Faculty and Staff Profiles

• Professor, Instruction and Curriculum Leadership - The University of Memphis - 2008-present
• Coordinator, Undergraduate and Graduate Programs in Literacy - Michigan State University - 2007-2008
• Coordinator, PhD Program in Curriculum, Teaching and Educational Policy -   - 2004-2005
• Woodworking Instructor, Acoustic Guitar Building, Teacher Preparation - Grand Rapids Woodcraft - 2005-2008
• Flight Instructor, CFII - Lansing Community College - 2001-2004

• Professional Development for Grades 5 through 8 STEM teachers. - Tennessee Higher Education Commission - $57 thousand dollars - 2012 through 2013
• Center for the Study of Adult Literacy - Institute for Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education - 12 million dollars - 2012 though 2018
• STEM Grand Challenge – Adaptive, Generalizable Intelligent tutors for STEM and Naval Training and Education, - Office of Naval Research - 2.5 million dollars - 2012-2015
• DeepTutor: An Intelligent Tutoring System Based on Deep Language and Discourse Processing and Advanced Tutoring Strategies. - Institute for Education Sciences - 1.5 million dollars - 2010 - 2013
• The Memphis Literacy Corps. - The Memphis City Schools - 2.4 million - 2009 - present

• Hewlett Packard Foundation, Committee to Evaluate the PISA Assessments - Research panel - Spring 2015 - Hewlett Packard Foundation
• Evaluating the ACT and Cambridge Curricula and Assessments using the Common Core State Standards - Leaders and researchers in English language arts and literacy - January 2013 through December 2013 - National Center on Education and the Economy

• National Council on Education and the Economy - Reading and Writing Committee - 2011-present
• National Board for Professional Teaching Standards - Chair of the Committee, Revise the English/Language Arts Standards (C) - 2011-2012
• Coordinating Panel for the Carnegie sponsored Adolescent Literacy Pre-Doctoral Fellowships. - Member of the Committee - 2007-2011
• Member, Exemplary Teacher Preparation Program Awards (QUESTER) Committtee, International Reading Association - Chair and onsite visit coordinator - 2005-present

• Conley, M., & Seglem, R. (Eds.) (2015). Taking ownership over teacher performance assessment in language arts: Special edition of the Language Arts Journal, Language Arts, 93, 2, 81-159.
• National Board for Professional Teaching Standards. (2014). English language arts standards, third edition. Washington, DC. National Board for Professional Teaching Standards. (co-chair and member of the standards panel).
• National Center on Education and the Economy. (2013). What does it mean to be college and work ready? A report from the National Center of Education and the Economy, Washington, DC. (member of the English research panel).
• Conley, M. (2012). Content Area Literacy: Learners in Context, (2nd edition). Boston: Pearson.
  

• Conley, M. (2012). Review of Research in Urban Educational Settings: Lessons Learned and Implications for Future Practice. Edited by Kimberly A. Scott and Wanda J. Blanchett. Teachers College Record. http://www.tcrecord.org ID Number 16891.

• Conley, M. (in press). Embracing teachers as a vital resource. Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy.
• Conley, M. (2017). Improving Adolescent Comprehension: Developing Comprehension Strategies in the Content Areas. (pp. 406-427). S. Israel, Handbook of Research on Reading Comprehension, 2^nd Edition. New York: Guilford.
• Conley, M. (2016). Collaborating across educational divide: Why it is important for literacy and what it takes. Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, 59, 5, 1-6.
  
• Conley, M. & Garner, G. (2015). The edTPA and the (de)skilling of America’s teachers? Teachers College Record, Date Published: July 17, 2015. http://www.tcrecord.org ID Number: 18037, Date Accessed: 2/18/2016 10:11:24 AM.
• Conley, M. & Kang, H. (2015). What beginning teachers’ narratives about video-based instruction tell us about learning to teach science and literacy. (pp. 21-40) In E. Ortlieb, Shanahan, L. & McVee, M. (Eds.), Video research in disciplinary literacies. Cambridge, MA: Emerald Group Publishing.

• Conley, M., & Greenberg, D. (2014).  A survey of adult literacy teachers’ instructional practices associated with various texts, tasks and social conditions. A paper presented at the annual conference of the Society for Text and Discourse, Chicago.
• Conley, M., & Greenberg, D. (2014). Choices of adult literacy teachers’ instructional texts and tasks within different instructional and social conditions. A paper presented at the annual conference of the Literacy Research Association, Marco Island, FL.
• Conley, M. (2012). Differentiating literacy instruction to meet the needs of special populations: including creative and gifted students and English Language Learners. A presentation at the annual meeting of the International Reading Association, Orlando, FL.