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Janeen Pizzo, Ed.D.
(She/Hers/Hers)
- Assistant Professor
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(585) 395-5558
jpizzo@brockport.edu
Office: Brown Building 293
Office Hours:Tuesdays 11am-3pm or by appointment.
Presidential Teaching Excellence Award Winner
Education
- Ed.D. in Learning and Instruction, University of Buffalo, May 2025
- M.S. in Adolescent Literacy 5-12, Saint Bonaventure University, May 2008
- B.A. in Adolescence Education in English 7-12, State University of New York at Fredonia, May 2005
Areas of Specialty
- Educational Technology
- Developing classroom libraries to support literacy development in the secondary classroom
- Cultivating and supporting student and teacher agency
- Readers and writers workshop in the secondary classroom
- Teaching reading and writing to diverse learners in the secondary level
- Developing authentic assessments that reach the objectives in a meaningful way
- Video Coaching to support all teachers and students
Courses Taught
Undergraduate
- GEP 100 - Academic Planning Seminar
- EDI 431 - Teaching Literacy in the Middle and High School - Part I
- EDI 432 - Teaching Literacy in the Middle and High School - Part II
- EDI 475 - Practicum and Seminar in Adolescence Inclusive Generalist Ed
- EDI 481 - Technology for Learning
Graduate
- EDI 531 - Teaching Literacy in the Middle and High School - Part I
- EDI 532 - Teaching Literacy in the Middle and High School - Part II
- EDI 575 - Practicum and Seminar in Adolescence Inclusive Generalist Ed
- EDI 581 - Technology for Learning
- EDI 603 - Educational Assessment and Evaluation
- EDI 634 - Teaching Reading to Children with Diverse Needs
- EDI 739 - Teachers as Writers; Teachers Teaching Writing
- EDI 745 - Adolescent Literacy Internship
Research Interests
- Pedagogical Digital Competence (PDC)
- Video-based Coaching
- Culturally Responsive Education
- Trauma-Informed Teaching
- Readers and Writers Workshop
Professional Memberships
- International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE)
- National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)
- New York State Association for Computers and Technologies in Education (NYSCATE)
- Assembly on Literature for Adolescents of the NCTE (ALAN)
- Rochester Area Literacy Council (RALC)
- New York State Reading Association (NYSRA)
- Arabian Horse Association (AHA)
- United States Equestrian Federation (USEF)
Personal Interests
- USEF Licensed Official “r” Arabian and Half-Arabian horses
- Showing Arabian and Half-Arabian horses
- Hobby farms & gardening
- Traveling
- Cooking and baking