Lisa Marie Westbrooks
Assistant Professor, (Clinical)
(313) 577-1742
Office Hours: By Appointment
225 Education Building
Lisa Marie Westbrooks
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
Winter Term 2025 (future)
- LED6510 - Second Language Acquisition and the Teaching of Grammar
- BBE6850 - Applied Linguistics: Issues in Bilingual Education
Fall Term 2024 (current)
Winter Term 2024
Fall Term 2023
- LED6520 - Teaching English as a Second Language/Foreign Language: Methods I
- BBE6850 - Applied Linguistics: Issues in Bilingual Education
Spring-Summer Term 2022
- BBE1005 - Multicultural Education in Urban America
- BBE5000 - Multicultural Education in Urban America
- TED6370 - Equity and Inclusion in Diverse Urban Education Settings