Emily Skinner

Associate Professor

Emily N. Skinner teaches undergraduate and graduate literacies courses in early childhood, elementary, and middle grades. Emily has been appointed Co-Editor of the Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy with Margaret C. Hagood for the 2011-2016 editorship term. 

Emily currently serves as the Director of Professional Developement for the Center of the Advancement of New Literacies in Middle Grades. The Center is funded by the South Carolina Commission of Higher Education.

Emily works with local teachers doing professional development and research regarding their implementation of teaching strategies using digital technologies and popular culture to engage and imrpove adolescents' understanding of academic content and school standards. 

 

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Education

• Ed.D. - Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, New York, Curriculum and Teaching, 2006. Dissertation: (Re)conceptualizing Mentor Texts: Popular Culture as Mentor Text in a Seventh Grade Writing Club.
• M.Ed. - Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan, Curriculum, Instruction, and Leadership, 1998. Thesis: Writing Workshop: Students' Writing Identities
• A.B.Ed. - University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, Elementary Education, K-8, 1995.

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Research Interests

Emily's teaching and research interests include bridging children and adolescents' in and out-of-school literacies, teaching writing/design in the 21st century, and engaging practicing teachers in new literacies professional development

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Courses Taught

• EDEE 375: Reading/Learning Strategies, PreK-Grade 3 (Spring, 2011)
• EDEE 698: Clinical Practice in Early Childhood Education (Spring, 2011)
• EDEE 455: Early Childhood Clinical Practice (Spring, 2011)
• EDEE 457: Elementary Grades Clinical Practice (Spring, 2011)
• TEDU 678 Supporting Older Learners' Literacy Development, SPRING 2010
• EDPD 811-W60 Advanced New Literacies in Middle Grades, FALL 2009-SPRING 2010
• EDPD 811-X60 Using Digital Technologies and Popular Culture to Teach Content Area Literacies, Grades 5-9, FALL 2009-SPRING 2010
• EDPD 811 X60- New Literacies in Middle Grades, FALL 2008-SPRING 2009
• EDEE  465 - Independent Study in New Literacies, SPRING 2008-FALL 2008
• EDEE 459- Clinical Practice in Middle Grades Education, SPRING 2008
• EDEE 325 - Language and Literacy Development, FALL 2005-FALL 2010
• EDEE 377 – Reading/Learning Strategies: Grades 2-8, FALL 2005 – SPRING 2010
• EDEE 384 – Application of Curriculum and Instruction: Grades 5-8, SPRING 2007
• EDEE 645 – Field Experience I in Elementary Education, FALL 2006-FALL 2010

Teachers College, Columbia University

• C&T 4133 – Practicum in Teaching Literacy in the Early Years, FALL 2004
• C&T4138 – Learning and Teaching in the Reading/Writing Classroom, SPRING, 2004

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Publications

Articles

• Skinner, E. N., Hagood, M. C., & Provost, M. (under review). Creating a new literacies coaching ethos. For Reading and Writing Quarterly.
• Skinner, E. N., & Hagood, M. C. (2008). Developing literate identities with English Language Learners through digital storytelling. The Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal 8 (2). Available: http://www.readingmatrix.com/articles/skinner_hagood/article.pdf (online).
• Hagood, M.C., Provost, M., Skinner, E., & Egelson, P. (2008). Teachers' and students' literacy performance in and engagement with new literacies strategies in underperforming middle schools.  Middle Grades Research Journal, 3, 57-95.
• Skinner, E. N. (2007). "Teenage Addiction": Writing workshop meets critical media literacy. Voices from the Middle, 15(2), 30-39.

Chapters

• Skinner, E. N., & Lichtenstein, M. (2009). Digital storytelling is not the new PowerPoint: Adolescents' critical constructions of presidential election issues. In M. C. Hagood (Ed.) New literacies practices: Learning from youth in out-of-school and in-school contexts. New York: Peter Lang.
• Hagood, M. C. & Skinner, E. N., Venters, M., & Yelm, B. (2009). New literacies and assessments in middle school social studies content area instruction: Issues for classroom practices . In A. Burke and R. F. Hammett (Eds.).Assessing new literacies: Perspectives from the classroom New York: Peter Lang.
• Skinner, E. N. (2007). "Teenage Addiction": Adolescent girls drawing upon popular culture texts as mentors for writing in an after-school writing club. In E. Rowe, R. Jimenez, D. Compton, D. Dickinson, Y. Kim, K. Leander, & V. Risco. National Reading Conference Yearbook, 55, 275-291.