Fall 2019 TLES News Round-Up

Presentations

Jill Hermann-Wilmarth and Caitlin Ryan gave a keynote address at Illinois State University, guest spoke in 2 classes, and conducted modeling lessons for preservice teachers. We also provided a full day of professional development for elementary and middle school teachers and librarians from the Bloomington and Normal school districts. Learn more.

In late March Jill Hermann-Wilmarth gave the Gender Studies lecture at the University of Lynchburg. Learn more.

Allison Downey headlined the Kalamazoo Storytelling Festival at the Kalamazoo Valley Museum, as a featured performer for Art Hop.  Downey, in her signature one-woman show-style performance, shared original personal narrative stories and songs around this year’s theme “Life in the Mitten.” Her material is a result of her research (and sabbatical study) of the contemporary personal narrative form. She also told a historical story about the Connor family, (19th Century African-American settlers to Covert, Michigan), that had been featured in her radio show, The Living Room, on Michigan Radio (NPR).

Publications

Amy Bentz is a co-author on the article -Investigating the Use of Formative Assessment among Male Saudi Arabian High School Science Teachers in the journal of International Journal of Environmental and Science Education.

Jill Hermann-Wilmarth and Caitlin Ryan, co edited a special issue of the journal Theory into Practice. The Theme for the journal is LGBTQ Topics in Elementary Education, Research and Practice. It includes 2 articles by Jill and Caitlyn- Navigating Parental Resistance: Learning from Responses of LGBTQ-Inclusive Elementary School Teachers and Retraction: Successful Intelligence in the Classroom