Stacy ReevesStacy Reeves , Ph.D., is a tenured Associate Professor in the School of Education at The University of Southern Mississippi. Upon entering the field of education, she taught elementary students for the Hattiesburg (MS) Public School District. She hasworked in higher education since 2001. Her focus areas include literacy, effective teaching, and the development of university-to-community partnerships for elementary education preservice teachers. Further interests include graduate courses in the teaching of literacy and international cooperative teaching and learning strategies. She is active in training of volunteers and staff who work with literacy tutoring programs including Mississippi’s AmeriCorps. She is politically active in local, state, and federal literacy initiatives. She serves on various local, state, and national boards and has been state president of Mississippi Reading Association as well as Mississippi Professional Educators. Her work has taken her as far as an orphanage in Kenya where she worked with the teachers of the Limuru Children’s Centre, Limuru, Kenya, and with the teachers and parents at Woodland Star School, in Limuru. She has been a Visiting Professor of Literacy Education at Linyi University in Linyi, China, and most recently, a Visiting Instructor at Shanghai Normal University, Tianhua College, in Shanghai, China. Read More Read Less