Dr. Katherine K. Frankel is an associate professor of literacy education and chair of the Language & Literacy Education Department at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. Dr. Frankel teaches graduate courses in literacy and qualitative methods. Her research focuses on adolescent literacy, broadly, including how to support adolescents\u2019 literacy learning across disciplines in secondary (middle and high school) classrooms as well as in one-on-one tutoring and other intervention contexts. Drawing on critical sociocultural theories, she seeks to understand how adolescents\u2019 multiple literacies and identities intersect with, and complicate, the literacy practices of school. Working in collaboration with young people, their teachers, and communities, she co-designs literacy learning opportunities that affirm and extend adolescents\u2019 literacy histories, identities, and capacities in the pursuit of sustainable, expansive, and equity-oriented learning.<\/p>\n
Previously, Dr. Frankel was a grammar and composition teacher and reading tutor at Landmark High School in Beverly, Massachusetts.<\/p>\n
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