Equity in Literacy: A Multimodal Approach for Multilingual Learners 407 with Dr. Sabina Rak Neugebauer

Sabina is one of the many incredible faculty members in the College of Education and Human Development at Temple University. Her glowing reputation preceded her as we finally had a chance to meet this past Spring. Our relationship is a prime example of where I have found myself - surrounded by folks from completely different life paths but coming together to form a community and learn and grow from one another. For anyone curious about what life is like as an associate professor who is passionate about researching the “skill and will” of reading, working with multilingual learners, and bringing her theatrical nature to the classroom and beyond, this episode is for you!

Additional Topics Include:

• The Original Vanessa from Lin-Manuel Miranda's In the Heights (fun fact!)
• Literacy as a Space for Social Justice and Empowerment 
• Starting Small to Impact Changes on a Bigger Scale
• Podcasts as Professional Development
• Strategies for Engagement and Interaction in an Asynchronous Class
• Advice for Graduate Students 
• The Beauty of Bringing the Outside in(to a venue)

Thanks so much for listening, and enjoy the following episode, Equity in Literacy: A Multimodal Approach for Multilingual Learners 407 with Dr. Sabina Rak Neugebauer!

About the Guest:
Dr. Sabina Rak Neugebauer, Associate Professor of Literacy
Dr. Sabina Rak Neugebauer is an associate professor of literacy in the College of Education and Human Development at Temple University. Dr. Neugebauer’s research focuses on the language and literacy development of students in urban elementary and middle schools. Her work explores two aspects of efficacious reading: vocabulary and reading motivation. She investigates these two facets of reading at three complementary levels of analysis (individual, classroom and school context) to more comprehensively identify ways to support students in achieving equitable educational outcomes. Her scholarship identifies prominent sources of reading differences between individuals, evaluates classroom practices that empower student success, and designs assessments to help schools increase their use of evidence-based programs school-wide.

Dr. Neugebauer’s research has been supported by the Institute of Education Sciences, Spencer Foundation, and U.S. Department of Education to improve the schooling experiences of multilingual students. She is the recipient of the Outstanding Early Career Scholar Award from AERA’s Division C, Learning and Instruction, and the International Literacy Association’s Elva Knight award. She is an associate editor for the Elementary School Journal and her work has been featured in journals including the Journal of Educational Psychology, Reading Research Quarterly, Journal of Literacy Research and the Reading Teacher. She is a coauthor of Interventions for Reading Problems: Designing and Evaluating Effective Strategies, published by Guilford Press, and Indigenous Knowledge and Education: Sites of Struggle, Strength and Survivance, published by Harvard Educational Publishing Group. Her recent book is titled Reimagining Language Instruction: New Approaches to Promoting Equity published by Teachers College Press.

She received her doctorate from Harvard University & her BA from Wesleyan University. She has served as a reading interventionist & collaborated with urban schools in the US and in Latin America to develop multilingual, multi-tiered, & digital reading programs.

To learn more about Sabina’s research, view her publications here. 

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This episode has been produced in association with Gal Co Productions.