Monica Taylor is an associate professor at Montclair State University of New Jersey in the Department of Curriculum and Teaching. She is the lead faculty in the secondary strand of the Newark Montclair Urban Teacher Residency. She earned her doctorate in Language, Reading, and Culture from the University of Arizona. She previously taught French and Spanish in an alternative middle school in NYC. She is the author of several articles on co/autoethnography, teacher leadership, inquiry and social justice and she published a book about whole language teaching with Peter Lang.

Urban Teacher Residency
Inquiry
Teaching for Social Justice
Co/Autoethnography
Self Study/Action Research
Teacher Leadership