Louisa Kramer Vida
CEIT Associate Professor, Teaching and Learning Department
B.A., Marymount Manhattan CollegeM.A., Manhattan CollegeC.A.S., P.D., Ed.D., Hofstra University
louisa.vida@liu.edu
Description
Dr. Louisa Kramer Vida currently chairs multiple dissertations in the areas of literacy, social justice, teaching ELLs, higher education administration, special education, parenting styles, the Haitian diaspora, and college teaching. She is also a member of multiple doctoral committees.
Previously, Dr. Kramer Vida was the Acting/Associate Dean, the Special Education and Literacy department chair, taught doctoral interdisciplinary classes, and taught graduate and undergraduate literacy classes at both 91ÅÝܽ (Post campus) and Dowling College. She also taught summer literacy institutes for Molloy University. Dr. Kramer-Vida currently teaches primarily undergraduate literacy, special education, and psychology classes.
Dr. Kramer Vida has published 22 peer-reviewed and 26 non-peer reviewed articles, principally on various literacy and special education related topics.
Dr. Kramer-Vida has also authored numerous accreditation documents when she was a Department Chair and an Associate Dean.
As a public-school teacher and administrator for 34 years on Long Island and in NYC, Dr. Kramer Vida authored 27 curriculum guides, a math workbook, 12 National Geographic educational kits and an 8-part National Geographic media series.
Dr. Kramer-Vida also wrote and or administratively assisted in the writing of grants which were received from the following institutions: the American Council for International Education (on behalf of the Embassy of the USA in Kazakhstan), the National Science Foundation Noyce program, the Gardiner Foundation, and the New York State Supplemental Educational Services program. She also wrote and received Federal competitive, and Federal, State and County formula grants when she was a public-school administrator.
Dr. Kramer Vida has also consulted for the New York State Education Department, Pearson, Sadlier-Oxford, the People’s Education Company, National Geographic, various Long Island BOCES, and multiple Long Island School Districts.
Dr. Kramer Vida has served on advisory boards for Molloy University and Briarcliff College.
Additionally, Dr. Kramer Vida has chaired or had a major administrative role in multiple national, state, and local conferences, related to her role on the Boards of NYSEC and LILAC. She has also presented over 110 times on the international, national, regional, state, and local levels.
Specialties
Literacy
Public School and Higher Education Administration
Publications
Author or co-author of articles in such publications as: Language Arts, The New Educator, the Roeper Review, Kappa Delta Pi Record, The Language and Literacy Spectrum, The English Record, The Journal of Education and Human Development, Preventing School Failure, The International Journal of Play, Excelsior: Leadership in Teaching and Learning, Children and Youth Services Review, The Clearing House, NHSA Dialogue, Reading in Virginia, The Journal of Leadership and Instruction, and the Journal of the American Academy of Special Education Professionals.
Lectures and Presentations
Over 110 presentations, often as the sole or lead presenter, at such conferences as those of the International Literacy Association, the National Council of Teachers of English, the National Association for Continuing Higher Education, the Global Education Expo of the Institute for Global Education Diplomacy (sponsored by the Association for Childhood International), the Oxford Round Table, NERA, state and local organizations, and in school districts.
Honors/Awards
New York State English Council Fellow Award
New York State English Council Service Award
New York State English Council Educator of Excellence Award
Phi Delta Kappa International Service Award
Phi Delta Kappa International Recognition Certificate
National Council of Teachers of English Appreciation Award
Professional Affiliations
NYSEC – Currently Vice-President: College. Also served as Past-President, President, LI Regional Co-Director, State Conference Chair, State Conference Co-chair, on multiple State Conference Committees, Peer Reviewer
LILAC – Currently Treasurer and Conference Treasurer
NYS ASCD – past Chair, Committee to Develop a Local Curriculum Planning Model
Member – National Council of Teachers of English, American Educational Research Association, Phi Delta Kappa, ASCD, NYS ASCD, LI ASCD, International Reading Association, New York State Reading Association, Nassau Reading Council
