Secondary Education

2019 – present – Professor of Education, Chair of Secondary Education Dept

2018-2019 – Professor of English, BSED Coordinator for English BSED

2013-2018- Associate Professor of English

2008- 2013 – Asst. Professor of English

2005- 2008 – Asst. Professor of English, Central Michigan University

1999-2005 – Graduate Asst. in Literacy, Language and Culture Dept at The Ohio State University

1995- 1999 – English and Social Studies Teacher at Audubon High School, Audubon, NJ

• "Out of the Closet and Into the Open: LGBTQ Young Adult Literature in the Language Arts Classroom." Co-authored with Kristen Miraglia and Mark Letcher. In Teaching Young Adult Literature: Insights, Considerations, and Perspectives for the Classroom Teacher, eds. Judith Hayn and Jeffrey Kaplan. Rowman and Littlefield, 2012: 117-134.
• "Breaking Down the Last Taboo: LGBT Young Adult Literature in the Preservice Classroom ." Language Arts Journal of Central Michigan 24.2 (2009): 29-36. Co-authored with Susan Steffel.

• 2015 - 2020: Associate Professor of Mathematics Education
• Fall 2011 - 2015: Assistant Professor of Mathematics Education
• 2010 - 2011: Supervisor of Mathematics, 6-12, & Business, 9-12, Mahwah Public Schools, Mahwah, NJ
• 2008 - 2010: Supervisor of Mathematics, 6-12, Ridgewood Public Schools, Ridgewood, NJ
• 2006 - 2008: District Supervisor of Mathematics, Springfield Public Schools, Springfield, NJ
• 2003 – 2006: Mathematics Teacher, North Brunswick Township High School, North Brunswick, NJ
• 2002 – 2003: Mathematics Teacher, Jonas Salk Middle School, Old Bridge, NJ
• 1998 – 2000: Mathematics Teacher, Old Bridge, NJ

• Ilaria, Daniel R., Dick, Thomas, P., & Burrill, Gail. (2020). Elementary teacher candidates’ flexibility with comparing fractions. Journal of Education and Practice. Vol. 11(9). DOI: 10.7176/JEP/11-9-01
• Ilaria, Daniel R. & DePeau, E. (2018). Going beyond computations with fractions. In Quebec-Fuentes, S & Jimmerson, J.(Eds.). Instructional Leadership in the Content Areas: Case Studies for Leading Curriculum and Instruction. Chapter 2. New York: Routledge/UCEA.
• Ilaria, Daniel R., Wilson, J. & DePeau, E. (2018). Using formative assessment to drive instruction in the middle school mathematics classroom.Instructional Leadership in the Content Areas: Case Studies for Leading Curriculum and Instruction. Chapter 9. New York: Routledge/UCEA.
• Ilaria, Daniel R. (2018). Using visible thinking routines to understand pre-service teacher knowledge. The New Jersey Mathematics Teacher, 76(1), AMTNJ.
• Ilaria, D. (2017). The efficacy and impact of a hybrid professional development model on handheld graphing technology use. Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education, 17(2). Retrieved from Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education
• Quebec Fuentes, S., Jimerson, J., Bloom, M., & Ilaria, D. (2017). Supervision in the content areas: Case studies for developing instructional leaders. Proceedings of the 115th annual convention of the School Science and Mathematics Association (Vol. 3). Phoenix, AZ: SSMA.

• Burrill, Gail, Ilaria, Daniel, and Zelkowski, Jeremey (Feb 2021). Adapting Tasks to Measure Up. Virtual Presentation at Teachers Teaching with Technology Conference. Opening Session.
• Ilaria, Daniel R. (October, 2019). Making sense of word problems with the 3 reads routine. Presentation at National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Regional Conference. Nashville, TN
• Ilaria, Daniel R., Hobson, Samantha, & Orr, Riley. (August, 2019). Promoting discussion though math talks. Presentation at Pennsylvania Council of Teachers of Mathematics. Harrisburg, Pa.
• Rinehart, Michelle & Ilaria, Daniel R. (April, 2019). Moving Beyond Think-Pair-Share: Routines for Mathematical Discourse. Presentation at the NCTM Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA.
• Rinehart, Michelle & Ilaria, Daniel R. (April, 2019). Moving Beyond Think-Pair-Share: Routines for Mathematical Discourse. Presentation at the National Council of Supervisors of Mathematics. Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA.
• Ilaria, Daniel R. & Reinhart, Michelle (March, 2019) Building Sense Making and Conceptual Fluency for Solving Equations. Presentation at Teachers Teaching with Technology International Conference. Baltimore, MD.

Dr. Gedge has been teaching history for 45 years, the last 18 here at West Chester University. She continually challenges herself to incorporate innovative and interactive teaching strategies into her courses. Last year, she taught her HIS 474 Religion in America course as a hybrid Distance Education course. She incorporated a three-week role-playing simulation into her HIS 451 Women in America course. Next spring, she plans to build an interactive map of the Chester County religious built environment with HIS 474 Religion in America students.

Dr. Gedge regularly teaches SSC 331 Teaching Secondary Social Studies Methods and supervises student teachers in the field. She encourages their use of student-centered and authentic teaching strategies.

Dr. Gedge's research on women and religion resulted in the monograph, Without Benefit of Clergy: Women in the Pastoral Relationship in Nineteenth-Century American Culture(Oxford, 2004). More recently, she has collaborated with the Chester County Historical Society in their quilt documentation oral histories, exhibition, and publication, Layers: Unfolding the Stories of Chester County Quilts (CCHS, 2009). In the last few years, she has collaborated with graduate students and Dr. Helen Schroepfer, Chair of Philosophy, to construct the digital archive Documenting Diversity: Religious Perspectives in Oral History.

• D’Youville College, School of Education, Buffalo, NY  

      Assistant Professor of Education, September 2007 – June 2012

• State University of New York at Buffalo, Graduate School of Education

Adjunct Professor, August 2004 - August 2005

Graduate/Research Assistant, 2003 – 2005

•  Holland Central School District, Holland, NY

High School English Teacher, September 1999 – June 2003

• “When there are nine”: Representation on the Supreme Court across art and modes. With Laura Renzi, Matthew Kruger-Ross, and Mara Felice. Arts integration and young adult literature: Connecting stories through art to create knowledge and deepen understanding edited by R. Maldonado, Rowman & Littlefield, 2024, pp. xx.
• "Coming Out in the Classroom: Using Pitman’s The Stonewall Riots to Forefront LGBTQ+ & Civil Rights in US History: With Laura Renzi and  Matthew Kruger-Ross.  Exploring history through adolescent literature, edited by P. Greathouse, Hundley, M. & A. Hostetler, Rowman and Littlefield, 2024, pp.xx.
• "Book clubs to support multi genre ensembles in interdisciplinary teacher preparation." With Matthew Kruger-Ross.  Cultivating democratic literacy through the arts: Guiding preservice teachers towards innovative learning spaces in ELA classrooms edited by P. Hartman & J. Spanke, Information Age Press, 2024, pp. 99-113. 
• Arts-based pedagogy.  Encyclopedia of English Language Arts Education, edited by L. M. Barker, D. Gorlewski, J. Gorlewski, & C. Miller , 2023, pp. 28-37.
• Reimagining literacies in the digital age: Multimodal strategies to teach with technology.  With Matthew Kruger-Ross. National Council of Teachers of English, 2022.
• Educators as Readers: Forming Book Groups as Professionals with Anna Roseboro, Kelly Virgin, and Jennifer Greene. NCTE Position Statement, 2022.
• “Getting into Good Trouble: Exploring Visual Literacy with John Lewis’ March.” with Emily Wender. Arts Integration and Young Adult Literature: Strategies to Enhance Academic Skills and Empower Student Voice, edited by Rebecca Maldonado, Leilya Pitre, and Victor Malo, Rowman and Littlefield, 2021, pp. 111-124. 
• “Shakespeare VS. The Homosapien Agenda: Exploring Gender in A Midsummer Night’s Dream” with Matthew Kruger-Ross. Shakespeare and Adolescent Literature: Pairings and Teaching, edited by Victor Malo-Juvera, Paula Greathouse, and Brooke Eisenbach, Rowman and Littlefield, 2021, pp. 135-151.
• “A Rocker in Teacher’s Clothing: Outlandish Lessons from School of Rock: The Musical.”  Teacher Representations in Dramatic Text and Performance, edited by Melanie Shoffner and Rick St. Peter, Routledge, 2019, pp. 88-97.
• “Arts-Based Pedagogy: Exploring Shakespeare Study in the Classroom.” With Laura Turchi.  A Symphony of Possibilities: A Handbook for Arts Integration in Secondary English Language Arts, edited by Michelle Zoss and Katherine Macro, National Council of Teachers of English, 2019, pp. 79-97.
• “The Future is Female: Bad-Ass Feminists in YA.” English Journal, vol. 107, no. 6, 2018, pp. 116-118.
• “Where is the Girl Power?  The Search for Authentic Portrayals of Female Athletes in YA Literature.” With Emilee Hussack. English Journal, vol. 104, no. 1, 2014, pp. 82-85. 
• “Beyond Secondary Roles:  What the Women of the Canon Teach Today’s Girls.”  WILLA Journal, vol. 17, 2009, https://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/WILLA/fall09/schmidt.html.  

• Meaningful Connections to Art: Merging Place-Based and Arts-Based Encounters. [Birds of a Feather Session].  EERA, Clearwater, FL.  February 2024.
• Beyond a ‘Field Trip’: Exploring the Rhetorical Space of the  National Center for Civil and Human Rights. ELATE Summer Conference. Atlanta, GA. July 2023.

• Teacher Field Trip: Creating meaningful arts-based encounters at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.  ISTE. Philadelphia, PA. June 2023.

• NCTE Author Strand: PIP Authors in Conversation. NCTE. Anaheim, CA.  November 2022.

• “Dare to Disagree” Panel Moderator with authors Debbie Levy, Hena Khan, Carole Boston Weatherford, and Kathryn Erskine. National Council of Teachers of English. Baltimore, MD. November 2019.
• “Podcasting Through our Pedagogy: Reflections on Preparing Future Secondary English Teachers.” Interactive Lecture with Matthew Kruger-Ross. International Society for Technology in Education. Philadelphia, PA. June 2019.
• “The Women are Coming”. Panel Moderator, with authors Samira Ahmed, Kelly Jensen, and Jennifer Mathieu for the ALAN Workshop. St. Louis, MO. November 2017.
• “Representing Teacher Identities Through Digital Stories.” Round Table Sessions of the Commission on Arts and Literacies. National Council of Teachers of English Annual Convention. Minneapolis, MN.  November 2015.
• “Missing Conversations: Pre-Emptive Silencing and Self-Censorship In the Teacher Education Classroom.” Panel Presented with Laura Renzi and Gabrielle Halko. Outlawed: The Naked Truth About Censored Literature for Young People Conference. Arne Nixon Center for the Study of Children’s Literature in the Madden Library at Fresno State, Fresno, CA.  April 2015.
• “Creating a Landscape for Story Through the Arts.” Session Co-Chair with Peggy Rice. Round Table Sessions of the Commission on Arts and Literacies. National Council of Teachers of English Annual Convention. Washington D.C.  November 2014.
• “Beyond Secondary Roles: What the Women of the Canon Teach Today's Girls.” Women in Literacy and Life Assembly (Special Interest Group), at the National Council of Teachers of English Annual Convention. Invited Speaker with Lisa Fanaro. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  November 2009.