Assistant Professor of Education at Georgia State University Perimeter College
About
Tiffany Flowers is a native of Chicago, Illinois. Dr. Flowers is a children's author, literacy advocate, and professor. She is a 2000 Indiana University Minority faculty fellow and a 2004 West Chester University Frederick Douglas teaching fellow. She also served as a 2007 South Carolina Young Adult Book Award Committee member. Further, she was awarded the 2014 Early Career Educator of Color Leadership Award from the National Council of the Teachers of English. Recently, she began serving as a reviewer for the American Library Association Booklist. Currently, she is an assistant professor of education in the department of cultural and behavioral sciences at Georgia State University Perimeter College. Dr. Flowers' research agenda is divided into four distinct and interrelated areas of research which includes, African American literacy development, children's literature, diversity issues in education, and emergent literacy. You can contact her at tflowers@gsu.edu.
Current Work:
Dr. Flowers has several projects currently underway. This includes the #EliminatingBookDeserts project, an edited book project pertaining to engaging African American Families in literacy, a text pertaining to using African American literature in the classroom, and several empirically-based research projects pertaining to African American males and literacy.
Dr. Tiffany A. Flowers created the #EliminatingBookDeserts project. According to current research, there is one age-appropriate book for every 300 children in some low-income, urban schools. Therefore, the purpose of this project is to set up, manage, and build a long-term book drive in the neediest schools surrounding Georgia State University Perimeter College in order to alleviate this problem. Books for elementary, middle, and high school students will be collected. All the books must be gently used or new in order to have durability for the students who will read the texts. This is a long-term service-learning project.
Research Area Keyword(s):
Children's literature, reading, language arts, diversity, scholarship of teaching and learning
