Building Literacy Connections After Disaster with Drs. Nancy Hulan and Leslee Bailey Tarbett In today’s episode host Matt Sroka chats with Drs. Nancy Hulan and Leslee Bailey Tarbett about how a group of teacher candidates responded to a community devastated by tornadoes through a unique, literacy-focused service-learning initiative. This conversation centers on their article for The Journal for Adolescent & Adult Literacy titled: Building literacy connections after disaster: Teacher candidates engaging with community through a service-learning lensDr. Nancy Franklin Hulan is an associate professor of Literacy Education at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Her research focuses on development of teacher self-efficacy through service-learning, the potential impacts of involvement in a disciplinary community of practice, and teachers’ use of and stances toward GenAI in production of tools to foster literacy development with striving readers and writers. Dr. Hulan serves as the Director of the WKU Literacy Clinic and serves as a faculty mentor for the WKU Literacy Ambassadors. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in areas related to literacy.Dr. Leslee Bailey Tarbett is an Assistant Professor in Literacy Education at Western Kentucky University. Before earning her doctorate, she spent over a decade teaching primary grades in Knoxville, Tennessee. Her research focuses on preservice teacher education, teacher professional development, and qualitative and postqualitative research methodologies. Her work has been published in the Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, Reconceptualizing Educational Research Methodology, and the Journal of Public Pedagogies, among others. Leslee is passionate about advancing literacy education with a focus on community-based service learning, care pedagogies, and empathetic teaching practices.Resources:Building literacy connections after disaster: Teacher candidates engaging with community through a service-learning lenshttps://www.wku.edu/ste/literacy-ambassadors/

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