Jessica Murdter-Atkinson

Dr. Jessica Murdter-Atkinson is an Assistant Professor of Literacy Education at the University of North Texas. Previously, Jessi was an elementary school teacher in central Texas, working with students in grades Pre-K through fifth grade for fifteen years. More recently, she was an elementary instructional coach. Jessi earned her Bachelor, Master's, and Doctoral degrees from the University of Texas at Austin, with a focus on literacy studies. In her time at UT, she worked as a field supervisor, teaching assistant, assistant instructor, and graduate research assistant. Jessi's areas of research interest include early literacy, coaching and mentoring preservice teachers, and culturally sustaining approaches to literacy instruction.

• Daly, A., Vlach, S., Tily, S., Murdter-Atkinson, J., &Maloch, B. (2023). “I never explicitly brought that up to my mentors”: Early Career Teachers of Color Navigating Whiteness with White Mentors in a University-Based Induction Program. Conditional acceptance with Urban Education.
• Mosley Wetzel, M., Maloch, B., Alexander, K., Murdter-Atkinson, J., Ries, E., Wright, A., &McLean, J. (2023). “Reading” into statistics: Systems analysis and action in an early career teacher mentor community. Literacy Research: Theory, Method, and Practice, 72(1), 1-22. DOI: 10.1177/23813377231184739
• Nash, B., Dunham, H., Murdter-Atkinson, J., &Mosley Wetzel, M. (2022). A Culturally Sustaining Approach to Multimodal Literacies: Building from Students’ Funds of Knowledge in Field-Based Teacher Education. Literacy Research and Instruction, 1-25.
• Maloch, B., Mosley Wetzel, M., Tily, S., Daly-Lesch, A., Murdter-Atkinson, J., &Krafka, C. (2022). Mentoring in a University-based induction program. The Teacher Educator, 57(4), 431-451. https://doi.org/10.1080/08878730.2022.2107131
• Nash, B., Dunham, H., Murdter-Atkinson, J., Nash, B., &Mosley Wetzel, M. (2022). Building on Linguistic Strengths: Tenets of a Culturally Sustaining Teacher. The Reading Teacher, 75(6), 677-687. doi:10.1002/trtr.2094