Tabitha Dell'Angelo

Books

Butterflies: The strange and true story of metamorphosis. 

Using Photography and Other Arts-based Methods with English Language Learners: Guidance, Resources and Activities for K-12 Educators

Journal Articles & Chapters

Dell’Angelo, T. (in-press). Playing with the Big Kids: Nurturing Connection and Creativity Among College Students, White Paper for the 50th Anniversary of the International Play Association Conference, 2024.

Dell’Angelo, T. & Schwartz, J. (in-press). Capturing Divisions: A Photovoice Exploration of the Impact of Political Division on a School District Community, In Harper R. G. & Lopez-Robertson, J. (Eds)., PhotoVoice in Education.

Gibson, S., Patterson, N., Naples, M. I., Mitchell, M. B., Bates, D. C., Bowen, D., Dell’Angelo, T., Herres, J., Pearson, K., Whalen, D., Lowe, L., & Donaldson, R. (2023). Multidisciplinary argument for the decriminalization of drugs. The Journal of Addictions & Offender Counseling, 1–28. https://doi.org/10.1002/jaoc.12122

Guzman, J., Neddeau, B.M., Dell’Angelo, T. (2022). Dismantling colonizer logics in the post-Trump hellscape in k-12 education. Professing Education.

Dell'Angelo, Tabitha and DeGenova, Maria (2021) "Down the Rabbit Hole: A Fantastical First Year of Teaching," #CritEdPol: Journal of Critical Education Policy Studies at Swarthmore College: Vol. 3 : Iss. 1 , Article 6: 81-119.
Available at: https://works.swarthmore.edu/critedpol/vol3/iss1/6

Dell’Angelo, T. & Carroll, S. (2020). Now that COVID-19 has shuttered schools, thousands of future teachers need help from the state | Opinion

Lynnette Mawhinney, Tabitha Dell’Angelo, Mariah Yessenia Alston, Megan Gerity, Melissa Katz & Angelica Vanderbilt (2020) Hope and struggle to decolonize the preservice teachers’ mind: An urban teacher education program history, Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies, DOI: 10.1080/10714413.2020.1728166

Dell’Angelo, T. & Richardson, L. (2019). Retaining Teachers: It’s Not How Many That Matters, Kappa Delta Pi Record.

Dell’Angelo, T. (2019). Down the Rabbit Hole: An Ethnography to Explore a Fantastical First Year of Teaching, Qualitative Inquiry.

Amtzis, A., Dell’Angelo, T., Klein, E. & Taylor, M. (2019). Themed issue: Theatre of the oppressed as liberatory praxis in research and teaching, The Educational Forum, 83(4). 2019 TRENDY Gold Award for Scholarly/Technical/Scientific Journal

Alan Amtzis & Tabitha Dell’Angelo (2019) Editorial Statement, The Educational Forum, 83:4, 339-342,DOI: 10.1080/00131725.2019.1638198

Dell’Angelo, T. (2019). Dramatizing Data, Creating Art, and Finding Community, in Merriam, S. B. & Grenier, R. (Eds), Qualitative Research in Practice: Examples of Discussion and Analysis, Jossey-Bass.

Kim-Bossard, M., Madden, L., Ammentorp, A. & Dell’Angelo, T. (2019). Retelling the Magic Spring: A Preschool Perspective on Water, Greed, and the Human Nature Relationship, In Aghasaleh, R. (Ed) Children and Mother Nature: Storytelling for a Glocalized Environmental Pedagogy, Sense Publishers.

Amtzis, A., Dell'Angelo, T., Flessner, R. (2018). Educator Activism in Politically Charged Times [Special Issue], The Educational Forum, 82(3). This issue was the winner of the bronze award for "Scholarly/Technical/Scientific Journals" from the Association Trends 2018 All Media Contest

Dell’Angelo, T. & Mawhinney, L. (Eds.)  (2017). Strength and hope in urban education: The bridge between community and classroom [Special Issue], The Educational Forum, 81(4). This issue was the winner of the bronze award for "Scholarly/Technical/Scientific Journals" from the Association Trends 2017 All Media Contest

Dell’Angelo, T. & DeGenova, M. (2018).  “I am a Teacher”: Early Career Teachers in High Needs Schools, The  Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship.

Dell’Angelo, T., Madden, L. & Hudson, M. (2017). Telling stories after school: Using photography to Build Literacy Skills and Community, Dell’Angelo, T., Ammentorp L., & Madden, L. (Eds), In Using Photography and Other Arts-based Methods with English Language Learners: Guidance, Resources, and Activities for P-12 Educators, Rowman & Littlefield.

Dell'Angelo, T., & Seaton, G. (2016). STUDENTS AND TEACHERS CO-CONSTRUCTING IDENTITY. Journal of Urban Learning, Teaching, and Research (JULTR), 12, 124-132.

Dell'Angelo, T. (2016). Voices from the Field: Preparing Teachers for High Need Schools. The Qualitative Report, 21(9), 1727.

Sobieski, C., & Dell'Angelo, T. (2016, October). Sociograms as a Tool for Teaching and Learning: Discoveries From a Teacher Research Study. In The Educational Forum (Vol. 80, No. 4, pp. 417-429). Routledge.

Madden, L., & Dell'Angelo, T. (2016). Using Photojournals to Develop Ecoliteracy in a Blended Environmental Science Course. Journal of College Science Teaching, 46(1), 26.

Dell'Angelo, T. (2014).  Waking up in prison: Critical discussions between typical college students and their incarcerated peers, Journal of Prison Education and Reetnry, 1(1), pg. 70-76.

Dell'Angelo, T. (2014). The power of perception: Mediating the impact of poverty on student achievement, Education and Urban Society, April, pp. 1-17.

Dell’Angelo, T., Seaton, G., & Smith, N.  (2014). Critical Theory in Education, Pederson,  J. & Totten, S. (Eds). In Analyzing, Discussing and Acting on Social Issues in the Classroom, Information Age Publishers: Charlotte, NC.

Dell’Angelo, T.  (2013).  A Question of Balance: My Journey of Cultural Evolution. In James, J, & Peterson, N. (Eds.),  White women get real about race, pp. Virginia: Stylus Publishers.

Seaton, G., Dell’Angelo, T., Youngblood, J., & Spencer, M. B. (2007). Moving beyond the dichotomy: Meeting the needs of students through contextually relevant educational practices, Teacher Education Quarterly, Spring, 2007.

Dell’Angelo, T.  (2007).  Promoting positive staff development, in  New Jersey Customized Edition: A Handbook for Educational Leadership Interns, Leake, D. (Ed.)

Swanson, D.P., Spencer, M.B., Dell’Angelo, T., Harpalani, V., & Spencer, T. (2002). Identity processes and the positive youth development of African Americans: An explanatory framework. In C.S. Taylor, R.M. Lerner, & A. von Eye (Eds.), Pathways to positive youth development among gang and non-gang youth (pp. 73-99) New directions for youth development, No. 95 (Gnoam, Series Ed.). San Francisco: Josey-Bass. 

Spencer, M. B., Harpalani, V., Fegely, S., Dell’Angelo, T., & Seaton, G. (2003),  Identity, Self, and Peers in Context: A Culturally Sensitive, Developmental Framework for Analysis, In Lerner, R. (Ed.) Handbook for Positive Child Development.

Margaret Beale Spencer, Vinay Harpalani, Tabitha Dell'Angelo (2002), 13. Structural racism and community health: A theory-driven model for identity intervention, in Walter R. Allen, Margaret Beale Spencer and Carla O'Connor (ed.) African American Education: Race, Community, Inequality, and Achievement a Tribute to Edgar G. Epps (Advances in Education in Diverse Communities: Research, Policy and Praxis, Volume 2), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, pp.259-282

Book Reviews

Dell'Angelo, T.  (2017).  Review of Intersectionality in Educational Research, Teachers College Record

Blogs and Editorials

Dell’Angelo, T. (May, 2024). Why Central Bucks School District’s Search for a DEI Director Is a Positive Step Forward, Bucks County Beacon.

Dell’Angelo, T. (April, 2024). Central Bucks Teachers Need to Be Equipped and Supported to Facilitate Discussions about Israel and Palestine, Bucks County Beacon.

Dell’Angelo, T. (March, 2024). In Central Bucks School District, the Campaign for Policy 321 Sowed Distrust with Our Teachers, Bucks County Beacon

Dell’Angelo, T. (February, 2024). Why I Didn’t Quit Central Bucks School Board, Bucks County Beacon.

Dell’Angelo, T. (January, 2024). Why It’s Important for Central Bucks School District to Create Learning Environments Where Students Feel Seen, Heard, and Valued, Bucks County Beacon.

Dell’Angelo, T. (December, 2023). Turning the Page on Restrictive Book and Resource Policies in Central Bucks School District Will Take a Little Time, Bucks County Beacon.

Dell’Angelo, T. (January, 2023). Protecting Public Education Can Help Protect the Country from Another January 6th Insurrection, Bucks County Beacon.

Dell’Angelo, T., Mahmud, M. & Smith, K. (January, 2023). We’re the Central Bucks school board members who opposed anti-LGBTQ measures, and we’re sick of ‘bad policy’: Instead of tackling core educational issues, our colleagues on the board have decided to spend the last year fueling culture wars, Philadelphia Inquirer

Dell’Angelo, T. & Carroll, S. (2020). Now that COVID-19 has shuttered schools, thousands of future teachers need help from the state, The Star Ledger

Dell’Angelo, T. (2016). How Teachers Can Mediate the Impact of Poverty in Low Income Schools, London School of Economics, United States Politics and Policies blog http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/2016/04/06/how-teachers-can-mediate-the-impact-of-poverty-in-low-income-schools/

Dell’Angelo, T. (2014, 10/10) Strengthen Parent-Child Bond, Philadelphia Inquirier, page A-22

Dell'Angelo, T. (2014). Creating Classrooms for Social Justice, Edutopia.

Dell’Angelo, T. (2014). Literacy through Photography for English Language Learners, Edutopia.

Dell’Angelo, T. (2014).  The Beginner’s Guide to Connectin Home and School, Edutopia

Dell’Angelo, T. (2014). Teaching in the Moment: What I Learned About Teaching From Improvisational Acting, Edutopia

Newspaper/Popular Press

Turning The Page On Restrictive Book And Resource Policies In Central Bucks School District Will Take A Little Time (2023)

We’re the Central Bucks school board members who opposed anti-LGBTQ measures, and we’re sick of ‘bad policy’ (2023)

Protecting Public Education Can Help Protect the Country from Another January 6th Insurrection (2023)

How Do We Teach History in America Today? Philadelphia Magazine (2022)

Now that COVID-19 has shuttered schools, thousands of future teachers need help from the state | Opinion with Stuart Carroll (2020)

Edutopia articles