Faculty Profile for Nancy Valdez-Gainer

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Nancy Valdez-Gainer
Assoc Professor of Instruction — Curriculum And Instruction
ED 2113
phone: (512) 245-3701
Scholarly/Creative Work
Grants
Service

Biography Section

Biography and Education

 M.A. -University of Texas at Austin, Bilingual & Bicultural Studies
B.S. -University of Texas at Austin, Applied Learning & Development

Teaching Interests

 Literacy, field-based teaching, teaching residency

Research Interests

 Literacy & Culturally Sustaining practices

Selected Scholarly/Creative Work

  • Valdez-Gainer, N. (2023). Be in Coalition to See Humanity: NCTE’s 2023 Outstanding Elementary Educators in the English Language Arts Award. Language Arts, 101(2), 143-146.
  • Kinard, T. A., Gainer, J. S., Valdez-Gainer, N., Long, S., & Volk, D. (2021). Interrogating the “Gold Standard”: Play-Based Early Childhood Education and Perpetuating White Supremacy. Theory into Practice. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1080/00405841.2021.1911587
  • Kinard, T. A., Gainer, J. S., & Valdez-Gainer, N. (2021). Play-based early childhood education and perpetuating white supremacy.
  • Valdez-Gainer, N., & Gainer, J. S. (2020). Everyday stories for everyday people: Communal responsibility and Nepantla literacies in early childhood education. Urban Educaation, 55(6), 911–936. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042085919892043
  • Acevedo-Aquino, M. V., Bowles, D., Eisenberg, J., Elliott, Z., Gainer, J. S., & Valdez-Gainer, N. (2020). Reflections on the #OwnVoices movement. Journal of Children’s Literature, 46(2), 27–35.

Selected Grants

  • Valdez Gainer, Nancy. University Lecturer Series Grant, Texas State University, Institutional (Higher Ed), $1500. (Submitted: February 1, 2023, Funded: August 1, 2023 - Present). Grant.
  • Valdez-Gainer, Nancy. Humanities Texas Mini-Grant for $1,500: Tomás Rivera Book Award: Exploring the Power of Words & Inspiring Young Minds., Tomás Rivera Children's Book Award, State, $1350. (Submitted: July 15, 2022, Funded: September 1, 2022 - December 31, 2022). Grant.
  • Valdez-Gainer, Nancy. University Lecturer Series Grant, Tomás Rivera Book Award, Texas State University, $3000. (Submitted: January 15, 2022). Grant.

Selected Service Activities

Other
SMCISD Collaborative Working Group
2022-Present
Director
Tomás Rivera Mexican American Children's Book Award
2022-Present
Volunteer
Community Stories: San Marcos Cartonera Workshop June 2022 Calaboose African American Museum
June 2022-Present
Member
National Council of Teachers of English
November 21, 2021-Present
Chair
NCTE-Elementary Section Steering Committee
2022-2025