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Janet Kim Outlaw, Ph.D.
Janet K. Outlaw, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Instruction, Program Area Coordinator for Literacy Studies, and Program Coordinator for the Master of Arts in Reading Education. She is a three-time alumna of North Carolina State University, where she completed her Ph.D. in Teacher Education and Learning Sciences with a concentration in Literacy and Language Arts. She previously taught elementary and high school in rural and urban schools.
Outlaw bridges research and practice to support teacher development in early literacy. She has led grant-funded projects to design clinical partnerships and communities of practice in elementary literacy teacher education. She teaches reading and writing methods courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Her excellence in teaching has been recognized through College of Education Excellence in Undergraduate Education Awards, the Women in Leadership and Philanthropy Faculty Excellence Award, and the USF Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award.
Outlaw鈥檚 scholarship examines how dialogic reading methods strengthen early literacy, particularly early reading comprehension. She further investigates processes to cultivate teacher development in differentiating effective early language and literacy instruction. Her research has been published in journals, such as Literacy Research & Instruction, Language Arts, Theory into Practice, and Literacy Research: Theory, Method, and Practice.
