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Demystifying Dynamic Assessment: Decision Tree Tutorial

What a fun project this was with two incredibly talented graduate students, who I am proud to call colleagues now! Thank you to Brittany Halladay and Taylor Whelchel, who courageously tried out vocabulary dynamic assessments and reported back what the… Continue Reading →

Designing Dynamic Assessment for Vocabulary

I love checklists. I use them all the time. When I was thinking about how empower graduate students to design dynamic assessments around language/literacy skills, I decided to compile a checklist. The checklist I developed consists of evidence sources that… Continue Reading →

Effects of Teacher-Student Writing Conferences on Lexical Diversity and Conventions

This was my first ever research study and I am so proud of the collaboration between this teacher and me and for the results we saw in students. This was a single subject study that looked at effects of a… Continue Reading →

AAE Child Speakers with Language/Literacy Disorders: Best Intervention Practices

I had the honor of working with my amazing colleagues, including the late and great Dr. Kenyatta O. Rivers, on this project. Dr. Rivers introduced us doctoral students to his network of incredible researchers, Drs. Hyter and DeJarnette. He also… Continue Reading →

Does a Specific Collaboration Protocol with an SLP and Teacher Yield Better Outcomes for Students?

Do students actually perform better when they receive collaborative services from their teacher and an SLP? This is a big important and complex question to tackle! But my colleagues and I tried. We tried and found some exciting leads here… Continue Reading →

Collaboration in Schools: Let’s Define It

We talk a lot about collaborating as school professionals, but do our perceptions of what it means to collaborate match? Why or why not? And what can we do if the collaboration isn’t achieving its purpose? I explored these very… Continue Reading →

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