Elizabeth Isidro

Dr. Elizabeth Isidro obtained her Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction with an emphasis on Language and Literacy from Texas Tech University. She also engaged in more advanced work in literacy curriculum design, practice-based teaching, and research in literacy teacher education as a post-doctoral research associate also at Texas Tech University. Here at WMU, she continues to advance her work through her teaching, research, and programming of the McGinnis Reading Center. She has published in different journals such as Language and Literacy, Reading Teacher, Reflective Practice, and Journal of Curriculum Studies Research. Her research embodies the following themes: 

· theory and practice of socially just literacy teaching 

· pre-service and in-service teacher development 

· literacy across the disciplines 

· multiliteracies for youth, families, and communities 

· children’s literature and reader response 

· critical and (de)colonizing ontoepistemologies