Featured grants
- Saunders, Jane M. Telling Stories: Teachers Talk About Teaching, Additional Research Support for Research Active Professors (ASAP-2) Pilot Initiative, Texas State University. (Funded: December 2022). Grant.
- Lopez, Minda M, Saunders, Jane M. To be or not be a Credentialed Reading Specialist: How valuable is it to students and teachers?; You do not have access to modify this field.To be or not be a Credentialed Reading Specialist: How valuable is it to students and teachers?, Texas State University. (Submitted: October 2017, Funded: January 2018 - August 2019). Grant.
- Lopez, Minda M, Percent Contribution: %50, Saunders, Jane M, Percent Contribution: %50. To be or not be a Credentialed Reading Specialist: How valuable is it to students and teachers?, Texas Research Incentive Program (TRIP), $12800. (Submitted: October 2017). Grant.
- Saunders, Jane M. Understanding and teaching about the struggle for social justice in the United States., Study in America Program, Texas State University, $3000. (Funded: August 2017 - September 2017). Grant.
- Brooks, M. D (Co-Principal), Saunders, Jane M (Co-Principal). Creating a pedagogy of teacher education, College of Education Scholar-Mentor Program, Texas State University, Institutional (Higher Ed), $1000. (Submitted: 2014). Grant.
Featured scholarly/creative works
- Ash, G. E., & Saunders, J. M. (2018). From “I don’t like Mondays” to “Pumped Up Kicks”: Rampage school shootings in young adult fiction and young adults’ lives. Children’s Literature in Education, 49, 34–46.
- Saunders, J. M., Ash, G. E., Salazar, I., Pruitt, R., Wallach, D., Breed, E., … Szachacz, A. (2017). “We’re already somebody”: High School Students Practicing Critical Media Literacy IRL [in real life]. Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, 60, 515–526.
- Lopez, M. M., & Saunders, J. M. (2022). Where Our Paths Crossed: Latina Teachers, Professional Development, and Funds of Identity. In Research Anthology on Racial Equity, Identity, and Privilege (pp. 623–643). IGI Global. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-4507-5.ch033
- Saunders, J. M. (2020, October). Invited review of the book How stories teach us: Composition, life writing, and blended scholarship, edited by A. Robillard & D. S. Combs. Teachers College Record. Retrieved from https://www.tcrecord.org ID Number: 23481
- Lopez, M. M., & Saunders, J. M. (2020). Literacy Teacher Preparation for Educational Justice through Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies. In Integrating Social Justice Education in Teacher Preparation Programs (pp. 56–75). IGI Global. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-5098-4.ch003
Featured awards
- Award / Honor Nominee: Minnie Stevens Piper Professor Award, Minnie Stevens Piper Foundation/State of Texas Comptroller. September 2024 - Present
- Award / Honor Nominee: Alumni Association Teaching Award of Honor, Texas State University Alumni Association. 2023
- Award / Honor Nominee: Alumni Association Teaching Award of Honor, Texas State University. 2021
- Award / Honor Recipient: Favorite Professor, Alfred H. Nolle Chapter of Alpha Chi National College Honor Society. 2017 - 2019
- Award / Honor Recipient: Recognition letters for making a contribution to a student's academic career, the Director of Retention Management and Planning, Jennifer A. Beck. December 2018
Featured service activities
- Member
Renovation Committee for Education Room 2120
- Organizer
Charles Butt Foundation Aspiring Teacher Scholarship
- Reviewer / Referee
English Journal
- Member
College of Fine Arts and Communication College Review Group
- Member
College Research Enhancement Committee (CREC) for Research Enhancement Grant Program (REP)
- Member
International Literacy Association (ILA), Adolescent Literacy Committee