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2026, Journal of Language and Literacy Education. “Promises and pitfalls: Analyzing restorative justice in young adult literature through a feminist lens.” Analyzing how restorative justice practices are represented in young adult literature and where gaps in imagination still persist.
2025, Teaching and Teacher Education. “Using young adult literature and mapping as critical literacy practices in teacher education.” An examination of a voluntary book club with preservice teachers learning about the school-to-prison nexus through two young adult novels.
2025, Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy Podcast. “Community-based books clubs with Mary McConnaha and Dr. Joanne Marciano.” A podcast conversation with Dr. Matt Sroka about youth desires for book clubs in ELA classrooms.
2025, Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy. “‘They can learn it through us’: Youth (re)imagining book clubs for racial justice.” Describing how four youth voiced desires for book club experiences in ELA classrooms as they developed an out-of-school book club related to the Black Lives Matter movement.
2024, Writing and Literacies On Air. “Writing Practices of Award Winning Scholars.” A podcast episode featuring Dr. Stephanie Toliver, Dr. Lauren Leigh Kelly, Dr. Gerald Campano, and Maggie McConnaha about personal writing practices.
2024, The ALAN Review. “‘What else do they need to know?'” Counterstorying Black youth incarceration in young adult novels.” A critical content analysis of young adult books with incarcerated Black protagonists.
2023, Language Arts Journal of Michigan. “A restorative justice book club for secondary classrooms.” Describing opportunities for developing book clubs related to restorative justice in young adult texts.
2022, CNN. Interview with Jim Sciutto following the deadly school shooting in Uvalde, TX. Interview in response to 2022 EdWeek article.
2022, EdWeek. Every day, teachers make plans for how they will stop a shooting in their classroom. This unrelenting trauma is unacceptable. Written as a new mom while transitioning out of K-12 teaching.
2020, K-12 Talk (WW Norton Publishing). How procedures, intro questions, and bellringer activities can foster classroom community — even virtually. Written while a middle school teacher.
2020, EdWeek. A Day in the Life of a Hybrid Teacher. Written while teaching during lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic.
2018, EdWeek. What can Jimi Hendrix and Leonardo DaVinci teach us about personalized learning? Written as a first-year teacher.
2016, The Progressive. Trump visited St. Norbert College for a “town hall” where no questions were allowed. Written as an undergraduate student.
2015, America Magazine. What can roads and community projects teach us about how we should treat one another? Written as an undergraduate student.
