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Jun 18, 2021 • Caitlin Burns
By Katherine Haines '21, '22 Dr. Peggy Hickman, associate professor of Education, received the 2021-2022 Steve Goldberg Faculty Development Award for her project to revise pre- and in-service educator preparation and development programs in relation to social justice and culturally responsive...
May 19, 2021 • Caitlin Burns
Most people look forward to relaxing and doing less after retirement. Jacqui Bader ’21EdD plans to make teaching her “encore performance” after retiring, starting in education after decades in other industries and fields. When Bader was growing up in Philadelphia’s government housing in...
Sep 3, 2020 • Caitlin Burns
Dr. Peggy Hickman, associate professor of Education, and Dr. Kathy Wirth, adjunct professor of Education and program director of the Arcadia Community Learning Center (ACLC), recently had an article accepted for the October issue of Pennsylvania Branch International Dyslexia Association’s (PBIDA)...
Jun 4, 2020 • Caitlin Burns
“But, I am afraid! Daily, I am afraid! I always wonder… ‘Will TODAY be the LAST day of my Earthly experience?’ ‘Will TODAY be the LAST day I will feel the warmth and love of all the communities I am a part of?’ ‘Will TODAY be the LAST day I say ‘I love you mom’...
Mar 20, 2018 • Jen Retter
Dr. Peggy Hickman, associate professor of Education, was awarded the PennTESOL-East's Teacher Educator Award in November for making an extraordinarily positive impact on students and the community. PennTESOL-East is a regional branch of Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages....
Mar 15, 2018 • Jen Retter
Dr. Kathy Trainor, adjunct professor of Education, and Dr. Peggy Hickman, associate professor of Education, received a $10,000 Project MAX grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Education to purchase assistive technology and software for the School of Education. The Project MAX grant is part...
Feb 19, 2018 • Caitlin Burns
Arcadia University’s Master of Education in Literacy Studies and Teaching English as a Second Language (TESOL) and its Master of Education in Reading Education programs each has received accreditation from the Center for Effective Reading Instruction (CERI), an organization aligned with the...
Jan 22, 2018 • Caitlin Burns
Dr. Peggy Hickman, associate professor of Education, published “Working with Young Dual Language Learners and Their Families in Early Learning Settings” with the Early Childhood Action Collective (ECAC), which examines the increasing need to support young children who are dual language learners. Dr...
Peggy Hickman, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Education at Arcadia University. She completed her doctorate in Multicultural Special Education at the University of Texas, Austin, as well as an M.Ed. in Educational Administration from UTAustin and an M.Ed. in Bilingual/Elementary Education from Arizona State University. Her dissertation was titled Sociocultural Dimensions of White Principal Leadership in Multicultural Elementary Schools. Her research interests include multicultural special education, educator preparation related to diverse and multicultural populations, and educational leadership in diverse cultural and linguistic environments, with children in general and special education. She has consulted regionally and presented regionally, nationally and internationally on these topics. She has published articles in Learning Disabilities Quarterly, Exceptional Children, Teaching Exceptional Children, and The Reading Teacher, and a co-authored book published by the International Reading Association entitled Dynamic Read-Aloud Strategies for English Learners: Building Language and Literacy in the Primary Grades . She has also co-authored publications on these topics with Ed.D. students in Arcadia’s Doctoral Program in Education. In addition, Dr. Hickman taught school-aged students for 9 years including students in pre-kindergarten through second grade, in monolingual English and bilingual inclusive settings.
RTI, multicultural special education, educator preparation related to diverse and multicultural populations, and educational leadership in diverse cultural and linguistic environments, with children in general and special education
Hometown
Roslyn
Home Country
U.S.A.
Languages
English, Spanish
First Author • 2014
Article, NYS TESOL Journal, 1(2), 130-141
Co-Authored with Garcia, S. B.
Co-Author • 2014
Article, NYS TESOL Journal, 1(2), 130-141
Co-Authored with Dray, B.
Co-Author • 2011
Article, Curriculum and Teaching, 26(2), 85-100
Co-Authored with Dray, B.
first author • 2009
Book, International Reading Association
Co-Authored with Dr. Sharolyn Pollard-Durodola
Co-Author • 2009
Article, TEACHING Exceptional Children Plus, 5(6)
Co-Authored with Verden, C. E.
first author • 2004
Article, The Reading Teacher, Vo. 57, no. 88, pp. 2-12
Co-Authored with Pollard-Durodola, S. & Vaughn, S.
Co-Author • 2003
Article, Elementary School Journal, 103(3), 221-237
Co-Authored with Linan-Thompson, S., Vaughn, S. R., & Kouzekanani, K.
Co-Author • 2003
Article, Exceptional Children, 69(4), 391-410
Co-Authored with Vaughn, S. R., Linan-Thompson, S., & Hickman, P.
Co-Author • 2002
Article, Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 17(4), 242-251
Co-Authored with Linan-Thompson. S.
Peggy Hickman, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Education at Arcadia University. She completed her doctorate in Multicultural Special Education at the University of Texas, Austin, as well as an M.Ed. in Educational Administration from UTAustin and an M.Ed. in Bilingual/Elementary Education from Arizona State University. Her dissertation was titled Sociocultural Dimensions of White Principal Leadership in Multicultural Elementary Schools. Her research interests include multicultural special education, educator preparation related to diverse and multicultural populations, and educational leadership in diverse cultural and linguistic environments, with children in general and special education. She has consulted regionally and presented regionally, nationally and internationally on these topics. She has published articles in Learning Disabilities Quarterly, Exceptional Children, Teaching Exceptional Children, and The Reading Teacher, and a co-authored book published by the International Reading Association entitled Dynamic Read-Aloud Strategies for English Learners: Building Language and Literacy in the Primary Grades . She has also co-authored publications on these topics with Ed.D. students in Arcadia’s Doctoral Program in Education. In addition, Dr. Hickman taught school-aged students for 9 years including students in pre-kindergarten through second grade, in monolingual English and bilingual inclusive settings.