Reimagining Writing with Drs. Carrie James and Sarah McCarthey In today’s episode host Matt Sroka chats with Drs. Carrie James and Sarah McCarthey about a shift in how we think about writing instruction in our classrooms. This conversation centers on their article for The Journal for Adolescent & Adult Literacytitled: Reimagining writing: Integrating wicked problems into secondary writing instruction through a research practice partnership.Dr. Sarah McCarthey is the Sheila Miller Professor Emerita in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction in the College of Education at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Her research focuses on students’ literate identities, classroom writing instruction, and the role of professional development in teachers’ understandings of writing. Her work has been published in Reading Research Quarterly, Research in the Teaching of English, Written Communication, Journal of Writing Research and Pedagogies: An International Journal and Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy. McCarthey served as Department Head and Associate Dean of Undergraduate Programs. She was a member of the Board of Directors of the Literacy Research Association from 2017-2020 and Co-Director of the University of Illinois Writing Project, sponsoring professional development for Illinois teachers.Dr. Carrie L. James is a postdoctoral research fellow with the Siebel Center for Design (http://designcenter.illinois.edu) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Before completing her PhD at the U of I, she taught secondary English language arts in New York City. Her research interests include literacy teacher education, writing instruction that centers multimodality and student's authorial agency, and humanizing literacy instruction. Her work at the Siebel Center for Design also allows her to explore empathy and its role in supporting culturally sustaining teaching practices. She is currently working with college composition instructors to incorporate "wicked problems" into their composition courses.Resources:Reimagining writing: Integrating wicked problems into secondary writing instruction through a research practice partnership

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