Jill Castek is Associate Professor in the department of Teaching, Learning, and Sociocultural Studies. Dr. Castek has a PhD from the University of Connecticut in Education Psychology emphasizing Cognition and Instruction with a focus on Literacy and Technology. She was a Neag fellow in the New Literacies Research Lab and completed a post-doc at the University of California, Berkeley working with the Learning Design Group at the Lawrence Hall of Science. A former teacher and literacy specialist, Jill has over a decade of experience working to support striving readers and English language learners in the Bay Area of California.