{"id":41,"date":"2016-08-15T19:56:10","date_gmt":"2016-08-15T19:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"\/sps\/fbioocallaghan\/"},"modified":"2016-08-15T21:06:39","modified_gmt":"2016-08-15T21:06:39","slug":"fbioocallaghan","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/sps\/fbioocallaghan\/","title":{"rendered":"Catherine O\u2019Callaghan, Department  of Education and Education Psychology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Katie O\u2019Callaghan<\/strong> is a Professor of Education and Chair  of the Education Department at Western Connecticut State University. She  entered the teaching profession as a classroom teacher and continued her career  with New York State\u00a0literacy specialist certification. Teaching in New  York City within diverse settings afforded her a wide range of teaching  experiences.  Her doctoral degree from Fordham University  in Language and Literacy initiated her research interests in new literacies,  critical literacies, teacher education, and intervention plans for helping  striving readers and writers. O\u2019Callaghan began working with pre-service and  in-service teachers at St. Joseph\u2019s College in the Child Study Department and  as an adjunct at Fordham University.\u00a0 She also taught in the literacy  specialist program at Iona College for twelve years before moving on to Western  Connecticut State University. She has published numerous articles and books  including (as coauthors) Antonacci &amp; O\u2019Callaghan, Portraits of Literacy  Development: Instruction and Assessment in a Well-Balanced Literacy Program,  K-3 (2004); Antonacci &amp; O\u2019Callaghan, A Handbook for Literacy Instruction  &amp; Assessment Strategies K-8 (2006), Antonacci &amp; O\u2019Callaghan, Using  Children\u2019s Literature Across the Curriculum: A Handbook of Instructional  Strategies K-8 (2010), Antonacci &amp; O\u2019Callaghan, Promoting Literacy  Development K-8 (2012).        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Katie O\u2019Callaghan is a Professor of Education and Chair of the Education Department at Western Connecticut State University. She entered the teaching profession as a classroom teacher and continued her career with New York State\u00a0literacy specialist certification. Teaching in New &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"left-navigation.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-41","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/sps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/sps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/sps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/sps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/sps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/sps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/sps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}