A teacher of teachers, Monica Glina, Ed.D., has extensive experience conducting educational research and has served as senior research associate, project director, and discourse coach on several grants sponsored by the Department of Education, Institute of Education (IES), the National Academy of Education, the Spencer Foundation, and the Templeton Foundation. She has published on and has specific expertise in classroom discourse, democratic pedagogy, and teacher education. Her book entitled Relationships of Reciprocity, which will be released in the fall of 2024, addresses many of these themes. She is also an instructor in the Department of Educational Foundations at Montclair State University and has prepared curricula for a variety of undergraduate and graduate courses, such as Psychological Foundations of Education, Philosophy of Education, Assessment of Learning, Methods of Research, and Testing and Evaluation.

Education

• Post-doctoral Fellow: Department of Educational Research, University of Oslo, Norway
• Ed.D., Pedagogy, Montclair State University
• M.A., Applied Linguistics, Boston University
• B.A., English, Boston University

Research

• Grant Name: Teacher Quality Partners; Sponsor: New Jersey Department of Education
• Grant Name: Being United in Leadership Development (BUILD); Sponsor: New Jersey Department of Education
• Grant Name: Partnership for Advancing Character Program Evaluation (PACE) Project; Sponsor: John Templeton Foundation
• Grant Name: Inspiring Youth Purpose through Reflection on the Laws of Life: Improving, Implementing, Evaluating & Researching the Inspire>Aspire Poster Program; Sponsor: John Templeton Foundation
• Grant Name: Reflecting on the Laws of Life: A Systems Evaluation Planning Project and Process Evaluation; Sponsor: John Templeton Foundation
• Grant Name: Professional Development in Dialogic Teaching through Classroom Discussion to Improve Argument Literacy; Sponsor: Department of Education, Institute of Education (IES)
• Grant Name: Measuring Argument Literacy Skills of Elementary School Students; Sponsor: Spencer Foundation
• Grant Name: Measuring the Dialogic Quality of Classroom Talk; Sponsor: National Academy of Educators (NAE) and the Spencer Foundation
• Grant Name: Student Thought and Classroom Language: Investigating the Connection; Sponsor: National Academy of Educators (NAE) and the Spencer Foundation

Publications

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Teaching Responsibilities

• Medical Education Foundations course
• Medical Education Advanced course