Kathleen Pierce, Ph.D.

Department Chair
Assistant Professor, Teacher Education

• Email Address: kpierce@rider.edu
• Phone: 609-895-5478
• Fax: (609)896-5362
• Office: Memorial Hall 202 O
• Mailing Address: 2083 Lawrence Road, Lawrenceville, NJ 08648

Academic Background
1994 PhD Graduate School of Education/ University of Pennsylvania
1987 Med English Education Graduate School of Education/ Rutgers, The State University
1979 BA Communications Glassboro State College/ Currently Rowan University

Selected Publications
1994 Seen But Not Heard: Students and Their Stories of School (Published dissertation) UMI

Selected Presentations

• Nov. 2003 “Collaboration in Higher Education: Co-Teaching a Secondary and Special Education Instructional Practices Course” (Co-Presenter with Rider University’s Dr. Kathy McQuillan) The Council for Exceptional Children: Teacher Education Division (TED) Conference/ Biloxi, MS
• Aug. - Dec. 2003 Differentiation Workshops for Student Teachers Rider University/ Lawrenceville, NJ
• July 2003 Hosted Folger Library Shakespeare Festivals Workshop sponsored by the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation- invitees and participants included pre-service and in-service middle and secondary school English language arts teachers, Rider University English and School of Education faculty. Rider University/ Lawrenceville, NJ
• May 2003 “Collaborative at the University: Collegial Applications for Teaching and Learning or How I Learned to Stopped Talking to Myself” Faculty Development Day Rider University Lawrenceville, NJ
• Oct. 2002 “Writing Across the Curriculum, Holistic Scoring, NJ Proficiency Assessments” Faculty Inservice Manville High School/ Manville, NJ
• May 2002 “Supervising Student Teachers Using Co-Constructed Reporting and INTASC Standards” Field Placement Workshop Rider University/ Lawrenceville, NJ
• March 2002 “The Power of Hope and Peer Influences: Opportunities for Counselors, Teachers, and Students” (Co-presenter with Rider University’s Dr. Nancy Westburg) NJ Counseling Association Annual Conference/ Princeton, NJ
• Nov. 2000 “Crossing Borders: Integrating English and Social Studies Curriculum within a Study of U.S Immigration” Coalition of Essential Schools Fall Forum/ Providence, RI
• Feb. 2000 “Why Explore Our Solar System?” Presentation with students and Science Dept. colleague on English/ Science. Faculty Inservice Souhegan High School/ Amherst, NH
• Oct. 1998 “Old Stuff That Belonged to Dead People: Using Artifacts in the Secondary Classroom to Teach History and Writing” Presentation on high school English/ Social Studies curriculum project in partnership With Winterthur Museum. Pennsylvania Council for the Social Studies 45th Annual Conference/ Philadelphia, PA
• Feb. 1998 “What Is She Looking For?” Making Writing Criteria Explicit” Writers’ Weekend Moorestown Public Schools/ Moorestown, NJ

Current Research Agenda
Themes across my teaching and scholarship involve collegial collaboration to promote various teaching, learning, and interdisciplinary understandings- particularly but not exclusively among preservice and beginning teachers. My agenda includes: -Ongoing ethnographic study of beginning teachers and their professional acculturation, expressed needs and development through Web-based initiative NetworkEd@Rider U

• Ongoing University-level collaborative teaching and scholarship between prospective special educators and general educators.
• Study of beginning and experienced teachers’ work and development in the Trenton Area Writing Project Advanced Institute

Academic Honors and Awards
Summer 2003 Rider University Faculty Development Summer Fellowship “NetworkEd at Rider University: A Web-based Professional Development Community for Educators”

Other Professional Activities

• Summer 2004 Advanced Institute Facilitator National Writing Project/Trenton Area Writing Project (TAWP) Rider University/ Lawrenceville, NJ
• Sept. 2003- June 2004 Program Coordinator Graduate-Level Teacher Certification Program Department of Graduate Education Human Services School of Education Rider University/ Lawrenceville, NJ
• Sept. 2001- present Academic Advisor Undergraduate Teacher Education Secondary English Education School of Education Rider University/ Lawrenceville, NJ
• Spring 2003 Participant Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) Rider University/ Lawrenceville, NJ

Book Reviews/ Commentaries

• Tomlinson, C. A., Kaplan, S., Purcell, J., Leppien, J., Burns, D., & Strickland, C. (Eds.). (2003). The Parallel Curriculum Model in the Classroom: Reflections and Applications. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press, Inc.
• Herrell, A. & Jordan, M. (2002). 50 Active Learning Strategies for Improving Reading. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Merrill-Prentice Hall.
• Thurlow, M.L., Elliot, J. L., & Ysseldyke, J.E (2002). Testing Students with Disabilities: Practical Strategies for Complying with District and State Requirements, 2nd Edition. Thousand Oaks, CA: Crown Press, Inc.

Professional Memberships
National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), International Reading Association (IRA), The Council for Exceptional Children (CEC), Association for Curriculum, Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD), New Jersey Association for Curriculum, Supervision and Curriculum Development (NJASCD), Phi Delta Kappa International (PDK)

Courses Taught
Seminar and Internship in Student Teaching (GLTP 570)
Curriculum & Teaching in Secondary Schools (GLTP 520)
Teaching English Language Arts in Secondary Schools (Dual-listed: GLTP 504/ SED 400)
Supervision of Field Placements in Secondary English (GLTP 570 and EDU 465)
Reading/ Language Arts 5-12 (GLTP 503, formerly READ 502)