 | Cassie Brownell Assistant Professor email: email: cassie.brownell@utoronto.ca Department: Curriculum, Teaching and Learning | |
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Academic History Ph.D. in Curriculum, Instruction & Teacher Education, Michigan State University Specialization in Language and Literacy Certificates in Qualitative Research and Urban Education M.Ed. in Elementary Education (K-6), University of Notre Dame Certificate in Mild to Moderate Disabilities B.A. in Social Welfare and Justice, Marquette University Minor in Justice and Peace Studies Teaching Overview TEACHING APPOINTMENTS [instructor-of-record], UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO 2019 -- CTL 3035: Critical Literacy in Action 2019 -- CTL 5308: Exploring Children's and Youth's Digital Literacies in a Networked World 2019-2020 -- CTL 3028: Literacy in Elementary Education 2018-2020 -- CTL 7000: Curriculum and Teaching in Literacy (Primary-Junior) TEACHING APPOINTMENTS [instructor-of-record], MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY 2017 -- TE 846: Accommodating Differences in Literacy Learners (Online) 2017 -- TE 803: Professional Roles & Teaching Practice II [Social Studies] (Hybrid-Chicago) 2016 -- TE 291a: Special Topics in Urban Education 2014-2015 -- TE 405: Teaching of Language & Literacy to Diverse Learners - Elementary 2013-2016 -- TE 802: Reflection & Inquiry in Teaching Practice I [ELA; (2013-2014: Face-to-face in Detroit & 2015-2016: Hybrid-Chicago) 2013-2014 -- TE 250: Human Diversity, Power, and Opportunity in Social Institutions CLINICAL TEACHING APPOINTMENTS, UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME 2013 -- EDU 60182: The Teaching of Reading 2012-2013 -- EDU 60312: Exceptionalities in Childhood 2012-2013 -- EDU 60234: Exceptionality in Early Adolescence 2012-2013 -- EDU 60336: Exceptionality in Adolescence Representative Publications JOURNAL ARTICLES Brownell, C. J. (2019). Sound the alarm!: Disrupting sonic resonances of an elementary English language arts classroom, Curriculum Inquiry. doi: 10.1080/03626784.2019.1671137 Wessel-Powell, C., Buchholz, B.A., & Brownell, C.J. (2019). Polic(y)ing time and curriculum: How teachers critically negotiate restrictive policies, English Teaching: Practice & Critique. doi: 10.1108/ETPC-12-2018-0116 Brownell, C. J. (2018). (Re)Imagining children’s writing: Creative language play(giarism) in the elementary English language arts classroom, Language Arts. 65(4), 218-228. Brownell, C. J. (2018). Starting where you are, revisiting what you know: A letter to a first-year teacher addressing the hidden curriculum, Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy. 16(2), 252-267. doi: 10.1080/15505170.2017.1398697 Brownell, C.J., Sheridan, D.M., & Scales, C.A. (2018). (Re)Mediating unheard resonances: Tracing the rhythms of aurality in communities, Educational Studies. doi: 10.1080/00131946.2018.1476355 Brownell, C. J. (2017). Mandated curricula as figured world: A case-study of identity, power, and writing in elementary English language arts, English Teaching: Practice & Critique. 16(2), 252-267. doi: 10.1108/ETPC-10-2016-0131 Brownell, C.J. (2017). Language identity in the elementary English language arts classroom. The Reading Teacher, 71(2), 225–228. doi: 10.1002/trtr.1591 Brownell, C. J. & Wargo, J. M. (2017). (Re)Educating the senses to community literacies: Prospective teachers using sound to listen for difference. In Mahiri, J. (Ed.), Special Issue: Cyber-lives: Digital Media and Multicultural Education, Multicultural Education Review. doi: 10.1080/2005615X.2017.1346559 Marshall, S. & Brownell, C. J. (2015). Looking back to look ahead: How federal legislation has impacted state testing. Michigan Reading Journal, 47(2), 56-57. BOOK CHAPTERS Brownell, C. J. (2017). How urban education choice campaigns in Detroit masqueraded as equity and social justice and worsened the status quo. In G.Q. Conchas, M. Gottfied, B.M. Hinga, & Oseguera, L. (Eds.), Policy goes to school: Case studies on the possibilities and limitations of educational innovations. Routledge. Brownell, C. J. & Coles, J. A. (2016). "Coloring" within the lines: Implications for practicing color blindness (pp. 260-279). In J. Diem (Ed.), The social & cultural foundations of education: A reader. San Diego, CA: Cognella Academic Publishing. INVITED CONTRIBUTIONS Brownell, C.J. (2018, December). First opinion: Community through strife and the storm: How Marvelous Cornelius made magic in the Big Easy, First Opinions, Second Reactions, 11(3), 9. Brownell, C.J. (2018, July). From sheltering to social change: Critical conversations in childhood, Literacy Today, 14-15. Research Grants and Contracts FUNDED RESEARCH PROJECTS: Making citizens in an urban primary classroom: Exploring young children's critical maker literacies Funded by: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Insight Development Grant [$52,140] Cultivating a compositional fluency in elementary English language arts Funded in part by: ILA Helen M. Robinson Grant [$1,200], MSU Graduate School & MSU College of Education [$4,800] In collaboration with: MakEY Project #hearmyhome: (Re)Learning to listen to community literacies Funded in part by: NCTE-CEE Research Initiative Grant [$2,500] Co-PI: Jon M. Wargo (Boston College) (Re)Mediating unheard resonances: Tracing the rhythms of aurality in communities Funded in part by: MSU Residential College in the Arts & Humanities & MSU Graduate School [$16,000] Co-PIs: David M. Sheridan and Christopher A. Scales (Michigan State University) Investigating intermediate elementary students' story, sociality, and play as multimodal composing Funded in part by: MSU Graduate School & MSU College of Education (Summer Research Renewable Fellowship) [$12,000], MSU Department of Teacher Education [$1,800] Prospective teachers' responses to diversity, difference, and literacy in an elementary instructional methods class Funded in part by: MSU Graduate School & MSU College of Education (Summer Research Development Fellowship) [$6,000] ADDITIONAL FUNDING & SUPPORTS: Inter/National 2019 -- SSHRC Insight Development Grant (IDG) 2018 -- SSHRC Institutional Grant (SIG) - Exchange Grant 2018 -- Curriculum Inquiry Writing Fellowship 2018 -- Literacy Research Association, International ICG Travel Grant 2017-2018 -- International Literacy Association, Helen M. Robinson Dissertation Grant 2016-2018 -- American Educational Research Association-Division G, Student Travel Award 2017 -- Computers and Writing Conference, Graduate Student Travel Grant 2014 -- National Association of Multicultural Education, Rose Duhon-Sells Scholarship Institutional 2018 -- MSU Graduate School, Dissertation Completion Fellowship 2018 -- MSU Graduate School, Research/Travel Fellowship 2018 -- MSU College of Education, Research/Travel Fellowship 2016-2018 -- Marianne Amarel Fellowship for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning 2017-2018 -- MSU Residential College in the Arts & Humanities, Senior Teaching & Learning Fellow 2017 -- MSU Graduate School, Inside Teaching-Innovation HUB Graduate Fellowship 2017 -- MSU College of Education, Research Fellowship 2017 -- MSU Council of Graduate Students, Professional Development Award 2016, 2017 -- MSU College of Education, Janice Marston Memorial Scholarship 2014-2017 -- MSU College of Education, Urban Education Retention Fellowship 2015 -- MSU Council of Graduate Students, Conference Grant 2015 -- MSU College of Education, Teacher Education Endowed Fellowship 2015 -- MSU College of Education, Fellowship to Enhance Global Understanding 2015 -- MSU College of Education, Urban Education Leadership Fellowship Departmental 2015 -- MSU Dept. of Teacher Education, Recruitment Assistance Fellowship 2014 -- MSU Dept. of Teacher Education, Leadership & Outreach Fellowship 2013-2018 -- MSU Dept. of Teacher Education, Travel Grants Honours and Awards 2019 -- AERA Division K, Early Career Preconference 2019 -- Curriculum Inquiry Writing Fellowship, Faculty Mentor 2019 -- Association of College and University Educators (ACUE) Certificate in Effective University Teaching Practice 2018 -- AERA Language & Social Processes SIG, Emerging Scholar Award 2018 -- AERA Writing & Literacies SIG, Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award 2017 -- MSU Graduate School, Council of Graduate Students Disciplinary Leadership Award 2008-2010 -- AmeriCorps National Service Program, Educational Grant Recipient 2007-2008 -- Marquette University Board of Trustees, Student Affairs Committee Representative 2005, 2008 -- Marquette University Outstanding Student Leadership Award Recipient Professional Activities SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION: 2019-2020 -- Language Arts, Editorial Review Board Member 2019-2020 -- Language and Literacy Researchers of Canada, Preconference Chair 2017-2019 -- Michigan Reading Journal, Editorial Review Board Member 2017-2018 -- Literacy Research Association, Ad-Hoc Communications Committee 2016-2019 -- AERA-Language and Social Processes, Mentoring Program Committee 2016-2018 -- AERA-Division G, Student Executive Committee 2016 -- NCTE-Assembly of Research, Graduate Student Committee 2015-2017 -- LRA-Doc Students Innovative Community Group, Technology Committee 2015-2017 -- NAME Standing Committee, Communications & Outreach Committee 2014-2018 -- AERA-Division G, Campus Liaison 2014-2015 -- LRA-Doc Students Innovative Community Group, Treasurer PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS American Educational Research Association (AERA) Canadian Society for the Study of Education (CSSE) Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) International Literacy Association (ILA) Literacy Research Association (LRA) National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) Reconceptualizing Early Childhood Research (RECE) Other Information INVITED KEYNOTES & PLENARIES Brownell, C. J. (2019, May). Exploring early digital literacy practices and creativity in early childhood classrooms. Paper presented at Makerspaces for Young Learners: Exploring Digital Technology through STEAM Education, a SSHRC Connections Conference, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada. Brownell, C.J. (2019, March). Tracing intertextual connections in multimodal composing: A case study of a young child's filmmaking in the early childhood classroom. Invited keynote for the MakEY Project, a Horizon 2020 European Funding for Research & Innovation (RISE) recipient. Sheffield, UK. IN THE NEWS: https://www.utoronto.ca/news/not-naive-you-might-think-u-t-researcher-creates-space-children-talk-about-serious-issues |
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