Education

1999 University of Oklahoma, B.S.
2003 University of Oklahoma, M.A.
2014 University of Oklahoma, Ph.D.

Courses Taught

Language and Literacy Essentials in Elementary School
Teaching Reading in the Elementary School

Career Specialties

Lisa Delgado Brown specializes in literacy instruction and teacher preparation, with particular emphasis on language and literacy development, critical and multimodal literacies, and equity-oriented pedagogy. Her work examines how instructional design, reflective practice, and the ethical integration of technology, including artificial intelligence, can support preservice and early-career educators while promoting equitable literacy outcomes for diverse, multilingual, and struggling learners.

Professional and Community Activities

Before joining the University of Tampa, Dr. Delgado Brown served as an Associate Professor and the Middle/Secondary Program Administrator at Saint Leo University, where she also oversaw all undergraduate special education courses. Additionally, she taught at Oklahoma City University as an Associate Professor andat the University of Oklahoma while completing her doctoral degree. Dr. Delgado Brown is an experienced educator with a demonstrated history of working in higher education and P-12 schools. Prior to her time in highereducation, she worked as a Special Education teacher, Reading Specialist, and Literacy Coach at public and private schools in Florida and Oklahoma. Delgado Brown's current research explores the impacts of hybrid teaching on perceived K-12 student learning, social justice in education, and how to support beginning/entry-level educators. She has authored a recent book chapter, Keeping it Real: Supporting Writers in the English/Language Arts Classroom in the book Writing is Thinking: Strategies for all Content Areas, and an article in the Journal of Teacher Action Research titled “Not only were the students learning ... but so was I”: Introducing PSTs to graphic novels as part of a multimodal literacy framework.” Additionally, her work, Preparing Teacher Candidates for thePost-Pandemic Classroom:Insights Through a Transformative Learning Perspective, is currently in press and will provide valuable insights into adapting teacher preparation for the evolving educational landscape. Delgado Brown has recently held the position of National Member on the Association of Middle-Level Educators’ Teacher-Leader Committee forsupporting Early Career Educators (2022-2024). At the statelevel, Dr. Delgado Brown has served as the Secretary for Florida FTED, a division of the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC)since the spring of 2023.Recent Publications

Delgado Brown, L. (2026, February 17). Why teaching cursive still matters: For access, identity, and equity. The Teacher Advocate. Kappa Delta Pi. (peer reviewed) https://www.kdp.org/blogs/kevin-wong/2026/01/28/why-teaching-cursive-still-matters-for-access-iden?CommunityKey=5d907360-4053-4b24-bd82-ec7380722067

Delgado Brown, L. (2025, September 29). Beyond the firstresponse: Prompting with purpose in university classrooms.Faculty Focus. https://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/teaching-with-technology-articles/beyond-the-first-response-prompting-with-purpose-in-university-classrooms/

Delgado Brown, L. (2025, April 23). AI as an educational ally:Innovative strategies for classroom integration. Faculty Focus. https://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/teaching-with-technology-articles/ai-as-an-educational-ally-innovative-strategies-for-classroom-integration/

Delgado Brown, L. & Picot, C. (2024). Preparing Teacher Candidates for the Post-Pandemic Classroom: Insights through a transformative learning perspective. Journal of Transformative Learning 11(1), pp. 49-66. (peer reviewed)https://jotl.uco.edu/index.php/jotl/article/view/514/394

Delgado Brown, L., & Perez, E.N. (2023). Transformation towards social justice: Artistic amalgams seen through a hip-hop pedagogical lens. Studies in Social Justice, 17(3), p. 521-526. (peer reviewed)https://journals.library.brocku.ca/index.php/SSJ

Atkins, H. & Delgado Brown, L. (2022). Keeping it real: Supporting writers in the English/language arts classroom. InAtkins, H., & L. Carver (Eds.), Writing is Thinking: Strategies for all Content Areas (pp. 123-137). Rowman & Littlefield.

Delgado Brown, L. (2022). Active Classroom Communities: Using Digital Platforms to Encourage Meta cognition and Motivation During the Pandemic and Beyond.” Interdisciplinary Insights: The Journal of Saint Leo University’s College of Education and Social Services 4 (3). (peer reviewed)

Delgado Brown, L., & Picot, C. (2022). The circuitry of interconnections: Teaching and learning insights gleaned fromthe pandemic. Rebus: Connections, 7(1), p. 16-19. (peerreviewed) Retrieved from https://705606f6.flowpaper.com/2563REBUSConnections/

Delgado Brown, L., & Sughrue, E. (2021). “Not only werethestudents learning ... but so was I”: Introducing preserviceteachers to graphic novels as part of a multimodal literacyframework. Journal of Teacher Action Research, 8(1), 95-109.(peer reviewed)
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Honors and Awards

Faculty Teaching Academy Award, Oklahoma City University, Spring 2019  

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