Suzette Youngs

Faculty

Professor of Literacy

Email Suzette.youngs@unco.edu

Phone 970-351-2638

Location McKee 225

Education

Ph.D. University of Nevada, Reno (2009) | Literacy Studies
M.Ed. State University of New York at Oswego, NY (1992) | Elementary Education
B.A. State University of New York at Oswego, NY (1990) | Public Relations

University of Northern Colorado in Greeley, CO Professor, Literacy Education. Responsibilities include: teaching graduate courses in reading methods, children’s literature, writing methods and reading research and undergraduate courses in children’s literature. (2009-Present)

Co-organizer for the UNC Future Teacher Conference and faculty advisor for the Future Teacher Club
Teacher recruitment and retention, teacher identity, analysis of children’s book displays, content analysis of and response to contemporary picture books, multimodal analysis, visual literacy, multi-genre writing, and disciplinary Literacy

Youngs, S., Kyser, C., Bell, D. (in press). In Bradley Conrad (Capital University), Associate Editor: Crystal Howell (Randolph College), Assistant Editor: Cristy Sellers (Pacific University) (Ed.), Taking a Stand for Representation: Engaging Preservice Teachers in Awareness, Analysis and Advocacy of Diverse Children’s Literature book Displays. Charlotte, North Carolina: Curriculum and Teaching Dialogue/Information Age Publishing. https://www.infoagepub.com/series/Curriculum-and-Teaching-Dialogue
Erekson, J., Youngs, S., Kyser, C., Benke, L. F. (2022). People Like Me in Places Like Mine: Authentic Representation in Rural Picturebooks. Children and Libraries, 20(4), 11-18. https://journals.ala.org/index.php/cal/issue/archive
Youngs, S., Erekson, J., Kyser, C. (2021). Moving Across Rural Spaces: A Content Analysis of Contemporary Realistic Fiction Picturebooks with Rural Settings. Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts, 60(3), 24-56. https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/reading_horizons/vol60/iss3/3/
Kyser, C., Youngs, S., Nelson, A., Monaghan, T. (2021). Transitioning From High School Students to Aspiring Future Rural Educators: Promising Practices to Fuel the Rural Teacher Pipeline. Journal of Educational Research and Innovation, 9(1), 1-30. https://digscholarship.unco.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1109&context=jeri