Rate My Professor Chyrese Wolf

Chyrese Wolf is an associate professor of Elementary and Middle Level Education and Graduate Reading in the College of Education at Chicago State University, where she joined the faculty in 2007 as an assistant professor of reading and has since been promoted to her current associate professor position. She holds an Ed.D. from Loyola University. In her administrative roles, Wolf serves as Interim Chairperson of the Department of Education Studies and as a program adviser for the Master of Arts in Teaching program targeted at second-career educators. Her office is ED 229, phone (773) 995-2370, though she prefers email for communication.

The main academic interests of Chyrese Wolf lie in literacy education research specializations. Specifically, international comparative literacy teacher development using large-scale assessments such as PISA and PIRLS in the development of the public's perception of teacher effectiveness. Another key focus is the impact of dialogical teaching in the literacy classroom, examining the teacher-student relationship. Wolf has made contributions to academic discourse through presentations at conferences like the American Reading Forum (ALER), including a 2017 session reporting results from five years of dialogical professional development and a 2018 presentation on the impact of the Dreamer Act on approximately 700,000 children in the United States. She also participated in other events such as the Illinois Reading Council conferences and served as a reviewer for the Journal of Teacher Education in 2016-2017. These activities highlight her engagement in professional development and policy implications for education.