
Jennie Baumann profile and information
Learn more about Jennie Baumann
- Assistant Professor
Short Bio
Jennie’s work synergizes students’ knowledge, comprehension, and dialogic talk for meaning-making. She also examines how student-centered learning supports agency and learning through dialogic talk.
Professional Experience
Ph.D., Michigan State University (2024): Curriculum, Instruction, and Teacher Education with concentrations in Language and Literacy, College Teaching, and Community Engagement; M.Ed, Bowling Green State University (2014): K-12 Reading Education; B.S., Bowling Green Stare University (2013): Early Childhood Education
Innovation
Stevens, E. Y., Wilson, N. S., Adams, B., Baumann, J., Dussling, T., Bean-Folkes, J., & Smetana, L. (2025). Exploring asynchronous implementation of the Gradual Release of Responsibility framework to support graduate students’ metacognition when reading digital academic texts. Education Sciences.
Baumann, J. (2025). The new social network: Student-led, text-based discussions for critical thinking. Literacy Today.
Baumann, J. (2025). Let’s talk about it: Spider Web Discussions for literacy. The Reading Paradigm.
Baumann, J. (2025). Talking it out? Metacognition, teacher talk, and comprehension consequences. Language and Literacy, 27(1), 153–174. https://doi.org/10.20360/langandlit29642
Al-Adeimi, S., & Baumann, J. (2024). Navigating controversial discussions: The role of teacher talk moves in dialogic teaching. Language & Education, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1080.09500782.2024.2401883
Wilson, N. S., Dussling, T., Adams, B., Stevens, E., Baumann, J., Yang, S., Smetana, L., Bean-Folkes, J., & Van Wig, A. (2024). What a multi-institutional collective case study of social annotation data reveals about graduate students’ metacognitive reading practices. Literacy.
Al-Adeimi, S., & Baumann, J. (2023). Roles of engagement: Analyzing adolescent students’ talk during controversial discussions. Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, 67(2), 42-52. https://doi.org/10.1002/jaal.1289
Engagement
Work with Feed Me Words (Alabama Partnership for Children); 2024-present
State Advisory Board Member, Imagination Library of Alabama; 2024-present