Louanne Jacobs

Dedicated educator with extensive experience in literacy education, curriculum development, and teacher training with notable expertise in children's and adolescent literature.

• Content Development Consultant, College Admissions Made Possible (CAMP) Summer Programs, Birmingham, AL, 2019, 2020, 2021
• Curriculum Selection Committee, I3 Academy, Birmingham, AL , 2010
• On-line Teacher/Coach, College Admissions Made Possible (CAMP) Summer Programs, Birmingham, AL, 2020, 2021
• Assessment Consultant, College Admissions Made Possible (CAMP) Summer Programs,Birmingham, AL, 2019
• Co-Director, National Writing Project, Alabama A&M University, 2006-2007
• Director, Regional Alabama Reading Initiative Summer Training Academies, 2002-2008
• Director, Regional Alabama Reading Initiative Retooling/Recertification Academy
• Director, North Alabama Reading Initiative Presenter Training
• Alabama Reading Initiative Collaborative Team, Alabama Reading Initiative
• Alabama Reading Initiative Presenter, Alabama Reading Initiative
• Alabama Reading Initiative Module Development, Alabama Reading Initiative

• National Academy of Sciences STEMMing the Tide Grant in Africatown, Alabama, Birmingham-Southern College, 2022-2024, Grant Participant
• Alabama Veterans’ Memorial Kiwanis Club Grant – 2021 Curriculum Development Writer
• Carnegie Whitney Grant Proposal – 2018 Translated Memory: Representations of Holocaust in Literature Written for Children and Adolescents, (Unfunded), 2018
• Grant Participant (with selected ACS schools) – 2015 ACS Empathy in Teaching Grant, 2015
• Grant Writer (with Dr. Amelia Spencer) – 2011 Alabama Power Grant (Unfunded), 2011
• Grant Writer (with Drs. Amelia Spencer, Genell Ferrell, Kelly Russell, and Kristen Harper) – 2011 ACS Faculty Renewal Grant, 2011
• Grant Writer (with Dr. Amelia Spencer) – 2010 Alabama Department of Education Special Education Consortium Grant, 2010
• Grant Writer (with Drs. Amelia Spencer, Genell Ferrell, Kelly Russell, and Kristen Harper) – 2009 ACS Faculty Renewal Grant, 2009
• Grant Writer – 2002 (TAGS) President’s Bush’s Textbooks for Africa Education Initiative, Alabama A&M University, 2002
• Textbook Writer – 2003 – 2005 President Bush’s Africa Education Initiative – Ethiopia, 2003-2005
• Grant Writer – 2006 (TLMP) President Bush’s Africa Education Initiative – Ethiopia, 2006
• Textbook Development Team Leader – 2006 President Bush’s Africa Education Initiative – Ethiopia,2006
• Grant Partner – Gilder-Lehrman Foundation Teaching American History (with Madison County Schools)

Faculty Advisory Committee, IDS First-Year Experience Committee, Committee on Promotion and Tenure, First Year Taskforce, Institutional Review Board, Faculty Leader – Social Conduct Hearing Board, Curriculum Process Group, Learning Outcomes Team, “R-6” Committee, 2010 Summer Budget Advisory Committee, Bunting Advisory Board, Norton Education Advisory Board, Moderator – Office of Alumni Affairs Virtual Book Club, CAEP Data Analysis and Preparation Team, Graduate Faculty, Dissertation Chairperson and Committee Member, Thesis Chairperson and Committee Member, School of Education Administration/Organization Handbook Committee, School of Education Research Committee, NCATE Community Advisory Committee, NCATE Standard Three Committee, School of Education Dean’s Council

• National Council for the Social Studies, 2022, Teaching Hard History: Representations of Holocaust in Literature Written for Children and Adolescents
• National Council for Teachers of English, 2022, If You Build It (During a Pandemic), They Will Come: Designing Remote and Hybrid-Remote Summer Learning That Shines a Light on Student Voices and Stories
• Association for Constructivist Teaching, 2020, Memories: Representations of Holocaust and Genocide in Literature Written for Children and Adolescents
• Association for Constructivist Teaching, 2019, A Cross-Case Analysis of a Body of Literature for Constructing Holistic Knowledge
• Association for Constructivist Teaching, 2018, Co-constructing a Constructivist Teacher Education Program
• Children’s Literature Association, 2018, The Waters of Marah and Translated Memory: An Analysis of Holocaust Literature Written for Children and Adolescents
• Association for Constructivist Teaching, 2016, Remembering again for the first time: Anchor texts and Piaget’s Conceptualization of Memory
• Center for Scholastic Inquiry, 2015, Teaching with a Stick and Dirt: Supervised International Teaching Internships
• Gulf South Summit on Service Learning and Civic Engagement through Higher Education, 2013, Engage Ghana: A Cross-Institutional Initiative
• Council for Exceptional Children, 2013, Collaborative Undergraduate and Faculty Action Research: Preparing Educators for 21st Century Classroom
• Alabama Department of Education MEGA Conference, 2011, Looking at the BIG Picture: Authentic Literacy Instruction for ALL Learners
• Council for Exceptional Education National Conference, 2011, Teaching at the Intersection of Knowledge and Understanding: Using Contemporary Young Adult Fiction to Prepare Preservice Collaborative Educators
• Teacher Education Division – Council for Exceptional Education, 2010, Watch us Teach, Hear us Talk: Effective and Reflective Co-Teaching at the College Level
• Council for Exceptional Education National Conference, 2010, So THAT’S What it Looks Like: Co-teaching Partnerships at the College Level
• Alabama MEGA Conference, 2010, When Two Heads are Better than One: a Co-teaching Paradigm
• International Reading Association, 2009, Holocaust and Genocide Literature in the Classroom: Reading the Language of Hatred and Hope
• International Reading Association, 2009, Cutters, Blow-jobs, and Dirty Pictures: Facing our Fear of YA Literature
• Alabama Pre-Kindergarten Conference, 2008, Scientific Reading: Making the Match between Literacy and Science
• Alabama Pre-Kindergarten Conference, 2008, Building a Pre-K Classroom Library: Which Books and Why?
• Northwest Alabama Regional Childcare Conference, 2008, Scientific Reading: Making the Match between Literacy and Science
• International Reading Association, 2008, Graphic Girrls: Using Graphic Novels to Increase Reading Engagement and Achievement with Girls
• International Reading Association, 2008, Looking Closely: Using Illustrated Texts to Develop Observation Skills in Content Area Literacy
• Holocaust Studies Conference, 2006, Using Holocaust and Genocide Picture Books to Develop Comprehension Skills
• Scholars’ Conference on the Holocaust and the Churches, 2006, Six Million Words: Developing a Comprehensive Holocaust and Genocide Library for Students in Grades Six – Twelve beyond Night and The Diary of Anne Frank
• Regional Conference, 2006, Developing a Curriculum for Teaching the Holocaust across Content Areas in Upper Elementary, Middle, and High Schools
• Regional Conference, 2006, Using Interactive Notebooks to Increase Comprehension in Grades 1 - 12
• Scholastic/NASSP Middle Level Summer Conference, 2001
• Scholastic/NASSP Middle Level Summer Conference, 2000

• 2023, Spencer, A., Barnes, G., Jacobs,L. Seeing Ourselves in the Children We Teach: Using Contemporary Young Adult Fiction to Prepare Preservice Teachers’ Growth in Knowledge and Understanding of Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder, International Journal of Special Education
• 2022, Gawronski, V., Hayden, K. Hazelhoff, R. Jacobs, L. Melonas, D. and Russell, K., Using a Communities of Practice (CoP) Model to Empower Youth to Meet Coastal Environmental Challenges in Africatown, Alabama, (Submitted)
• 2022, Jacobs, L., Early Childhood Research Review: Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth by Oliver Jeffers, Science and Children
• 2021, Jacobs, L. and Russell, K., The War on Terror: Teacher Resources and Lesson Plans
• 2021, Jacobs, L. Critical Literacy, Transformative Pedagogies, and Muslim Windows and Mirrors in Children’s Literature, The Constructivist
• 2008, Jacobs, L. , But it’s not on the Test: Holocaust Education in an age of No Child Left Behind, Maven in Blue Jeans: Festschrift in Honor of Zev Garber
• 2008, Jacobs, L., Let the Girls (and Boys) Read Comics!, Babes to Teens Column
• 2005, Jacobs, L., Using Picture Books to Support Content Standards in Middle and High School, Alabama State Department of Education Electronic Publications
• 2005, English for Ethiopia - Student Textbook and Teacher Manual – Grade 5, Ethiopian Ministry of Education – USAID Textbooks for a Global Society Project
• 2005, Jacobs, L., A Picture is worth Six Million Words, Journal of Content Area Reading
• 2004, Unknown, English for Ethiopia First Grade Reading Textbook, Ethiopian Ministry of Education – USAID Textbooks for a Global Society Project
• 2003, Jacobs, L. , Stacking the Deck for Literacy Learning, Principal Leadership
• 2008, Rozell, J. & Scearce, C., Revised and Reprinted – Power Tools for Literacy and Learning, Corwin Press
• 2005, Goodman, A., Cited – The middle school high five: Strategies can triumph, Voices from the Middle
• Reprinted - CNIB Children’s Discovery Network Portal
• Reprinted - Hong Kong Institute of Education’s New Education Knowledge Alert Se
• Cited - ASD (Anchorage School District) Middle-Link On-Line
• 2002, Jacobs, L. Graphic Organizers for Secondary Content Studies, National Association of Secondary School Principals Website
• 2000, Jacobs, L. The Diversity Bus, Education World
• 1991, Jacobs, L. , The Novel Feast, Alabama English
• 1991, Jacobs, L., Celebrating Reading Achievement (Sidebar), Learning