Kudos: Nealy accepted to Advanced Leader Program; Schey and co-authors receive honorable mention for NCTE award

Nealy accepted to UGA’s Advanced Leader Program

Allison Nealy, head of the Department of Language and Literacy Education and a professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Special Education, was accepted into UGA’s 2024 Advanced Leader Program (ALP).

ALP focuses on four leadership competencies: interpersonal communication, personal mastery, systems thinking, and team management. During the program, participants engage in a leadership project of their choosing and pursue a self-created leadership development plan. Cohort meetings will provide opportunities to learn from senior administrators, experts in leadership development, and one another.

Schey and co-authors receive honorable mention for NCTE award

Ryan Schey, an assistant professor in the Department of Language and Literacy Education, was recently recognized for his article in the English Journal through the National Council of Teachers of English.

Schey and his co-authors Dean Bavisotto, Mollie Blackburn, Katherine Mason Cramer, Ellie DesPrez, Danielle Lee, and Heather McEntarfer received an honorable mention by the Edwin M. Hopkins Award for their article “Affirming Gender Diversity Through English Education: Integration, Inquiry, And Inclusion.” This award annually recognizes outstanding English Journal articles written by someone who is not a classroom teacher.

The article describes ways that English language arts educators and teacher educators can affirm gender diversity, in particular transgender identities and communities, through their classroom curriculum and pedagogy. In doing so, it provides practical examples illustrating how to live out the guidance from NCTE’s position statement, “Guidelines for Affirming Gender Diversity through ELA Curriculum and Pedagogy,” which Schey and co-authors previously wrote. Together, the position statement, article, and award underscore the urgent need to center, rather than silence, discussions of gender diversity and its intersections with anti-racist teaching as part of K-12 literacy education.