Dr Alexis L. Jones

Education & Training

Doctor of Philosophy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Masters of Education, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Conference Presentations

Jones, A. L., & Davis, A. (2022, October). Culturally responsive teaching: Inclusive, engaging, and effective instructional strategies. Proposal submitted for the Making Excellence Inclusive Fall 2022 Conference.

Warren, C. A., Reid, S., Malone, H.-L., & Jones, A. (2022, April). Division K graduate student pre-conference. Workshop presented at the American Educational Research Association Conference.

Jones, A. L., & Bromenshenkel-Jones, M. (2022, February). Collaboration between educator preparation programs and professional partners to integrate HLPs into PBOs. Roundtable presented at the Association for Teacher Educators Annual Meeting.

Davis, A. D., & Jones, A. L. (2021, October). Illinois’ Culturally Responsive Teaching Standards: Background and strategies for implementation. Making Excellence Inclusive Fall 2021 Conference.

Kessler, M. A., & Jones, A. L. (2021, April). The moral implications of critically ambitious social studies instruction. Symposium presented at the American Educational Research Association Conference.

Kessler, M. A., & Jones, A. L. (2021, February). Caring for the carers: Relational ethics and teachers’ lives during COVID-19. Association for Teacher Educators’ National Meeting.

Jones, A., & Kessler, M. (2020, February). Supporting new teacher development through targeted video reflection. Illinois New Teacher Collaborative Leadership Conference, Champaign, Illinois.

Kessler, M., Jones, A., Insana, A., Hebert, L. (2019, February). Developing as teacher educators within the research institution. Association of Teacher Educators Conference, Atlanta, Georgia.

Jones, A. (2018, April). Responding, responsivity, and responsibility in the elementary classroom. American Educational Research Association Conference, New York, New York.

Publications

Jones, A. L. (2023). Teaching is a human interaction: How thoughtful educators respond, are responsive, and take responsibility. Information Age Publishing.

Jones, A. (2020). Book review: Opportunities and challenges in teacher recruitment and retention: Teachers’ voices across the pipeline. Teachers College Record. https://www.tcrecord.org/Content.asp?ContentId=23523

Kessler, M., Jones, A., & Parsons, M. (2020). Who is watching? What do they want? A Foucauldian analysis of teacher candidates’ experiences with the edTPA. Teachers College Record, 122(12). https://www.tcrecord.org/Content.asp?ContentId=23535

Jones, A. L., & Kessler, M. A. (2020). Teachers’ emotion and identity work during a pandemic. Frontiers in Education, 5(583775). https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2020.583775

Jones, A. L. (2020). The shared and unshared bits of humanity. In K. J. Fasching-Varner, S. T. Bickmore, D. G. Hays, P. G. Schrader, D. L. Carlson, & D. Anagnostopolous (Eds.), Corona chronicles: Necessary narratives in uncertain times. Dio Press.

Jones, A. (2020). Culturally responsive teaching. In E. Wilkins & A. Quinzio-Zafran (Eds.), The new teacher’s guide to overcoming common challenges: Curated advice from award-winning teachers. Routledge.

Jones, A. (2020). Work-life balance: Getting more hours in your day. In E. Wilkins & A. Quinzio-Zafran (Eds.), The new teacher’s guide to overcoming common challenges: Curated advice from award-winning teachers. Routledge.

Jones, A., Korson, S., Murray-Everett, N., Kessler, M., Harrison, D., & Cronenberg, S. (2020). Teacher candidate tensions with the edTPA: A neoliberal policy analysis. The Educational Forum. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131725.2020.1790705

Jones, A. (2019). Parallel oppressions: Culturally-enforced limitation on the individual’s humanity. Journal of Culture and Values in Education, 2(1), 18-33. https://cultureandvalues.org/index.php/JCV/article/view/31

Hebert, L., Insana, A., Jones, A., & Kessler, M. (2019). Preparing the teacher educator: Negotiating the tensions of teacher educator preparation within the research institution. In D. Yendol-Hoppy, N. F. Dana, & D. T. Hoppey (Eds.), Preparing the next generation of teacher educators for clinically-intensive teacher preparation. Information Age Publishing.

Jones, A. (2019). Responsive teaching: A narrative analysis of three teachers’ process and practice. Issues in Teacher Education, 28(1), 21-35. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1213189

Cronenberg, S., Harrison, D., Korson, S., Jones, A., Murray, N., Parrish, M., & Johnston-Parsons, M. (2016). Trouble with the edTPA: Sliding from teaching to preparing for the test. Journal of Inquiry and Action in Education, 8(1), 109-134. https://digitalcommons.buffalostate.edu/jiae/vol8/iss1/7/

Frequently Taught Courses

ELE 2050: The Whole Child

ELE 4100: Assessing Student Learning: A Field-Based Experience

EDU 5200: Research Methods 2

EDU 5900: Applied/Action Research in Education