Jon M. Wargo, an assistant professor of teaching, curriculum, and society in the Lynch School of Education and Human Development, has received two early-career awards from prominent professional education organizations, and was cited for an annual honor for a language arts article he authored.
The Literacy Research Association announced in December that Wargo, a former Denver Public Schools elementary education teacher who joined BC in 2017, was its 2021 Early Career Achievement Award winner. 聽
The LRA, focused on the advancement of literacy theory, research, and practice in a multicultural and multilingual world, established the award in 1999 to recognize the work of a member at the outset of their professional life whose research, publications, service, teaching, and contributions to the field are outstanding.
Jon M. Wargo
In November, the National Council of Teachers of English Children鈥檚 Literature Assembly selected Wargo as its Early Career Achievement Award winner, which recognizes the work of an individual in the formative stage of their profession who has demonstrated 鈥渆xtraordinary promise as a researcher and leader in the field of children鈥檚 literature.鈥�
Wargo鈥檚 publication, titled 鈥溾�楽eeing鈥� Difference Differently: Inquiry-based Learning as a Site/Sight of Intersectional Justice in English Language Arts,鈥� was selected for the 2021 鈥淟anguage Arts Distinguished Article Award鈥� by the National Council of Teachers of English.
The CLA award recognizes outstanding language arts articles that advance the Elementary Section Steering Committee鈥檚 mission of achieving justice and equity; initiate the sociocultural realities of children鈥檚 everyday lives into language arts instruction; and facilitates conversations of rich and authentic literacies.
NCTE is a 25,000-member organization dedicated to improving the teaching and learning of English and language arts at all education levels.
鈥淲e are excited to see that Jon has earned these important awards from leading organizations in the field,鈥� said Stanton E.F. Wortham, the Charles F. Donovan, S.J., Dean of the 聽Lynch School of Education and Human Development. 鈥淗is work has been receiving increasing attention and substantial recognition, and we are very pleased to have him as a Lynch School faculty member.鈥�
Phil Gloudemans | University Communications | January 2022