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