Rate My Professor Kitty Crawford

Her academic interests center on elementary literacy and emotions in teaching and learning. Crawford’s Ed.D. dissertation, "Developing the Whole Teacher: A Phenomenological Case Study of Student Teachers' Emotional Experiences in One Teacher Education Program" (2016), examined how one early childhood education program prepares pre-service teachers for emotional challenges, recommending emotionally anticipatory and responsive pedagogy to develop the whole teacher. Key publications include "Emotional Dimensions of Teaching in Elementary Education Preparation" (2021, The Qualitative Report), "School Leadership Support: Understanding the Experiences of Elementary-Level Teachers during a Global Health Pandemic" (2022, School Leadership Review), "Shifting Beliefs About the Teaching of Reading: Teacher Candidates’ Responses to The Book Whisperer" (2022, Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts), "Peer Coaching in Preservice Teacher Education: Different Approaches and Different Effects" (2016, Teacher Education and Practice), "Out with the Old, In with the New: Digital Interactive Journals in an Elementary Language Arts Methods Course" (2023, Georgia Journal of Literacy), and "Building Classroom Community in Elementary Literacy Methods Courses" (2023, Georgia Journal of Literacy). She is an elected Voting Member on the Faculty Senate Academic Standards Committee, term ending 2026.