Suzette Youngs, Ph.D., Professor: Literacy Education, School of Teacher Education, College of Education and Behavioral Sciences

Suzette Youngs, Ph.D.

School of Teacher Education
College of Education and Behavioral Sciences

Email

Suzette.youngs@unco.edu

Phone

970-351-2638

Mailing Address

University of Northern Colorado
School of Teacher Education
Campus Box 107
Greeley, CO 80639

Ph.D. University of Nevada, Reno (2009) | Literacy Studies
M.Ed. State University of New York at Oswego, NY (1992) | Elementary Education
B.A. State University of New York at Oswego, NY (1990) | Public Relations

University of Northern Colorado in Greeley, CO Professor, Literacy Education. Responsibilities include: teaching graduate courses in reading methods, children鈥檚 literature, writing methods and reading research and undergraduate courses in children鈥檚 literature. (2009-Present)
University of Nevada, Reno, Instructor. Responsibilities included teaching graduate and undergraduate children鈥檚 literature courses, graduate and undergraduate language arts methods courses with practicum and practicum supervision, (2004-2009)
University of Nevada, Reno. Teaching American History Project, Instructor. Responsibilities included teaching courses in integrating history and literacy methods and American History and Children鈥檚 Literature Book Clubs, (2006-2009)
Bailey Charter Elementary School - Reno, NV. 5th grade Classroom Teacher (2003-2004)
Pagosa Springs Intermediate School- Pagosa Springs, CO. 4 /5/6 Multi-grade Teacher, (1995-2003)

Co-organizer for the 麻豆传媒 Future Teacher Conference and faculty advisor for the Future Teacher Club
Teacher recruitment and retention, teacher identity, analysis of children's book displays, content analysis of and response to contemporary picturebooks, multimodal analysis, visual literacy, multigenre writing, and disciplinary Literacy

Youngs, S., Kyser, C., Bell, D. (in press). In Bradley Conrad (Capital University), Associate Editor: Crystal Howell (Randolph College), Assistant Editor: Cristy Sellers (Pacific University) (Ed.), Taking a Stand for Representation: Engaging Preservice Teachers in Awareness, Analysis and Advocacy of Diverse Children鈥檚 Literature book Displays. Charlotte, North Carolina: Curriculum and Teaching Dialogue/Information Age Publishing. https://www.infoagepub.com/series/Curriculum-and-Teaching-Dialogue
Erekson, J., Youngs, S., Kyser, C., Benke, L. F. (2022). People Like Me in Places Like Mine: Authentic Representation in Rural Picturebooks. Children and Libraries, 20(4), 11-18. https://journals.ala.org/index.php/cal/issue/archive
Youngs, S., Erekson, J., Kyser, C. (2021). Moving Across Rural Spaces: A Content Analysis of Contemporary Realistic Fiction Picturebooks with Rural Settings. Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts, 60(3), 24-56. https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/reading_horizons/vol60/iss3/3/
Kyser, C., Youngs, S., Nelson, A., Monaghan, T. (2021). Transitioning From High School Students to Aspiring Future Rural Educators: Promising Practices to Fuel the Rural Teacher Pipeline. Journal of Educational Research and Innovation, 9(1), 1-30. https://digscholarship.unco.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1109&context=jeri