Associate Professor - Chair
College of Education and Human Services
Department of Exceptional Student and Deaf Education

Affectionately known as "Nile Crocodile, the Reading Reptile," he is a reading specialist, performance poet, researcher, and professor of education at the University of North Florida. Nile is the author of the book, Creating Readers with Poetry (2004). He is the editor of the Florida Reading Quarterly. Nile is a past President of the New Mexico State Council of the International Reading Association (IRA). He currently serves as an evaluator for the Even Start early literacy project at Florida International University, Miami. He has been a professor-in residence at Sallye B. Mathis Elementary School (Jacksonville, FL) since 2000 and at Brentwood Elementary Magnet School for the performing arts since 2005. At both locations, he uses poetry and storytelling to teach literacy to pre- kindergarten through fifth-grade students. UNF and Duval County Schools are the recipients of the Association of Teacher Educators (ATE) Distinguished Program in Teacher Education, 2003. Nile is a partner in education for the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts program. Dr. Stanley is a frequent presenter at international, national, regional, state and local conferences.

web:  http://www.unf.edu/~nstanley/introplay.htm 
e-mail: nstanley@unf.edu
Office: Building 9 Room 2427 
Office Phone: 904-620-1849
Office Fax: 904-620-1025