Suze Gilbert
Grad Education - Reading Specialty
Assistant Professor
Biography
Suze Gilbert was born and raised in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. She met her husband, Eric, in high school and they married in 1993. Eric and Suze have 3 children. Suze earned her undergraduate degree in elementary education from Freed-Hardeman University. While teaching middle school, Suze completed her M.Ed. at Middle Tennessee State University and then her Ed.D. from Tennessee State University. After several years working as a stay-at-home-mom, Suze taught for the College of Education at MTSU. In 2018, Suze joined the COE at Lipscomb University where she teaches graduate and undergraduate courses focusing on literacy with an emphasis on teaching writing and building classroom community. Suze serves as the Co-director of the Middle Tennessee Writing Project which is a chapter of the National Writing Project. In addition to her work in the College of Education and local educators, Suze works with Eastern European Missions (EEM) developing Character Education Curriculum and travels to Ukraine twice a year to work with Ukrainian teachers on developing character traits in their classrooms.
Academic Degrees
Ed.D. Curriculum and Instruction College of Education, Tennessee State University
Ed.S. Curriculum and Instruction College of Education, Middle Tennessee State University, May 1997
M.Ed. Curriculum and Instruction College of Education, Middle Tennessee State University, May 1995
B.S., Elementary Education, K-8 College of Education,Freed-Hardeman University, May 1993
Academic Department
College of Education
- EG 3363 Teaching with Text (Undergraduate)
- EG 5753/6753 Reading in the Content Areas (Graduate)
- EG 5853/6853 Leadership in Literacy and Coaching (Graduate)
- EG 5543/6543 Teaching Writing (Graduate)
- EG 5793 Integrated Literacy (Graduate)
- EG 5063 Building Classroom Community (Graduate)
Literacy in K-8 Classrooms,Writing Instruction and writing to give voice, Children’s and Adolescents’ Culturally Diverse Literature and Using Literature to engage in critical literacies, Children’s and Family-led literature discussions and Family Literacy.
- FitzPatrick, E., Schrodt, K., Gilbert, S., & Kissel, B. (2021). Monetizing writing: Publishing for profit, advocacy, and charity. Teachers College Record.
- Gilbert, S., Harmon, S., and Winters, J. (2019) “Does Matching a Mentor Matter: An Exploratory Study.” TAMS Journal, Spring 2019, (1-21).
- Gilbert, S., Winters, J., Kimmins, D. (Summer/Fall, 2019) “VENNturing into Math and ELA: Varied Uses of Venn Diagrams.” The Ohio Journal of English Language Arts. (59)1, 55-60.
- Schrodt, K. M., Gilbert, S., FitzPatrick, E. (2018). Our Voices Carry: Six Fresh, Authentic Publishing Opportunities for Young Writers. The Ohio Journal of English Language Arts, 58(1), 47-54.
- Schrodt, K. M., FitzPatrick, E., & Gilbert, S. (2018). Becoming best-selling authors: How three groups of children sold their writing for philanthropic and social justice causes [Blog post]. Literacy Daily. Retrieved from http//www.literacyworld/blog.
- Gilbert, S., Winters, J., and Huddleston, T. (2018). “Beyond Building: Using the C3 Framework to Teach Economics.” The Young Learner National Council of Social Studies.
- Durham-Barnes, J. and Gilbert, S. (presented). “The impact of training in problem-based learning on planning and implementing “powerful” teaching and learning in the K-8 social studies classroom.” Presented at AREA, April 2016.
- “Community in Action: Sharing the Power in Books.” April, 2014. Association for Childhood Education International Global Summit on Childhood. Vancouver British Columbia, Canada.
- “Literacy Coaches' Writing Inquiry Cohort: Together Empowering Writers and Teachers of Writing.” Fall, 2020. National Council of Teachers of English.
- “Partnering with First Book to Offer More Great Books that Spark Innovation and Educational Equity.” Fall, 2020. National Council of Teachers of English.
- “Connect Four: How Integration Builds Proficiency with the SMPs.” April 2017. National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. San Antonio, TX.
- “The impact of training in problem-based learning on planning and implementing “powerful” teaching and learning in the K-8 social studies classroom.” April, 2016. American Educational Research Association. Washington, D.C.
- “Strong Writers and Strong Thinkers: Strategies that Move Our Students to Write and Think” October, 2015. International Academic Research Conference. Charleston, SC.
- “We Interrupt this Broadcast: A Student Inquiry in JFK’s Assassination.” November, 2014. National Council for the Social Studies Annual Conference. Boston, Massachusetts.
- FitzPatrick, E., Schrodt, K., Gilbert, S., & Kissel, B. (April 3, 2019). Monetizing writing: Publishing for profit, advocacy, and charity. Presentation at UNC Charlotte Writing Project Spring Conference.
- Member Kingwood church of Christ, Murfreesboro, TN (youth group huddle leader and adult bible class teacher)
- Eastern European Missions (EEM) curriculum developer and presenter of Character Education in Ukranian Classrooms. I travel to Ukraine twice a year to conduct teacher training on building classroom community and developing character in the classroom. Currently developing a curriculum for this training entitle "Cornerstone for Character".
- Read to Succeed, Murfreesboro, TN: facilitate family literacy nights in partnership with Rutherford County Schools and Read to Succeed.
