Rate My Professor Megan Adams

Dr. Megan Adams is the Department Chair and Professor of Reading Education in the Department of Secondary and Middle Grades Education at Kennesaw State University's Bagwell College of Education. She coordinates the department's M.Ed. programs, serves on doctoral committees across the college, and acts as co-Director of the Academy for Language and Literacy. Adams also holds positions as Qualitative Methodologist-in-Residence at the Bagwell Research Consortium and member of the HR Advisory Council. Her research focuses on literacy education for teachers and learners in marginalized communities, culturally relevant pedagogy, social justice curricula, supervision of teacher candidates, and post-COVID-19 challenges in digital teaching and pre-service teacher field experiences, including mental health support structures.

Megan Adams has published extensively on teacher preparation and literacy practices. Notable works include the co-authored book Culturally Relevant Teaching: Preparing Teachers to Include All Learners (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017); articles such as "Engaging 21st-Century Adolescents: Video Games in the Reading Classroom" (English Journal, 2009), "Supervision Matters: Collegial, Developmental and Reflective Approaches to Supervision of Teacher Candidates" (Cogent Education, 2016), "Studying Cultural Relevance in Online Courses: A Thematic Inquiry" (Online Learning, 2018), "Moving Toward: Using a Social Justice Curriculum to Impact Teacher Candidates" (Journal for Multicultural Education, 2019), and "Field Experiences for Pre-Service Teachers Post-COVID-19: Structures Required to Support Mental Health" (Frontiers in Education, 2023). She received Kennesaw State University's Outstanding Early Career Faculty Award in 2018. Adams contributes to initiatives like the Interactive Research Methods Lab, BOOST grant, Hopscotch4Teachers, and a federal grant targeting in-school mental health gaps.