Assistant Professor
Career and Technical Education
adamstr2@appstate.edu
(828) 262-2290
Tempestt Adams, PhD


Achievements
- In 2020, Dr. Adams received the college’s Outstanding Teaching Award
- In 2022, she received the college’s Community of Practice award, as part of the Creativity Collaborative
- For the 2022-2023 year she served as a Postsecondary State CTE Leaders Fellowship with AdvanceCTE

Research Interests
- Urban education
- Teacher preparation
- Arts-based methods
- College and career readiness
- Career and technical education

Publications
- Adams, T. R. (2023). Visual reflection: New tools for pedagogy and practice. The Vermont Connection, 44(1). https://scholarworks.uvm.edu/tvc/vol44/iss1/12
- Luetkemeyer, J., Adams, T., Davis, J., Redmond, T. and Hash, P. (2021). Creative practice in higher education: Decentering academic experiences. Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 62(4). DOI: 10.3138/jelis.62-4-2020-0097
- Hash, P., Redmond, T., Adams, T., Luetkemeyer, J., and Davis, J. (2021). Leading with care: Sustaining colleagues and students in times of crisis. Journal of Curriculum & Pedagogy. DOI: 10.1080/15505170.2021.1914244
- Teasdell, A., Lee, S., Calloway, A., & Adams, T. Commitment, community, and consciousness: A collaborative autoethnography of a doctoral sister circle. (2021). Journal of African American Women and Girls in Education, 1(1), 7-23. https://doi.org/10.21423/jaawge-v1i1 *Published with graduate students
- Adams, T., Robinson, D., & Lewis, C. (2020). Developing scholar identities: A case study of Black males in an early college high school. Journal of African American Males in Education, 11(1), 6-22.
- Adams, T., Williams, B., & Lewis, C. (2020). “That’s the point of going”: A qualitative inquiry into the experiences of Black males at an early college high school. Journal of Advanced Academics, 31(1), 14-34.

Courses Taught
- OLL 2050 - Introduction to Organizational Leadership & Learning
- CTE 3340 - Business Communications
- CTE 4525 - Workforce Leadership and Planning
- CTE 4619 - Career and Technical Education Curriculum
- CTE 5619 - CTE Curriculum, Planning and Assessment