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MICHELLE KWOK
Assistant Professor
Curriculum Vitae
Michelle Kwok’s interests reside at the intersections of teacher education and literacy instruction. Her passion is empowering teachers to use literacy instruction as a means of providing equitable education opportunities. She is also dedicated to teaching teachers how to use literacy in the service of teaching their content area.

Currently, she is leading a project on on preservice teachers' beliefs on literacy and equitable instruction, diverse text choices, and identities. She also leads a project investigating how linguistics can be used in teaching math word problems.
Education
Ph.D., Educational Studies: Literacy, Language, and Culture, University of Michigan (2016)
M.A., Educational Studies: Literacy, Language, and Culture, University of Michigan (2010)
COURSES TAUGHT
EDCI 353: Early Childhood through Adolescent Education; RDNG 490: Assessment in Reading Instruction in Middle Grades; INST 222: Foundations of Education in a Multicultural Society; RDNG 467: Reading and Language Arts
COURSES TAUGHT
EDCI353. EARLY CHILD THROUGH ADOL EDUC
2020C,2020A,2019C,2019A,2018C
EDCI656. LEARNING THEORIES
2020C
EDCI680. PROSEMINAR
2020B
EDCI715. ACAD WRIT INTL GRAD
2020B
INST222. FOUND EDUC MULTICULTURAL SOCTY
2020A,2019C,2019A
RDNG467. RDNG & LANGUAGE ARTS
2019A
RDNG490. ASSESS IN RDNG INST MIDG
2020C,2020A,2019C,2019A,2018C
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Highlighed Publications
Kwok, M., Giunco, K.*, Rios, A., Fields, S., Leighton, C., Matthews, S., & Tumushabe, G.* (2025). Coming in hot: Literacy teacher educators’ response to the chilling effects of diverse text legislation. Studying Teacher Education. [published with student]
Kwok, M., Rios, A., & Su-Keene, E. (2025). Preservice teachers’ conceptualizations of equity and equality: Tensions between technical and humanistic constructions. Journal of Teacher Education. https://doi.org/10.1177/00224871251314883.
Kwok, A., De Le Cruz, I., & Kwok, M. (2024). Clinical teaching learning trajectory: Exploring field supervisor written feedback on clinical teacher pedagogy. American Educational Research Journal. https://doi.org/10.3102/00028312241288177.
Books and Monographs
Editorial Assistant for Handbook of Reading Research (Volume V). Moje, E. B., Afflerbach, P., Enciso, P., & Lesaux, N. (Eds.). (2020). Routledge.
Journal Articles
Aldemir, T., Bicer, A., Kilinc, S., Moon, J., Kwok, M. (2025). Exploring emergent AITPACK competencies in a two-week AI literacy module for preservice teachers. Teacher and Teacher Education.
Kwok, A., Bartenen, B., & Kwok, M., Ogden, K., Weinstein, T. (2025). Tutoring the tutors: Piloting online modules for tutor training. Teachers College Record.
Sanders, M.*, Kwok, M., & Gooden, M.* (2025). What makes a mathematics word problem solvable and clear? A linguistic and mathematical analysis of two-step word problems. The Journal of Mathematical Behavior, 80. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmathb.2025.101267.
Kwok, A., Rios, A.*, & Kwok, M. (2022). Pre-service teachers’ motivations to enter the profession. Journal of Curriculum Studies, 54(4), 576-597. [published with student]
Kwok, M. (2022). Tensions between disciplinarity and generality within a professional development on writing instruction. English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 21(1), 71-83. Special Issue: Disciplinary Literacy in English Teaching and Teacher Education.
Kwok, M., Rios, A., & Kwok, A. (2022). Dispelling deficit framing: Investigating pre-service teacher beliefs about the intersections between literacy instruction and culturally relevant pedagogy. Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice. [published with student]
Kwok, M., Welder, R. M., Moore, J., & Williams, A. M. (2022). Beyond keywords: Applying Systemic Functional Linguistics to unpack the language of additive word problems. International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, Special Issue: Reading in Science and Mathematics Education. [published with student]
Kwok, M., Rios, A., Kwok, A., Matthews, S. (2020). Teacher candidates’ developing beliefs about
diversity and its role in effective literacy teaching. Education and Urban Society. [published with student]
Kwok, M., Vela, K. N.*, Rugh, M. S.*, Lincoln, Y. S., Capraro, R. M., & Capraro, M. M. (2020). STEM words and their multiple meanings: The intricacies of asking a clarifying question. Communication Education, 69(2), 176-198. [published with student]
Book Chapters
Kwok, M. N., Ganding, E., Hull, G. A., & Moje, E. B. (2016). Sociocultural approaches to high
school writing instruction: Examining the roles of context, positionality, and power. In C.
MacArthur, S. Graham, & J. Fitzgerald (Eds.), Handbook of Writing Research (2nd ed.). New York:
Guilford.
AWARDS
Association of Former Students University Level Award for Teaching Excellence (2024)
Association of Former Students College Level Award for Teaching Excellence (2022)
Teaching Excellence Grant Program (2023-2025). School of Education and Human Development. Woodward, J., Kwok, M., Whiteside, E., & Sweany, N. A Virtual Model for Developing Intercultural Engagement Opportunities. $14,680 (Funded).

Association of Former Students College Level Award for Teaching Excellence (2022). Texas A&M University.

Presidential Transformational Teaching Grant (2020-2022)
Texas A&M University System
Woodward, J., & Kwok, M. Creating and Validating a Virtual Study Abroad Experience. $60,000 (Funded).

Literacy Research Association Best Paper Award: Area 1-Teacher Education (2020)
For paper presentation at the LRA Annual Conference. Rios, A., Kwok, M., Matthews, S., & Kwok, A. A Continuum from Equality to Equity: Analyzing Teacher Candidate Perceptions of the Interplay Between Literacy and Multicultural Instruction
LEADERSHIP POSITIONS
TLAC Online MEd Generalist Program: Faculty Coordinator (2022-present)

Literacy Research Association. Area 1 Chair: Teacher Education. (2019-2022)