Scott Johnson, Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

My name is Scott Johnson and I am excited to start this new journey as a reading coach at Piney Woods Elementary after being in the classroom for 25 years! I first started teaching in California where I taught for 9 years. I taught grades 1st through 5th in a variety of contexts (e.g., traditional grades, looping, and multiage). I left California and moved to South Carolina where I was a Graduate Teaching Assistant at the University of South Carolina for three years while I worked on my doctoral degree. There I taught courses in reading and reading assessment. In 2008 I had the chance to go back into the classroom and work at The Center for Inquiry in Richland Two where I taught 4th and 5th grades for thirteen years.I have been married for 17 years and have three children. My wife Malisa works at Lake Murray Elementary. My daughter Emily is a junior at Spring Hill High School and my twins, Elsie and Eli, are 7th graders at Dutch Fork Middle School.I have a master’s degree in Reading / Language Arts from Fresno Pacific University where I focused my studies on spelling, miscue analysis, and second language acquisition. After receiving my masters, I continued my education at the University of South Carolina completing a Ph.D. in Language & Literacy with a focus in anthropology. Along with working at PWES, I currently serve as an adjunct professor at Columbia College, teaching in the Divergent Learning program. My areas of focus are communities of practice, inquiry as a collaborative process of constructing meaning, teachers and students constructing meaning alongside each other, and teacher beliefs and their practices.

Listed skills include Literacy, Elementary Education, Classroom Instruction, Research, and 16 others.