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Biography

Deborah Bieler is the coordinator of the English Education program at the 91Ô­´´ and the founder of the English Education program's partnership with Howard High School of Technology in Wilmington, DE. She is a former high school English teacher and writing center director whose scholarship, teaching, and activism focus on the preparation and retention of equity-oriented, antiracist secondary English teachers.

She is the author ofÌýThe Power of Teacher Talk: Promoting Equity and Retention Through Student InteractionsÌý(Teachers College Press, 2019), which received the 2020 Exemplary Research in Teaching and Teacher Education Award from the American Educational Research Association (AERA), Division K.

Her work has also appeared in journals such asÌýEnglish Education, English Journal, Teachers College Record, Teacher Education Quarterly,Ìý²¹²Ô»åÌýThe New EducatorÌýas well as in chapters inÌýEngaging the Critical in English Education: Approaches from the Commission on Social Justice in Teacher Education;ÌýUnsettling Education: Searching for Ethical Footing in a Time of Reform;ÌýÌýInnovations in Pre-Service English Language Arts Teacher Education;Ìý²¹²Ô»åÌýDiversifying the Teacher Workforce: Preparing and Retaining HighlyÌýEffective Teachers.

She has received the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)'s Promising Researcher Award and the English Language Arts Teacher Educators (ELATE – formerly CEE, Conference on English Education) Research Initiative Award. She is also the recipient of the College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Teaching Award, the 91Ô­´´ Excellence in Advising Award, and the 91Ô­´´'s E.A. Trabant Award for Women's Equity Award.

Her current research projects include TEND: Teacher Equity Network Delaware, which examines what local equity-oriented, antiracist public and charter school teachers identify as opportunities for and challenges to positive change in the current educational landscape, and LARE: The Language of Anti-Racist Educators, which explores how anti-racist educators use language successfully to effect change in their schools.