My current position as Professor of English and the English Subject Matter Preparation Coordinator (a teacher preservice program) at California State University, Monterey Bay involves multiple cross-sector collaborations that address the issue of ac...More
My current position as Professor of English and the English Subject Matter Preparation Coordinator (a teacher preservice program) at California State University, Monterey Bay involves multiple cross-sector collaborations that address the issue of academic preparation. These partnerships include the CSU Expository Reading and Writing Course (ERWC), for which I serve as Steering Committee Chair. The impact of the ERWC on secondary school curricula and pedagogy has been significant. More than 12,000 high school teachers in the States of California, Washington, and Hawaii have participated in professional development sessions on the ERWC, and the program has been nationally recognized as a leader in college readiness initiatives. In addition to my work with educational partnerships, I also teach undergraduate literature and composition courses and advise prospective high school English teachers in our major. My most recent scholarship examines the efficacy of using a rhetorical approach to texts in secondary school English classes as a means of developing advanced literacy practices. I am the author of _Teaching Arguments: Rhetorical Comprehension, Critique, and Response_ (2015) and _Teaching Literature Rhetorically: Transferable Literacy Skills for 21st Century Students_ (2018) and the co-editor of _Fostering Habits of Mind in Today's Students_ (2015). Before joining the faculty at Monterey Bay, I taught high school English for ten years in Southern California--an experience that continues to inform my present work.
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