Waldron, Chad

Waldron, C.H. (2022). More than contaminated water: Flint, Michigan’s community-wide efforts for literacy. In L.A. Henry & N.A. Stahl (Eds.), A field guide to community literacy: Case studies and tools for praxis, evaluation, and research (pp. 131-142). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003228042.

McClain, N.B. & Waldron, C.H. (2022). Reimagining, developing, and monitoring professional dispositions in educator preparation programs: Creating a culture of educator professionalism. In S. Clemm von Hohenberg (Ed.), Dispositional development and assessment in teacher preparation programs. IGI Global. DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684- 4089-6.ch012.

Waldron, C.H. (2021). Policies, practices, people, and places: How elementary preservice teachers learned literacy teaching. Michigan Reading Journal, 53(3), pp. 22-29. https://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/mrj/vol53/iss3/7/.

Ph.D. Curriculum, Instruction, and Teacher Education- Language and Literacy Specialization, 2014, Michigan State University;

Master of Education- Reading Education (Reading Specialist), 2008, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania;

Dual Bachelor of Science in Education, Elementary Education/Early Childhood Education, 2006, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania

Dr. Waldron's research focuses predominately on (a) young children's literacy development across a variety of learning environments, (b) the professional learning and growth of teachers in literacy instruction, from pre-service preparation to in-service teaching, and (c) the impacts of community-driven literacy interventions in shaping family and school literacy practices, particularly Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library.

• Literacy Research Association (LRA) (also Co-Committee Chair of Gender and Sexuality Committee for LRA)
• Association for Literacy Educators and Researchers (ALER)
• International Literacy Association (ILA)
• American Educational Research Association (AERA)
• Michigan Reading Association (MRA)