Dr. Amy Leigh Tondreau
Tenured
School of Education Language, Literacy and Culture
College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences
She/Her/Hers/Herself
About
Dr. Amy Tondreau is an Assistant Professor of Elementary Literacy at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. She holds an Ed.D. in Curriculum & Teaching from Teachers College, Columbia University. Her research focuses on critical literacies, culturally sustaining elementary literacy pedagogy, and teachers’ and students’ literacy identities. Her first book, Sustaining Cultural and Disability Identities in the Literacy Classroom, K-6 was published in October 2024 by Routledge.
Research interests
Critical literacies, writing pedagogies, student and teacher literacy identities, culturally sustaining pedagogy, disability sustaining pedagogy, multimodal composition and remixing, critical teacher education, self-study, narrative inquiry, children's literature
Teaching interests
Elementary literacy methods, children's literature, culturally sustaining pedagogy, disability sustaining pedagogy, critical literacies, digital literacies, writing pedagogy, multimodal literacies
Education
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EDD, Curriculum & Instruction
— Teachers College, Columbia University (2018) Teachers as Writers: A Case Study of a Teacher Writing Group
- Other, Reading — Rhode Island College (2012)
- BA, Elementary Education and Communications — Boston College (2006)
Publications
- Virtual Reality in Teacher Preparation: Constructing Possibilities for Orienting Novice Teachers to School Communities 2024
- Playful literacy learning in preservice teacher education: Culturally sustaining pedagogy with picture books, playdough, poetry & prose 2024
- Counternarratives of Resistance in Preservice Teacher Education 2022
Grants and Contracts
- CIDER: Visualizing the Factors in K-12 Education Success 2022