Degrees and Certifications

Wayne State University, Detroit, MI

PhD in Curriculum and Instruction (2024)
Bilingual/Bicultural Studies

Wayne State University, Detroit, MI

Educational Specialist in Curriculum and Instruction (2013-2016)
Bilingual/Bicultural Studies

Wayne State University, Detroit, MI

Master of Art in Teaching, Secondary Education (2007-2012)
Concentration: English
Minor: English as a Second Language
Certifications: Secondary Education
Endorsement: English as a second Language

Oakland University, Rochester, MI 

Bachelor of General Studies (2003-2006)
Major: General Studies

Minor: Linguistics

Responsibilities

• Teach and collaborate with program faculty to develop and schedule ESL, BBE and World Language undergraduate and graduate courses, for PK-12 and adult educators

• Serve as the ESL and  BBE program coordinator 

• Grow partnerships with school districts for endorsement, cohort teacher initiatives, and/or certification opportunities

•  Advise, mentor, and help graduate students

• Recruit and evaluate part-time faculty teaching in Bilingual/Bicultural Education

• Facilitate Bilingual/Bicultural Education meetings, and participate in TED and College of Education meetings

• Work with program faculty to advance, nurture, and sustain a vision for the program that includes open communication, collaborative decision-making, and transparency

Academic Interests

• Social Justice in Education

• Culturally Responsive Teaching

• Culture/s

•  Culture and Linguistic Identities

• Diversity

• Linguistics (Grammar)

• Language Acquisition

• Equitable Education

Area of Expertise

• Secondary English

• English as a Second Language

• Linguistics

• Bilingual and Bicultural Education

• Curriculum and Instruction

Research Interests

• Culture/s

•  Elder Knowledge

• African American Language

• First and second language acquisition

• Cultural and linguistic equities and inequties in education

• Language Policies

• African and African American Storytelling

Awards

•  Golden Key International Honour Society

• King-Chavez-Parks Future Faculty Fellowship (2017-2020)

• Rumble Fellowship (2019-2020)

• Graduate Professional Scholarship (2020-2022)

Presentations

• (June, 2024). (re)Imagining dialogue: Speaking to and learning from my ancestors to cast out haints. PTO, (Pedagogy of the Theatre of the Oppressed)
• (May, 2024). Voices silenced: unmasking haints as cultural erasure in white school structires through the Black Storytelling Tradition. ICQI, (International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry)
• (April, 2023). Revealing haints utilizing the Black Storytelling Tradition, casting them out with the Theatre of the Oppresses. AERA (American Education Research Association)
• (May, 2021) Breaking Westernized academic traditions with African American linguistic story workd. MASAL, (Michigan Academy of Science and Letters.
• (June, 2017) Understanding the power of language Identity through urban drama. Pedagogy and Theatre of the Oppressed.
  

   

   

Publications

Dissertation:
Westbrooks, L.. M.( 2024) Recovering and reclaiming cultural and linguistic identities: revealing skoo haints through the Black Storytelling tradition.

Westbrooks, L. M. (2018). Skooz be hat’in: My story navigating and negotiating standard American English. Pedagogy and Theatre of the Oppressed Journal, 3(1), 1-25.

Westbrooks, L. M, (2020). Texts white lies and a videotape: White teachers teaching African American literature. Journal for Multicultural Education, 14(3/4), 239-253.

Additional courses taught

BBE 6850: Applied Linguistics: Issues in Bilingual Education

LED 6520: Teaching English as a Second Language

LED 6555: Integration of Language and Content in Language Teaching

TED 6370: Equity and Inclusion in Diverse Education Settings

BBE 1005: Multicultural Education in Urban America (undergrad)

BBE 5000: Multicultural Education in Urban America (grad)

TED 7000: Introductory Master's Seminar

ED 7999: Terminal Master's Seminar or Essay

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Courses taught by Lisa Marie Westbrooks

Fall Term 2025 (future)

• TED2210 - Foundations II: Intersections of Culture, Language, Identity & Schooling
• TED6210 - Foundations II: Intersections of Culture, Language, Identity and Schooling

Spring-Summer Term 2025 (current)

• LED6520 - Teaching English as a Second Language/Foreign Language: Methods I

Winter Term 2025

• BBE6850 - Applied Linguistics: Issues in Bilingual Education
• LED6510 - Second Language Acquisition and the Teaching of Grammar

Fall Term 2024

• LED6520 - Teaching English as a Second Language/Foreign Language: Methods I

Winter Term 2024

• LED6520 - Teaching English as a Second Language/Foreign Language: Methods I

Fall Term 2023

• BBE6850 - Applied Linguistics: Issues in Bilingual Education
• LED6520 - Teaching English as a Second Language/Foreign Language: Methods I

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