justice
B) Critical Literacy as a Way to Teach
about Social Justice
C) Abandoning Bias and Embracing
Trust: Implications for English Teacher
Education
D) Literature Pedagogy (Dis) Connections
LIT = Literature in Teacher Education; SJ = Social Justice
Presenters
A) Shira Epstein, Andrew Ratner, City College of New
York – CUNY
B) Anne Fairbrother, SUNY-Oswego
C) Sally Lamping, Wright State University
D) John Staunton, Eastern Michigan University
NOTE: All General Sessions and Roundtables will be held in the McGinley Ballroom in the McGinley Center. All Panel Sessions and Workshops will be held in
Dealy Hall (room numbers provided).
SJ
SJ
SJ
Strand
SJ: LIT

Session
and
Room
G1
DE 203
G2
DE 204
G3
DE 206
G4
DE 302
Saturday: Session G
Time: 3:30-4:30 pm
Title Type 13 Presenter(s) Strand(s)
14
Subtle Acts of Justice: Parity, Partnerships,
and Public Praxis as Preservice Teachers
Write
A) Promoting Modern Conceptions of
Literacy: Social Literacy, Social Networks,
and Social Justice
B) Stepping to the “B” Side: Recruiting and
Retaining Graduate Students of Color
Project-Based Learning: A Framework for
Teaching 21st Century Skills
Digital teaching archives in the
preparation of English teachers
P Bonnie Sunstein, Amie Ohlmann,
University of Iowa
P A) John White, University of North Florida
B) Jamal Cooks, San Francisco State University
W Elizabeth Spalding , Fawn Canady,
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
W Jason Wirtz, Melissa Schieble, Jody Polleck –
Hunter College – CUNY
13 P = Panel; R = Roundtable; W = Workshop
14 MTHD = English Methods Courses; SJ = Social Justice; TECH = Technology in Teacher Education
NOTE: All General Sessions and Roundtables will be held in the McGinley Ballroom in the McGinley Center. All Panel Sessions and Workshops will be held in
Dealy Hall (room numbers provided).
SJ
SJ
MTHD
TECH,
MTHD

ENGLISH AND THE ARTS ROUNDTABLES
MCGINLEY
ARTS = Arts in English Teacher Education
SATURDAY SESSION G ROUNDTABLES: McGinley Ballroom
A) Integrating the Arts in Secondary
Methods Courses and Fieldwork
B) Arts, Audience, and Aesthetic Space:
Putting the “A(s)” Back in ELA
A) Melissa McClain, Anjanette Darrington, Andrew
Smyth, Nicole Fekete, Francesca Caruso,
Southern Connecticut State University
B) Susan Weinstein, Louisiana State University,
Baton Rouge
NOTE: All General Sessions and Roundtables will be held in the McGinley Ballroom in the McGinley Center. All Panel Sessions and Workshops will be held in
Dealy Hall (room numbers provided).
ARTS
ARTS