This week’s Find Yourself Friday focuses on “Finding Your Next Chapter” with five amazing fall book recommendations from guest blogger, Dr. Angela Curfman, Associate Professor of Teaching at West Liberty University.
Angela Curfman is an Associate Professor of Teacher Education at West Liberty University, West Liberty, West Virginia. Angela has obtained a Doctorate in Education in Curriculum and Instruction with a focus on literacy from West Virginia University. At West Liberty University, her course load responsibilities include undergraduate foundational reading skills, literacy assessment, and content area literacy. Angela’s research interests include diverse representation in children’s literature, cross-curricular approaches in reading and literacy instruction, as well as teacher beliefs and attitudes. She is involved in several community collaboratives and professional organizations, currently serving as the Immediate Past president of the West Virginia Reading Association. Prior to her faculty roles in higher education at Bethany College, West Virginia University, and West Liberty University, Angela was an elementary educator in Marshall County Schools, (West Virginia). Angela resides in Wheeling, WV with her partner, Craig Heryford, and her 2 teenagers, Lane and Emmerson. Finding herself after 40, Angela embraces each day as an adventure, rejects her doctor’s label as an “aging athlete,” and strongly believes the best is yet to come.
