Emily Hoffman, Ph.D.

ECE 503 Teaching & Learning in Early Childhood Settings: Language Arts, Social
               Studies, Art, Music & Movement
ECE 504 Human Development: Infancy and Childhood
ECE 522 Foundations of Emergent Literacy
ECE 588 Early Childhood Residency Seminar
RLP 537 Early Literacy Methods, PreK-3

Emergent Literacy, Developmentally Appropriate Practice, Community Responsive Education

2017      Ph.D.  Curriculum & Instruction, Literacy, Language, & Culture. University
              of Illinois at Chicago
2010      M.Ed.  Instructional Leadership, Policy Studies. University of Illinois at Chicago
2006      B.S.  Elementary Education. Valparaiso University 

Emily Brown Hoffman received her Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Chicago in Curriculum & Instruction, Literacy, Language, & Culture. Dr. Hoffman’s research examines how early childhood educators can implement equitable curriculum and instruction in order to provide genuine learning that affirms children and all their identities. Dr. Hoffman has worked as a Kindergarten teacher in Chicago Public Schools and as an Assistant Professor at Ball State University.  She enjoys teaching and learning online and face-to-face with educators around varying early childhood centric topics including early literacy; leadership; play and creativity; and school, family, and community partnerships.

Hoffman, E. B. & Mangino, A. A. (in press). The Digital literacies of early childhood educators: Perceptions of collaborative online learning. Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education. 

Hoffman, E. B. & Cipollone, K. (in press). In our voices: Creating community responsive listening centers. Teaching Young Children. 

Whittingham, C. E. & Hoffman, E. B. (2022). Multimodal narrative composition in urban preschool[ed] places: What counts as narrative and whose narrative counts? In S. Brown & L. Hao (Eds.), Multimodal Literacies in Young Emergent Bilinguals: Beyond Print-Centric Practices. Multilingual Matters, Clevedon, UK.

Hoffman, E. B. & Cipollone, K. (2021). Listen to what we hear: Developing community responsive listening centers. Young Children.76(3). 6-13.

Hoffman, E. B., Paciga, K., & Whittingham, C. E. (online preprint). The Problem with pigeons in research and practice: Communicating early literacy essentials and foundations in curriculum and instruction. Literacy. https://doi.org/10.1111/lit.12257 

Whittingham, C. E., Hoffman, E. B., & Paciga, K. (online preprint). Assessment, accountability, and access: Constrained skill mastery as instructional gatekeeper. Journal of Early Childhood Literacy. https://doi.org/10.1177/14687984211042056

Cipollone, K., & Hoffman, E. B. (2021). Why we are done talking about classroom management. Perspectives on Early Childhood Psychology and Education. 6(1). 11-26.

Cipollone, K., Hoffman, E. B., & Sciuchetti, M. S. (2021). Compliance & control: The Hidden curriculum of social-emotional learning. Perspectives on Early Childhood Psychology and Education. 6(1). 131-174

Hoffman, E. B. & Whittingham, C. E. (2020). Merging policy and practice: Powerful teaching and learning in preschool. National Head Start Association (NHSA) Dialog: A Research-to-Practice Summary. 23(2), 102-107.

Whittingham, C. E. & Hoffman, E. B. (2020). A Teaching and learning tightrope: Navigating accountability mandates while maintaining sound pedagogical practices. National Head Start Association (NHSA) Dialog. 23(2), 51-71.

Hoffman, E. B. (2019, July). Reimagining early childhood educator professional development: An online community shares literacy learning strategies. Childhood Education Innovations. 95(4). 47-52.

Hoffman, E. B. (2019). The centrality of teaching presence: Using multiple modes to facilitate collaborative active engagement in a synchronous teacher online learning community. Journal of Interactive Learning Research. 30(2), 107-145.

Hoffman, E. B., Whittingham, C. E., & Teale, W. H. (2018). A decade of early literacy research: Who did what, where, and to what end? The Reading Teacher. 72(3), 283-288. (invited publication)

Hoffman, E. B. (2018). Untangling the talk: A new multimodal discourse analysis method to investigate synchronous online learning. Journal of Digital Learning in Teacher Education. 34(3), 179-195.

Teale, W. H., Whittingham, C. E., & Hoffman, E. B. (2018). Early literacy research, 2006-2015: A decade of measured progress. Journal of Early Childhood Literacy. 20(2), 169-222. 

Teale, W. H., Hoffman, E. B., Whittingham, C. E., & Paciga, K. (2018). Starting them young: How the shift from reading readiness to emergent literacy has influenced preschool literacy education. In C. M. Cassano & S. M. Dougherty (Eds.), Pivotal research in early literacy.  New York, NY: Guilford Press. (invited publication)

Whittingham, C. E., Hoffman, E. B., & Teale, W. H. (2017). Recent research that should inform principals’ literacy leadership, Principal, 97(2), 20-23. (invited publication)

Hoffman, E. B., Whittingham, C. E., & Rumenapp, J. C. (2017). Using tablets’ video technology to enrich childhood read-alouds. Wisconsin State Reading Association Journal. 54(2), 15-24. (invited reprint)

Hoffman, E. B., Whittingham, C. E., & Rumenapp, J. C. (2016). Using tablets’ video technology to enrich early childhood read-alouds. Illinois Reading Council Journal. 44(4), 23-33.

Hoffman, E. B., & Whittingham, C. E. (2016). A neighborhood notion of emergent literacy: One mixed methods inquiry to inform community learning. Early Childhood Education Journal. 45(2), 175-185.

Whittingham, C. E., & Hoffman, E. B. (2016). The collaborative choice matrix: A tool for dialogic data-driven decision making. Illinois Reading Council Journal. 44(2), 14-19.

Whittingham, C. E., Hoffman, E. B., & Rumenapp, J. C. (2016). “It ain’t ‘nah’ it’s ‘no’": Preparing preschoolers for the language of school. Journal of Early Childhood Literacy. 18(4), 465–489. 

Rumenapp, J. C., Whittingham, C. E., & Hoffman, E. B. (2015). "What were you thinking?": Bilingual preschool students talk about reading practices through video reflection. In E. Ortlieb, L. Shanahan, & M. McVee (Eds.), Video research in disciplinary literacies (pp. 119-140). Bingley, UK: Emerald.

Walski, M. M., Hoffman, E. B., & Teale, W. H. (2015). Kindergarten readiness: What Head Start and Early Head Start parents and staff think and do about it. (UIC Center for Literacy Research Paper). Chicago: University of Illinois at Chicago Center for Literacy. https://www.academia.edu/16134949/Survey_of_Kindergarten_Readiness_Head_Start_and_Early_Head_Start

Teale, W. H., Walski, M. M., Hoffman, E. B., Meehan, M., Whittingham, C. E., & Colaner, A. (2015). Early childhood literacy: Policy for the coming decade. (UIC Center for Literacy Research Paper). Chicago: University of Illinois at Chicago Center for Literacy. https://www.academia.edu/11407858/Early_Childhood_Literacy_Policy_for_the_Coming_Decade

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