Dr. Overturf's curriculum vita

Educational Background

• BS in Elementary Education, Georgetown College
• MEd, Reading Emphasis, Eastern Kentucky University
• EdD, Supervision, Specialty in Literacy Education, University of Louisville

Teaching Areas

• Graduate reading courses
• Undergraduate and MAT Language Arts methods
• Director, Kentucky Reading Project
• Director, Adolescent Literacy Coaching Project
• Partner, Kentucky Striving Readers grant

Research Interests

• Adolescent literacy issues
• K-12 literacy instruction
• State and national literacy policy

Honors & Awards

• President of the Kentucky Reading Association
• Appointed member of the International Reading Association Task Force on Professional Development in Reading
• Semifinalist (one of six) for the Outstanding Graduate Student Reading Research papers at the both the 1997 and 2000 international conferences of the National Reading Conference
• Named Ashland Oil Golden Apple Achiever Educator Award

Professional Memberships

• Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development
• Greater Louisville Reading Council
• International Mind and Brain in Education Society
• International Reading Association
• Kentucky Reading Association
• National Council of Teachers of English/Language Arts
• National Reading Conference

Selected Publications

• Overturf, B. J. (2002). Creating open response questions in reading: 16 ways to improve our own practice. Kentucky Reading Journal.
• Overturf, B. J. (2001). The middle level academy experience. Kentucky Reading Journal.
• Overturf, B. J. (1999). Reading in Kentucky’s middle level schools: The lightweight side of the balance. Kentucky Reading Journal.
• Overturf, B. J. (1997). Reading portfolios reveal new dimensions of students. Middle School Journal, 28 (3), 45-50.
• Overturf, B., & Schack, G. (1998) On the high wire. In T. Bliss and J. Mazur (Eds.), Secondary and middle school teachers in the midst of reform: Common thread cases (pp. 21-41). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
• Schack, G. & Overturf, B. J. (1998). Professional development teams. Teaching Education Journal, 9 (2), 91-98.