Alina Adonyi Pruitt

Dr. Pruitt is an experienced teacher, teacher leader, curriculum creator, and educational researcher with a demonstrated history of working in elementary, secondary and post-secondary education. Her doctoral research spotlighted curricular choices and instructional design with a focus on teacher agency. Dr. Pruitt's skills include strength based teaching, writing instruction, secondary teacher education, adolescent literacy instruction, and curriculum design. Here is her CV and her résumé.

Experience

Education

Research

Dr. Pruitt's research is rooted in her experiences teaching in public school classrooms and preparing educators at the college level. Her projects reinforce and further excel teachers processes of curriculum design to support students' literacy growth. Pruitt's research partnerships consistently celebrate teacher knowledge, advocate taking appreciative stances, focus on all students' linguistic strengths, and uphold culturally sustaining learning experiences. Dr. Pruitt's interest around adolescent literacies continue to grow, particularly related to shaping student growth and secondary English Language Arts teacher agency. She remains eager to learn alongside and contribute to communities who fuel literacy education and the powerful impact it has the potential to make in local schools.

You can connect with my research on Academia.org, Google Scholar, or Research Gate.

Interests

Dr. Pruitt has taught full-time at the K-12 level for a decade and at college level for as long, both as a title-1 Texas public school classroom teacher and as an instructor and facilitator with pre-service teachers in the field-based teacher education program of UT Austin's Curriculum and Instruction literacy-focused cohorts. There, she was interested in providing support to students around literacy instruction and curriculum design, advocated taking appreciative stances, focusing on all students' strengths, and designing culturally sustaining learning experiences. Dr. Pruitt is also interested in adapting and teaching undergraduate and graduate courses with the goal of preparing pre-service teachers in K-12 classrooms. Her interests in school teaching / classroom teaching with a commitment to equity centralize her experiences in public school contexts. During classroom teaching, Pruitt's curiosities grow around shaping student growth and strengthening teacher agency. She remains eager to learn from and contribute to communities who fuel literacy education and the powerful impact it has on local communities.