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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


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


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


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


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


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


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


(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


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)


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.


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


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.


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)


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)


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.


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


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


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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’


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,”


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.


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


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.


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


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.


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.


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.


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


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 –


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


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


Member, Comprehensive Exam Review Committee

CTL Department OISE


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


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


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


September 2011 – June 2015

Master of Teaching Research Project Subcommittee


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


2011 – 2012

Post-Graduation Committee


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


Member, Committee to Revise Master of Teaching Research Project (MTRP)


2011

Member, Committee to Draft Program Overview


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


June 2014 – Present

Critical Practitioner Research Collaborative



Miyumi Sasaki Initial Teacher Education Fund Committee


May 2015

William Waters Scholarship in Urban Education Competition Committee


April 2015; April 2016

SSHRC Peer Review

OISE Office of the Associate Dean, Research, International & Innovation

September-October 2014

Critical Practitioner Research Reading Group


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


March – May 2011

Conference Planning Committee, Centre for Teacher Education and Development

Centre for Teacher Education and Development OISE

2011


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)


2010 – Present

Centre for Urban Schooling. Member of administrative team (2014-present)


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


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


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


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


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


2007


Founded and participated in inquiry community with pre-service teachers, including collaborative online writing


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


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


2005 – 2010

Onsite supervisor for student teachers, San Francisco State University

Life Learning Academy; SF State University

2001 – 2003

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