Joan P Gipe

Joan P. Gipe is Research Professor Emeritus from the University of New Orleans and Lecturer Emeritus from California State University, Sacramento. She is currently engaged as a Contributing Faculty Member with Walden University, mentoring doctoral students working on their doctoral dissertations. Joan earned her degrees at the University of Kentucky (BA, MA), and Purdue University (Ph.D.), with an emphasis on reading education. She spent many years working with learners of all ages: in Kentucky...See more

Joan P. Gipe is Research Professor Emeritus from the University of New Orleans and Lecturer Emeritus from California State University, Sacramento. She is currently engaged as a Contributing Faculty Member with Walden University, mentoring doctoral students working on their doctoral dissertations. Joan earned her degrees at the University of Kentucky (BA, MA), and Purdue University (Ph.D.), with an emphasis on reading education. She spent many years working with learners of all ages: in Kentucky as a reading specialist, in Indiana as a fifth-grade teacher, and in several university contexts as faculty, supervisor of student teachers, department chairperson, coordinator for teaching enhancement, liaison for professional development schools, coordinator of field-based teacher education cohorts, and now doctoral student mentor. In addition to many articles in professional journals and this text, Joan is co-author with Nancy Lee Cecil of Literacy in Grades 4-8: Best Practices for a Comprehensive Program, 2nd Ed. (2009 Holcomb Hathaway Publishers). See less