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Currently, Dr. Jackson teaches reading courses to undergraduate preservice teachers in the ELE-SPED department. Dr. Jackson also teaches graduate courses to inservice teachers who are seeking a reading endorsements as well as an ESOL endorsement.
Before working at 91ÁÔÆæ, Dr. Jackson worked as a reading specialist at a Title 1 school in Gwinnett County Public School district for 12 years.

Dr. Jackson is leading an outreach literacy community service project with other faculty members at a mobile community park in Gainesville, GA. The mobile literacy clinic project provides reading and writing support for K-5 students within their own community. Our mission is to help students reach their full potential.

• Ph.D., Language and Literacy, Georgia State University, 2015
• Specialist, Reading, Central Connecticut State University, 2004
• M.A., Reading, Central Connecticut State University, 2002

Tinker Sachs, G., Merchant, H., Jackson, A., Wang, H., Zackery, K. (under review). Layered mentoring in online and face-to-face teacher professional development spaces. Journal of Mentoring and Tutoring.

Jackson, A. & Washell, C. (2020). Pre-Program Students and Teacher Educators’ Understandings of Teaching and Learning within a Bilingual Community. In Lourdes Cardozo-Gaibisso & Max Vazquez Dominguez (Eds), Handbook of Research on Advancing Language Equity Practices With Immigrant Communities. IGI Global, Hershey, Pennsylvania.

Jackson, A. (2018). Girls and Boys for Others: Creating relevance and critical inquiry for English learners. GATESOL in Action Journal, 1, 1-31. ISSN #2331-6845. 

Tinker Sachs, G. Clark, B., Durkaya, M., Jackson, A., Johnson, C., Lake, W. and Limb, P. (2017). Disrupting Perceptions of the Other through Ethnographic Approaches in the Teacher Education Classroom. In Fatima Pirbhai- Illich & Robyn Cox (Eds.), Culturally responsive pedagogy: Critical multicultural literacy education in action. Continuum Press (Bloomsbury Academic), London, UK.

Tinker Sachs, G. Jackson, A., Sullivan-White, T. & Wynter-Hoyte, K. (2018). Explorations in developing culturally responsive literacy assessments for Bahamian children. International Journal of Progressive Education. 14(1), 130-147. DOI:10.29329/ijpe.2018.129.10

Jackson, A. Lesson Plan Template for Scaffolding Student Learning. April 18, 2017. A Teaching Academic: A CTLL Blog at 91ÁÔÆæ

Jackson, A. (2012). Whose job is it anyway?: A look at the reading-writing connection. TEIS (TESOL) Newsletter.