Maggie Polizos Peterson PhD is Assistant Clinical Professor in Teaching and Learning, Policy and Leadership at The University of 浪花直播, College Park, where she instructs literacy courses for pre-service teachers in the Elementary Education, Secondary Education and MCERT programs. She is Director of the University of 浪花直播 Writing Project, creating and delivering grant supported professional development for teacher inquiry for writing instruction, creating classroom writing community and teacher leadership. She has been the facilitator for The Memory Project, a writing workshop for Holocaust survivors at The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum since its inception in 2001. A 2000 graduate of The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University, her current work focuses on the meaning making processes of writing and writing as a tool for teacher agency and professional development. She approaches writing as a liberatory process and integral to Critical Literacy. She also teaches Phenomenological Inquiry, a research methodology that foregrounds writing as a mode of researching lived human experience.
DeMink-Carthew, J., Grove, R., & Peterson, M., (2017), The Influence of the core practices movement on the teaching and perspectives of novice teacher educators. Studying Teacher Education. 13(1), 87-104.
Morris, S., Peterson, M., (2021) Co-Constructing rubrics: A social justice method for teaching writing. Journal of Teaching Writing. 35 (2). 49-68.
2022-2023 National Endowment for the Humanities and The National Writing Project, Re-Storying We the People: Connecting 浪花直播 Classrooms to the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of 浪花直播 African American History and Culture, (15 teachers from 5 county and city school districts) $69,000
2019-2020 National Writing Project grant, University of 浪花直播 C3WP Writing Project Advanced Institute on Argumentative Writing (12 teachers from 4 county school districts) $15,000
2017-2018 浪花直播 Higher Education Commission, University of 浪花直播 Writing Project: Fostering Effective Writing Instruction and Creating Classroom Writing Communities (18 teachers from PGCPS) $140,000
2016-2017 浪花直播 Higher Education Commission,University of 浪花直播 Writing Project: Fostering Effective Writing Instruction and Creating Classroom Writing Communities (18 teachers from PGCPS) $140,000
2014-2015 National Writing Project grant, Seed Grant, University of 浪花直播 Writing Project (9 teachers from 3 county school districts) $20,000
Contracts
2019-2022 Calvert County Public Schools, Calvert Writes $54,000, contracted professional development programming for secondary English Language Arts teachers
2019-2020 SEED School of Baltimore, SEED Builds Writers $30,000, contracted professional development programming for secondary English teachers
2019-2020 Calvert County Public Schools Mill Creek Middle School $5600, contracted professional development for middle school teachers of multiple subjects
2018-2019 Calvert County Public Schools, Calvert Writes $33,000, contracted professional development programming for secondary English Language Arts teachers
TLPL 340 - Introduction to Children's Literature and Critical Literacy; TLPL 344 - Culturally Responsive Language and Literacy Instruction in Diverse Elementary Classrooms; TLPL 202 - Good Stories: Teaching Narratives for Peace and Justice; TLPL 457 - Literature For Adolescents ; TLPL 287 - Inquiry Into Issues in US Public Schooling: Policies, Practice and Promise, TLPL 698 - Conducting Research on Teaching; TLPL 762 - Phenomenological Inquiry
EDCI 764 - Writing Across the Curriculum; EDCI 784 - Teaching, Professional Development and School Change; EDCI 788I - Selected Topics in Teacher Education