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Dr. Ellis Hurd

Associate Director, Graduate Programs
Teaching and Learning
Office
DEG Degarmo Hall 245
  • About
  • Education
  • Awards & Honors
  • Research

Current Courses

599.012Dissertation Research

400.001Independent Study

207.001Literacy Instruction in Culturally & Linguistically Diverse Middle Level Classroom

599.005Dissertation Research

400.002Independent Study

501.001Intro To Doctoral Scholarship

598.002Professional Practice

498.001Professional Practice TCH - ESL Experience

EDD Curriculum and Instruction

University of Northern Iowa
Cedar Falls, Iowa

MA Curriculum & Instruction and ESL / Bilingual Education

National-Louis University
Chicago, Illinois

BA Secondary Education-English

Judson University
Elgin, Illinois

College of Education Outstanding Teacher of the Year

Illinois State University
2016

Diversity Advocacy Award

Deans of Students Office, Illinois State University
2014

Outstanding faculty member

The Women of the ISU’s Panhellenic Council, Illinois State University
2014

Recognized Faculty Mentor

The University Scholars Support Program, Illinois State University
2012

Book, Chapter

Hurd, E. The Untold Future of Being Mixed: Moving Forward While Remembering What Is Behind. The Reflexivity of Pain and Privilege. Brill Sense (2019): 257--270.
Hurd, E. Lessons Learned: A Case of One Teacher’s Common Planning Time Experience. Common Planning Time in Middle Level Schools: Research Studies From the MLER SIG’s National Project. Information Age Publishing 9 (2013): 149--168.
Mertens, S., Hurd, E., & Tilford, K. The Implementation and Use of Middle Level Common Planning Time: A Study of Four Middle Schools. Common Planning Time in Middle Level Schools: Research Studies From the MLER SIG’s National Project. Information Age Publishing 9 (2013): 287--306.
Mertens, S., Hurd, E., & Tilford, K. The implementation and use of middle level common planning time: A study of four middle schools. Mertens, S. B., Anfara, V. A., Jr., Caskey, M. M., & Flowers, N. (EDs), Common planning time in middle level schools: Research studies from the MLER SIG's national project. Information Age Publishing (2013): 299-318.

Book, Edited

Hurd, E. (2022). (Ed.). 2022 Revised Middle Level Teacher Preparation Standards. Columbus, OH: The Association for Middle Level Education (AMLE).

Journal Article

Brinegar, K., Harrison, L., & Hurd, E. ESTABLISHING A PEDAGOGY OF EQUITY AND CULTURALLY RESPONSIVENESS IN THE MIDDLE GRADES. Equity \& Cultural Responsiveness in the Middle Grades (2019): 335.
Harrison, L., Hurd, E., & Brinegar, K. EXPLORING THE CONVERGENCE OF DEVELOPMENTALISM AND CULTURAL RESPONSIVENESS. Equity \& Cultural Responsiveness in the Middle Grades (2019): 1.
Hurd, E. THE HOMILY OF PAIN AND PRIVILEGE. The Reflexivity of Pain and Privilege: Auto-Ethnographic Collections of Mixed Identity (2019)
Pacheco, M., Kang, H., & Hurd, E. Scaffolds, signs, and bridges: Language ideologies and translanguaging in student-teaching experiences. Bilingual Research Journal (2019): 1--20.
Brinegar, K., Harrison, L., & Hurd, E. Emancipation through empowerment. Middle School Journal 49.2 (2018): 2--2.

Other

Brinegar, K., Harrison, L., & Hurd, E. Co-constructing young adolescent identity: A power \& privilege of educators. Routledge (2019)
Harrison, L., Hurd, E., & Brinegar, K. An integrative curriculum: Supporting students’ understanding of self and the world. Routledge (2019)
Hurd, E., Brinegar, K., & Harrison, L. Renewed hope. Routledge (2019)
Hurd, E. The Reflexivity of Pain and Privilege: Auto-Ethnographic Collections of Mixed Identity (2019)
Brinegar, K., Harrison, L., & Hurd, E. Becoming transformative, equity-based educators. Routledge (2018)

Presentations

Writing for Publication. Annual Conference and Exhibit (47th). (2020)
The Reflexivity of Pain and Privilege: Auto-Ethnographic Collections of Mixed Identity. AMLE 2019 Annual Conference and Exhibit (46th). (2019)
The Reflexivity of Pain and Privilege: Auto-Ethnographic Collections of Mixed Identity.. 15th International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry. (2019)
Writing for Publication. AMLE 2018 Annual Conference and Exhibit (46th). (2019)
Panel Discussion: Handbook of Research in Middle Level Education, Equity and Cultural Responsiveness in Middle Grade. AMLE 2018 Annual Conference and Exhibit (45th). (2018)
Writing for AMLE Journals. Annual Conference and Exhibit (45th). (2018)
Research Roundtable: Connecting Theory with Practice—An Exploration of the Use of the Middle School Concept to Support Culturally Responsive Practices. AMLE 2017 Annual Conference and Exhibit (44th). (2017)
Supporting Marginalized Youth: Investigating Current C & I Approaches from Middle Grades Research. Association for Middle Level Education. (2017)
Synthesizing Middle-Grades Research on Cultural Responsiveness: The Importance of a Shared Conceptual Framework. 2017 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA). (2017)
The Hybrid Affect: Teacher Candidates’ Perceptions and Experiences of a Middle Level Education Course. The Sixth Pacific-Rim Conference on Education-Pre-service and In-service Teacher Development Innovation. (2017)