ACTELA

Dixie Keyes, Northeast
2008

Dixie Keyes received her Ed.D. from the University of Houston in 2006 and joined the faculty at Arkansas State University as a Professor of Middle Level Education.  From 2000 – 2005 she taught high school literature and language arts in deep South Texas and assisted at-risk students in accelerating their reading and writing proficiency.  Before that, Dr. Keyes taught middle school language arts in rural, deep South Texas, working with second language learners while she worked on her master’s in Reading.  Dr. Keyes has provided professional development sessions to public school teachers (profit-free) throughout South Texas in reading and writing instruction, reflective practice and models of teaching. She is an Arkansas state ALAN (Assembly on Literature for Adolescents of NCTE) representative and is currently involved in conducting narrative research regarding teacher curriculum-making with critical literacy for middle level learners. Her research focuses on teacher knowledge, the narratives involved in their curriculum-making, all embedded in issues of adolescent literacy and critical pedagogy.