Josh
Lawrence

My mission is to bridge the gap between research and practice, ensuring students harness their full literacy and learning potential.

I am committed to realizing this vision through my teaching, instructional leadership, rigorous research, and the development of innovative, scalable solutions. My active involvement in research-practice collaborations underscores my commitment to uniting a broad range of educators and community leaders to address gaps in education and support all learners.

Josh
Lawrence

My mission is to bridge the gap between research and practice, ensuring middle and high school students harness their full literacy and learning potential.

I am dedicated to realizing this vision through my teaching, instructional leadership, and rigorous research. My active involvement in research-practice collaborations underscores my commitment to uniting diverse stakeholders in addressing educational inequities and supporting diverse learners.

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Lawrence, J.F. (2025, April). Cognitive and Affective Alignment in Teacher Learning: What We Can Learn from NLP and Coach Ratings. UC Irvine Center for Research on Teacher Development and Professional Practice, Irvine, CA.

Cognitive and Affective Alignment in Teacher Learning: What We Can Learn from NLP and Coach Ratings

Cognitive and Affective Alignment in Teacher Learning: What We Can Learn from NLP and Coach Ratings

Snow, C., & Lawrence, J.F. (2024). Opportunities to learn and intersubjectivity. In O. Erstad (Ed.), Education and Dialogue in Polarized Societies. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press.

Opportunities to learn and intersubjectivity

Opportunities to learn and intersubjectivity

Lawrence, J., Knoph, R., & Hagen, Å. (in press). The language of learning: Academic vocabulary development and reading comprehension. In M. Kuhn & S. Neuman (Eds.), Handbook on the Science of Literacy in Grades 3-8. Guilford Publications.

The language of learning: Academic vocabulary development and reading comprehension

The language of learning: Academic vocabulary development and reading comprehension

Yang, J., Lawrence, J. F., & Grøver, V. (2024). What else will I do when I start school? Preschoolers’ wh-questions in dinnertime conversations and their language development. First Language, 44(3), 301–323. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/01427237241242177

What else will I do when I start school? Preschoolers’ wh-questions in dinnertime conversations and their language development.

What else will I do when I start school? Preschoolers’ wh-questions in dinnertime conversations and their language development.

Knoph, R.E., Lawrence, J. F., & Francis, D. J. (2024). The dimensionality of lexical features in general, academic, and disciplinary vocabulary. Scientific Studies of Reading: The Official Journal of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading, 28(2), 142–166. https://doi.org/10.1080/10888438.2023.2241939

The Dimensionality of Lexical Features in General, Academic, and Disciplinary Vocabulary

The Dimensionality of Lexical Features in General, Academic, and Disciplinary Vocabulary

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