KELLY CHANDLER‐OLCOTT
Biographic Data
| ID | 5971970 |
|---|---|
| NAME | KELLY CHANDLER‐OLCOTT |
| GIVEN NAMES | KELLY |
| FAMILY NAME | CHANDLER‐OLCOTT |
| SIGNATURE | OLCOTT K C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Syracuse University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8636-8559 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 35 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
If Only We're Brave Enough”
In this commentary, we explore contribution trends across our 5‐year tenure as the coeditors of the Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy , evaluate our successes in achieving initial goals and unforeseen challenges, and discuss the implications of this analysis for the journal’s community
Confluence
Dear JAAL Readers, The word confluence is often used to refer to the gathering at a single point of several flowing bodies of water. We chose Confluence as the theme for this issue because it offers a collection of articles that merge streams of ideas to address adolescent and adult literacies. The ideas in this issue flow from various kinds of educator and student collaborations. These collaborations result in innovative, concrete, and asset-foc…
Dialogue
Dear JAAL Readers, Dialogue is typically defined as a conversation between two or more people, often among characters in a novel or as an exchange of ideas on an issue, particularly political or religious ones, with an eye toward agreement. It is in the spirit of this last usage, which we see as embracing the others, that we selected the term dialogue to describe this issue’s content. In a contentious world with varying and competing points of vi…
Farewells
Dear JAAL Readers, The moment when we were writing this introduction was a bittersweet one for us because this is our last issue as coeditors of the Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy. Learning about our colleagues’ work in fostering adolescent and adult literacy has been a pure pleasure. As we wrote, the pandemic was raging amid growing vaccine distribution, the United States had inaugurated its new president, and our university was making d…
Progression
Dear JAAL Readers, As we write this, we are just past the start of another academic year in the United States, with all the new hopes and dreams that accompany the crisp fall air of Upstate New York. Given our production timelines, though, this issue introduction will appear just after the new year, a time when students and teachers are fully enmeshed in school routines and perhaps feeling a little less hopeful about imagined possibilities. Midwa…
Connections
Dear JAAL Readers, We wrote this introduction separately from our homes, communicating by telephone and a shared Google document to reduce internet bandwidth requirements so the other people in our families, who include both teachers and K–12 students, were better able to pursue their own work online. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we were four weeks into what our governor, Andrew Cuomo, calls “New York on PAUSE,” a comprehensive plan to flatten t…
Reckoning
Dear JAAL Readers, We write this introduction at a time when many people in the United States, where we are based, are participating in protests and other intense conversations about race, many of them sparked by ongoing policing of Black people and the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on communities of color. Although it remains to be seen whether lasting change will result from these conversations, recognition of institutional racism seems t…
Reverberations
Dear JAAL Readers, This month, Kelly and one of our Syracuse University colleagues, science educator Sharon Dotger, are launching a new initiative with some longtime partners from a local school district. Located in a middle school science classroom, the project involves collaborative investigation by science and literacy educators of the opportunities for disciplinary literacy learning offered by a rich set of curricular materials aligned with t…
Trends
Dear JAAL Readers, As longtime International Literacy Association (ILA) members, we always look forward to the release of the Association’s newest What’s Hot in Literacy Report, which takes the pulse of the field. This year’s report, published in January, was informed by two phases of inquiry. First, a panel of 16 literacy experts (including, in the interest of full disclosure, Kathy) participated in several online focus groups to determine the t…
Collaboration
Dear JAAL Readers, When collaboration works, it can result in something that is better than what individuals produce alone. Synergies result when human beings blend insights and worldviews to develop new ideas, and the new ideas can be exciting and enlightening. Productive collaboration can occur in face-to-face meetings or across vast distances using an array of communication tools. Collaboration occurs across the school day and at all levels of…
Design
Dear JAAL Readers, We note that the term design is often used in research and development contexts to refer to purposeful, detail-oriented planning that is intended to yield a desired outcome. The usage is widespread, including scientific, artistic, and social realms ranging from automobile manufacturing to architecture, from fashion to public health. At Stanford University, an open-enrollment elective, “Designing Your Life,” has become so popula…
Community
Dear JAAL Readers, Community provides the context within which language and literacy develop and thrive. As such, it is no surprise that community shares a root word with communication, from the Latin, communicare, to share. Members of the same community are often interdependent, helping each other reach common goals. They also share features, which, for humans, include attitudes, interests, and beliefs, along with sufficient differences to offer…
Pluralism
Dear JAAL Readers, Many pleasures and challenges come with editing the Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy that make the job well worth doing. Pleasures include the discovery of new ideas about literacy that spark joy, as organizational expert Marie Kondo (2014) would say, in reviewers and us. They include satisfaction when authors’ multiple drafts reach fruition in solid contributions to the journal. They include learning from the discomfort …
Exchange
Dear JAAL Readers, This past year, Kelly observed with interest as U.S.-based friends of hers welcomed Edgar, an exchange student from France, into their home. The family's social media posts documented with amusing detail all of their adventures with Edgar, who appeared to embrace experiences such as eating his first American burger and attending the high school prom with aplomb and good cheer. What struck Kelly as just as fascinating, however, …
Agency
Aspirations
Dear JAAL Readers, The past decade has seen adoption across the globe of new literacy standards and assessments. Judging from the number of passionate article submissions on this topic we have received, many individuals concerned with adolescent and adult literacy are recognizing the limitations of these frameworks when it comes to pursuing students’ short- and long-term aspirations. Such criteria, by definition, situate learners and their teache…
Queries
Dear JAAL Readers, Among the pleasures of being JAAL coeditors are the queries we receive regularly from prospective contributors. Aspiring authors want to know whether the content, tone, or implications of their manuscripts might be suitable for submission to our journal. Literacy professionals working across varied contexts want to become involved with the journal as ad hoc reviewers or editorial board members. These e-mails to [email protected…
Mediation
Dear JAAL Readers, We selected Mediation as the theme for this first issue of Volume 62 of the Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy. Mediation is typically understood as an act by which an individual or entity helps other individuals or entities resolve differences. Mediators use varied techniques to promote dialogue and empathy between disputants, often, although not always, in the context of contract negotiations. The professional experiences…
Memes
Dear JAAL Readers, Our inspiration for this issue's theme came from the first of our feature articles, “#NeverthelessMemesPersisted: Building Critical Memetic Literacy in the Classroom,” a framework for critical discussion and creation of memes offered by Lauren Harvey and Emily Palese. Like many of you, we encounter memes regularly via social and broadcast media, sometimes even circulating them ourselves using Twitter or Facebook. They have beco…
Reconciliation
Dear JAAL Readers, Symbols matter. Names matter. And coming together today to celebrate this name on this bridge matters. It shows our commitment to each other....We can't change the past, but we are not prisoners of it. We are not solely defined by the pain of our shared history but rather by how we choose to move forward. And we choose to move forward in love and kindness and in compassion. In the true spirit of reconciliation. (Kury de Castill…
Levers
Dear JAAL Readers, Although it has been a while since either of us took a physics class, we remember that using a lever involves the effort one uses to push or pull a stiff bar on a pivot to move or open an object, also known as the load. The word lever is also used as a metaphor to describe the means by which someone is persuaded to change a course of action to reach a goal. We selected Levers as the theme for this issue because it struck us tha…
Teacher Candidates Learn to Enact Curriculum in a Partnership-Sponsored Literacy Enrichment Program for Youth
This article reports on a multiyear formative experiment of a summer enrichment program that served as literacy enrichment for middle-school students, a field experience for preservice teacher candidates, and a professional development and leadership opportunity for practicing teachers. The analysis focuses on how the design team conceptualized, implemented, and researched inquiry-based, literacy-infused curriculum within the program, which was e…
Challenges
Dear JAAL Readers, We have noticed that people frequently use the word challenges to describe the unanticipated interruptions or barriers that crop up to disrupt their lives. We admit to using this word in the same way, often in the context of new, unanticipated work assignments. When we take a moment to pause and reflect, however, we realize that addressing challenges, successfully or unsuccessfully, is what typically leads to our most worthwhil…
Crossings
Dear JAAL Readers, We chose Crossings as the theme for this issue because it reflects key themes in the issue's content and in our personal experiences. We live outside of Syracuse, New York, near the geographic center of the largest state in the Northeastern United States. To travel to the International Literacy Association Annual Convention in Boston, Massachusetts, this past summer, we drove approximately five hours alongside Amtrak's rails an…
Readings
Dear JAAL Readers, One of the gems of Syracuse, New York, where we live, is the Rosamond Gifford Lecture Series, an annual series of appearances by six prominent authors with proceeds benefiting the Onondaga County Public Libraries. We once heard a National Book Award finalist call the Gifford the Super Bowl of lecture series, and the 2017–2018 lineup—Colson Whitehead, Nathaniel Philbrick, and Zadie Smith, among others—is a good indication of why…
Tech‐savviness” meets multiliteracies
S The purpose of this collaborative study between a university‐based researcher and a teacher researcher was to explore early adolescentgirls' use of digital technologies in their literacy practices. The rationale for the study stemmed from the lack of research considering (a) how adolescents employ technological tools for literate purposes in communities of practice beyond academic settings and (b) how constructions of gender might influence, as…
Student Cohorts
The study was designed to trouble the commonsense notion in the field that cohorts, groups of students who move through an educational program together, provide the optimal structure for preparing future teachers. Using collaborative inductive methods, this study by two university researchers of their teaching within a preservice education program explored the following questions: What is the relationship between the positive aspects of being a c…
Student Cohorts
The study was designed to trouble the commonsense notion in the field that cohorts, groups of students who move through an educational program together, provide the optimal structure for preparing future teachers. Using collaborative inductive methods, this study by two university researchers of their teaching within a preservice education program explored the following questions: What is the relationship between the positive aspects of being a c…
Tech‐savviness” meets multiliteracies
S The purpose of this collaborative study between a university‐based researcher and a teacher researcher was to explore early adolescentgirls' use of digital technologies in their literacy practices. The rationale for the study stemmed from the lack of research considering (a) how adolescents employ technological tools for literate purposes in communities of practice beyond academic settings and (b) how constructions of gender might influence, as…
A Tale of Two Tasks
This article argues that editing in the era of digital literacies is a complex, collaborative endeavor that requires a sophisticated awareness of audience and purpose and a knowledge of multiple conventions for conveying meaning and ensuring accuracy. It compares group editing of an article about the New York Yankees baseball team on Wikipedia, the popular online encyclopedia, to the decontextualized proofreading task required of seventh graders …
Expanding What It Means to Make Evidence‐Based Claims
This article argues that exploration of media coverage of a story like the Boston Marathon bombings, including online comments posted by readers, can support youth in reflecting on and thinking critically about a tragedy while offering opportunities for literacy pedagogy consistent with the goals of the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts & Literacy. Instructional recommendations for this exploration are grounded in the author's…
Hybrids
Dear JAAL Readers, Hybridity has been of keen interest to educators in literacy and related fields for some time now. Used in the social sciences to refer to the complex commingling that produces identities, cultures, languages (Bakhtin, 1981; Bhabha, 1994), multimodality (Kress, 2010; McVee & Miller, 2012), and learning spaces that blend traditional with more student-centered approaches to literacy instruction (Gutiérrez, 2008; Moje et al., 2004…
Openings
Dear JAAL Readers, We would like to welcome you to Volume 60 Issue 1. We chose Openings as this issue's theme because it is the inaugural issue under our editorship. The metaphoric value of the word openings also appealed to us as an apt description of the content that we've assembled for this issue. The authors of the commentary, feature articles, departments, and text and resource reviews opened doors for us to fresh ideas about how literacy re…
Renderings
Dear JAAL Readers, We chose Renderings as the theme for this, our second issue, because we appreciate the term's multiple meanings, including those grounded in drama, music, architecture, and linguistics. The theme nicely captures the widely varying and exciting ways that older learners’ literacies are situated by the authors whose work is represented here. We expect that this issue's invited commentary, feature articles, and departments will ent…
Challenges
Dear JAAL Readers, We have noticed that people frequently use the word challenges to describe the unanticipated interruptions or barriers that crop up to disrupt their lives. We admit to using this word in the same way, often in the context of new, unanticipated work assignments. When we take a moment to pause and reflect, however, we realize that addressing challenges, successfully or unsuccessfully, is what typically leads to our most worthwhil…
Crossings
Dear JAAL Readers, We chose Crossings as the theme for this issue because it reflects key themes in the issue's content and in our personal experiences. We live outside of Syracuse, New York, near the geographic center of the largest state in the Northeastern United States. To travel to the International Literacy Association Annual Convention in Boston, Massachusetts, this past summer, we drove approximately five hours alongside Amtrak's rails an…
Readings
Dear JAAL Readers, One of the gems of Syracuse, New York, where we live, is the Rosamond Gifford Lecture Series, an annual series of appearances by six prominent authors with proceeds benefiting the Onondaga County Public Libraries. We once heard a National Book Award finalist call the Gifford the Super Bowl of lecture series, and the 2017–2018 lineup—Colson Whitehead, Nathaniel Philbrick, and Zadie Smith, among others—is a good indication of why…
Legacies
Dear JAAL Readers, We selected Legacies as the theme for this issue to mark the 60th anniversary of the journal's founding. In this introduction, we hope to illuminate linkages between JAAL's history and issues in adolescent and adult literacy that resonate for today's audience. JAAL began its life in the fall of 1957, under the name Journal of Developmental Reading. It was edited at the time by George B. Schick and other developmental reading st…
Scaffolds
Dear JAAL Readers, We wrote this introduction as the commencement season concluded in secondary and postsecondary contexts in our region. During our participation in ceremonies to honor students’ achievements and mark the end of the academic year calendar, we couldn't help but notice that such events often require the construction of temporary stages and other structures—ramps, podiums, bleachers, and so forth—to run smoothly. These scaffolds mak…
Media
Dear JAAL Readers, Dictionary.com lists a number of synonyms for the theme that we have selected for this issue: Media (n.d.). Way, form, channel, vehicle, avenue, mode, and organ are among the terms listed. These synonyms are all straightforwardly related to the original meaning of the term as “an intervening agency, means, or instrument,” a meaning which we associate with old sayings such as “striking a happy medium,” to represent a compromise …
Aspirations
Dear JAAL Readers, The past decade has seen adoption across the globe of new literacy standards and assessments. Judging from the number of passionate article submissions on this topic we have received, many individuals concerned with adolescent and adult literacy are recognizing the limitations of these frameworks when it comes to pursuing students’ short- and long-term aspirations. Such criteria, by definition, situate learners and their teache…
Queries
Dear JAAL Readers, Among the pleasures of being JAAL coeditors are the queries we receive regularly from prospective contributors. Aspiring authors want to know whether the content, tone, or implications of their manuscripts might be suitable for submission to our journal. Literacy professionals working across varied contexts want to become involved with the journal as ad hoc reviewers or editorial board members. These e-mails to [email protected…
Mediation
Dear JAAL Readers, We selected Mediation as the theme for this first issue of Volume 62 of the Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy. Mediation is typically understood as an act by which an individual or entity helps other individuals or entities resolve differences. Mediators use varied techniques to promote dialogue and empathy between disputants, often, although not always, in the context of contract negotiations. The professional experiences…
Memes
Dear JAAL Readers, Our inspiration for this issue's theme came from the first of our feature articles, “#NeverthelessMemesPersisted: Building Critical Memetic Literacy in the Classroom,” a framework for critical discussion and creation of memes offered by Lauren Harvey and Emily Palese. Like many of you, we encounter memes regularly via social and broadcast media, sometimes even circulating them ourselves using Twitter or Facebook. They have beco…
Reconciliation
Dear JAAL Readers, Symbols matter. Names matter. And coming together today to celebrate this name on this bridge matters. It shows our commitment to each other....We can't change the past, but we are not prisoners of it. We are not solely defined by the pain of our shared history but rather by how we choose to move forward. And we choose to move forward in love and kindness and in compassion. In the true spirit of reconciliation. (Kury de Castill…
Levers
Dear JAAL Readers, Although it has been a while since either of us took a physics class, we remember that using a lever involves the effort one uses to push or pull a stiff bar on a pivot to move or open an object, also known as the load. The word lever is also used as a metaphor to describe the means by which someone is persuaded to change a course of action to reach a goal. We selected Levers as the theme for this issue because it struck us tha…
Teacher Candidates Learn to Enact Curriculum in a Partnership-Sponsored Literacy Enrichment Program for Youth
This article reports on a multiyear formative experiment of a summer enrichment program that served as literacy enrichment for middle-school students, a field experience for preservice teacher candidates, and a professional development and leadership opportunity for practicing teachers. The analysis focuses on how the design team conceptualized, implemented, and researched inquiry-based, literacy-infused curriculum within the program, which was e…
Collaboration
Dear JAAL Readers, When collaboration works, it can result in something that is better than what individuals produce alone. Synergies result when human beings blend insights and worldviews to develop new ideas, and the new ideas can be exciting and enlightening. Productive collaboration can occur in face-to-face meetings or across vast distances using an array of communication tools. Collaboration occurs across the school day and at all levels of…
Design
Dear JAAL Readers, We note that the term design is often used in research and development contexts to refer to purposeful, detail-oriented planning that is intended to yield a desired outcome. The usage is widespread, including scientific, artistic, and social realms ranging from automobile manufacturing to architecture, from fashion to public health. At Stanford University, an open-enrollment elective, “Designing Your Life,” has become so popula…
Community
Dear JAAL Readers, Community provides the context within which language and literacy develop and thrive. As such, it is no surprise that community shares a root word with communication, from the Latin, communicare, to share. Members of the same community are often interdependent, helping each other reach common goals. They also share features, which, for humans, include attitudes, interests, and beliefs, along with sufficient differences to offer…
Pluralism
Dear JAAL Readers, Many pleasures and challenges come with editing the Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy that make the job well worth doing. Pleasures include the discovery of new ideas about literacy that spark joy, as organizational expert Marie Kondo (2014) would say, in reviewers and us. They include satisfaction when authors’ multiple drafts reach fruition in solid contributions to the journal. They include learning from the discomfort …
Exchange
Dear JAAL Readers, This past year, Kelly observed with interest as U.S.-based friends of hers welcomed Edgar, an exchange student from France, into their home. The family's social media posts documented with amusing detail all of their adventures with Edgar, who appeared to embrace experiences such as eating his first American burger and attending the high school prom with aplomb and good cheer. What struck Kelly as just as fascinating, however, …
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