Stacey J Fisher

Associate Professor

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• fishersj@etsu.edu
• 865-429-7705
• ETSU-Sevier Center, Office 142

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ABOUT

Stacey J. Fisher lives in Sevierville, TN and is an associate professor at East Tennessee State University on the Sevierville branch campus, ETSU Online, and is on the Graduate Faculty. Dr. Fisher teaches on-ground and online Literacy courses, is cohort student advisor, and Co-Coordinator for ETSU at Sevierville for the K-5 Elementary Education program. She completed her Ph.D. of Exceptional Learning in Literacy at Tennessee Technological University and spent nine years in public schools. Her research interests focus on family literacy and financial literacy for rural, first generation college students and non-traditional students. She serves as the Chair/President of the Literacy Association of Tennessee and is a grant and scholarship proposal Reviewer for Kappa Delta Pi and a Session proposal Reviewer for several conferences, such as Kappa Delta Pi and International Literacy Association. She also works with the Tennessee Literacy Journal.

EDUCATION

Ph.D Exceptional Learning - Literacy
Tennessee Technological University

Ed.S Instructional Leadership
Tennessee Technological University

M.A. Instructional Leadership
Tennessee Technological University

B.S. Elementary Education - Grades 1-8
Tennessee Technological University

A. S. General Degree - Education
Roane State University

COURSES TAUGHT

SELECT PUBLICATIONS

Wilton, N., Jennings, L., Moran, R.R., Fisher, S.J., & Dwyer, E.J. (2017) Encouraging word identification competencies among developing readers. Query, 46 (2), 13-15.

Fisher, S.J., Kolodziej, N., Sapp, L., & Setliff, D. (2016) Research results from TRA research and studies committee. Tennessee Reading Teacher, 42 (1) 79-80.

Fisher, S.J., Jennings, J.L., Moran, R.R., Hong, H., & Dwyer, E.J. (2016) Actively engaging students in enhancing reading comprehension. Reading in Virginia. 38, 51-56.

Fisher, S. J., Moran, R. R., Bitner, A., and Dwyer, E. J. (2014). Encouraging higher order thinking and reading comprehension through questioning. Statement: The Journal of the Colorado Language Arts Society, 50 (2), 35-9.

SELECT PRESENTATIONS

December 2016 – Literacy Research Association’s 66th Annual Conference: “Using Photo Elicitation to Understand Teachers’ Perspectives on Literacy in the Age of Common Core.”

May 2016 – Twelfth International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, Champaign, Illinois: “Cohorts using social media.”