- My article Personalized Professional Learning Through Peer Visits was published in the December 2019 issue of Learning Forward’s journal, The Learning Professional. Peer visits allow novice and veteran teachers to visit classroom teachers to see them model various techniques and strategies and to observe how students respond to instruction. Visiting teachers reflect with an instructional coach on what they can bring into their own classrooms to improve instruction, student engagement, classroom management, and teacher capacity. Teachers then set goals based on their own needs. The coach continues to work with visiting teachers throughout the year to help them reach their goals. Peer visits provide teachers the job-embedded, individualized professional development that has been shown by research to increase both teacher retention and student achievement. PDF can be found here.
- The Rate of Retention: A Proposal for an Indiana Report of Teacher Supply and Demand. Co-authored with TeachPlus fellows, Spring 2019.
- My dissertation - What's Behind the Revolving Door: Push and Pull Factors Influencing Teacher Retention. Dissertation. May 2018. Click here to see my key findings from my dissertation research about teacher shortages and retention.
- What's Behind the Revolving Door: Push and Pull Factors Influencing Teacher Retention. Indianagram (page 13), April 2018
- My Digital Day. IDOE Department of eLearning's 28-Day Web Challenge guest blog post. February 19, 2013
- Fast and Free Podcasting, a White Paper written for the ILead Program at the University of Indianapolis, February 18, 2013.
- What a Wonderful World: Indiana Author April Pulley Sayre Leads Children to Explore the World in their Backyards… and Beyond. Indiana Libraries. Vol 29, No 2 (2010).
- Trinkle, C. (2010). Text-to-Self Connection: The Lemonade Club and Research into Diseases. 21st-century learning in school libraries. Libraries Unlimited.
- Twitter as a Professional Learning Community. School Library Media Activities Monthly, December 2009: 22-23.
- Reading for Meaning: Synthesizing. School Library Media Activities Monthly (circulation 20,000+), March 2009: 49-51.
- Reading for Meaning: Making Connections and Searching for Answers. School Library Media Activities Monthly, February 2009: 48-50. Republished in full in The Essays of Leonard Michaels, pages 102-104.
- Reading for Meaning: Questioning. School Library Media Activities Monthly, January 2009: 48-50.
- Book Review: Marco Polo. Library Media Connection, March/April 2009: 86.
- Our Children Can Soar, School Library Journal. Book review featured on amazon.com.
- Listening Comprehension Leads to Reading Success. School Library Media Activities Monthly February 2008: 43-45.
- Vocabulary and Fluency Practice with Carmine: A Little More Red. School Library Media Activities Monthly February 2008: 11-12.
- Editor's Choice Tip. Library Media Connection, April/May, 2007: 8.
- Wikis Are For You, School Library Media Activities Monthly, February, 2007: 31-32.
- Teaching Prediction and Questioning Strategies Using Wordless Picture Books, School Library Media Activities Monthly, November 2006: 11-12.
- Library Media Specialist's Word Wall and Beyond: Integrating the Five Components of Reading Instruction. School Library Media Activities Monthly, September 2006: 40-43.
- Vocabulary and Fluency Practice with Carmine: A Little More Red. School Library Media Activities Monthly February 2008: 11-12.
