Dana Robertson
Dr. Dana Robertson is known for his work focused on classroom discussion and teachers’ talk, reading and writing challenges, and literacy professional learning through coaching and whole school literacy improvement. Through each of these projects, he has sought ways to provide equitable and inclusive literacy opportunities to teachers and school-age children in ways that are humanizing, agentive, and sustainable. In 2013, Dr. Robertson was named an Emerging Scholar with the Reading Hall of Fame. He has also been awarded the Ellbogen Meritorious Classroom Teaching Award, the Marvin Millgate Engaged Faculty Award, and the Mary Garland Early Career Fellowship, all from the University of Wyoming. He is a frequent presenter at national and international conferences, and he was a collaborating author on the International Literacy Association’s Standards for the Preparation of Literacy Professionals published in 2017, which serve as credentialing standards for the preparation of literacy professionals at institutions of higher education throughout the United States. He serves as a Board Member-at-Large for the International Literacy Association and was a past Board Member for the Literacy Research Association. He has co-authored two books, co-edited a third book book focused on equitable and sustainable literacy professional learning, and has published numerous book chapters and articles in literacy education journals including Journal of Literacy Research, Theory Into Practice, Professional Development in Education, The Reading Teacher, Reading Psychology, Language Arts, Voices From the Middle, and Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy. He is a former elementary classroom teacher, literacy specialist, and literacy coach. He also formerly served as the Executive Director of the Literacy Research Center and Clinic and Associate Professor in the School of Teacher Education at the University of Wyoming, where he held the Everett D. and Elizabeth Lantz Distinguished Professor in Education appointment from 2019 to 2021. Dr. Dana A. Robertson is currently an Associate Professor of Reading and Literacy in the School of Education at Virginia Tech.
Book Links:
Innovations in Literacy Professional Learning:
Engaging Readers: Supporting All Students in Knowledge-Driven Reading, Grades 4-8:
To cite this episode: Persohn, L. (Host). (2023, Apr. 25). A conversation with Dana Robertson (Season 3, No. 23) [Audio podcast episode]. In Classroom Caffeine Podcast series. https://www.classroomcaffeine.com/guests.