sj Miller

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sj Miller, a transdisciplinary award winning teacher/writer/activist/scholar, is Deputy Director of The Center for Research on Equity in Teacher Education at NYU’s Metropolitan Center for Research on Equity and the Transformation of Schools and Research Associate Professor in NYU’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. sj has a combined 23 years of teaching secondary English Language Arts, and undergraduate and graduate courses in Literacy, Curriculum and Instruction, and secondary preservice Urban and English Teacher Education. sj has published widely in journals and presented widely in state and national conferences on a variety of topics related to teaching young adult literature, anti-bullying pedagogy, challenging the gender and gender identity binary (i.e., trans*+, (a)gender, gender expansive/dynamic/fluid/creative youth), lesbian, gay, bisexual, asexaul, intesex, queer and questioning topics, multimodal applications of popular culture in secondary classrooms, and cultivating socio-spatial justice dispositions with secondary preservice English teachers.

Currently, sj is Academic Studies Member of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Advisory Board for the National Council Teachers of English (NCTE); Advisor for GLSEN'S Educator Advisory Committee; Consultant for the College Board and AP Literature and Composition Table Leader; Senior Advisor for PBS Learning Media about Teaching Transgender Youth; Advisory Board member for Routledge’s Critical Studies in Gender and Sexuality in Education, Journal of LGBT Youth, Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, The New Educator, and Journal of Literacy Research; and, ​UNESCO representative for the United States to develop Education for Peace and Sustainable Development in India with the Mohathma Gandhi Institute. sj helped draft the Beliefs Statement about Social Justice in English Education and pass the NCTE Resolution on Social Justice in Literacy Education, which informed the newly-vetted CAEP Social Justice Standard 6-the first ever standard in the United States that advances social justice work in teacher preparation. sj helped co-establish, with David Kirkland, the newly vetted NCTE Resolution and CEE Commission for Dismantling the School-to-Prison Pipeline and is Peter Lang series co-editor of Social Justice Across Contexts in Education, and the new series Queering Teacher Education Across Contexts. Recently, sj is the recent inaugural Column Editor of "Beyond Binary Gender Identities" in the English Journal.

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