Dr. Johnson is an Assistant Professor of Literacy Education in the department of Teacher Education. Her research draws from linguistic anthropologies’ frameworks and methods to study the social and cognitive processes of children’s literacy development. Her current research examines children's embodied ways of knowing and identity development as part of learning to dance ballet folklórico.

• Ph D in Education, University of California, Los Angeles (2015)
• MS in Childhood Education, Fordham University (2004)
• BFA in Modern Dance Pedagogy, University of Oklahoma (1999)

• Transforming practice in multilingual communities: Towards a transcultural pedagogy of heart and mind Information Age Publishing (2019), Marjorie Orellana, Janelle Franco, Sarah J. Johnson, Beatriz Rodriguez, Andrea Rodríguez-Scheel, Lilia Rodriquez, Krissia Martinez.
• Agency, accountability and affect: Kindergarten children’s orchestration of reading picture books with a friend Learning, Culture, and Social Interaction 12 1 (2017), Sarah J. Johnson.
• An apprentice teacher's journey in "seeing" learning Teacher Education Quarterly 2 44 (2017), Marjorie Orellana, Sarah J. Johnson, Andrea Rodríguez-Scheel, Lilia Rodriguez, Janelle Franco.
• Multimodal and multilingual resources in children's framing of situated learning activities: An introduction Linguistics and Education 41 (2017), Amy Kyratzis, Sarah J. Johnson.
• Multimodality and footing in peer correction in reading picture books Linguistics and Education 41 (2017), Sarah J. Johnson.

• Convirtiéndose en bailarina: Young children’s identity and cultural learning of ballet folklórico (2020), Volume Guadalajara, Mexico, Sarah J. Johnson, Maria T. De La Piedra, Alejandra San Miguel.
• Educating in and across borders: Identities, language ideologies, and ways of knowing (2020), Volume Guadalajara, Mexico, Maria T. De La Piedra, Sarah J. Johnson.
• Shifting to project based learning in the advanced placement context (2019), Volume Toronto, A Saavadra, A Rapaport, E Marwah, J Carle, Y Liu, Sarah J. Johnson, J L. , D Hoepfner, M Garland.
• Using microenthography to study human sociality and learning (2019), Volume El Paso, TX, Sarah J. Johnson.
• Moving translanguaging, art, and play in from the margins (2018), Volume San Jose, CA, Sarah J. Johnson, Paul Hartman.

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