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Current Faculty Presentations:

  • Waterman, H. (2010, March). Bringing the World into Your Classroom. Presented at meeting of Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD), San Antonio, TX.
  • Vermont Women in Higher Education Conference presentation, Diversity, Cultural Pluralism, Social Justice, Color Blind, What’s Your Brand of Difference?
  • McCoy, D. L. (2009, November). Exploring the Experiences of First-Generation Students of Color. Paper presented at the Association for the Study of Higher Education Annual Conference, Vancouver, British Columbia
  • Hurley, J. (October 2009) Preschool Children in a Refugee Resettlement Community: A Qualitative Study. The Division of Early Childhood (DEC) of the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) Conference, Albuquerque, NM.
  • Tinkler, B., Miller, E., & hannah, c.l. (2009). Reaching for Social Justice Through Service-Learning. Paper presented at the American Association for Teaching and Curriculum Conference (AATC), Arlington, VA. October 2, 2009.
  • Dague, B. (2009). National Conference of Executives of The Arc: Summer Leadership Institute. Closing Plenary Session: A Time for Change: Vermont's Conversion from Sheltered Workshops to Community Employment for All. Nashville, TE
  • Halladay, J. L., & Rousseau, J. J. (2009, June). Testing the frustration reading level: Connections between word recognition, comprehension, and frustration. Poster session presented at the annual meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading, Boston, MA.
  • Smith, L. (2009, June). A Proposed Strategy for Integrating Issues of Social Privilege and Social Justice into the Practice of Group Work. Presented at meeting of Pedagogy of Privilege Conference, Denver Colorado.
  • Halladay, J. L. (2009, May). Texts and readers in the elementary grades: Issues in assessment and instruction. Presentation at the University of Vermont College of Education and Social Services Scholarship Symposium, Burlington, VT.
  • Halladay, J. L. (2009, May). Text difficulty, reading comprehension, and reading motivation: An investigation of second graders' experiences with self-selected texts. Poster session presented at the annual convention of the International Reading Association, Minneapolis, MN.
  • Walls, L., & Bryan, L.A. (2009, April). Awakening a dialog: Examining gender and race in NOS studies from 1967 to 2008. 2009 NARST Annual Convention, Garden Grove, CA
  • Walls, L. (2009, April). Science literacy for all...or is it? 2009 AERA Annual Convention, San Diego, CA
  • Halladay, J. L. (2009, April). Rethinking text difficulty: Relationships between text difficulty, motivation, and comprehension for second grade readers. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Diego, CA.
  • Diamond, N., & Hurley, S. M. (2009). Preparing Women for Academic Leadership: The Higher Education Resource Services (HERS) Institutes, 1976-2003. 2009 AERA Annual Convention, San Diego, CA
  • Lipsey, M. W., Farran, D. C., Hurley, S. M., Hofer, K. G., & Bilbrey, C. (2009, March). Effects of a Literacy Focused Curriculum and a Developmental Curriculum in Rural Pre-k Classrooms on School Readiness and State Achievement Test Scores. Society for Research on Educational Effictiveness Second Annual Conference, Crystal City, VA.
  • NASPA National Conference presentation, How About Changing Your Student Affairs Organization? Some Ideas from the Field
  • McCoy, D. L. (2009, March). Nurturing Preparation Program Faculty's Cutting-Edge Research: The Power of Research-Standing in the shadows: Students of color at an EPWI. Research presentation at the American College Personnel Association Convention, Washington DC.
  • Gardner, S. K., & McCoy, D. L. (2009, March). Exploring the transition from full-time employment to full-time graduate student. Paper presented at the American College Personnel Association Convention, Washington DC.
  • Shelton, L. G. [2009, February 13 ]. Teaching parents how to divorce. Workshop presented at the 16th Annual International Conference on Parent Education and Parenting, Denton Texas.
  • Smith, L. (2009, February). A Proposed Strategy for Integrating Issues of Social Privilege and Social Justice into the Practice of Group Work.. Presented at meeting of The Winter Roundtable on Cross-Cultural Psychology and Education, Columbia University, New York. .
  • Halladay, J. L. (2008, December). Reconsidering frustration-level texts: Second graders' experiences with difficult texts. Paper presented at the National Reading Conference, Orlando, FL.
  • Jewiss, J., Laven, D. N., & Mitchell, N. J. (2008, November). National Heritage Areas: Building a Cyclic Program Theory Model from Qualitative Data and Practitioner Knowledge. Annual conference of the American Evaluation Association, Denver, CO.
  • Hurley, J. (October 2008) Family and Professional Priorities for Inclusive Early Childhood Settings. The Vermont Association for the Education of Young Children (VAEYC) Conference and Retreat, Burlington, VT.
  • Laven, D. N., Mitchell, N. J., & Jewiss, J. L. (2008, June). Evaluating National Heritage Areas: From Models to Measurement. 14th International Symposium on Society & Resource Management, Burlington, VT.
  • Roche, S. E. (2008, April, 28). The Vermont Approach: A Strategic Plan for Comprehensive, Collaborative Sexual Violence Prevention in Vermont 2006 - 2010. A presentation made to the Texas Association Against Sexual Assault, Austin, TX. (Invited)
  • Walls, L. (2008, March). A critical hermeneutic study: Third grade elementary African American students' views of the nature of science. 2008 Annual Graduate Educational Student Research Symposium, West Lafayette, IN
  • ACPA/NASPA Join Conference, Re-organizing, Renovating, and Restoring Student Affairs Divisions: Traditional and Innovative Models for Practice
  • Hurley, J., Horn, E. (February 2008) Social Validity Assessment of Social Competence Intervention Target Behaviors form the Perspective of Teachers and Administrators. Conference on Research Innovations in Early Intervention, San Diego, CA.
  • Krehbiel, M. & Shelton, L. G. [2007, November 8]. Strengthening family and school relations to lower family vulnerabilities. Workshop presented at the annual meeting of the National Council on Family Relations, Pittsburgh, PA.
  • Smith, D., Goldhaber, J., Deyo, A. & Gandini, L. (2007, November). Recognizing and Creating Literacy Environments for Toddlers. National Association for the Education of Young Children. Chicago, IL
  • Smith, D. (2007, November). Using the Tools of Documentation to Generate Curriculum and Knowledge & Redefining the Culture of Toddlers in Group Care. Early Childhood Conference, Seoul, Korea
  • Jewiss, J. (2007, November). Using Interview Excerpts to Illustrate & Personalize a Program's Implementation Theory. Presentation at the annual conference of the American Evaluation Association, Baltimore, MD.
  • McCoy, D. L. (2007, November). Defining the "extreme" in a predominantly White institution: A critical race perspective. Paper presented at the Association for the Study of Higher Education Annual Conference, Louisville, KY.
  • Tinkler, B. (2007). Service-Learning as Early Field Experience in Teacher Education. Paper presented at the American Association for Teaching and Curriculum Conference (AATC), Cleveland, OH. October 4-6, 2007.
  • Roche, S. E. (October, 2007). Safety, Autonomy, and Agency: Anti-Violence partnership social work education, Intimate Partner Violence Collaborations II: Cross-Disciplinary, Interagency Education, Training, and Outreach Panel, Annual Program Meeting of the Council on Social Work Education, San Francisco, CA.
  • Jewiss, J. (2007, April). Final Report on the Qualitative Study to Document Lessons Learned from the State Action for Educational Leadership Project Demonstration District Grants. Testimony to the Council on Education Governance, Montpelier, VT.
  • Shelton, L. G. [2007, March 24]. Boys and girls in the early years: Parents, teachers, and the problems of sex differences. Presented at the Conference on Gender and Education, Burlington, VT.
  • Halladay, J.L. (2006, December). Exploring students' text selection strategies. Paper presented at the National Reading Conference, Los Angeles, CA.
  • Duke, N. K., Hilden, K., Billman, A. K., Halladay, J., Reynolds, J., Zhang, S., & Park, Y. (2006, November). The impact of the Project-Based Approach to Building Informational Literacy (PABIL) on informational reading and writing development. Paper presented at the National Reading Conference, Los Angeles, CA.
  • New, R., LeeKeenan, D., Gerber, R., Mardell, B., Nimmo, J., Hogan, B., Smith, D., Burrington, B., Goldhaber, J., & Barton, L. (November 2006) Developing and Documenting Democracy: Early Childhood Settings as Research Sites for Children as Citizens. National Association for the Education of Young Children. Atlanta, GA
  • Jewiss, J. & Valdés, R. (2006, November). So What Does it All Mean? Strategies for Informing Policymakers in Ten Minutes or Less. Presentation at the annual conference of the American Evaluation Association, Portland, OR.
  • Tinkler, B. (2006). The Impact of Service-Learning on Pre-Service Teacher Perceptions of Diversity. Paper presented at the American Association for Teaching and Curriculum Conference (AATC), Charlotte, NC. October 12-14, 2006.
  • Duke, N. K., Hilden, K., Billman, A. K., Halladay, J. (2006, September). Improving informational comprehension achievement in the primary grades. Presentation at the Literacy Achievement Research Center Literacy Teacher Conference, East Lansing, MI.
  • Shelton, L. G. [2006, July 27]. Research lessons from a mandated parent education program. Presented at the First International Conference on Children and Divorce, Norwich, England, UK.
  • Duke, N.K., Pressley, M., Fingeret, L., Golos, D., Halladay, J., Hilden, K., Park, Y., Reynolds, J., & Zhang, S. (2006, July). Revisiting the Simple View of Reading. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading, Vancouver, British Columbia.
  • Duke, N. K., Hilden, K. R., Billman, A. K., Halladay, J. L., Park, Y. (2006, May). Assessing informational text comprehension in the primary grades. Poster session presented at Meet the Researchers, International Reading Association, Chicago, IL.
  • Billman, A. K., Hilden, K., Halladay, J. (2006, April). Strategies for working with difficult text with primary grade students. In M. Sailors (chair), Setting the Stage: Some Key Findings in Informational Text Research. Paper presented at the Preconvention Institute at the Annual meeting of the International Reading Association, Chicago, IL.
  • Farran, D.C., Lipsey, M.L., Hurley, S.M, & Bilbrey, C. (2006, April). Comparing the Effects of a Literacy Focused to a Developmental Curriculum in Rural Prekindergarten Classrooms. 2006 AERA Annual Convention, San Francisco, CA
  • Hurley, S.M., Farran, D.C., Lipsey, M.L., & Bilbrey, C. (2006, April). The Effects of Cognitive Self-Regulation on the Academic Achievement of Preschool Children. 2006 AERA Annual Convention, San Francisco, CA.
  • Duke, N. K., Reynolds, J., Billman, A. K., Hilden, K., & Halladay, J. (2006, March). Early learning from text (E-LFT): An instructional model for primary grades. Presentation at the annual conference of the Michigan Reading Association, Detroit, MI.
  • Duke, N. K., Pressley, M., Hilden, K. R., Golos, D., Halladay, J., Zhang, S., Fingeret, L., Park, Y., & Reynolds, J. M. (2005, December). The Simple View of Reading is probably too simple. Paper presented at the National Reading Conference, Miami, FL.
  • Farran, D.C., Lipsey, M.L., Bilbrey, C., & Hurley, S.M. (2005, December). Implementation and Outcomes of a Literacy Focused Comprehensive Curriculum Compared to a Developmental Curriculum in Rural Prekindergarten Classrooms. 2005 NAEYC Annual Conference, Washington, DC
  • Tinkler, B. (2005). A Community of Care in a Teacher Education Supervisory Seminar. Paper presented at the American Association for Teaching and Curriculum Conference (AATC), Austin, TX. October 6-8, 2005.
  • Jewiss, J. (2005, October). Celebrating the Benefits of Graduate Student Status - The Epitome of Qualitative Researcher as Learner. Paper presented at the annual conference of the American Evaluation Association, Toronto, Canada
  • Jewiss, J. (2005, June). Insights and Experiences from Child Health Innovators. Presentation to the Expert Meeting on Fostering State and Regional Partnerships to Promote Child Developmental and Preventive Services at The Commonwealth Fund, New York, NY.
  • Tinkler, B. (2005). Establishing a Conceptual Model of Community-Based Research Through Contrasting Case Studies. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), Montreal, Quebec. April 11-15, 2005.
  • Wilson, S. W., Duffy, H. M., Fiori, N. S., Halladay, J., & Mapuranga, R. (2005, April). When professional development goes to school: Learning to teach writing. Presentation at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Montreal, QC.
  • Farran, D.C., Lipsey, M.L., Bilbrey, C. & Hurley, S.M. (2005, April). Transition to Kindergarten for Children from Rural Low Income Families: Differential Effects of Two Comprehensive Curricula. SRCD 2005 Biennial Meeting, Atlanta, GA
  • Haggerty, C., Jewiss, J., & Johnson, S. (2004, February). Youth Initiated Grants Project. Testimony to the Vermont Senate Health and Welfare Committee and the Senate Education Committee, Montpelier, VT.
  • Whitcomb, J. & Tinkler, B. (2003). Monologues and Dialogues in On-Line Case Discussions. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), Chicago, IL. April 21-25, 2003.
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