Dr. Chloe Bolyard

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Education

• PhD, Educational Leadership: Leadership, Culture, and Curriculum, 2016, Miami University
• MEd, Educational Leadership, 2012, Evangel University
• BA, Elementary Education, 2008, Evangel University

Teaching

• ELE 410 Teaching and Learning in the Elementary Classroom
• ELE 510 The Reflective Practitioner
• ELE 710 Elementary School Curriculum
• ELE 711 Contemporary Issues in Elementary Curriculum
• ELE 720 Advanced Theory and Practice in Student Assessment and Evaluation
• ELE 722 Differentiated Instruction for Early Childhood, Elementary and Middle School Classrooms

Research and professional interests

• Anti-bias teaching and curriculum
• Curriculum studies
• Pre-service and in-service teacher efficacy
• Teacher accountability

Awards and honors

• Master Online Course Recognition Award (MOCRA): Best in Interaction, Missouri State University, 2019
• Master Online Course Recognition Award (MOCRA): Best in Assessment and Feedback, Missouri State University, 2019
• Outstanding Graduate Mentor (nomination), Missouri State University, 2019
• Diversity Scholar, Missouri State University, 2018
• Certified Distance Educator, Missouri State University, 2017
• Outstanding Dissertation (nomination), American Education Research Association (AERA) Division B (Curriculum), 2017
• Dissertation Scholar, Miami University, 2015-2016
• Outstanding Student Paper Award, Ohio Valley Philosophy of Education Conference, 2014

Publications

• Davis, T. R., Bolyard, C. S., Zhang, S.-J., Livers, S. D., Sydnor, J. , & Daley, S. (2019). A multi-teacher preparation program study of elementary teacher candidates’ self-efficacy: Analysis of participant characteristics and implications for teacher educators. The Teacher Educator, 54(3), 313-330. doi: 10.1080/08878730.2019.1615161
• Bolyard, C. (2019). “They’re so little and yet they’re being expected to know so much”: A kindergarten teacher’s narrative of teaching in an accountability era. Currere Exchange Journal, 3(1), 31-41.
• Bolyard, C. (2016). Paradox and possibility: Interacting with Slavin’s (1983) Cooperative Learning. Book chapter in T. Poetter, K. Waldrop, C. Bolyard, & V. Bell-Robinson (Eds.), Curriculum Windows: What Curriculum Theorists of the 1980s Can Teach Us About Schools and Society Today. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing, Inc.
• Bolyard, C. (2015). Test-based teacher evaluations: Accountability vs. Responsibility. Philosophical Studies in Education (46), 73-82. Retrieved from http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1076457.pdf

Additional resources

• Twitter
• Curriculum Vitae

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