Instructor
⦿ Capstone in Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (Michigan State University - Master’s course)

Guest Speaker
⦿ Literacy Instruction for Students with Mild Impairments (Michigan State University)
⦿ Inclusive Teaching: Ability, Language, and Multicultural Education (Calvin University)

⦿ Writing Architect project - Lab Coordinator. Michigan State University.

⦿ Literacy Launch - Consultant. Annenburg Institute at Brown University.

⦿ Connecticut K-3 Literacy Initiative - Consultant. CT State Department of Education & University of Connecticut.

Moura, P. (2025). Humanizing school experiences for multilingual learners with dis/abilities [Review of the book Teaching emergent bilingual students with dis/abilities: humanizing pedagogies to engage learners and eliminate labels by P. Martínez-Álvarez]. Teachers College Press. 

Moura, P. (2024). Best practices and resources in reading comprehension for multilingual learners. Michigan Reading Journal, 56(3), 15-23. https://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/mrj/vol56/iss3/7 

Norwine, L., Bouck, E. C., Moura, P., & Jakubow, L. (2025). The importance of teaching daily life skills to middle school students with ASD: A replication study. Journal of the Division on Autism and Developmental Disabilities, 12(1), 183-200.  

Seymour, T., Pittman, R. T., Binks-Cantrell, E., Rooze, M., Moura, P., & Joshi, R. M. (2025). Universal screeners for dyslexia: Where is the spelling? The Reading Teacher, 79(4), 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1002/trtr.70032

Truckenmiller, A. J., Valentine, K. A., Sarmiento, C. M., Hennenfent, L., Johnson, L., Moura, P., Randle, J., Friedman, E., & Bourgeois, S. (2025). Analysis of student informational writing to personalize writing instruction. Intervention in School and Clinic, 61(1), 8-18. https://doi.org/10.1177/10534512251346794 

Valentine, K., Friedman, E., Bachmann, J., & Moura, P. (2024). Educators as experts to promote equity for neurodiverse students. Literacy Today, 42(1), 10–11. https://publuu.com/flip-book/24429/1282661 

Moura, P., & Howard, M. (2018). Women and data futures: Project report. Economic and Social Research Council.

Truckenmiller, A. J., Coyne, M., Valentine, K. A., Moura, P., & Sarmiento, C. M. (2024). Review of commercial reading screening assessment suites. Connecticut State Department of Education, Performance Office. 

Johnson, L. J., Moura, P., Truckenmiller, A. T., Bourgeois, S., Friedman, E., Sarmiento, C. M., Valentine, K., Hennenfent, L., Randle, J., & Troia, G. A. (2025, April 23-27). Toward linguisticjustice: A QuantCrit analysis of bias in writing assessment scoring. In B. O’Neal Turner (chair), Innovative approaches to quantitative analysis: Addressing bias, model constraints, and intersectionality in social research. [Paper presentation]. American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting. Denver, CO, United States. 

Johnson, L. J., Truckenmiller, A. J., Sarmiento, C. M., Valentine, K. A., Hennenfent, L., Friedman, E.; Bachmann, J., & Moura, P. (July, 2024). Constructs for benchmark writing assessment shared with reading in late elementary grades. In E. Lembke (chair), Recent Innovations in Writing Research. Symposium accepted to the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading. Copenhagen, Denmark. 

Moura, P. (2025). Multilingual learners, assessments, and interventions. [PowerPoint slides]. Michigan State University. Educational Psychology Implementation Science Affinity Group. 

Moura, P., Johnson, L. (2025, October 8-11). Identifying Spanish-influenced spelling patterns in multilingual learners. In S. Porter & F. López (co chairs), Education in context: Research, systems, and the future of evidence-based change. Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness Conference, Chicago, IL, USA. 

Moura, P., Truckenmiller, A. J. (2026, February 4-6). Latent profile analysis to guide targeted instruction for multilingual learners. [Poster Presentation]. Pacific Coast Research Conference, Long Beach, CA, USA. 

Seymour, T. M., Pittman, R. T., Binks-Cantrell, E., Rooze, M., Moura, P., & Joshi, R. M. (2025, March 12– 15). Examining spelling in universal dyslexia screeners [Poster presentation]. CEC Special Education Convention & Expo, Baltimore, MD, USA.

Truckenmiller, A. J., Valentine, K. A., Sarmiento, C. M., Johnson, L. J., Cho, E., Hines, K., Hennenfent, L., Randle, J., Moura, P., Troia, G. A. (July, 2025). Where do we start when teaching informational writing in grades 4 and 5? [Conference presentation]. Society for the Scientific Study of Reading. Calgary, Canada.

Valentine, K.A., Moura, P. (2026, March 25-27). What and how: Developing a writing instruction measure for research and practice. [Paper Presentation]. Badar Kauffman Conference, Kent, OH, USA.

Ordaz, G. C., Farris, E. A., Toste, J. R., Moura, P., & Silva, R. (2026, July). Multisyllabic word reading accuracy: The role of lexical features for emergent bilingual and monolingual English-speaking students. [Poster presentation]. Society for the Scientific Study of Reading (SSSR), Rotterdam, the Netherlands.