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Dr. Cati de los Rios , Assistant Professor of Literacy, Reading, and Bi/Multilingual Education at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Education and a CLE Coyle Fellow, recently received the Early Career Achievement Award and the Arthur Applebee for Excellence in Research on Literacy Best Paper at the...

Dr. Ernest Morrell, Director of the Center for Literacy Education and the Coyle Professor of Literacy Education, was recently featured by the Notre Dame Stories team for his efforts to expand literacy education research. Read more on stories.nd.edu

This article first appeared on news.nd.edu . Ernest Morrell , professor of Africana studies and English, the Coyle Professor in Literacy Education and director of the Center for Literacy Education at the University of Notre Dame, collaborated with fellow subject experts to create the first capstone...

“Can literacy, especially storytelling, change lives and the world? Absolutely! ” Dorothy Lee , Coyle Fellow and Executive Director of LitWorld , and Ernest Morrell and Jodene Morrell recently co-published the research brief “Why Stories Matter” which is now available as a downloadable PDF . In this...

Before we share our English education expertise on the CLE blog, get to know our team! We are pleased to meet you and so glad you are interested in our mission. Ernest Morrell // The new Notre Dame Center for Literacy Education is Directed by Dr. Ernest Morrell , a leader in the field of literacy...

In my last post on poetry, “ Poetry Matters // The Case for Teaching Poetry in Every ELA Classroom ,” I argued that poetry is an essential part of an English Language Arts education. I said that “poetry illuminates experience”—it can be the light within a microscope that helps us pause and...

As English Language Arts educators, we have high expectations for our students when it comes to the reading and writing skills they are meant to develop in our classrooms. While we expect that students can achieve reading and writing greatness while they are with us, we would never assume, at any...

Whole-class discussion tends to be a popular go-to strategy for middle and high school English teachers. On a simple level, it’s the easiest way to understand students’ thinking and to check for their understanding. Whole-class discussion can offer much more than this, however, and it can be...

Dr. Ernest Morrell , the Coyle Professor of Literacy Education and director of the Notre Dame Center for Literacy Education, was honored with the 2019 Distinguished Service Award from the National Council of Teachers of English. Established in 1950, the award recognizes a person or persons who have...