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    Lori Wilfong

    Dr. Lori Wilfong, Ph.D.

    Associate Professor
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    Kent
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    White Hall 404
    Contact Information
    Email:
    lgkrug@kent.edu
    Phone:
    330-672-2580

    Biography

    Lori G. Wilfong, Ph.D., began her career in East Los Angeles, CA, teaching English as a second language to 6th, 7th, and 8th graders for the Los Angeles Unified School District. This sparked her interest in motivating adolescent readers and led to positions in Rootstown Local Schools and Maple Heights City Schools as a literacy coach and literacy specialist. Upon completion of her doctoral degree in Literacy Education from Kent State, Wilfong taught for 17.5 years in the Middle Childhood Education program at Kent State University at Stark. In 2020, Wilfong assumed the role of Director of the National Writing Project at Kent State. Beginning in 2024, she transitioned to the Kent Campus to serve as Director of the Reading and Writing Center as well as Program Coordinator for the graduate literacy program. She remains an active consultant in several area school districts, furthering her research interests in the teaching of writing, vocabulary, and small group instruction.

    Education

    Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction with a major in Literacy Education, Kent State University
    M.Ed. in Reading Specialization, Kent State University
    B.Sc. in Middle and Secondary Education with a major in Teaching a Foreign Language (Spanish), University of Kansas

    Research Methods

    Grounded theory, Mixed Methods

    Awards/Achievements

    • 2019 Distinguished Teaching Award Finalist
    • Author of four books by Routledge/Eye on Education: Vocabulary Strategies that Work (2012), Nonfiction Strategies that Work (2014), Writing Strategies that Work (2015) and Content Area Literacy Strategies that Work (2019)

    Documents

    PDF icon Current CV 5.23.24.pdf
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