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Lanette Jimerson
Assistant Professor
Literacy & LanguageCurriculum and Instruction
- Ph.D. — Education, University of California, Berkeley
- M.A. — Education, University of California, Berkeley School of Education
- B.A. — English, California State University, Hayward
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2022 – present
Assistant Professor
Curriculum and Instruction
Purdue University, West Lafayette
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2019 – 2022
Assistant Professor
University of Houston
Curriculum and Instruction
College of Education
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2018 – 2019
Visiting Assistant Professor
Joint appointment within the College of Liberal Arts and College of Education
Purdue University, West Lafayette
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2014 – 2018
Program Director
University of California, Berkeley
Multicultural Secondary English Credential and Masters Program
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2012 – 2014
Academic Research and Program Manager
Stanford Center for Assessment, Learning and Equity (SCALE)
Stanford University
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2011 – 2012
Co-director, Bay Area Writing Project
University of California, Berkeley
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2006 – 2013
English and History Teacher
Secondary Level
- Deeper Learning Fellow, American Educational Research Association (AERA), 2019
- Educator of Excellence, African American Regional Educational Alliances, 2016
- East Bay Distinguished Young Alumna of the Year, California State University, 2014
- Educator of the Year, Black Women Organized for Political Action (BWOPA), 2003
Research Interest
Her research is situated at the intersection of literacy theory, writing development, and assessment. In particular, writing pedagogies and technologies that support the writing development of youth and adult learners from racially, economically and linguistically marginalized communities.
Selected Publications
- Jimerson, L. (2019). “Shorting Educators of Color: A Two-Tiered System?”. English Education, 52(1), 4-13.
- McBride, C, Jimerson, L. & Mahiri, J. (2019) “We don’t do this work alone: How practitioner demos develop digital praxis in teacher education”. In Lopez, A & Olan, E. (eds). The Challenges of Transformative Change in Teacher Education. Information Age Publishers.
- Jimerson, L., & Hersey, P. (2016). “Localizing human rights education through technology: Two literacy based examples”. In Babaci-Wilhite, Z (ed) Human Rights in Language and STEM Education (pp. 91-108). SensePublishers.
- Eidman-Aadahl, E., Blair, K., DeVoss, D., Hochman, W., Jimerson, L., Jurich, C., …Wood, J. (2013). “Developing domains for multimodal writing assessment: The language of evaluation, the language of instruction”. In McKee, H. A., & DeVoss, D. N. (Eds.) Digital writing assessment & evaluation. Logan, UT: Computers and Composition Digital Press/Utah State University Press. Retrieve from http://ccdigitalpress.org/dwae.
- ENGL 39100 — Writing in Secondary Schools
- EDCI 42200 — Teaching English in the Secondary School
- EDCI 49800F — Seminar for English Education Student Teachers
