After 20 years of experience teaching in public education, I discovered something knawing at me about the students in my classroom and the trends I was observing in the field. Something was wrong, and I didn't know exactly what. Teachers about me were doing great things with kids in the classroom. I was working as hard, if not harder than ever before. Yet kids were beginning to look duller, rather than brighter to me. Was it me or was it the system? So, I decided to enter graduate school to find out.
In 2009 I earned a M.Ed. in Reading Education and haven't left school since. Now in pursuit of a Ph.D. in Language and Literacy Studies at the University of North Texas, I continue to probe the system, as I look for answers about what is best for students. My interests include critical and new literacies, writing as transformation, generative learning and adaptive action, complex adaptive systems, creativity, culture and educational equity. I am a constructivist, an inquirer; the eternal student.
This site is dedicated to my meandering mind. The pages listed are containers for topics that interest me as a doctoral student in language and literacy education. They are places to investigate my queries and quibbles as they arise. It is my attempt to organize ruminations that find their way to slips of paper, sticky notes or notebooks; a place where I hope to sort out my imperfect inquiry.
-- Laura Slay
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