Szech, Laura E

Szech, Laura E
Assistant Professor

Assistant Professor, Early Childhood, Elementary, Middle, Literacy and Special Education , Watson College of Education

Selected Publications

Academic Article

Year	Title	Altmetric
2021-01-01	How the Funds of Knowledge Theory Shifted Teachers’ Dominant Narratives of Family Involvement.. School Community Journal. 2021-01-01
2020-01-01	Family visits: A third space examination of sharing power between school and home.. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education. 2020-01-01

Article

Year	Title	Altmetric
2020-01-01	Love (and Teaching) in the Time of Covid-19.. Harmonize Higher Education Blog.. 2020-01-01
2018-01-01	Literacy education at home: Approaches for practicing reading and writing.. Iowa Reading Research Center Blog.. 2018-01-01

Chapter

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2021-01-01	Using culturally relevant “mirror” books: Teachers can benefit, too!. The Classroom Library. 2021-01-01

Document

Year	Title	Altmetric
	A fresh look at literacy when home was also school.. IGI Global Publishers.
	Handbook of Research on Family Literacy Practices and Home School Connections.. IGI Global Publishers.

Presentations

Removing the Distance from Learning., Educause: ELI Annual Meeting 2022-06-01
Fostering Culturally Relevant Teaching Through Family Visits, World Education Research Association (WERA at AERA) 2022-04-01
Expanded Notions of What “Counts”: Benefits of A Teacher Professional Development Course on Culturally Responsive Literacy Practices. , Eastern Educational Research Association Conference 2022-02-01
Professional Teacher Book Clubs: Performative of a Space for Engaging in Anti-racism?, Critical Questions in Education Conference 2022-02-01
Implications of Discussing or Avoiding Race in the Elementary Classroom, North Carolina Association for Research in Education 2021-03-01
Do Book Clubs Matter? How Teachers Learn to Engage in Anti-Racism., Eastern Educational Research Association Conference 2021-02-01
Unveiling Whiteness’s Grip on your Classroom. Critical and Decolonizing Praxis Teach-In., Center for Teaching Excellence 2020-10-01
Culturally Sustaining Books: What Do Teachers Learn?, Critical Questions in Education Conference 2019-11-01
White Teachers, Diverse Students: Using “Mirror” Books to Better Know our Students and Engage in Self-Reflection., Whole Language Umbrella Annual Conference 2019-07-01
Centering relationships: Literacy research through the lens of a family-teacher connection at home., Annual Meeting of the Literacy Research Association 2018-11-01
Using quality diverse literature to help students discover who they are and who they might become: Strengthening parent-teacher partnerships with Notable Books., Annual Meeting of the National Council of Teachers of English 2018-11-01
Shifting the power from school to home: expanding notions of literacy through home visits. , Annual Meeting of the International Literacy Association 2018-07-01
A path to culturally sustaining pedagogy: Putting student voice in the center of literacy instruction., 6th Annual Meeting of the University of Iowa Department of World Languages and Global Organizations Conference 2018-04-01
Teaching literacy through family diversity., Meeting of the Critical Questions in Education Conference 2018-03-01
Community Foundation of Johnson County grant recipient: Grant writing process., University of Iowa College of Education Research Series 2017-09-01
Linguistically diverse books as “mirrors.” , University of Iowa College of Education Diversity Committee Meeting 2017-03-01
Linguistically diverse books as “mirrors.” , Diversity in Education Conference at the University of Iowa College of Education 2017-03-01
Community Foundation of Johnson County grant recipient: Overview presentation., University of Iowa College of Education Research Series 2017-02-01
Linguistically diverse books as “mirrors.”, Martin Luther King, Jr. Research Symposium at the University of Iowa College of Education 2017-01-01
Strong girls read strong books: Linguistically diverse books as “mirrors.” , Annual Convention of the National Council of Teachers of English 2016-11-01

Investigator On

Family-faculty book club and conference travel 2022-01-01

Understanding Community and Culture: Teachers Working to Better Know Their Students 2022-01-01

Honors research project and conference travel 2021-01-01

Ballard and Seashore Dissertation Fellowship. 2019-01-01

Collaboration with Community Schools 2019-01-01

Professional book club and conference travel 2019-01-01

Professional international conference travel 2019-01-01

Take Me There Teaching Travel Award 2019-01-01

Dissertation research project. 2018-01-01 - 2019-01-01

Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award 2018-01-01

Strengthening teacher-family connections in a high- needs elementary school. 2016-01-01 - 2018-01-01

Martin Luther King, Jr. Diversity Research Symposium 2017-01-01

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