Christine M. Dawson is a writer, teacher educator, and writing researcher. She is the president of the New York State Association of Teacher Educators (NYSATE), and she teaches curriculum studies and literacy courses to preservice teachers at Siena College. Christine earned her doctorate in Curriculum, Instruction, and Teacher Education from Michigan State University, and she holds an MA in Curriculum and Teaching from Columbia University Teachers College and a BA from the University of Virginia. Prior to pursuing her doctorate, Christine taught secondary English for 10 years, served as an English department coordinator for a middle/high school, and was a literacy coach. She has been awarded several teaching awards, including Michigan State University Excellence and Innovation in Teaching Award for the College of Education and New Jersey’s Middlesex County Teacher of the Year Award. Her research interests focus on writing studies and pedagogies, teacher education, curriculum design, and the significance of teachers’ own writing on their beliefs and pedagogical practices.
Christine is active in national and state literacy and teacher education contexts. In New York, she serves as a member of the statewide Teacher Education Advisory Group, and she is a member of the New York State Education Department English Language Arts Advisory Panel. She has served as a leadership team member for the New York English Language Arts Staff and Curriculum Development Network and for the Empire State Writing Project Network, representing the seven New York sites of the National Writing Project. Nationally, Christine has served as the Co-Chair of the English Language Arts Teacher Educator Commission on Writing Teacher Education (through the National Council of Teachers of English).
Christine presents regularly at national and state conferences, and her scholarly writing has been published in English Journal, Voices from the Middle, English Leadership Quarterly, The English Record, and Research in the Teaching of English. She is author of The Teacher-Writer: Creating Writing Groups for Personal and Professional Growth (Teachers College Press, 2017). She also had the opportunity to work with Arthur Applebee and Judith Langer on the National Study of Writing Instruction, and she is a coauthor with them of Writing Instruction That Works: Proven Methods for Middle and High School Classrooms (Teachers College Press, 2013). She may be reached at dawson23@gmail.com.
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