by Tynisha D. Meidl (Author), Jason Lau (Author), Margaret-Mary Sulentic Dowell (Author)
This guide cultivates a school culture where the principal is positioned as the literacy leader. It will support principals to define, and create a literacy culture, as well as provide insight to support principals in their quest to becoming primary individual responsible for bringing joy to teaching and learning as part of building school culture.
Author Biography
Tynisha D. Meidl, PhD is the Co-Chair of the Education Program and Associate Professor at St. Norbert College. Meidl's research expertise includes curriculum planning for linguistically and culturally diverse student populations, service-learning as pedagogy, as well as Freirean-based approaches in literacy classrooms. Jason Lau, Ph.D is the principal at Westwood Elementary School and Phantom Knight School of Opportunity, a project-based charter school, for the School District of West De Pere, in De Pere, Wisconsin. He earned a Master's degree in school psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater and a Ph.D. in Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Margaret-Mary Sulentic Dowell, PhD is the Cecil Pete Taylor Endowed Professor in Literacy and Urban Education at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, USA. Sulentic Dowell is Director of the LSU Writing Project and Coordinator, of the Elementary Grades Teacher Education Program.