Dr. Britnie Delinger Kane

Bio

Dr. Kane is an Associate Professor of Literacy Education. She also serves as the Director of the Center for Literacy Excellence and as Program Coordinator for Literacy Education. A native Coloradoan, Dr. Kane taught at the University of Colorado, Denver prior to her arrival at The Citadel. She received her Ph.D. and M.Ed. from Peabody College at Vanderbilt University, which was only possible because of the incomparable support she received from the University of South Carolina’s Honors College.

Dr. Kane’s teaching and research interests focus on how teachers learn to teach in ways that are both conceptually rich and equitable. She is interested in teachers’ development across their careers, especially in the design of preservice teacher education, how teachers’ collaborative talk supports their professional learning, and how instructional coaching supports teachers’ professional learning. Dr. Kane studies these supports for teachers’ learning especially as they relate to disciplinary literacy, writing instruction, and the STEM fields.

Dr. Kane has published in the American Educational Research Journal, the Journal of the Learning Sciences, the Journal of Teacher Education, Teachers College Record, and elsewhere.

Degrees

  • Ph.D. in Literacy Education
    Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
  • M.Ed. in Secondary English Education
    Peabody College at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
  • B.A. in English
    University of South Carolina’s Honors College, Columbia, SC

Research Interests

  • Teacher Learning
  • Writing Instruction
  • Literacy Across the Content Areas

Publications

  • Savitz, R., Brown, C. Morrison, J. D., Kane, B. D., & O’Byrne, W. I. (2024). Secondary Teachers’ Adolescent Literacy Efficacy and Professional Learning Considerations. Reading Research Quarterly, 59(1), p. 102-123. 10.1002/rrq.521  
  • Saclarides, E. S. & Kane, B. D. (2024). An exploration of how mathematics coaches make their own professional learning available to teachers. Journal of School Leadership, 34(2), 97-121. https://doi.org/10.1177/10526846231187577.  
  • Ortlieb, E., Kane, B. D., & Cheek, E. (2024). Disciplinary Literacies: Unpacking Research, Theory, and Practice, Eds. Guilford Press.  
  • Kane, B. D., Robinson, R., Blanton, M. & Albert, J. (2024). Letting the mathematics lead in mathematical literacy: A conceptual framework for how literacy is implicated in mathematics. In Scott, C., Miller, D. & Albert, M. Eds. Cultivating Literate Citizenry Through Interdisciplinary Instruction. IGI Global Publishing.   
  • Kane, B. D., Ortlieb, E. T., & Cheek, E. (2024). Tracing the history of disciplinary literacies. Eds. Ortlieb, E. T., Kane, B. D. & Cheek, E. H. In Disciplinary Literacies: Unpacking Research, Theory, and Practice. Guilford Press.  
  • Savitz, R. & Kane, B. D. (2023). Trauma-Sensitive Literacy Instruction: Building Student Resilience in English Language Arts Classrooms. Teachers College Press.  
  • Kane, B. D. & Savitz, R. S. (2022). Disciplinary literacy and culturally sustaining pedagogies: Potential and tension. Eds. Cantrell, S., Walker-Dalhouse, D. & Lazar, A. In Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy: Developing Socially Just Literacy Teaching Practices. Teachers College Press.
  • Kane, B. D. (in press). Disciplinary literacy and disciplinary computational thinking: Theorizing the similarities to support teachers learning to teach ambitiously. Journal of Literacy and Technology.
  • Kane, B. D., Keene, K. C. & Reynolds, S. (2022).Collaborative literary reasoning as a support for preservice English language arts teachers’ learning about disciplinary literacy. English Teaching: Theory and Practice, 21(1), p. 84-97. https://doi.org/10.1108/ETPC-06-2021-0065
  • Kane, B. D. & Saclarides, E. S. (2022).Doing the math together:Coaches’ professional learning through engagement in mathematics. Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10857-021-09527-y
  • Saclarides, E. S. & Kane, B. D. (2021). Understanding coaches’ development: Coaches’ attributions of their professional learning in school districts. International Journal of Educational Research, 109, p. 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijer.2021.101815.
  • Kane, B. D. (2020). Equitable teaching and the Core Practice movement: Preservice teachers’ professional reasoning. Teachers College Record, 122(11).
  • Kane, B. D. & Rosenquist, B. (2019). Relationships between district- and school-level policies and expectations and instructional coaches’ time use. American Educational Research Journal, 56(5), 1718–1768.
  • Horn, I. S. & Kane, B. D. (2019). What we mean when we talk about teaching: Professionalizing discourse and the limits of technical language for teacher learning. Teachers College Record, 121(4).
  • Kane, B. D. & Rosenquist, B. (2018). Making the most of instructional coaches. Phi Delta Kappan Magazine, 99(7), p. 21-25.
  • Kane, B. D., Cobb, P. & Gibbons, L. (2018). Supporting ambitious instruction at scale: The role of instructional coaching. In Cobb, P., Jackson, K., Henrick, E., Smith, T.M., & the MIST team. Systems for instructional improvement: Creating coherence from the classroom to the district office. Harvard Education Press: Cambridge, MA.
  • Horn, I. S., Kane, B. D. & Garner, B. (2018). Supporting ambitious instruction at scale: Teachers’ collaborative time. In Cobb, P., Jackson, K., Henrick, E., Smith, T.M., & the MIST team. Systems for instructional improvement: Creating coherence from the classroom to the district office. Harvard Education Press: Cambridge, MA.
  • Horn, I. S., Garner, B., Kane, B. D. & Brasel, J. (2017). A taxonomy of instructional learning opportunities in teachers’ workgroup conversations. Journal of Teacher Education, 68(1), 41-54.
  • Kane, B. D. (2016). Design conjectures for preservice teachers’ concept development about rigorous and equitable writing instruction. Teaching/Writing: The Journal of Writing Teacher Education, 5(1).

Presentations

  • Zutell, A., Kane, B. D. & Beck, L. (2024). Artificial Intelligence for Literacy Educators: How Demystifying AI Influences Literacy Teachers’ Instructional Planning. Paper presented at the annual International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Education: Tokyo, Japan.  
  • Kane, B. D. (2024). Learning from CHE Center for Excellence Grants: The Center for Mathematical Literacy. Invited Panelist for the South Carolina Commission on Higher Education’s Workshop for Centers of Excellence. Columbia, SC.  
  • Kane, B. D. & Zutell, A. (2024). The Citadel Success Initiative’s Summer Bridge Program. Invited Presentation to The Citadel’s Board of Visitors: Charleston, SC.   
  • Kane, B. D. (2024). The Center for Literacy Excellence. Invited Presentation to The Citadel’s Board of Visitors: Charleston, SC.  
  • Kane, B. D. & Zutell, A. (2024). The Citadel Success Initiative’s Summer Bridge Program. Invited Presentation to the South Carolina Commission on Higher Education, ESSER Grant Division: Charleston, SC.  
  • Kane, B. D., Robinson, R., Blanton, M. & Albert, J. (2024). Letting the mathematics lead: A framework for understanding how literacy is implicated in mathematics. Paper presented at the annual conference of the American Educational Research Association: Philadelphia, PA.  
  • Kane, B. D. Robinson, R., Blanton, M. & Albert, J. (2024). The Center for Mathematical Literacy at The Citadel: How Disciplinary Literacy Supports Rural Math Teachers. Invited presentation for the Annual Grants Workshop for the South Carolina Commission on Higher Education. Columbia College: Columbia, SC.    
  • Kane, B. D., Robinson, R., Blanton, M. & Albert, J. (2024). Letting the mathematics lead: A framework for understanding how literacy is implicated in mathematics. Paper presented at the annual conference of the Literacy Research Association: Atlanta, GA.  
  • Kane, B. D., Keene, K. C. & Reynolds, S. (2023). Collaborative literary reasoning as a support for preservice English language arts teachers’ learning about disciplinary literacy. Paper presented at the annual conference of the Literacy Research Association: Atlanta, GA.

Awarded Grants

  • Kane, B. D. & Zutell, A. (2024). Bridging the Gap through Competency-Based Education and Peer Support. South Carolina Commission on Higher Education ESSER. Awarded: $872,599.52  
  • Kane, B. D. & Ilagan, G. (2024). Social and Emotional Learning Opportunity Grant. Lowcountry Graduate Center. Awarded: $25,000
  • Kane, B. D. (2024). Dyslexia Training Certificate Program Opportunity Grant. Lowcountry Graduate Center. Awarded: $25,000   
  • Kane, B. D., Zutell, A. & Beck, E. (2024). Infusing Artificial Intelligence within Teacher Preparation Programs Opportunity Grant. Lowcountry Graduate Center. Awarded: $25,000   
  • Ortlieb, E., Kane, B. D., Dague, C., Albert, J. & Zutell, A. (2023). South Carolina Grow Your Own (Teachers) Initiative. South Carolina Department of Education. Awarded: $100,000.00