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Transition Radio Industries September 2012
Transition Radio Industries September 2012
sj Miller is Associate Professor of Literacy at the University of Colorado, Boulder and affiliate faculty for CU’s Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence (CSPV), LGBTQ Studies, Culture, Language and Social Practice (CLASP), and Women and Gender Studies. sj’s research is framed around social justice, which cuts across theory, epistemology and pedagogy and links across socio-spatial justice, Urban Education, preservice and inservice secondary language arts teacher dispositions, and marginalized/undervalued student literacies and identities.
Currently, sj is Executive Committee member of the Conference on English Education (CEE), AERA Division G, Affirmative Action Officer, Co-Chair of the AERA Queer SIG, consultant for the College Board providing best practices to secondary Pre- and Advanced Placement English teachers, AP Literature and Composition Table Leader and AP Grant Mentor, co-editor of English Education, coeditor of the inaugural book series with Peter Lang Publishers, Social Justice Across Contexts in Education, and advisory board member for Routledge’s Critical Studies in Gender and Sexuality in Education, Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, and the CU’s Chancellor’s LGBT Committee.
Most notably, sj won the 2005 Article of the Year Award from the English Journal for “Shattering Images of Violence in Young Adult Literature: Strategies for the Classroom,” and co-authored Unpacking the Loaded Teacher Matrix: Negotiating Space and Time Between University and Secondary English Classrooms which received the Richard A. Meade award from NCTE. sj helped draft the Beliefs Statement about Social Justice in English education and helped pass the NCTE Resolution on Social Justice in Literacy Education, which informed the newly-vetted CAEP Social Justice Standard 6. sj also co-created the newly vetted CEE Commission and NCTE Resolution on Commission for Dismantling the School-to-Prison Pipeline. sj co-authored Generation BULLIED 2.0: Prevention and intervention strategies for our most vulnerable students, has been awarded "Essential Book for Professionals Who Serve Teens," by Voices of Youth Advocate Magazine. Just recently, sj was named the 2015 recipient of the Joanne Arnold Courage and Commitment Award for contributions to advocacy and education in the lives of LGBTQ people at CU and beyond. sj has two forthcoming books: Queer educators in academia: Critical memoirs and Teaching, affirming, and recognizing trans and gender creative youth: A queer literacy framework. sj is past co-chair of AERA Division K, CEE Commission for Social Justice, and past co-president of NC-TEAR.
sj’s works have appeared in a number of journals including; English Education, English Journal, Alan Review, Teacher Education and Practice, Scholar-Practitioner Quarterly, Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, International Journal of Critical Pedagogy, the Educational Leadership Quarterly, and Teachers College Record.
sj is an avid runner, biker and swimmer, loves art-house and independent cinema, reading, chillin’ with my cats, teaching literacy in a women’s prison, and all things Santa Fe, NM.
Currently, sj is Executive Committee member of the Conference on English Education (CEE), AERA Division G, Affirmative Action Officer, Co-Chair of the AERA Queer SIG, consultant for the College Board providing best practices to secondary Pre- and Advanced Placement English teachers, AP Literature and Composition Table Leader and AP Grant Mentor, co-editor of English Education, coeditor of the inaugural book series with Peter Lang Publishers, Social Justice Across Contexts in Education, and advisory board member for Routledge’s Critical Studies in Gender and Sexuality in Education, Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, and the CU’s Chancellor’s LGBT Committee.
Most notably, sj won the 2005 Article of the Year Award from the English Journal for “Shattering Images of Violence in Young Adult Literature: Strategies for the Classroom,” and co-authored Unpacking the Loaded Teacher Matrix: Negotiating Space and Time Between University and Secondary English Classrooms which received the Richard A. Meade award from NCTE. sj helped draft the Beliefs Statement about Social Justice in English education and helped pass the NCTE Resolution on Social Justice in Literacy Education, which informed the newly-vetted CAEP Social Justice Standard 6. sj also co-created the newly vetted CEE Commission and NCTE Resolution on Commission for Dismantling the School-to-Prison Pipeline. sj co-authored Generation BULLIED 2.0: Prevention and intervention strategies for our most vulnerable students, has been awarded "Essential Book for Professionals Who Serve Teens," by Voices of Youth Advocate Magazine. Just recently, sj was named the 2015 recipient of the Joanne Arnold Courage and Commitment Award for contributions to advocacy and education in the lives of LGBTQ people at CU and beyond. sj has two forthcoming books: Queer educators in academia: Critical memoirs and Teaching, affirming, and recognizing trans and gender creative youth: A queer literacy framework. sj is past co-chair of AERA Division K, CEE Commission for Social Justice, and past co-president of NC-TEAR.
sj’s works have appeared in a number of journals including; English Education, English Journal, Alan Review, Teacher Education and Practice, Scholar-Practitioner Quarterly, Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, International Journal of Critical Pedagogy, the Educational Leadership Quarterly, and Teachers College Record.
sj is an avid runner, biker and swimmer, loves art-house and independent cinema, reading, chillin’ with my cats, teaching literacy in a women’s prison, and all things Santa Fe, NM.
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