Profile for Jeannette Armstrong
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Director - IPSE
Inst For Prof Studies In Educ
University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
Specialty area(s)
Learning Sciences
curriculum and instruction
cosmopolitan literacies
critical literacies
community literacies
reading instruction
Brief biography
Dr. Jeannette Armstrong is a distinguished educator with a Doctorate in Literacy, Culture, and Language Education, complemented by a minor in Learning Sciences from Indiana University-Bloomington. With over 25 years of experience in the education sector, Dr. Armstrong has dedicated her career to working with children, youth, caregivers, and communities across diverse settings. Over the past decade, she has served as an assistant professor, educational director, and qualitative researcher in higher education, roles that have enriched her understanding of students' diverse needs and reinforced her commitment to fostering equitable and inclusive learning environments. Her research agenda is rooted in sociocultural perspectives on literacy, viewing literacies as always situated in social environments where knowledge construction, language, motives, values, societies, and cultures interact. Currently, she is exploring contact zones between literacy and AI and writing her first children's book. Dr. Armstrong is excited to contribute to and collaborate with the UWL community and eager to partner with colleagues to achieve shared goals in education.
Education
Ed.D. Literacy, Culture, and Language Education with a minor in Learning Sciences. Indiana University-Bloomington
MAE Educational Technology and Online Teaching. Marian University, WI.
K-12 Teaching Credential and Cross-Cultural Language and Academic Development (CLAD). California State University-Fullerton.
Career
Teaching history
University Teaching
- University of Indianapolis
- Western Technical College
- Viterbo University
- Marian University
PK-12 Teaching
- Early Childhood Education / Special Education
- K-5 Academic / Reading Intervention
- Grade 2
- Grade 3
- Grade 4
- Grade 7 English Language Arts / Social Studies / Reading
Research and publishing
Armstrong, J. (2024). Belonging together: How read-alouds shape identities in classroom communities. Research presented at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Social Justice Week. La Crosse, WI.
Armstrong, J. (2024). Belonging together: How read-alouds shape identities in classroom communities. Research presented at the University of Wisconsin-Stout 2024 Early Childhood Education Conference. Menomonie, WI.
Armstrong, J. & McNeill, E. (2022). Social justice and inclusive pedagogy efforts toward the unification of one college campus. Research presented at the NCTEAR spring conference Reimaging Literacy Research for Social Change.
Armstrong, J. (2020) Transforming elementary read-alouds into communities of practice. Research presentation at the Wisconsin State Reading Association’s 2020 Conference, Milwaukee, WI.
Armstrong, J. (2020). Opening Elementary Curriculum Through Permeable Read-Alouds. [Doctoral dissertation, Indiana University-Bloomington]
Armstrong, J. (2019). Coalition across difference: Mediating interactions through which global and local understandings are negotiated and constructed within classroom spaces. Research presented at the 17th International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities, University of Granada, Spain.
Armstrong, J., Boyle, L., Herron, L., Locke, B., & Smith, L. (2019). Ethnographic case studies. In Samuelson, B. L., Frye, J. M. Hare, S. & Covington, M. (Eds.). Short guides in education research methodologies. Bloomington, IN: IU Pressbooks. https://iu.pressbooks.pub/lcle700resguides/chapter/ethnographic-case-study/
Armstrong, J. (2019). Beyond third spaces: Uncovering cultural resources and shared knowledges to create classrooms that cultivate social justice. Research presented at the Fifteenth International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL.
Armstrong, J. (2019). Disrupting business as usual: Early childhood literacies and the bridging of self, other, and world. Research presented at the 41st Annual Early Childhood Education Conference, University of Wisconsin-Stout, Menomonie, WI.
Armstrong, J. (2018). The transformative space of read-alouds: Developing conscious understandings of self, other, and world. Research presented at the Fourteenth International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Davis, S., Armstrong, J., Lam, C., McNeill, E., & Pennington, C. (2018). Twitterchats and team glitter: New literacies and communities of online professional development. Research presented at the First International Conference on Literacy, Culture, and Language Education, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.
Armstrong, J. (2018). Red fish, blue fish: Understanding self, other, and world through read-alouds. Research presented at the First International Conference on Literacy, Culture, and Language Education, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.