Recent Presentations
Gormley, K. & McDermott, P. (2023). Social Justice Narratives: An Analysis of Teacher Candidates’ Compositions. Research presented at the American Educational Research Association's Annual Conference, Chicago, April 13-15.​
​
Falk-Ross, F. & McDermott, P. (2021). Examining Urban Teacher Candidates’ Use of Critical Media Literacy. Research presented remotely at the American Educational Research Association’s Annual Conference, April 1-2.
​
Falk-Ross, F. & McDermott, P. (2020). A collaboration of citizens: Content area teachers consult community stakeholders to build educational resources. Roundtable presentation for the Literacy Research Association. (December).
​
Gormley, K. & McDermott, P. (2020). What do professional journals in literacy education say about critical literacy. Paper presented (online) at the Annual Meeting of the American Education Research Conference, San Francisco. April 17-20.
McDermott, P. & Chacon, T. (2019). What teachers learn from professional reading journals about teaching with children’s literature. Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association’s Annual Conference, Toronto, Canada. April 5 - 9.
​
McDermott, P. (2018). Teaching students to think critically for social justice. Workshop presented at the Literacy Association of South Africa (LITASA). Port Elizabeth, South Africa, October 5-7.
Allen, N. & McDermott, P. (2018). Literacy education in rural Sierra Leone. Paper to be presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Education Research Association, New York City. April 13-17.
​
Allen, N. & McDermott, P. (2017). Literacy education in rural Sierra Leone: A case study. Paper presented at the Ethnographic and Qualitative Research Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada. January 30-31.
​
Gormley, K. & McDermott, P. (2016). The exclusion of the creative arts from contracted school curricula for teaching the Common Core. Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association, Washington, D.C. April 8 -12.
Gormley, K. & McDermott, P. (2015). Using the Affordances of the Digital Literacies to Transform Student Writing. Presentation at the 60th Annual Convention of the International Literacy Association, St. Louis, Missouri. July 18-20.
Allen, N., Heifetz, J. & McDermott, P. (2015). Transforming literacy education in Sierra Leone: IRA’s Diagnostic Teaching Project. Presentation at the 60th Annual Convention of the International Reading Association, St. Louis, Missouri. July 18-20.
Allen, N. & McDermott, P. (2015). “It’s Because of the War!” – Opportunities and Challenges of Implementing a Teacher Education Project in Sierra Leone. Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, IL. April 16-20.
Lassman, K. & McDermott, P. (2015). The Weak Role of Educational Publications at Informing the Policy Makers about CCSS Writing Reforms. Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association’s Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL. April 16-20.
Allen, N. & McDermott, P. (2015). Implementing a literacy education project in rural Sierra Leone. Paper presented at the presented at the Annual Ethnography in Education Research Forum, University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia. February 26-27.
Gormley, K. & McDermott, P. (2014). An analysis of teachers’ use of technology in elementary reading lessons. Paper presented at the 2014 Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Philadelphia, PA., April 5-12.
​
Gormley, K. & McDermott, P. (2014). Patterns of Technology Use in the Reading Lessons of an Urban Elementary School. Paper presented at the presented at the 33rd Annual Ethnography in Education Research Forum, University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia. February 24-25.
Gormley, K. & McDermott, P. (2013). What we learned from observing urban and suburban children’s performance with the new literacies. Paper presented at the 2013 Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, CA. May 26-29.
Gormley, K. & McDermott, P. (2013). Making a difference in literacy learning through multimedia composing. Presentation at the 58th Annual Convention of the International Reading Association, San Antonio, Texas. April 19 – 22.