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Sarah F. Mahurt

Clinical Associate Professor
Literacy & Language
Director Literacy Collaborative
Department of Curriculum & Instruction

Education

Ph.D. Purdue University, 1994, Literacy and Language
M.S. Purdue University, 1977, Education - Specializations: Reading and Social Studies
B.A. Purdue University, 1971, Sociology

Courses Taught

EDCI 614C Emerging & Developing Literacy
EDCI 695C Internship in Education: Leadership for Improving Literacy Teaching
EDCI 500C Foundations of Literacy
EDCI 590E Improving Early Literacy Instruction

Professional Experience

1999- present Director of Literacy Collaborative, Clinical Associate Professor, Associate Director of Purdue Literacy Network Project, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
1993-1999 Instructor, Assistant Professor of Teacher Education, Associate Professor of Teacher Education, University of the Virgin Islands, St. Croix Campus
1991-1993 Graduate Assistant, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
1977-1991 Reading Teacher, Basic Skills Specialist, Language Arts Resource Teacher, Virgin Islands Public Schools, St. Croix.
1976-1977 Staff Assistant, Lafayette Adult Reading Academy, Lafayette, IN
1972-1976 Social Worker, Youth Service Bureau, Lafayette, IN
1972 Travel in Europe

Research

The effect of teacher development on student achievement                                             Oral language development and its effect on literacy learning in the primary grades             
Administrators' roles in school improvement in literacy.

Selected Publications

  • Mahurt, S., Metcalfe, R., & Gwyther, M. (in press). Building bridges in literacy: From the primary to intermediate grades. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin.

  • Mahurt, S. (2005). Writing is reading. Indiana Reading Journal. 37(1). 19-26.

  • Mahurt, S. (2004). The picture book in Caribbean children's literature. In J. May         and D. Henderson (Eds.) Exploring culturally diverse literature for children and adolescents: Learning to listen in new ways (pp. 277-284). New York: Allyn & Bacon.

  • Hopkins, C.J., & Mahurt, S. (2004, Winter). School/university partnerships in reading: Teacher eduation at Purdue. In Networds (pp. 8-10). Evansville, IN: Middle Grade Reading Network.

  • Mahurt, S. (2001). Student achievement in two first-grade classrooms. In G.S. Pinnell & P.L. Scharer (Eds.), Literacy Collaborative 2001 research report (pp.31-32. Columbus, OH: Literacy Collaborative at The Ohio State University.

  • Lenski, S.D., Grisham, D.L., Brin, B., Mahurt, S., Jampole, E., Cohen, S., Mitchell, J.N., & Zeek, C. (2001). Researching the relationship between school-university partnerships and students' learning. Journal of Reading Education, 26(3), 23-28.

  • Mahurt, S. (2000). Virgin Islands children's literature: From the oral tradition to the modern picture book. TELLing Stories, 4(1), 4-10.

  • Mahurt, S. (1998). Writing instruction: University learning to first-year teaching. In T. Shanahan & F.V. Rodriguez-Brown, National Reading Conference Yearbook, 47 (pp. 542-554). Chicago, IL: National Reading Conference.

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