Leigh Tolley
Work place: University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Hello! I’m Leigh M. Tolley, and I earned my Ph.D. in IDD&E in 2016. Since August 2016, I have been a Visiting Assistant Professor, Secondary Education in the department of Educational Curriculum and Instruction (EDCI) in the College of Education at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette (UL Lafayette). My courses taught include “Classroom Management and Instructional Design for Secondary Teachers,” “Middle/Secondary School English Methods,” “Classroom Assessment,” and “Advanced Field Experiences for Secondary Teachers,” all of which are well-suited to my IDD&E training and high school teaching background. I am thrilled to share that I recently accepted the tenure-track Assistant Professor, Secondary Education position in EDCI, which will begin August 1st.
Among my many wonderful experiences at UL Lafayette, I was appointed by the Graduate School to Graduate Faculty, Level One status, for a five-year term. I am following up on my research interests by getting to know secondary English/language arts teachers in the region. In addition, I have become involved in the Vermilionville Education Enrichment Partnership (VEEP), an academic service learning collaboration between Vermilionville, a local living history museum and folklife park, UL Lafayette, and the Lafayette Parish School System.
I have also continued to be very involved in the American Evaluation Association (AEA). Since January of this year, I have been the Chair of the PreK-12 Educational Evaluation Topical Interest Group (TIG) of AEA. Our TIG just ran a week-long series on aea365, AEA’s daily blog by and for evaluators, and I wrote the opening and closing posts, which are linked below:
Ed Eval TIG Week: Getting to Know (and Learn from) You by Leigh M. Tolley
Ed Eval TIG Week: Learning through Living—Living History, That Is! by Leigh M. Tolley
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