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First Name
Christina
Last Name
Ponzio
Email
ponzioc@gvsu.edu
Role(s)
- Assistant Professor
Office Address
482C DeVos
Office Phone
616-331-6226
Department
- Literacy, Educational Foundations, and Technology
Program
- Literacy Studies
About
Building from my previous experiences as a secondary ELA/ESL teacher, ESL program coordinator, and literacy coach in Metro Detroit and teacher educator at Michigan State University, University of Michigan, and Wayne State University, I am committed to advancing equity, inclusion, and social justice in language literacy education for all learners through three principles:
- Preparing teachers to enact equitable, inclusive, and just language and literacy pedagogies requires the development of their critical consciousness of self and society.
- Positioning teachers and learners alike as insiders within literacy communities involves teaching as an apprenticeship.
- The development of teachers’ critical consciousness and empathy must result in bottom-up praxis or action.
These three principles are central to my work as a teacher educator and researcher in the Literacy Studies program at Grand Valley State University.
Teaching Areas
- Literacy Studies
Courses
- EDR 321: Content Area Literacy
- EDR 685: Literacy Instruction Practicum
- EDR 624: Elementary Literacy: Learners, Text, And The Environment
- EDR 625: Secondary Literacy: Learners, Text, And The Environment
- EDR 687: Reading/Literacy Specialist and Literacy Coach Practicum
Degrees
- Ph.D., Michigan State University
- B.A., Michigan State University
Academic & Professional Activities
- American Educational Research Association (AERA)
- Michigan Council of Teachers of English (MCTE
- Michigan Reading Association (MRA)
- National Council for Teachers of English (NCTE)
Scholarly Interests & Research
- Bi/Multilingual Learner Education
- Disciplinary Literacies
- Teacher Education
- Teacher Identity and Ideology
- Teachers as Writers
- Anti-Racist Organizational Change
- Qualitative Research: (Auto)Ethnography, Discourse Analysis, Narrative and Poetic Inquiry, Self-Study
Recent Peer-Reviewed Publications
Limlamai, N. & Ponzio, C. M. (2023). Disrupting racism and white supremacy culture in a professional development organization. Currents, (3)1.
Van Gorp, K., De Costa, P., Ponzio, C. M., Her, L., Rawal, R. & Deng, M. (2023). Developing Critical Multilingual Language Awareness: Exploring the impact of coursework on preservice teachers’ language ideologies. Special Issue: Developing Critical Multilingual Language Awareness from Pedagogical Stance to Research-Based Practices: Global Perspectives.
Limlamai, N., Ponzio, C. M., Esman, S., Zellner, A & Bush, J. (2023). Writing collaboratively, building antiracist organizational change. English Leadership Quarterly.
Recent Presentations
Briere, B., Jones, R., Limlamai, N., Oviatt, R., Ponzio, C. M., & Shahid, R. Continuing the marathon: An overview of MCTE’s “full-throttle history” to pursue antiracist organizational change in English education. Presentation accepted for the Michigan Council for Teachers of English Annual Conference: East Lansing, Michigan, October 2023.
Van Gorp, K., Ponzio, C. M., Her, L., Rawal, H. & Deng, M. The impact of critical multilingual language awareness coursework on preservice teachers’ language ideologies and practices. Paper accepted as a part of the Developing Critical Multilingual Language Awareness from Pedagogical Stance to Research-Based Practice colloquium for the American Association for Applied Linguistics Conference: Portland, Oregon, March, 2023.
Ponzio, C. M. Getting into the “flow”: Leveraging multilingual/multimodal resources through translanguaging. Presentation accepted for the Michigan Teaching of English to Speakers of Other Languages Conference: Ann Arbor, Michigan, November 2022.
Ponzio, C. M., Robinson, N. & Webster, A. (Re)igniting our joy and purpose as equity-oriented English educators through collective self-study. Presentation accepted for the Michigan Teaching of English to Speakers of Other Languages Conference: Ann Arbor, Michigan, November 2022.
Robinson, C., Berends, J., Orr, S. & Ponzio, C. M. White graduate student responsibility in creating academic racial climate. Presentation accepted for the International Conference on Education and Justice: Online, October 2022.
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