About · Bio & Credentials
Four decades in the literacy classroom.
Lynn Daniel, Ph.D. is a veteran educator with over four decades of experience in English language literacy education for secondary adolescents. She completed her doctorate in Leadership: Reading, Language & Literacy at Concordia University Chicago, focused on responsive pedagogy for adolescent refugee students.
She continues post-doctoral work in applied linguistics, focused on improving educator capacity in literacy science, and her scholarship centers on adolescent literacy, problem-based service-learning (PBSL), and culturally responsive teaching for language-diverse and refugee-background learners.
Writing as L.R. Daniel, Ph.D., she also authors the Journey to Wholeness series, translating her research on adversity and resilience into practical guidance for readers navigating toxic relationships and childhood trauma recovery.
Published Record
A working chronology.
- 2024
- RLL.01Do You Hear Us? Supporting Teachers of Language-Diverse Students in Communities of Practice
- 2023
- RLL.02How the Reading Wars Impact Instruction & Learning
- RLL.03Demystify Teaching Reading to Struggling Adolescent Learners: The Culturally Universal Teaching Framework
- 2022
- RLL.04The Promise of Problem-Based Service-Learning and SLIFE: Building a Future in the Middle School, High School, and GED Classrooms Today
- 2020
- RLL.05Teachers' Attitudes About Teaching Adolescent Refugee Students
- 2019
- RLL.06Developing Opportunity Youths' Literacy, Creativity, and Critical Thinking through PBSL: Facilitating Twenty-First-Century Learning and Mixed Realities
- 2018
- RLL.07Traversing the Lacuna to the Future: Three Perspectives Concerning New Literacies
- RLL.08Back to the Future: The Implications of Service and Problem-Based Learning in the Language, Literacy, and Cultural Acquisition of ESOL Students in the 21st Century