Patricia PaughPatricia Paugh is a professor in the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Massachusetts Boston, where she teaches literacy methods courses and is graduate program director for elementary education. Her work has been ublished in academic and professional journals including: Language Arts, Journal of Literacy Research, Reading Research Quarterly, Literacy Researcher: Theory, Method, Practice, and Teaching Education. She has also published three co-edited volumes focused on literacy learning: Teaching Toward Democracy with Post-modern and Popular Culture Texts, A Classroom Teacher’s Guide to Struggling Writers, and A Classroom Teacher’s Guide to Struggling Readers.  Pat brings an extensive background as a first-grade teacher and elementary reading specialist to her current practice as a teacher educator in a public university and as an advocate for teachers’ professionalism. She also currently serves as co-editor for Talking Points, a journal of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE). Learn more about her work at https://www.umb.edu/faculty_staff/list/patricia_paugh. Follow her on Twitter @peep1250.  Read More Read Less