Dr. Simone Gibson
Dr. Simone Gibson currently serves as the Assistant Director for Literacy at the National Center for the Elimination of Educational Disparities (NCEED) and holds the position of Associate Professor in the Department of Teacher Education at Morgan State University. Before transitioning to teacher education, Dr. Gibson gained extensive experience as a classroom educator in Howard County, Baltimore City, and Prince George’s County Public Schools. In her present role as a literacy specialist, she focuses her research and professional development efforts on equipping both pre-service and in-service teachers with the skills to integrate culturally humble and evidence-based practices into literacy instruction. Dr. Gibson has contributed to the academic field through the publication of numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals.
Selected Publications:
Turner, J., Gibson, S., (2025) Reimaging Science of Literacy: a Black Futures Orientation. Handbook on the Science of Literacy in Grades 3-8. Guilford Publications
Gibson, S., Bridges, T., Pringle, J., Tatum, J. (2024). The Cuban Impact on a Community Based Reading Tutoring Program in Baltimore. Curriculum for Liberation: A Practical guide to Imagining Future Worlds. Information Age Publishing.
Banks, J., & Gibson, S. (2020). The voices of African American male students with disabilities attending historically Black universities. Journal of African American Males in Education (JAAME), 7(1), 70-86.
Gibson, S., Bridges, T., and Barnes, S. (2019). Creating p-12 relationships to produce counternarratives. In A. Washington, R. Goings and M. Henfield (Eds.), Creating and sustaining effective k-12 partnerships: Firsthand accounts of promising practices. North Carolina: Information Age Publishing.
Gibson. S., & Banks, J. (2019) Exploring the Master Narrative: Racial Knowledge and Understanding of Language and Literacy Pedagogy for Special Education Teacher Candidates, Reading & Writing Quarterly, DOI: 10.1080/10573569.2018.1535776
Gibson, S., & Terrell Shockley, E. (2018). Walking the tightrope between advocacy and knowledge: An appeal from teacher educators to speech-language pathologists regarding African American English. Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, 3(1), 147-158.
Royal, C., & Gibson, S. (2017). They schools: Culturally relevant pedagogy under siege. Teachers College Record, 119(1), 1-25.
Gibson, S. (2016). Adolescent African American girls as engaged readers: Challenging stereotypical images of Black womanhood through urban fiction. Journal of Negro Education, 85(3), 212-224.
Gibson, S. (2010). Critical readings: African American girls and urban fiction. Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 53(7), 565-574.
Marshall, E., Staples, J., & Gibson, S. (2009). Ghetto fabulous: Reading black adolescent femininity in contemporary urban street fiction. Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 53(1), 28-36.
