Dr. Kyle Miller
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Biography
Dr. Miller taught in Boston Public Schools before joining the College of Education at Illinois State University. She currently teaches courses related to child development, working with diverse populations, and research methods. Her research focuses on home-school relationships, father engagement, social justice and trauma-informed practices.
Current Courses
TCH 210.001 Child Growth And Development
TCH 210.004 Child Growth And Development
TCH 210.005 Child Growth And Development
TCH 599.003 Dissertation Research
TCH 205.001 Elementary Education Clinical I
TCH 533.001 Scholarship in the Academy
Teaching Interests & Areas
Learning theories, research methods, child development
Research Interests & Areas
Photo-elicitation, families and early learning, trauma-informed schools and self-care, social justice
PhD Human Development and Family Studies
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, Wisconsin
MMEd Risk and Prevention
Harvard Graduate School of Education
Cambridge, MA
BA Elementary Education
Boston College
Chestnut Hill, MA
Commitment to Diversity Award
Illinois State University, Dean of Students Office
2013
The Dr. Brenda Pfaehler Award of Excellence
University of Wisconsin - Madison, Center for Educational Opportunity
2012
Outstanding Graduate Student Award
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Human Development and Family Studies
2011
The Schurch Research Award
University of Wisconsin-Madison, School of Human Ecology
2011
Book, Authored
Revisiting the Past: Interviews With Low-Income Parents About School Memories and Children’s Early Beginnings
Kyle Miller.
(2017), SAGE Publications Ltd
Book, Chapter
Do You See What I See? Family-Produced Photographs and the Transition to School
Kyle Miller.
(2018), 139--162, Participant Empowerment Through Photo-elicitation in Ethnographic Education Research, Springer
The Ethics of Visual Research and Participant Empowerment
Kyle Miller.
(2018), 25--44, Participant Empowerment Through Photo-elicitation in Ethnographic Education Research, Springer
Journal Article
Preparing for the profession: Building resilience with preservice teachers
Kyle Miller, Karen Sue Stipp, Megan Kybartas.
Journal of Education and Practice, 16 (9), (2025), 10.7176/JEP/16-9-09
A Mixed Methods Investigation into Latino Fathers’ Roles in Their Children’s Educational Expectations
Jordan A Arellanes, Kyle Miller, Eric D Wesselmann.
Journal of Latinos and Education, 1-13, (2024), https://doi.org/10.1080/15348431.2024.2388635
Student trauma, trauma-informed teaching and self-care in preservice teachers’ clinical experiences
Karen E Miller, Karen Flint Stipp, Shmaine Bazemore Bertrand.
Teacher Development, 27 (1), 55-74, (2022), https://doi.org/10.1080/13664530.2022.2146180
Support Father Engagement: What Can We Learn From Fathers?
Kyle A. Miller, Jordan A. Arellanes, Lakeesha James.
Journal of Family Diversity in Education, 4 (2), 95-114, (2022), https://doi.org/10.53956/jfde.2022.151
Introduction to the school-university-partnership themed issue: Re envisioning school-university-partnerships with Antiracism at the Center.
Shamaine Bertrand, Quast, Kyle Miller.
School University Partnership Journal, 14 (4), (2021)
Building teacher resilience: Examining a self-care curriculum with preservice teachers
Karen Stipp, Karen Sue Stipp.
Critical Issues in Teacher Education, 27, 60-73, (2020)
Mixed Methods Research to Improve Course Design for Preservice Teachers
Elizabeth White, Kyle Miller.
International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 13 (1), (2019)
Preservice Teachers’ Memories of Home-School Connections and Their Link to Anticipated Practices
Kyle Miller.
Journal of Family Diversity in Education, 3 (3), 112--139, (2019)
Preservice teacher burnout: Secondary trauma and self-care issues in teacher education
Karen Stipp, Karen Sue Stipp.
Issues in Teacher Education, 28 (2), 28-45, (2019)
An investigation of early childhood teachers’ perceptions of families through a photo-sharing activity
Kyle Miller.
Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 39 (2), 131--149, (2018)
Preservice teachers’ preparedness to serve different family compositions
Kyle Miller.
Teaching Education, 1--20, (2018)
Who they are, what they think, and what they do: mothers’ school-related identities, academic socialization, and child academic readiness
Qi Wei, Janean E Dilworth-Bart, Kyle Miller, Carolyn A Liesen.
Early Child Development and Care, 188 (3), 310--326, (2018)
“El pasado refleja el futuro”: Pre-service teachers’ memories of growing up bilingual
Kyle Miller.
Bilingual Research Journal, 40 (1), 20--37, (2017)
How memories of school inform preservice teachers' feared and desired selves as teachers
Kyle Miller, Rena Shifflet.
Teaching and Teacher Education, 53, 20--29, (2016)
Learning about children’s school preparation through photographs: The use of photo elicitation interviews with low-income families
Kyle Miller.
Journal of early childhood research, 14 (3), 261--279, (2016)
From past to present: how memories of school shape parental views of children's schooling
Kyle Miller.
International Journal of Early Years Education, 23 (2), 153--171, (2015)
The transition to kindergarten: How families from lower-income backgrounds experienced the first year
Kyle Miller.
Early Childhood Education Journal, 43 (3), 213--221, (2015)
Cultural capital and home-school connections in early childhood
Kyle Miller, Amy Hilgendorf, Janean Dilworth-Bart.
Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 15 (4), 329--345, (2014)
Mothers' school-related identities and possible selves for their children
Kyle Miller, Janean Dilworth-Bart.
Early Child Development and Care, 184 (3), 323--339, (2014)
Compliance, opposition, and behavior problems in toddlers born preterm or low birthweight
Julie Poehlmann, AJ Miller Schwichtenberg, Emily Hahn, Kyle Miller, Janean Dilworth-Bart, David Kaplan, Sarah Maleck.
Infant mental health journal, 33 (1), 34--44, (2012)
Maternal play behaviors, child negativity, and preterm or low birthweight toddlers’ visual--spatial outcomes: Testing a differential susceptibility hypothesis
Janean E Dilworth-Bart, Kyle Miller, Amanda Hane.
Infant Behavior and Development, 35 (2), 312--322, (2012)
Maternal Recollections of Schooling and Children's School Preparation.
Kyle Miller, Janean Dilworth-Bart, Amanda Hane.
School Community Journal, 21 (2), 161--184, (2011)
Do Mothers’ Play Behaviors Moderate the Associations between Socioeconomic Status and 24-Month Neurocognitive Outcomes of Toddlers Born Preterm or with Low Birth Weight?
Janean E Dilworth-Bart, Julie A Poehlmann, Kyle Miller, Amy E Hilgendorf.
Journal of pediatric psychology, 36 (3), 289--300, (2010)
Maternal scaffolding and preterm toddlers’ visual-spatial processing and emerging working memory
Janean Dilworth-Bart, Julie Poehlmann, Amy E Hilgendorf, Kyle Miller, Heather Lambert.
Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 35 (2), 209--220, (2009)
A Father-Friendliness Survey: How Do Community Organizations Report Engaging Fathers?
Kyle Miller, Jordan A Arellanes.
Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education, 15 (2), 39-54, https://doi.org/10.3102/2006257
Other
Centering Antiracism
Shamaine Bertrand, Erin Quast, Kyle Miller.
School-University Partnerships, 14 (4), (2021)
Trauma-Informed Care in the University
Karen Sue Stipp, Karen Stipp.
(2019)
PARENTAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE TRANSITION TO SCHOOL: RECOLLECTIONS OF SCHOOLING, CONSTRUCTIONS OF READINESS, AND PREPARATION ACTIVITES
Kyle Miller.
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN--MADISON, (1912)
Presentations
Stepping Into Trauma: Resilience-Building for Nurses
Karen Sue Stipp, Kyle E Miller.
2nd Annual Symposium on Ambulatory Care, Normal IL, June 10, 2022
Trauma-Informed Self Care: Building Resilience for Healthy Teaching
Karen Sue Stipp, Kyle E Miller.
Trauma-Informed Self care: Building resilience for Healthy Teaching, Online, September 15, 2021
Helping Students Understand Trauma and Self Care
Karen Sue Stipp, Kyle Miller.
Self-Care in the University, Normal, July 23, 2020
Trauma-informed self-care: Resilience-building for professionals.
Karen Sue Stipp, Kyle Miller.
High Road School of Bloomington, Illinois, Bloomington, Illinois, January 6, 2020
Self-Care in the University
Kyle Miller, Karen Sue Stipp.
Self-Care in the University, Normal, December 3, 2019
Becoming social justice educators – discrepancies between what preservice teachers think and what they do
Kyle Miller, Gary Weilbacher.
American Education Research Association, Toronto, Canada, April, 2019
The intersection of classroom management, student trauma and self-care: The experiences of preservice teachers.
Kyle Miller.
American Education Research Association, Toronto, Canada, April, 2019
Breaking the cycle of one-way communication: How are we preparing teachers to effectively work with diverse families?
Kyle Miller.
The Association of Teacher Educators., Bloomington, August, 2018
Visual methods for understanding less visible aspects of education.
Kyle Miller, Shamaine Bertrand, Carolyn Hunt.
International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, Champaign, Illinois, May, 2018
Using mixed methods research to improve course design for preservice teachers.
Kyle Miller.
The Association of Teacher Educators., Pittsburgh, PA, August, 2017
A picture is worth a thousand words, but who should generate these pictures?
Kyle Miller.
International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, May, 2017
“I’m comfortable with all families, but…”: Preservice teachers’ preparedness to serve different family compositions.
Kyle Miller.
American Education Research Association, San Antonio, Texas, April, 2017