Aug. 15, 2019

Sam von Gillern

Sam von Gillern is Associate Professor of Digital Literacies and Artificial Intelligence in the Department of Learning, Teaching, and Curriculum. His scholarship examines how children and educators learn, teach, communicate, and create meaning in digital environments, with particular emphases on AI literacy, video game literacies, media literacy, and digital citizenship. A central focus of his work is understanding how practicing and preservice teachers perceive digital technologies, weigh their educational benefits and concerns, and approach their integration into classroom instruction. He examines teachers’ preparedness to teach with and about emerging technologies while exploring instructional practices that support students’ literacy development,…

Aug. 12, 2018

Robert Petrone

Dr. Robert Petrone (he/him/his), Associate Professor, is an interdisciplinary scholar whose work lives between English, American Studies, and Sociology, with applications for Education. The central framework for Dr. Petrone’s integrated program of research, teaching, and service is Critical Youth Studies, which offers an important critique to the dominance of developmentalist frameworks in American society that often position people known as teenagers in deficit ways and naturalize expectations for them rooted in dominant sociocultural norms. From this foundation, Dr. Petrone’s research and teaching explores four lines of inquiry, the most recent of which takes up creative writing as a mode…

Aug. 3, 2016

Mike Metz

Mike Metz is an Associate Professor of English Education in the Department of Learning, Teaching and Curriculum at the University of Missouri. He serves as the Emphasis Area Leader for English Education. Mike’s research examines culturally sustaining pedagogies for English classrooms, with a particular focus on the teaching of Critical Language Awareness. Through this research, he explores English teachers’ knowledge and beliefs about English language variation, and students’ responses to learning about language, identity, and social power. His research also explores teacher education pedagogies that help pre-service and in-service teachers take up and enact Critical Language Pedagogies and other culturally responsive…

June 30, 2015

Lisa Dorner

Lisa M. Dorner, Ph.D., is a Professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis and a Faculty Fellow of the Cambio Center at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Her research centers on language policy and planning, educational policy implementation, and immigrant childhoods, especially children’s and families’ integration in “new” spaces. As co-founder of the Missouri Dual Language Network, Lisa enjoys connecting people and resources for dual language learning, bilingual education policy development, and understanding the immigrant experience (www.modlan.org). From 2017-2022 she co-led the US Department of Education funded project, Strengthening Equity and Effectiveness for Teachers of English…

June 30, 2015

Sarah Diem

Dr. Sarah Diem is a professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis at the University of Missouri. She is also a Faculty Affiliate in the Harry S. Truman School of Government and Public Affairs and the Qualitative Inquiry Program in the College of Education and Human Development. She researches the social, political, and geographic contexts of education, focusing primarily on how the politics and implementation of educational policies affect outcomes related to racial equity and opportunity within public schools. She is also interested in the ways in which current and future school leaders are being prepared…

June 29, 2015

Tony Castro

Antonio J. Castro is an associate professor of social studies education in the Department of Learning, Teaching & Curriculum. His research interests center on the preparation of teachers for culturally diverse contexts and urban schools, with specific attention to the teaching of critical multicultural citizenship, democratic teacher education, and teaching practices that foster equity and social justice. Prior to serving as a professor, Dr. Castro taught in urban schools and worked in a variety of outreach and educational programs for low-income and minority populations. He currently teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in diversity, social studies education, curriculum, teacher education,…