Doctoral Student in Curriculum & Instruction- Language and Literacy Studies, with a focus on supporting students with reading difficulties and students who are emerging bilingual learners.
Melissa Wetzel (Supervisor)Literacy teacher preparation, coaching and mentoring, equity and justice in literacy instruction
Sharon Vaughn (Supervisor)Investigates effective interventions for a diverse group of students with reading difficulties and students who are English language learners.
Project Coordinator, Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk(2023)
This work aims to improve outcomes of early readers through cross-age peer tutoring in the YMCA after-school program. Goals of this program include reducing learning gaps for students with reading difficulties, where effects of COVID-19 may have exacerbated this gap due to learning loss from schooling interruptions.
Phase I: Preparation for the randomized controlled trial with collaboration between The University of Texas at Austin and Vanderbilt University to partner with local YMCA after-school programs in Central Texas and Middle Tennessee
Phase 2: A randomized controlled trial to examine the efficacy of the Sound Partners (Vadasy et al., 2004) reading intervention delivered through cross-age peer tutoring of first- and second-grade students who experience reading difficulty by fourth- and fifth-grade student tutors
