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Dr. Dara Hill
May 13, 2025
Hugh's Early Literacy Journey (Part II)
Clarissa Terracciano
April 2, 2025
Part II: How Blockchain Can Support All Learners
Clarissa Terracciano
April 1, 2025
Part I: Introduction to Blockchain and Literacy and Language Learning
Jeff Denning, Ernest Morrell, Mark Berends
March 24, 2025
Three Notre Dame Faculty Recognized in 2025 RHSU Edu-Scholar Public Influence Rankings
Three University of Notre Dame faculty members have been named to the 2025 RHSU Edu-Scholar Public Influence Rankings . This prestigious annual list recognizes the 200 scholars whose academic work has most influenced educational practice and policy nationwide. All three are faculty fellows in Notre...
Tackling Tough Texts
February 4, 2025
Yes, Students Can Read Tough Texts. Here’s How to Scaffold Their Learning
How do you get kids to read—and actually understand —hard texts? Teachers know it’s important for students to read historical primary sources, scientific research studies, or literary texts with unfamiliar language, like Shakespeare or the Odyssey . Research also shows that adolescents need high...
Kelly Barnhill
December 3, 2024
"The Ogress and the Orphans" Selected for the 2024 Alexandria Award
Kelly Barnhill’s The Ogress and the Orphans (2022), an engaging fantasy with familiar elements of a traditional fairy tale such as a dragon, an ogress, and magic, has been selected as the winner of the 2024 Alexandria Award by the Center for Literacy Education at the University of Notre Dame. The...
Michael Macaluso
November 4, 2024
Mike Macaluso Named Senior Editor for the ALAN Review
Mike Macaluso , Senior Associate Director for Academic Advancement for Enrollment and Financial Aid, has been named senior editor of The ALAN Review , a peer-reviewed journal focused on the study, scholarship, research, and teaching of adolescent literature. Macaluso, along with his co-editors...
Dr. Lakeya Afolalu
October 9, 2024
How the Arts Can Help Black African Immigrant Youth in School Spaces and Beyond
Dr. Lakeya Afolalu is an Assistant Professor at the University of Washington in the College of Education. As a scholar of Language, Literacy, and Culture, she specializes in the intersections of immigration, race, and identity. Raised between her Nigerian and African American cultures, her hybrid...
Ernest Morrell
September 25, 2024
Literacy scholar Ernest Morrell elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Ernest Morrell , the Coyle Professor of Literacy Education at the University of Notre Dame, has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , one of the nation’s oldest learned societies and independent policy research centers. Morrell—who is also the director of the Institute for...
Dr. Dara Hill
September 25, 2024
Hugh's Early Literacy Journey in a Print Rich Home Literacy Environment
My 7-year-old son, Hugh, is a voracious reader who fully immerses himself in a state of absorbed reading. His teachers have had difficulty keeping up with his demand for reading more books, and the school library is, without question, his happy place where he is transported to many worlds–from Chad...
Lisa Sensale Yazdian
September 4, 2024
Can Gaming Support Literacy?
Dr. Lisa Sensale Yazdian currently manages education and engagement efforts at Cincinnati Educational Television (CET)/PBS, but has worked to engage birth-adult learners in P-12, higher education, community, and for-profit settings for the last 29 years. She’s curious about the various ways her 6...
Annie & Debbie
September 4, 2024
Summer Reading in Children’s Preferred Language(s)
Annie Moses, Ph.D., is the Director of Periodicals / Editor in Chief at the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC). Previously, she served as an associate professor and program coordinator of early childhood, and her research focuses on early literacy, media, and early...
Michael Macaluso
August 29, 2024
Response #3: What Should Count For Summer Reading?
NOTE: Dr. Macaluso's post is in response to the introduction post, "What Should "Count" for Summer Reading " and follows Dr. Reynolds' post, " Choice and Possibility in Summer Reading " and public librarian Stephanie Schott's post "What 'Counts' as Reading" . We will be posting a response next...

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