Faculty Profile: Dr. Janet Navarro
Dr. Janet Navarro, assistant professor of education, views children's literacy development as an essential goal of education and is deeply committed to helping prospective teachers learn how to move all young people toward this goal. Many of Navarro's publications and research projects have followed the same theme. The current context of her work is national and state literacy standards.
Navarro contends that teacher education coursework should be closely linked to field experiences. To that end, she has worked to establish strong connections with cooperating teachers both at Michigan State University and the University of Washington at Bothell, where she was on the faculty.
Navarro's primary teaching responsibilities are literacy and language arts. She taught in Wyoming and Texas prior to earning her M.A. in literacy and Ph.D. in curriculum, teaching and educational policy at Michigan State University. While at MSU she was involved in the development of several innovative university-school partnerships.
