KAREN FEAGIN CURRICULUM VITAE Department of Teaching and Learning, Policy and Leadership College of Education, University of Maryland 2311 Benjamin Building College Park MD, 20742 USA Tel: (703) 785-7617 Email: kfeagin@umd.edu EDUCATION Expected 2022 Doctor of Philosophy, Applied Linguistics and Language Education University of Maryland, College Park, MD Department of Teaching and Learning, Policy and Leadership 2013 M.S., Applied Linguistics (GPA 4.0/4.0) Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. 2008 B.A., Linguistics (Honors); minor in Portuguese Graduated with Highest Distinction (GPA 3.8/4.0) University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC July 2007 Summer Dialect Research Project, led by Dr. Lisa Green Center for the Study of African American Language, University of Massachusetts, Amherst RESEARCH INTERESTS Educational language policy Fair assessment of multilinguals PUBLICATIONS Feagin, K., & MacSwan, J. (under contract, expected publication 2021). What’s in a name? Promoting a resource orientation in descriptions of bilingual students. In C. Aquino-Sterling & B. B. Flores (Eds.), Bilingual Spanish-English teacher education: Reimagining critical and transformative theoretical designs. New York, NY: Peter Lang Publishers. Peercy, M. M., Kidwell, T., Destefano-Lawyer, M., Tigert, J., Fredricks, D., Feagin, K., & Stump, M. (2019). Experts at being novices: What new teachers can add to practice-based teacher education efforts. Action in Teacher Education, 42(3), 212-223. https://doi.org/10.1080/01626620.2019.1675201 Morgan, D., Feagin, K., & Shapiro, N. (eds.) (2019). Reforming mathematics in Maryland: Stories from the journey. College Park, MD: University System of Maryland. Peercy, M. M., Tigert, J., Feagin, K., Kidwell, T., Fredricks, D., Lawyer, M., Bitter, M., Canales, N., Mallory, A., & the Voices from the Field Teachers. (2019). “I need to take care of myself”: The case for self-care as a core practice for teaching. In C. R. Rinke & L. K. Mawhinney (Eds.), Opportunities and challenges in teacher recruitment and retention (pp. 303-325). Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing. CONFERENCES AND PRESENTATIONS Shapiro, N., Morgan, D., Olmstead, K., & Feagin, K. (2021, January). Bolstering civic responsibility in a time of pandemic: Pivoting is the name of the game [Paper presentation]. Association of American Colleges & Universities, virtual conference. Morgan, D., & Feagin, K. (2020, November). Practitioner wisdom: Learning from experience. In L. Goodyear (Chair), Enhancing policy relevance of system-level outcome studies: Harnessing stakeholder wisdom to define and measure post-secondary success [Symposium]. American Evaluation Association, virtual conference. Shapiro, N., Morgan, D., & Feagin, K. (2020, July–August). The power and possibility for fostering faculty collaboration [Paper presentation]. Science Education for New Civic Engagements and Responsibilities, virtual conference. Shapiro, N., Feagin, K., & Morgan, D. (2020, April). Addressing opportunity and achievement gaps by reforming undergraduate mathematics experiences [Paper presentation]. Center for Scholastic Inquiry, virtual conference. Shapiro, N., Morgan, D., Feagin, K., Shore, F. & Hamman J. (2020, January). Mathematics pathways and the paradox of choice [Paper presentation]. Association of American Colleges and Universities Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, United States. Feagin, K. (2020, January). Classroom language policy: Enactment and influences [Paper presentation]. Hawaii International Conference on Education, Honolulu, HI, United States. Shapiro, N., Morgan, D. & Feagin, K. (2020, January). Minding curricular change: Sustaining mathematics reforms at Maryland colleges and universities [Paper presentation]. Hawaii International Conference on Education, Honolulu, HI, United States. Morgan, D., Shapiro, N. & Feagin, K. (2019, November). Using logic models to understand collaborative network development, growth, and sustainability [Paper presentation]. American Evaluation Association Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, United States. Feagin, K. (2019, August). Enactment of classroom language policy in and through discourse [Paper presentation]. Multidisciplinary Approaches to Language Planning and Policy Annual Conference, Toronto, Canada. Peercy, M. M., Kidwell, T., Tigert, J., Fredricks, D., Feagin, K., Hall, W., Himmel, J., & Lawyer, M. (2019, April). What makes me different as a teacher?: Novice teachers of EBs enacting core practices [Paper presentation]. American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada. Peercy, M. M., Hall, W., Kidwell, T., Himmel, J., Fredricks, D., Feagin, K., & Lawyer, M. (2019, March). Enacting core practices for teaching ELs: Examples from the field [Paper presentation]. Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages International Convention, Atlanta, GA, United States. Peercy, M. M., DeStefano, M., Kidwell, T., Tigert, J., Feagin, K., & Fredricks, D. (2018, April). Using a dialogic approach to identify core practices for teaching English. [Paper presentation]. American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, New York, NY, United States. Feagin, K., Stump, M., & Peercy, M. M. (2018, March). “Can I make a comment?”: Teacher candidates in rehearsals [Paper presentation]. Georgetown University Round Table Annual Conference. Washington, DC, United States. Peercy, M. M., Fredricks, D., Kidwell, T., DeStefano, M., Tigert, J. M., Feagin, K., & Stump, M. (2017, April). Common language, common practice?: Core practices as a guiding framework for novice teacher EL pedagogy. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Antonio, TX, United States. Peercy, M. M., DeStefano, M., Kidwell, T., Stump, M., Tigert, J., Feagin, K., & Fredricks, D. (2017, March). Empowering teacher educators and novice teachers through ELL core practices. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages International Convention, Seattle, WA, United States. Stump, M., Feagin, K., & Peercy, M. M. (2017, January). “I’m kind of freaking out”: An analysis of teacher emotion [Paper presentation] Maryland TESOL Graduate Student Interest Section Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD, United States. Okabe, Y., Pulupa, C., Feagin, K., & Walikonis, C. (2016, June). Test development at the intersection of context, construct, and content: GTEC CBT: reading and listening [Poster presentation]. Language Testing Research Colloquium Annual Meeting, Palermo, Sicily. Walikonis, C., & Feagin, K. (2015, October). Examining the validity of scaled-response ‘can-do’ self-assessments [Poster presentation] East Coast Organization of Language Testers Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, United States. Joldersma, K., Feagin, K., Walikonis, C., Pulupa, C., Norviel, J., Hama, M., & Watanabe, T. (2015, March). Planning for washback in the development of a large-scale English language proficiency assessment [Work in progress presentation] Language Testing Research Colloquium Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada. Stansfield, C., & Feagin, K. (2014, June). An approach to testing Native American oral language proficiency in children [Panel presentation]. ACF Native American Languages Summit, Crystal City, Virginia, United States. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE AY2020-2021, AY2019-2020 Graduate Assistant University System of Maryland, Adelphi, MD P-20 Office; Supervisor: Dr. Nancy Shapiro Summer 2019 Instructor of Record University of Maryland, College Park, MD TLPL655, Assessment in the Second Language Classroom Summer 2019 Test Development Consultant Prometric, Baltimore, MD Spring 2019 Graduate Assistant University System of Maryland, Adelphi, MD P-20 Office; Supervisor: Dr. Nancy Shapiro Fall 2018 Instructor of Record University of Maryland, College Park, MD TLPL664, Foundations of Second Language Education: Legal, Social, and Historical Trends and Issues Summer 2018 Instructor of Record University of Maryland, College Park, MD EDCI631, Assessment in the Second Language Classroom Spring 2018 Teaching Assistant University of Maryland, College Park, MD EDCI631, Assessment in the Second Language Classroom; Instructor of record: Dr. Jeff MacSwan AY2017-2018, AY2016-2017 Research Assistant University of Maryland, College Park, MD Core Practices for Teaching ELLs; Principal Investigator: Dr. Megan Peercy AY2017-2018, Summer 2017 Program Support Assistant University of Maryland, College Park, MD Department of Teaching and Learning, Policy and Leadership Website Development; Supervisor: Dr. Jeff MacSwan Summer 2017 Research Assistant University of Maryland, College Park, MD CLAVES 2.0 IES Intervention Project For English Language Learners Summer 2017 Test Development Consultant Second Language Testing, Inc., Princeton, NJ AY2016-2018 Program Support Assistant University of Maryland, College Park, MD M.Ed. in TESOL program; Supervisor: Dr. Daisy Fredricks 2016-2017 Test Development Consultant Metro English Language Assessment, Washington, D.C. 2016 Language Testing Specialist Center for Applied Linguistics, Washington, D.C. Grade-Cluster Lead responsible for the development and review of items developed for WIDA’s ACCESS for ELLs 2.0, grades 9-12 2013-2016 Test Developer Second Language Testing, Inc., Rockville, MD Reading Team Technical Lead, Writing Team Assistant Technical Lead for GTEC CBT (a 4-skills, task-based, computer-adaptive English language proficiency test); Technical Lead for Navajo language assessment project FELLOWSHIPS, HONORS, AND AWARDS 2016-2020 University of Maryland Graduate School University Fellowship 2008 Mark Adam Eisdorfer Award for Undergraduate Excellence in Linguistics 2007 Camões Prize for Undergraduate Excellence in Portuguese 2007 Phi Beta Kappa SERVICE Spring 2019 Interviewed candidates for PGCPS Outreach Cohort Department of Teaching and Learning, Policy and Leadership, University of Maryland, College Park, MD Spring 2019 Assisted in revisions of course materials to fulfill SPA accreditation Department of Teaching and Learning, Policy and Leadership, University of Maryland, College Park, MD Spring 2017 Maryland Teacher Technology Standards (MTTS) Portfolio Reviewer University of Maryland, College Park, MD Spring 2013 Co-evaluator of ESL Literacy Program Arlington Employment and Education Program (REEP), Arlington, VA 2012-2015 Volunteer ESL teacher of adult English language learners Founding member, Associate Volunteer Board and Programming Committee Washington English Center (formerly Language ETC), Washington, DC 2013-2014 Evaluation Team Associate The Global Language Network (GLN), Washington, DC LANGUAGES English – native Portuguese – advanced Spanish – intermediate French – beginner German – beginner Karen Feagin CV 3