Annual Retreat
June 18, 2012
CISLL Mission
CISLL is an interdisciplinary center for the study of lifespan
language and literacy across diverse populations and contexts,
both regionally and globally, with the commitment to:
• Engage in basic and applied research in language and
literacy.
• Develop and apply innovative research and assessment
methodologies to address complex issues
• Identified and promote best practices in language and
literacy.
• Provide evidence-based outreach that generates results.
CISLL Leadership
Co-Directors
Laurie Elish-Piper & Joseph Magliano
Research & Outreach
Strand Chairs
Sonya Armstrong, Anne Britt, Janet Holt,
Janet Olson, Emily Prieto, M Cecil Smith, Robert Reichle
Graduate Assistants
Rahmi Hartati
Melissa Terry
CISLL Strands
• Acquisition of and Transitions in Language and Literacy.
Sonya Armstrong & Janet Olson
• Processing of Language and Literacy.
Anne Britt & Robert Reichle
• Influences on Language and Literacy.
Emily Prieto
• Assessment and Interventions for Language and Literacy.
M Cecil Smith
• Methodologies for Studying Language and Literacy.
Janet Holt
Methodology Strand Chair
We are grateful to Janet Holt for her years of service to CISLL
as the Methodology strand chair.
She was instrumental in helping establish CISLL as a center.
We are pleased to announce that Laura Ruth Johnson has
accepted our invitation to become the new Methodology
strand chair.
Graduate Student Advisory Panels (GSAP) Leadership
• Antoinette Jones (Literacy Education)
• Brent Steffens (Psychology)
• Kris Kopp (Psychology) – COSSA Rep 2011 - 2012
• Melissa Terry (Psychology)
• Rahmi Hartati (Instructional Technology)
• Robert Williams (Literacy Education)
• Vanessa Segundo (Counseling, Adult and Higher
Education)
• Aundrea R. Lane (Psychology) – COSSA Rep 2012 2013
Continued Funding for CISLL
• Funding renewed by Strategic Planning for fiscal years
2012, 2013, and 2014
• As a result, CISLL was able to:
• Expand the 2nd GA position
• Increase student funding opportunities
CISLL Funding Opportunities
Faculty Proposal or Pilot (PoP) Grants
Purpose: To fund the collection of pilot data associated with a
future proposal or the writing of a proposal
Student PoP Grants
Purpose: To fund a student research that is preliminary work for a
major project (thesis, dissertation, programmatic research)
CISLL Outstanding Student Scholar Award (COSSA)
Purpose: To acknowledge the contributions of an outstanding
student to CISLL
Student Research Fellowship Award (SRFA)
Purpose: To fund a student mentored research project that fits
within the mission of CISLL
Faculty Funding for 2011-2012
Susan K. L’Allier
Michael Manderino
Paula Di Domenico
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Literacy Education Department
•
Title : “High School Literacy Coaching Study”
Faculty Funding for 2011-2012
Robert Reichle
Jim Clinton
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Foreign Languages and Literatures Department
•
Title: “Working Memory and Nativelikeness in the Processing of Verb
Agreement: An Event-Related Brain Potentials Study”
Faculty Funding for 2011-2012
M Cecil Smith
Leadership, Educational Psychology, and Foundations Department
Christopher Parker
Psychology Department
Title: “Project PAR: Validating Reading Comprehension Assessment”
Student Funding for 2011-2012
Student Research Fellowship Award (SRFA)
Jocelyn Ortiz
School Psychology
Title: “Latino English Language Learners’ Social Emotional and Academic
Outcomes: The Role of Social Support”
Student Funding for 2011-2012
CISLL Outstanding Student Scholar Award (COSSA)
Aundrea R. Lane
School Psychology
Current research project title:
“Examining the Utility of the Tools Used to Measure the Achievement Gap”
Student Funding for 2011-2012
Student Proposal of Pilot (PoP) Grant
Paula Di Domenico
Literacy Education Department
Project Title:
“High School Literacy Coaching Study”
Student Funding for 2011-2012
Student Proposal of Pilot (PoP) Grant
Vanessa Segundo
Counseling, Adult and Higher Education
Project Title:
“Developing Education Centered Communities through Language and
Cultural Sensitivity:
Latino Parent University and the Student Leadership Summit”
Certificate of Graduate Studies
• Interdisciplinary course approved, Spring 2012
• Course number: IDSP 596
• Course will include the CISLL seminar series and other
related readings
• Next Step: Proceed with the process of having the
Certificate approved
Affiliate Accomplishments
• M. Anne Britt
Presidential Teaching Professorship
• Joseph P. Magliano
Presidential Research Professorship
• They join an illustrious group of CISLL affiliates who have also received
Presidential Professorships in past years.
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Rebecca Butler (Presidential Teaching Professor)
•
Laurie Elish-Piper (Presidential Teaching Professor)
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Richard Orem (Presidential Teaching Professor)
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Donald Richgels (Presidential Research Professor)
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Rhonda Robinson (Presidential Teaching Professor)
CISLL as Interdisciplinary Unit
CISLL can be designated as an interdisciplinary unit on your grant
proposal.
10% of indirect costs go to CISLL
These funds are used to support funding opportunities and affiliate
research support and in no way compromise the amount that goes to your
department.
In return, you have access to:
•Strand Chair Expertise
•GA support for development and implementation
•Use network to identify collaborators
•Methodology workshops
Acknowledge CISLL Support
If you received financial support from CISLL (i.e.. PoP Grant or
student funding award), we request that you list CISLL as an
Interdisciplinary Unit on grant applications that result from that
work.
If you have benefited from the intellectual support of CISLL (e.g.,
seminars, workshops), please consider listing CISLL as an
Interdisciplinary Unit.
Please acknowledge the support of CISLL on publications and
presentations and pass that information on to cisll@niu.edu.
Fall Seminar Series, 2011
Common Core Standards
• Jim Pellegrino, “Promises & Pitfalls in the Drive Toward Common State
Standards and Common Assessments : The Good, The Bad, and The
Possibly Ugly”
• Nolan Cabrera, “The State vs. Ethnic Studies: Bearing witness in Tucson,
Arizona”
Fall Seminar Series, 2011
Common Core Standards
• Gloria Ladson-Billings, “Pushing Past the Achievement Gap”
• Jessica Zacher Pandaya, “Overtested: How High-Stakes Accountability
Fails English Language Learners”
• John Sabatini, “The Role of Cognitive Assessments of Reading
Comprehension in the New World Order of the Common Core State
Standards: Progress of Two Multi-Year, Research-Based Initiatives”
Spring Seminar Series, 2012
Second Language Learning
• Annie Tremblay, “Non-Native Listeners’ Differential Use of
Segmentation Cues”
• Bill Van Patten, “Missing Verbal Inflections as a Representational
Problem: Evidence from Self-paced Reading”
• Affiliate Poster Session
• “The Many Voices of Literacy: Stories from English Language
Learners”
Methodology Workshops, 2012
• Janet Holt, “Growth Modeling”
• Laura Johnson, “Qualitative Approaches to
Ethnographic Literacy Research”
CISLL Media Resources
• Website : www.niu.edu/cisll
• Video from each seminar event
• Weekly updated information
CISLL Media Resources
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CISLL Media Resources
Online Library
• More than 50 books available for check out, including research
handbooks, methodology manuals, and software guides.
Upcoming Seminar Topics
Fall 2012:
Typical and Atypical Early Language Development
Ideas for Spring 2013:
 Cognitive processes that support literacy
 Production/writing
 Methodologies
 Suggestions?