Dr. Jerri Willett

Curriculum Vitae
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DR. JERRI WILLETT

Professor, Chair of BEM Practitioner Program
Director of the ESL Certification Program

B.A., University of Florida, at Gainesville, FL,1967;
M.A., University of San Francisco at San Francisco, CA, 1971;
M.Ed., University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 1980;
Ph.D., Stanford University at Stanford, CA, 1987

Furcolo Hall
813 North Pleasant Street
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA 01003-9308
Phone: (413) 545-3675 • FAX: (413) 545-2879
willett@educ.umass.edu
http://www.umass.edu/accela/willett.html

PROFILE

Dr. Willett's research focuses on language and literacy socialization in multicultural communities, schools and classrooms, and second language learning and teaching processes. She has taught children, adolescents and adults in the U.S., Hong Kong , and England and has been involved in teacher education in Hong Kong, South America, and the U.S.

COURSES

EDUC 791Z: Seminar Second Language Learning and Teaching
Syllabus

EDUC 815: Research LLC in Educational Settings: Ethnography
Syllabus

PUBLICATIONS (refer to Dr. Willett's CV for full listing)

Articles and Book Chapters
Willett, J. & Miller. S. (forthcoming) Transforming the discourse of teaching and learning: Rippling waters and shifting sands. In M. Hawkins (Ed.) Sociocultural Approaches to Language Teacher Education. Multilingual Matters Press.

Gebhard, M., Austin, T., Nieto, S. and Willett, J. (2002) "You can't step on someone else's words": Preparing all teachers to teach language minority students." In Beykont, Z. (Ed.) The Power of Culture: Teaching Across Language Difference. Cambridge: MA: Cambridge University Press, pp. 219-243.

Wilson-Keenan, J., Solsken, J., & Willett, J. (June, 2001) Troubling stories: Valuing Productive tensions in Home/School/University Collaboration. Language Arts, 78 (6), 520-528.

Willett, J., Wilson-Keenan, J. Solsken, J. (2001). Families as curriculum partners in an urban elementary inclusions classroom. In J. Murphy, J. & P. Byrd (eds), Understanding the courses we teacher: Local perspectives on English language instruction. Ann Arbor, MI: Michigan University Press, pp. 92-114.

Solsken, J. Willett, J. & Wilson-Keenan, J. (2001) Cultivating hybrid texts in multicultural classrooms: Promise and challenge." Research in the Teaching of English, 35, 179-212.

Bloome, D., Katz, L., Solsken, J., Willett, J. & Wilson-Keenan, J. (2000). Interpellations of family/community and classroom literacy practices. Journal of Educational Research, 93(3), 158-163.

Wilson Keenan, J., Solsken, J., & Willett, J.(1999). Only boys can jump high: Reconstructing gender relations in a first/second grade classroom. Constructing Gender And Difference: Critical Research Perspectives On Early Childhood, Cresskill, New Jersey: 1999, 33-70.

Willett, J., Solsken, J. & Wilson-Keenan, J. (1998). The (im)possibility of constructing multicultural language practices in research and pedagogy. Linguistics and Education, 10(2), 165-218.

Bailey, F., Hawkins, M., Irujo, S., Larsen-Freeman, D., Rintell, E., and J. Willett (1998). Language teacher educators collaborative conversations. TESOL Quarterly, 32(3), 536-546.

Egan-Robertson, A. & Willett, J. (1998). Students as ethnographers, thinking and doing ethnography: A bibliographic essay. In A. Egan-Robertson & D. Bloome (Eds.), Students As Researchers Of Culture And Language In Their Own Communities. Cresskill, New Jersey: Hampton Press, 1-32

Willett, J. (1997). EFL Curriculum development in the 21st Century: Challenges and Possibilities. Proceedings of the Eighth English Language Teaching Conference, Centro Colombo Americano: Medellin, Colombia.

Willett, J. (1996). Research as gendered practice. TESOL Quarterly, 30(2), 344-347.

Willett, J. (1995). Becoming first graders in an L2: An ethnographic study of L2 socialization. TESOL Quarterly, 29(3), 473-503.

AWARDS

Honors & Awards
Nominated for the Distinguished Teaching Award, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, 1990/91, 1991/92, 1992/93, 1994/95, 1995/96, 1996/97.

Graduate Fellowship, Stanford University, 1980-1982.

Grants
Co-Principal Investigator (with Meg Gebhard), Title III, Leave No Child Behind, OELA, 1,500,000, 2002-2007

Principal Investigator, Title VII Career Ladder, OBLEMA, $1,050,000, 2001-2006

Principal Investigator, Diversifying the Teaching Profession, State Department of Education Eisenhower Grant, $250,000 1997-2002.

Collaborator (with Springfield Teachers Collaborative, Dr. Judith Solsken & Dr. JoAnn Wilson Keenan), Working With Teachers And Parents To Improve Home/School Collaboration In Constructing A Multicultural Language Arts Curriculum, a program grant from the Davis Foundation and the Federal Government, $300,000, 1994--1997.

Co-Principal Investigator (with Bailey Jackson), ESL Grand-Parented Teacher Training Grant, State Department of Education, $100,000, 1995-1996.

Co-Principal Investigator (with Dr. Judith Solsken). The Study Of Home/School Collaboration In Constructing A Multicultural Language Arts Curriculum, a research grant from the National Council for Teachers of English, $5000, 1991--1992.

Co-Principal Investigator (with Dr. Judith Solsken). Studying Family/Community and School Literacy Connections, Faculty Research Grant, School of Education, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts, $7550, 1990 --1991.

Principal Investigator. Designing A Resource Module For Teacher Education On Teaching Second Language Learners In Mainstream Classrooms, University Faculty Growth Grant, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts, $1000, 1990--1991.Principal Investigator. Investigating The Development Of Whole Language Perspectives Of ESL And Bilingual Teachers, Faculty Research Grant, School of Education, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts, $7,500, 1989-1990.

Principal Investigator. Investigating Linguistic Routines In Second Language Acquisition. Faculty Research Grant, School of Education, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts, $7500, 1987.

ASSOCIATIONS

ACCELA (Access to Critical Content and English Language Aquisition)
LLC (Language, Culture and Literacy)
American Anthropological Association.
American Association for Applied Linguists.
American Educational Research Association.
Newsletter editor (1990--1992).
Chair of the Language and Social Processes S.I.G. (1992--1995).
International Reading Association
Massachusetts Association of Bilingual Education.
The Massachusetts Association of Teachers to Speakers of Other Languages.
National Association of Bilingual Education.
National Council of Teachers of English.
Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages
Editorial Board of TESOL Quarterly (1995-1999)

RESEARCH PROJECTS

Current Project
ACCELA

Research Interests
Constructing home/school relations
Critical literacies and pedagogies
Second-language and literacy socialization
Content-based instruction for English language learners
Second-language teacher-education
Ethnographic research methods

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