Amy Tondreau is an Assistant Professor of Elementary Literacy at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. She holds an Ed.D. in Curriculum & Teaching from Teachers College, Columbia University. She previously worked as a staff developer and writer for the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project, co-director of the Summer Literacy Clinic at Rhode Island College, and an elementary classroom teacher. Her research focuses on teachers’ and students’ literacy identities, critical literacy in children’s literature and writing pedagogy, professional learning communities, and the cross-pollination of Universal Design for Learning and Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy in literacy teaching and learning.