Deborah Wells Rowe

Deborah Wells Rowe (@DRoweVU) serves as Chair of the Department of Teaching and Learning at Peabody College, Vanderbilt University, and in 2020, she was honored as the first recipient of the Carolyn M. Evertson Chair in Teacher Education. She conducts long-term ethnographic studies in classrooms aimed at understanding how preschoolers and early primary grades students learn to write. Rowe is the author of Preschoolers as Authors: Literacy Learning in the Social World of the Classroom and coauthor (with Sandra Wilson) of Write Start! Writing Assessment, a descriptive measure of 2- to 5-year-olds’ writing.