Voices from the Middle

Voices from the Middle publishes original contributions by middle level teachers, students, teacher educators, and researchers in response to specific themes that focus on our discipline, our teaching, and our students. Voices offers middle level teachers innovative and practical ideas for classroom use that are rooted in current research; this is a journal for teachers by teachers. (Published September, December, March, and May)

Congratulations to the New Editor of鈥�Voices from the Middle!

The Middle Level Section of 楼凤天堂 is pleased to announce the selection of Alina Pruitt as the incoming editor of Voices from the Middle (VM).

The new editor is working toward publishing her first issue in September 2026. Learn about writing for VM.

Alina Adonyi Pruitt, PhD, is an English language arts educator and researcher whose work centers literacy, equity, and the lives of middle grades students. She holds a PhD in curriculum and instruction from The University of Texas at Austin where her doctoral research examined the design, teaching, and learning of racial literacy in an urban seventh-grade reading and writing classroom. Pruitt has served as an assistant professor of Instruction at UT Austin, teaching courses including Literacy for Social Change, Teaching and Learning in Urban Contexts, and Language Arts Methods and brings more than two decades of experience across K鈥�16 settings, including two terms as an English Department Chair. Her research on racial literacy, culturally sustaining pedagogy, and multimodal and multilingual literacies has appeared in journals such as Linguistics and Education, English Education, Teaching and Teacher Education, and Bilingual Research Journal, along with book chapters with Corwin Press and Guilford Press.