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The Work · 2018–2024

Eight works and two books.

Listed reverse chronologically, using the same index codes as the printed vitae. Each entry links out to the publisher, journal, or repository of record.

RLL.012024

Do You Hear Us? Supporting Teachers of Language-Diverse Students in Communities of Practice

In When We Hear Them: Attuning Teachers to Language-Diverse Learners · Information Age Publishing

Eds. Owen Silverman Andrews & Antione D. Tomlin · 2024

Examines how communities of practice can support and sustain teachers working with language-diverse students, situating the work within Part I: Theories of Listening to Multilingual Students.

Book Chapter
RLL.022023

How the Reading Wars Impact Instruction & Learning

with Lauren Spenceley · September 2023

Traces the ongoing Whole Language vs. Phonics debate in reading education and its downstream effects on classroom instruction and student outcomes.

Journal Article
RLL.032023

Demystify Teaching Reading to Struggling Adolescent Learners: The Culturally Universal Teaching Framework

Sole author · June 2023

Introduces the author's Culturally Universal Teaching Framework, pairing evidence-based literacy instruction with content-area disciplines for adolescents who struggle with language literacy.

Book Chapter
RLL.042022

The Promise of Problem-Based Service-Learning and SLIFE: Building a Future in the Middle School, High School, and GED Classrooms Today

with Margaret Aker & Luis Javier Pentón Herrera · February 2022

Proposes problem-based service-learning (PBSL) as an instructional framework for students with limited or interrupted formal education (SLIFE), building literacy and future workplace skills.

Book Chapter
RLL.052020

Teachers' Attitudes About Teaching Adolescent Refugee Students

Concordia University Chicago · ProQuest Dissertations & Theses

Sole author · October 2020

Explores how teacher attitudes and beliefs — shaped by preparation and policy — influence instruction and outcomes for adolescent refugee students.

Doctoral Dissertation
RLL.062019

Developing Opportunity Youths' Literacy, Creativity, and Critical Thinking through PBSL: Facilitating Twenty-First-Century Learning and Mixed Realities

English Leadership Quarterly

with Luis Javier Pentón Herrera & Margaret Aker · April 2019

Presents PBSL as a framework for developing literacy, creativity, and critical thinking among opportunity youth, with classroom-tested examples.

Journal Article
RLL.072018

Traversing the Lacuna to the Future: Three Perspectives Concerning New Literacies

with Luis Javier Pentón Herrera & Margaret Aker · November 2018

Offers three converging perspectives on emerging conceptions of literacy in a rapidly changing educational landscape.

Research Proposal
RLL.082018

Back 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

The Reading Matrix

with Margaret Aker & Luis Javier Pentón Herrera · September 2018

Argues for service- and problem-based learning as a foundation for academic success among English-to-Speakers-of-Other-Languages (ESOL) students.

Journal Article

Books · as L.R. Daniel, Ph.D.

Journey to Wholeness.

The Journey to Wholeness series draws on the author's own experience of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) to offer readers a path from harm to healing.

Plate IX — A stack breaking upward
JTW.01Journey to Wholeness — Book 1

Trash Can

Stop Being a Receptacle for Toxic People's Waste

Drawing on her own teenage experience of ACEs that damaged her friendships, Dr. Daniel shares strategies for recognizing and disengaging from toxic people — moving from "trash to treasure" — with journaling exercises throughout.

Independently Published · Aug 2021

Amazon author page
Plate X — Fragments rejoined with gold seams
JTW.02Journey to Wholeness — Book 2

You Are Not Garbage

Why You Need to Overcome Adverse Childhood Experiences and How to Do It

A self-help guide to understanding ACEs — their effects and paths to healing — grounded in CDC and American Academy of Pediatrics research alongside the author's own story.

Independently Published · Feb 2022

Amazon author page