Presentations

Qui Custodes Custodiet? The Homogenizing Effect of Standards on Teachers,” with Donna Jurich, presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association in San Diego, CA. 4/12/04.

Qui Custodes Custodiet? The Homogenizing Effect of Standards on Teachers,” with Donna Jurich, presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Association of Teacher Educators in Champaign, IL, 3/26/04.

“Strengths and Challenges of Teaching Culturally-Appropriate Science: Stories from Navajo Classrooms,” with Donna Jurich, read before the annual meeting of the Association of Teacher Educators, Santa Fe, NM, 8/11/03.

“Assessing Digital Portfolios." a presentation at the Midwest Instructional Technology Center Conference on Digital Portfolios at Monmouth College, IL, 6/13/03.

“Teaching Culturally-Appropriate Science,” with Donna Jurich, presented at the annual NSTA Conference, San Diego, CA, 3/27/02

“Untangling the Web,” an address to the Illinois Prairie chapter of Phi Delta Kappa, Galesburg, IL, 9/26/01

"Negotiating the Curriculum: Empowering Students to Direct Their Own Learning," read before the American Educational Research Association, New York, NY, April 10, 1996.

"Seeking Stories of Critical Pedagogy: Negotiating the Curriculum in Teacher Education" (co-authored with Donna Jurich and Deborah Anders), Symposium at the Conference on Curriculum Theory and Classroom Practice, Mount Eagle, TN, Sept. 1995.

"Tracing a Family Legend: One Thing Leads to Another," read at In-house Conference on Language and Literature, Southwest Missouri State University, Springfield, MO, May, 1991.

"Tracing a Family Legend: One Thing Leads to Another," read before Missouri Folklore Society, Hannibal, MO, October, 1990.

"AIDS: The Urban Legend," read at Popular Culture Association national conference, St. Louis, MO, April, 1989.

"AIDS: The Urban Legend," read before the Missouri Folklore Society, St. Joseph, MO, October, 1988.

"AIDS: The Urban Legend," read before the Missouri History Conference, Joplin, MO, April, 1988.

"The Verb System in Inuit English," read before the Missouri Academy of Sciences, Jefferson City, MO, April, 1987.

"Kotzebue English: The Influence of Inupiaq on the Vocalic System," read before the Midwest/American Dialect Society, Cincinatti, OH, Nov. 1982.

"The Vowel System of an Eskimo-English Dialect," read before the Midwest/American Dialect Society, Oconomowoc, WI, Nov. 1981

"‘Hey, Bart! You Got Sigaq, uh?’ Or, English Among the Eskimos," English Department Faculty Lecture Series, CMSU, Warrensburg, MO, Nov. 1981.

"Homemade Toys," read before the Missouri Folklore Society, Columbia, MO, Oct. 1981.

"Horace in the Classroom: Roman Poetry in the General Education Curriculum," half-day seminar conducted at the General Education Literature Conference, Emporia, KS, April 1981.

"Eskimo-English Phonology," read before the Missouri Philological Association, Joplin, MO, March 1981.

"Eskimo-English: The Verb System," read before the Philological Association of the Pacific Coast, UC-Berkeley, Nov. 1980.

"College Composition for Black English Speakers," read before the Missouri Philological Association, Warrensburg, MO, Feb. 1977.