Contact Information

N275 Lindquist Center
Iowa City, Iowa 52242

Wednesday 1:00-2:30pm and by appointment

• PhD University of Arizona, 1992 Language, Reading and Culture (minor: Anthropology)
• MA University of New Mexico, 1986 Multicultural Elementary Education
• BS University of New Mexico, 1985 Elementary Education (minor: Early Childhood Education)

• Language, Literacy & Culture
• Teaching and Learning
• Early Childhood and Elementary Education

• classroom teacher in the Albuquerque Public School District
• Visiting Assistant Professor University of Arizona
• Assistant Professor The University of Iowa (1993-1998)
• Associate Professor The University of Iowa (1999-present)

• Chair, Nominating Committee, National Council of Teachers of English
• Member, National Council of Teachers of English
• Member, International Reading Association
• Member, Whole Language Umbrella
• Member, Center for Expansion of Language and Thinking

• Language, Literacy and Culture Program
• Teaching and Learning
• Early Childhood and Elementary Education

• Relationships between culture and early literacy development
• Building communities in diverse educational settings
• Home-school relationships and literacy
• Ethnographic study

• Whitmore, K.F. (in press). Family Inquiry: Transforming Relationships between Home and School:Parent-Kid-Teacher Investigators. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.
• Whitmore, K. F. & Medd, S. (2001). What's in YOUR backpack? :Exchanging funds of language knowledge. In Smith, P. (Ed.). Talking Marks. Surprises Happen. Newark, DE: International
  Reading Association.
• Whitmore, K.F. & Norton-Meier, L.A. (Jan., 2000). A research community: Parent-Kid-Teacher-Investigators, Primary Voices, K-6, (entire themed issue).
• Whitmore, K. F. (1997). Inventing conversations in second language classrooms: What students say and how they say it. In Paratore, J.R. & McCormack, R.L. (Eds.) Peer Discourse in the Classroom: Learning from
  Research. Newark, DE: International Reading Association, pp. 102-128.
• Whitmore, K.F. & Goodman, Y.M., Eds. (1996). Practicing What We Teach: Whole Language Voices in Teacher Education. York, ME: Stenhouse Publishers; Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English.
• Whitmore, K.F. & Goodman, K.S. (1996). Practicing What We Teach: The Principles That Guide Us. In Whitmore, K.F. & Goodman, Y.M., (Eds.), Whole Language Voices in Teacher Education. York, ME: Stenhouse Publishers.
• Whitmore, K.F. & Goodman, Y.M. (1996). Transforming Curriculum in Language and Literacy. In Bredekamp, S. & Rosegrant, T. (Ed.), Reaching Potentials: Transforming Early Childhood Curriculum and Assessment. Washington, DC: National Association for the Education of Young Children, pp. 145-166.
• Whitmore, K.F. & Crowell, C.G. (1994). Inventing a Classroom: Life in a Bilingual, Whole Language Learning Community. York, ME: Stenhouse Publishers.
• Whitmore, K.F.& Crowell, C. (1994). What Makes a Question Good Is... The New Advocate, 7(1), pp. 45-57.
• Moll, L.C., Tapia, J., & Whitmore, K.F. (1993). Living Knowledge: The Social Distribution of Cultural Resources in Households and Classrooms. In Salomon, G. (Ed.), Distributed Cognitions. NY: Cambridge University Press, pp. 139-163.
• Moll, L.C. & Whitmore, K.F. (1993). Vygotsky in educational settings: Moving from individual transmission to social transaction. In Forman, E., Minick, N., & Stone, A. (Eds.), Contexts for Learning: Sociocultural Dynamics in Children's Development. NY: Oxford, pp. 19-42.

• Commitment to Diversity Award - College of Education, University of Iowa, 1999
• Old Gold Fellowship - University of Iowa, 1995.
• Fellowship - Center for the Expansion of Language and Thinking, University of Arizona, 1989- 1992.
• Graduate Academic Fellowship - Division of Language, Reading and Culture, University of Arizona, 1990-1991.
• Outstanding Achievement Award - University of New Mexico, 1986.
• Graduate Internship Program - University of New Mexico, 1985-1986.
• Bachelor's degree, with distinction - University of New Mexico, 1985.

• Early literacy development and instruction
• Inquiry-based curriculum development
• Assessing reading and writing development
• Reading and language arts methods