Jessica Zacher Pandya, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Departments of Teacher Education and Liberal Studies

College of Education

California State University, Long Beach

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Course syllabi:

LST 400 Evaluating Literacy

EDEL 300: Cultural & Linguistic Diversity in US Schools

 

A wordle made by my Liberal Studies 400 students about their literacy practices:

May 31, 2011. Courtesy of www.wordle.net.

News

Fall 2012

JuliAnna Ávila and I have an edited volume coming this fall from Peter Lang: Critical Digital Literacies as Social Praxis: Intersections and challenges. Contributing authors: Stephanie Schmier, Anna Smith & Glynda Hull, Althea Scott Nixon, Arne Nygard, Antero Garcia, Sarah Lohnes Watulak & Charles Kinzer, Dana Salter, Cynthia Lewis, Candace Doerr-Stevens, Jessica Dockter Tierney, & Cassandra Scharber, Rafi Santo, and Margaret Hagood.

Call for Papers: English Teaching: Practice & Critique

I'm co-editing a themed issue of ETPC on teachers' work in an era of standardization. Manuscripts are due June 15, 2012. If you're interested in submitting please send an email, or see:

http://edlinked.soe.waikato.ac.nz/research/journal/view.php?id=67&p=1

Spring 2012

My co-editor JuliAnna Avila and I published a themed issue of Theory Into Practice on "The Future of Critical Literacies in US Schools."  Contributing authors: Allan Luke, JuliAnna Avila & Michael Moore, Maren Aukerman, Laura Ruth Johnson & Enid Rosario-Ramos, Elisabeth Johnson & Lalitha Vasudevan, Patrick Finn,  Amy Flint & Tasha Laman, and Donna Alvermann.  Here's the site:

http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/htip20/51/1

Fall 2011

My book, Overtested: How High-Stakes Accountability Fails English Language Learners, was published by Teachers College Press in Fall 2011. The link is here:

http://store.tcpress.com/0807752479.shtml

Summer 2010, Fall 2010, Spring, Summer, Fall 2011, and Fall 2012:

CSULB undergraduate students' digital stories are online at iTunesU:

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Contact information:

Departments of Teacher Education and Liberal Studies

College of Education, ED-1

California State University, Long Beach

1250 Bellflower Blvd.

Long Beach, CA 90840

office: (562) 985-7198

fax: (562) 985-5733

jczacher@csulb.edu

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