Experts Guide

Gunn's research and scholarship focus on:

--Literacy practices in the community outside of schools, such as prisons, museums and afterschool centers.

--Literacy in teacher education, emphasizing issues, strategies and tools that influence preservice and in-service teachers' practices.

--Literacy instruction in PreK-12 classrooms, including social-emotional learning, resilience and literacy development.

Hadley's research focuses on how teachers can help foster young children’s oral language growth through conversations, shared book-reading and play. She is also interested in identifying pre-K literacy instructional methods that support later reading comprehension.