Before receiving her Ph.D. from the University of Arizona in Language, Reading, and Culture, she was an urban teacher who taught Spanish and French at an alternative middle school in New York City. Her teaching and scholarship focus on middle school education, inquiry, co/autoethnography, self-study, and action research, progressive schooling, and most recently teacher leadership. For the past eight years, she has served as the liaison to Grover Cleveland Middle School in Caldwell, NJ. Each semester, she offers teacher education courses on-site at there. She is the Graduate Program Coordinator of the new Masters in Teacher Leadership and she is the faculty adviser to school teams engaged in Dodge Action Research Projects. Montclair State University 1 Normal Ave Montclair, New Jersey 07043 973-655-4000