Dr. Deborah MacPhee
Interim Associate Director, Undergraduate Programs
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- About
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Biography
Deborah MacPhee is a professor of elementary literacy education in the School of Teaching and Learning, where she teaches literacy theory and methods courses for graduate and undergraduate students.
Current Courses
TCH 599.007 Dissertation Research
Teaching Interests & Areas
Theories of reading and literacy development
Methods for teaching early readers
Integrating literacy and content learning
Research Interests & Areas
Professional learning and literacy coaching
Integrating literacy and content learning in K-5 classrooms
Media representations of the science of reading
PhD Language and Literacy
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC
MMEd Elementary Education
University of South Carolina Aiken
Aiken, SC
Bachelor of Arts Elementary Education
University of South Carolina Aiken
Aiken, SC
Book, Chapter
Interactive read alouds
Deborah MacPhee, Robin Cox.
(2019), 87-95, Reading revealed: 50 Expert teachers share what they do and why they do it, Scholastic
Research on response-to-intervention supplemental interventions: Where’s the comprehension instruction?
Deborah MacPhee, Bemiss Elizabeth, Stephens Diane.
(2015), 162-174, Comprehension Instruction: Research-Based Best Practices
Selecting history: What elementary educators say about their social studies textbook
Timothy Lintner, Deborah MacPhee.
(2012), 257--270, The New Politics of the Textbook, Brill Sense
Journal Article
Conflict or Conversation? Media Portrayals of the Science of Reading
Deborah MacPhee, Lara Handsfield, Patricia Paugh.
Reading Research Quarterly, (2021), http://doi:10.1002/rrq.384
Using critical discourse analysis to reflect on collaborative professional learning
Carolyn Hunt, Deborah MacPhee.
International Journal of Mentoring and Coaching in Education, 9 (2), 153-167, (2020), https://doi.org/10.1108/IJMCE-04-2019-0055
A Multidimensional Model of Teacher Education: Designing and Implementing Pedagogical Innovation
Sonia Kline, Deborah MacPhee.
Critical Issues in Teacher Education, 26, 4--14, (2019)
Partners in PDS: Designing, implementing and examining a collaborative pedagogical model
Deborah MacPhee, Morgan Belcher.
School-University Partnerships, 13 (2), 50-61, (2019)
Creating a culture of shared inquiry for literacy coaching
Deborah MacPhee, Carolyn Hunt.
Illinois Reading Council Journal, 46 (3), 7--18, (2018)
Conflicting discourses: Navigating the tensions of becoming a literacy coach
Deborah MacPhee, Pamela Jewett.
The New Educator, 13 (4), 408--431, (2017)
Motivated to engage: Learning from the literacy stories of pre-service teachers
Deborah MacPhee, Sherry Sanden.
Reading Horizons, 55 (1), 3, (2016)
Exploring bias in elementary history curriculum with preservice and practicing teachers in professional development schools
Deborah MacPhee, Kristina Kaufman.
The Social Studies, 105 (3), 124--131, (2014)
Professional development as the study of self: Using selfknowledge to mediate the act of teaching
Deborah MacPhee.
62nd yearbook of the Literacy Research Association, 311--323, (2013)
A dialogic conception of learning: collaborative peer coaching
Pamela Jewett, Deborah MacPhee.
International journal of mentoring and coaching in education, 1 (1), 12--23, (2012)
Adding collaborative peer coaching to our teaching identities
Pamela Jewett, Deborah MacPhee.
The Reading Teacher, 66 (2), 105--110, (2012)
From Social Studies to Social Action for a Disability Inclusive World
Deborah MacPhee, Timothy Lintner.
Social Studies Research and Practice, 7 (2), 147, (2012)
Leveling, text complexity, and matching students in the common core era: Where is the child?
Handsfield, L., Karraker, D., MacPhee, D., \&, L. Wedwick.
Illinois Reading Council Journal, 42 (1), 3--4, (2012)
Bringing the “social” back to social studies: Literacy strategies as tools for understanding history
Deborah MacPhee, Emily J Whitecotton.
The Social Studies, 102 (6), 263--267, (2011)
Other
Kids are always learning infographic
Christie Angleton, Lara Handsfield, Deborah MacPhee, Sherry Sanden.
(2020)
The Identities We Teach: An Ethnographic Study of Three Teachers' Conceptual and Enacted Identities
Deborah MacPhee.
University of South Carolina, (2008)
Presentations
Yes, we learn to read through reading (and writing): A conversation about the “Science of Reading”
Debra Goodman, Alan Flurkey, Deborah MacPhee, Sherry Sanden, Pat Paugh.
National Council of Teachers of English Annual Convention, Online, November, 2020
“Proving our worth”: Discourses of teacher evaluation in literacy coaching.
Carolyn Hunt, Deborah MacPhee.
69th Literacy Research Association Annual Conference, Tampa, FL, December 6, 2019
Disrupting the “sience of reading” frenzy: Pushing back against a reading = phonics perspective
Sherry Sanden, Deborah MacPhee.
International Literacy Association 2019 Conference, New Orleans, LA, October 12, 2019
Challenging common notions of reading with Eye Movement and Miscue Analysis (EMMA) research.
Yueh-Nu Hung, Deborah MacPhee.
Literacies for All Summer Institute, Baltimore, MD, July, 2018
Building on students’ language strengths: Using Eye Movement Miscue Analysis (EMMA) to map readers’ strategies.
Deborah MacPhee.
National Council of English Assembly for Research, Towson, MD, March, 2018
Using critical discourse analysis to reflect on collaborative professional learning
Deborah MacPhee.
68th Literacy Research Association Annual Conference, Tampa, FL, December, 2017
Frames matter: Investigating the perceived effects of reading process knowledge on educators’ professional practices
Deborah MacPhee.
Literacies for All Summer Institute, Tucson, AR, July, 2017
Collaborative inquiry in a PDS
Deborah MacPhee.
67th Literacy Research Association Annual Conference, Nashville, TN, December, 2016
Developing our profession from the inside: Learning and growing in a school-embedded literacy methods course
Deborah MacPhee.
National Council of Teachers of English Annual Conference, Atlanta, GA, November, 2016
Motivated to engage: Learning from the literacy stories of pre-service teachers
Deborah MacPhee.
66th Literacy Research Association Annual Conference, Carlsbad, CA, December, 2015
Research on RTI supplemental interventions: Where’s the comprehension instruction?
Deborah MacPhee.
65th Literacy Research Association Annual Conference, Marco Island, FL, December, 2014
Coaching for complexity: Promoting deep understandings of self and teaching
Deborah MacPhee.
International Reading Association Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA, May, 2014
Pre-service teacher’ literacy histories: Acknowledging the past, understanding the present, informing the future.
Deborah MacPhee.
Literacy Research Association Annual Conference, Dallas, TX, December, 2013
Confronting conflicting identities: Navigating the tensions of becoming a literacy coach
Deborah MacPhee.
National Council of Teachers of English Annual Conference, Boston, MA, November, 2013
Professional development as self-study: Using self-knowledge to mediate the act of teaching
Deborah MacPhee.
Literacy Research Association Annual Conference, San Diego, CA, December, 2012