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Margaret-Mary Sulentic Dowell

Margaret-Mary Sulentic Dowell , PhD, is Cecil “Pete” Taylor Endowed Professor of Literacy, Leadership, and Urban Education at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, USA. She is Director of the LSU Writing Project & Coordinator of the Educational Leadership PhD program in the School of Education. Her research agenda includes three strands focused on literacy in urban settings, specifically investigating the complexities of literacy leadership, examining service-learning as a pedagogical pathway to preparing pre-service teachers to teach literacy in urban environments, and exploring ways to provide access to literature, writing, and the arts (arts integration) in urban environs. Sulentic Dowell has published widely, and she has been nationally recognized for scholarship and teaching. Sulentic Dowell is a career educator & fierce public education advocate, spending the majority of her 20-year public school teaching experience in Iowa schools, but also possessing experience in northern Minnesota and southern Mississippi. She served public education as Assistant Superintendent of 64 elementary campuses in the East Baton Rouge Parish School System in Louisiana (2002-2006).
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