Nicole Sieben

Nicole Sieben
Position/Role
Chair of Adolescence Education
Associate Professor of Secondary English Education
Coordinator of Graduate Programs in English Education
Director, Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL)
Building
New Academic Building
Room
0015
E-mail

Nicole Sieben is Associate Professor of Secondary English Education at SUNY Old Westbury where she is also the Coordinator for the Graduate Programs in English Education. A former high school English teacher in New York, Sieben's research focuses on building "writing hope" in secondary and postsecondary education, social justice practices, and professional development in K-12 schools. Sieben is author of the (2018) book, *Writing Hope Strategies for Writing Success in Secondary Schools: A Strengths-Based Approach to Teaching Writing*, co-editor of the books, *Narratives of Hope and Grief in Higher Education* (2020) and *Humanizing Grief in Higher Education: Narratives of Allyship and Hope* (2021), journal editor for the special issue of *English Education*, “Designing Professional Development for Equity and Social Justice,” and former column editor (2018-2020) for English Journal’s Books-in-Action column, which focused on texts that cultivate hope in the ELA classroom. She is the recipient of the 2017 Article of the Year Award from *The English Record* for her article, “Teaching Writing Hope for a Just Writing Society.” Nicole is also a past recipient of the NCTE Edwin M. Hopkins Award for her March 2009 *English Journal* article “’Watch What You Teach’: A First-Year Teacher Refuses to Play It Safe,” which she wrote in her first year of teaching high school English, co-written with Laraine Wallowitz. She is a recipient of the 2013 CEE/ELATE Research Initiative Grant Award for her research project, “Teaching Writing Hope: A Matter of Social Justice.” Her work has recently been published in English Education, Teaching and Teacher Education, English Journal, Voices from the Middle, and English Leadership Quarterly.

Courses Taught
  • ED6083/7083
  • ED6093/7093
  • ED6901
  • ED7700
  • ED7800
  • ED3950
  • EL7500
  • EL2222
  • EL1000
Degrees
  • Ed.D. in English Education, Hofstra University
Honors & Awards
  • National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), Conference on English Leadership (CEL)’s English Leadership Quarterly Best Article Honorable Mention Award, 2019
  • Conference on English Leadership (CEL), Mentor Fellowship (Mentor), 2017, 2018, (Mentee), 2016, 2015
  • New York State English Council (NYSEC), The English Record Article of the Year Award, 2017
  • National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), Conference on English Leadership (CEL)’s English Leadership Quarterly Best Article Honorable Mention Award, 2016
  • Conference on English Education (CEE) Research Initiative Grant Award for project entitled, “Teaching Writing Hope: A Matter of Social Justice in English Education"
Research Interests
  • Social justice pedagogy, various aspects of teacher education including writing teacher education, critical literacy, positive psychology, queer theory, and “writing hope” development in secondary and postsecondary education.
Publications

Book:

  • Sieben, N. (2018). Writing hope strategies for writing success in secondary schools: A strengths-based approach to teaching writing. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill | Sense Publishers.

Recent Peer-Reviewed Articles:

  • Sieben, N. (2021). Reflections on (re)defining allywork. English Journal, 111(2), 99-101.
  • Sieben, N. (2021). Action-based hope and commitments of care in educational leadership. The English Record, 71(2), 95-111.
  • Dawson, C. M., & Sieben, N. (2021). Writing-rich workshops as pathways for transformative teacher learning. English Leadership Quarterly, 44(1), 12-16.
  • Sieben, N. (2020). Tell your story…Share hope. Teaching/Writing: The Journal of Writing Teacher Education: 9(1), Article 2. Available at: https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/wte/vol9/iss1/2
  • Sieben, N. (2019). Writing experience workshops: A (re)design of writing instruction that creates lifelong writers. English Leadership Quarterly, 42(1), 7-12.
  • Sieben, N. (2019). Building writing hope through the process of ‘nexting.’ Voices from the Middle, 26(4), 56-63.
  • Sieben, N. (2019). Traveling toward hope in the ELA classroom. English Journal, 108(5), 95-97.
  • Sieben, N. (2018). Supporting strong and struggling writers across a spectrum of strengths. English Leadership Quarterly, 41(2), 2-6.
  • Sieben, N. (2018). Advocating for the affective: Writing hope into school spaces. Language Arts Journal of Michigan, 33(2), 20-27.
  • Sieben, N. (2017). Building hopeful secondary school writers through effective feedback strategies. English Journal, 106(6), 48-53.
  • Sieben, N. (2016). Teaching writing hope for a just writing society. The English Record, 67 (1), 99-121.

Editor for Peer Reviewed Books

  • Sieben, N. (Ed.) (Upcoming/In Production: 2022). Writing hope found in uncertain times: Teaching English language arts in search of hope moments. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill Publishers.
  • Sieben, N., & Shelton, S. A. (Eds.) (2021). Humanizing grief in higher education: Narratives of allyship and hope. New York: Routledge Research in Higher Education Series |Routledge.
  • Shelton, S. A., & Sieben, N. (Eds.) (2020). Narratives of hope and grief in higher education. Palgrave Macmillan.