Rate My Professor Mellissa Collucci

Collucci's research focuses on preparing teachers to instruct foundational literacy skills in dynamic environments that foster success for all children, with particular emphasis on multilingual learners whose first language is not English. She stresses the inseparability of language and literacy, encouraging educators to value diverse language uses, leverage home languages for content mastery, and cultivate inclusive classrooms that prioritize safety and academic support. A notable publication is her co-authored article '20/20 Vision: Clearly Seeing What Works in an Online Learning Environment' in the 2022 ALER Yearbook, which examines qualitative data from novice teachers in an online Summer Literacy Program to highlight enduring online practices like robust literacy instruction, technology utilization, social-emotional considerations, and cultural attunement. She also received a Gannett Foundation grant in 2019 to support a literacy tutoring initiative and serves on the editorial board for the Association of Literacy Educators and Researchers Yearbook.