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Dr. Ellis Hurd

Associate Director, Graduate Programs
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DEG Degarmo Hall 245
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Email
ehurd@ilstu.eduemail
  • About
  • Education
  • Awards & Honors
  • Selected Research

Current Courses

TCH 599.012 Dissertation Research

TCH 207.001 Literacy Instruction in Culturally & Linguistically Diverse Middle Level Classroom

TCH 500.001 Independent Study

TCH 501.001 Intro To Doctoral Scholarship

TCH 498.001 Professional Practice TCH - ESL Experience

EDD Curriculum and Instruction

University of Northern Iowa
Cedar Falls, Iowa

MA Curriculum & Instruction and ESL / Bilingual Education

National-Louis University
Chicago, Illinois

BA Secondary Education-English

Judson University
Elgin, Illinois

College of Education Outstanding Teacher of the Year

Illinois State University
2016

Diversity Advocacy Award

Deans of Students Office, Illinois State University
2014

Outstanding faculty member

The Women of the ISU’s Panhellenic Council, Illinois State University
2014

Recognized Faculty Mentor

The University Scholars Support Program, Illinois State University
2012

Book, Chapter

The Untold Future of Being Mixed: Moving Forward While Remembering What Is Behind
Ellis Hurd
(2019), 257--270, The Reflexivity of Pain and Privilege, Brill Sense
Lessons Learned: A Case of One Teacher’s Common Planning Time Experience
Ellis Hurd
(2013), 9, 149--168, Common Planning Time in Middle Level Schools: Research Studies From the MLER SIG’s National Project, Information Age Publishing
The Implementation and Use of Middle Level Common Planning Time: A Study of Four Middle Schools
SB Mertens, Ellis Hurd, & K Tilford
(2013), 9, 287--306, Common Planning Time in Middle Level Schools: Research Studies From the MLER SIG’s National Project, Information Age Publishing
The implementation and use of middle level common planning time: A study of four middle schools
S. B. Mertens, E. Hurd, & K. Tilford
(2013), 299-318, Common planning time in middle level schools: Research studies from the MLER SIG's national project, Information Age Publishing

Book, Edited

2022 Revised Middle Level Teacher Preparation Standards
Ellis Hurd
(2022), 1, 134, Association for Middle Level Education

Journal Article

ESTABLISHING A PEDAGOGY OF EQUITY AND CULTURALLY RESPONSIVENESS IN THE MIDDLE GRADES
Kathleen M Brinegar, Lisa M Harrison, & Ellis Hurd
Equity \& Cultural Responsiveness in the Middle Grades, 335, (2019)
EXPLORING THE CONVERGENCE OF DEVELOPMENTALISM AND CULTURAL RESPONSIVENESS
Lisa M Harrison, Ellis Hurd, & Kathleen M Brinegar
Equity \& Cultural Responsiveness in the Middle Grades, 1, (2019)
Scaffolds, signs, and bridges: Language ideologies and translanguaging in student-teaching experiences
Mark B Pacheco, Hyun-Sook Kang, & Ellis Hurd
Bilingual Research Journal, 1--20, (2019)
THE HOMILY OF PAIN AND PRIVILEGE
Ellis Hurd
The Reflexivity of Pain and Privilege: Auto-Ethnographic Collections of Mixed Identity, (2019)
CULTURAL RESPONSIVENESS IN THE MIDDLE GRADES
Ellis Hurd, Lisa Harrison, Kathleen Brinegar, & Brianna L Kennedy
Literature reviews in support of the middle level education research agenda, 25, (2018)
Creating the right spaces for young adolescents
Ellis Hurd, Kathleen Brinegar, & Lisa Harrison
Middle School Journal, 49 (3), 2--3, (2018)
Developing and Using a Co-Teaching Model within a Middle Level Education Program.
Ellis Hurd & Gary Weilbacher
Current Issues in Middle Level Education, 23 (1), n1, (2018)
Emancipation through empowerment
Kathleen Brinegar, Lisa Harrison, & Ellis Hurd
Middle School Journal, 49 (2), 2--2, (2018)
Engagement for Whom?
Lisa Harrison, Ellis Hurd, & Kathleen Brinegar
Middle School Journal, 49 (1), 2--3, (2018)
Questions of Changing Access: Who Participates in School Ethnographies and Why?
Kara L Lycke & Ellis Hurd
International Review of Qualitative Research, 10 (3), 291--305, (2017)
Taking Co-Teaching to a Different Level
Gary Weilbacher & Ellis Hurd
in a Democracy, 91, (2017)
" You Want Me to Do What?" The Benefits of Co-Teaching in the Middle Level.
Ellis Hurd & Gary Weilbacher
Middle Grades Review, 3 (1), n1, (2017)
Synthesizing Middle Grades Research on Cultural Responsiveness: The Importance of a Shared Conceptual Framework
Brianna L. Kennedy, Kathleen Brinegar, Ellis Hurd, & Lisa Harrison
Middle Grades Review, 2 (3), 1--20, (2016)
Using co-teaching as professional development for middle level teacher candidates, cooperating teachers, and university faculty
Ellis Hurd
(2016)
Middle School Advisory: Students' Perceptions of Its Effectiveness
Katie Miglin, Katie, Beth Stephens, Ellis Hurd, & Adel. T. Al-Bataineh
International Journal of Teaching and Learning, 7 (1), 01--14, (2015)
Rural Teachers’ Literacy Practices In and Out of the Classroom: Exploring Teacher Characteristics and Literacy Tools
Kara L Lycke, Ellis Hurd, & Terry Husband
The Rural Educator, 36 (3), (2015)
Sowing Seeds of Change
Ellis Hurd & Gary Weilbacher
Education Week (Teacher Magazine), 33 (29), 22--24, (2014)
The Symposium Project: Implementing a Shared Middle Level Teacher Education Program Library
Ellis Hurd
(2014)
Middle level education and the young adolescent
Ellis Hurd & Steven Mertens
Syllabus, 2 (1), 1--12, (2013)
A framework for understanding multicultural identities: An investigation of a middle level student's French-Canadian Honduran-American (Mestizo) Identity
Ellis Hurd
Middle Grades Research Journal, 7 (2), 111, (2012)
The reflexivitiy of pain and privilege
Ellis Hurd
The International Journal of Critical Pedagogy, 4 (1), (2012)
Confessions of belonging: My emotional journey as medical translator
Ellis Hurd
Qualitative Inquiry, 16 (10), 783--791, (2010)

Other

An integrative curriculum: Supporting students’ understanding of self and the world
Lisa M Harrison, Ellis Hurd, & Kathleen M Brinegar
Routledge, (2019)
Co-constructing young adolescent identity: A power \& privilege of educators
Kathleen Brinegar, Lisa Harrison, & Ellis Hurd
Routledge, (2019)
Renewed hope
Ellis Hurd, Kathleen Brinegar, & Lisa Harrison
Routledge, (2019)
The Reflexivity of Pain and Privilege: Auto-Ethnographic Collections of Mixed Identity
Ellis Hurd
(2019)
Becoming transformative, equity-based educators
Kathleen Brinegar, Lisa Harrison, & Ellis Hurd
Routledge, (2018)
The Reflexivity of Pain and Privilege: An Autoethnography of (Mestizo) Identity and Other Mestizo Voices
Ellis Hurd
ProQuest, (2008)

Presentations

Writing for Publication
Ellis Hurd
Annual Conference and Exhibit (47th), Baltimore, MD, October 24, 2020
The Reflexivity of Pain and Privilege: Auto-Ethnographic Collections of Mixed Identity
Ellis Hurd
AMLE 2019 Annual Conference and Exhibit (46th), Nashville, November 9, 2019
Writing for Publication
Ellis Hurd
AMLE 2018 Annual Conference and Exhibit (46th), Nashville, TN, November 7, 2019
The Reflexivity of Pain and Privilege: Auto-Ethnographic Collections of Mixed Identity.
Ellis Hurd
15th International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, Urbana-Champaign, IL, May 17, 2019
Panel Discussion: Handbook of Research in Middle Level Education, Equity and Cultural Responsiveness in Middle Grade
Ellis Hurd
AMLE 2018 Annual Conference and Exhibit (45th), Orlando, FL, October 26, 2018
Writing for AMLE Journals
Ellis Hurd
Annual Conference and Exhibit (45th), Orlando, FL, October 25, 2018
The Hybrid Affect: Teacher Candidates’ Perceptions and Experiences of a Middle Level Education Course
Ellis Hurd
The Sixth Pacific-Rim Conference on Education-Pre-service and In-service Teacher Development Innovation, Chonburi, Thailand., November 17, 2017
Writing for AMLE Journals.
Ellis Hurd
AMLE 2017 Annual Conference and Exhibit (44th), Philadelphia, PA, November 8, 2017
Research Roundtable: Connecting Theory with Practice—An Exploration of the Use of the Middle School Concept to Support Culturally Responsive Practices
Ellis Hurd
AMLE 2017 Annual Conference and Exhibit (44th), Philadelphia, PA, November 6, 2017
Supporting Marginalized Youth: Investigating Current C & I Approaches from Middle Grades Research
Ellis Hurd
Association for Middle Level Education, Philadelphia, PA, November 5, 2017
You Want Me To Do What?
Ellis Hurd
13th International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (QI2017), Urbana-Champaign, IL, May 20, 2017
Synthesizing Middle-Grades Research on Cultural Responsiveness: The Importance of a Shared Conceptual Framework
Ellis Hurd
2017 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), San Antonio, TX, April 18, 2017
Research Roundtable: Connecting Theory with Practice—Culture, power, and differences in the middle grades
Ellis Hurd
AMLE 2016 Annual Conference and Exhibit (43rd), Austin, TX, October 10, 2016
Research Roundtable: Connecting Theory with Practice—You Want Me To Do What? Developing and Using a Co-teaching Model within a Middle Level Education Program
Ellis Hurd
AMLE 2016 Annual Conference and Exhibit (43rd), Austin, TX, October 10, 2016
You Want Me To Do What? Developing and Using a Co-teaching Model within a Middle Level Education Program
Ellis Hurd
Annual conference of the Association for Middle Level Education, Austin, TX, October 9, 2016
Collaboration Is as Collaboration Does: Initial Musing on Traces Across the Collaborative Sites Network.
Ellis Hurd
12th International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (QI2016), University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL, May 21, 2016
An advisor/advisee program for middle level teacher education students? Yes, please!
Ellis Hurd
The annual conference of the Association for Middle Level Education, Columbus, OH, October 14, 2015
Redesigning a middle level teacher preparation program: Meeting new state requirements
Ellis Hurd
The annual conference of the Association for Middle Level Education, Columbus, OH, October 14, 2015
Managing the Academic TrinitY
Ellis Hurd
International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (QI2015), Urbana-Champaign, IL, May 23, 2015
Research Roundtable: Connecting Theory with Practice—The Hybrid Effect: Teacher Candidates’ Perceptions and Experiences of a Middle Level Education Course
Ellis Hurd
AMLE 2014 Annual Conference and Exhibit (41st), Nashville, TN, November 6, 2014
Questions of Changing Access: Who participates in School Ethnographies and Why?
Ellis Hurd
10th International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (QI2014), Urbana-Champaign, IL, May 24, 2014
Middle Level Teacher Preparation: Designing Research Efforts to Improve Pre-Service Teacher Education Programs
Ellis Hurd
Symposium on Excellence in Middle Level Teacher Preparation, Minneapolis, MN, November 6, 2013
An Investigation of a Middle Level Student’s French-Canadian Honduran-American (Mestizo) Identity
Ellis Hurd
9th International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (QI2013), Urbana-Champaign, IL, May 17, 2013
Improving Middle Level Teacher Preparation: Comparing Candidates in Professional Development School and Traditional Teacher Preparation Models
Ellis Hurd
39th Annual Conference of the Association for Middle Level Education, Portland, OR, November 9, 2012
Creating and Sustaining a Quality PDS Partnership: A Collaborative Demonstration of the Professional Development Schools Approach across Three Middle Schools within a Small Urban Area
Ellis Hurd
38th Annual Conference of the Association for Middle Level Education, Louisville, KY, November 11, 2011
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