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Biography
My research focuses on the teaching and learning of literary interpretation and writing in under-resourced urban high schools, with an emphasis on the links between in- and out-of-school interpretive practices. I am also interested in ways that AI and digital media (for example, natural language processing models like ChatGPT; visual representations of text like word clouds; and radio production) can be used as frameworks for teaching reading and writing to middle and high school students. Before pursuing an academic career, I taught secondary English at a Chicago public school for ten years. While there, I founded and ran a youth radio program that used digital audio production as a tool to help make writing and analysis relevant and real-world for students, and to build bridges between in- and out-of-school worlds.
Other titles
Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Education
Program affiliations
CTE
CTE: Literacy, Language, and English Education
Learning Sciences and Technology Design (LSTD)
SHIPS (PhD): Race, Inequality, and Language in Education (RILE)
(MS) LDT
(MA) STEP
Research interests
Curriculum and Instruction | History of Education | Literacy and Language | Secondary Education | Teachers and Teaching | Technology and Education
Recent publications
Taylor, K. S., Keane, K., Silverman, R. D., & Levine, S. (2024). Elementary Teachers' Scaffolding in Writing Instruction. LITERACY RESEARCH AND INSTRUCTION.
Beck, S. W., & Levine, S. (2024). The Next Word: A Framework for Imagining the Benefits and Harms of Generative AI as a Resource for Learning to Write. READING RESEARCH QUARTERLY.
Levine, S., Beck, S. W., Mah, C., Phalen, L., & Pittman, J. (2024). How do students use ChatGPT as a writing support? JOURNAL OF ADOLESCENT & ADULT LITERACY.
