Amanda Deliman
School of Teacher Education and Leadership
Assistant Professor

Contact Information
Office Location: USU - Salt Lake CenterPhone: 435-797-4234
Email: amanda.deliman@usu.edu
Additional Information:
Educational Background
Licensures & Certifications
Biography
I am an Assistant Professor in Early Childhood and Elementary Literacy Education based out of USU-Salt Lake. I teach courses connected to the Elementary and Early Childhood Education teacher preparation programs and graduate courses for our Master's and Doctoral students in the literacy concentration.
Teaching Interests
Teacher Learning and Teacher Education Across Grade Levels, Curriculum Integration and the Use of Children's Picturebooks, and Social-Emotional Learning
Research Interests
Children's Literature as a Tool for Learning, Social-Emotional Learning, Teacher Learning and Teacher Education, Drama in Education
Awards
School of Teacher Education and Leadership Undergraduate Research Mentor of the Year Award , 2025
Utah State University
EEJ College of Education and Human Services Faculty Teacher of the Year Award, 2024
Utah State University
School of Teacher Education and Leadership Faculty Teacher of the Year Award , 2024
Utah State University
Teaching Excellence Scholar Award, 2022
Utah State University, Center for Empowering Teaching Excellence-Office of the Provost
- Koltz, J., Deliman, A., Daines, E., (2025). Transforming Schools with SEL: Success Stories from Marginalized Communities: Improving Student Achievement in Marginalized Communities With Social and Emotional Learning. IGI Global Scientific Publishing
- Spears, J., Deliman, A., Lewis, H., LaMuth, J., Hales, K., (2025). Mentorship Matters: Capturing the Unseen Impact of Faculty-Student Relationships: Teaching Excellence: Promoting University's Vital Mission. Empower Teaching Open Access Book Series
- Qu, P., Deliman, A., Walker, A., Weltsek, G.J, Medina, C., (2022). Biliteracy, Playfulness and Performative Practices: International Encyclopedia of Education (4th edition). Blackwell's
Publications | Book Chapters
An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.
Publications | Journal Articles
Academic Journal
- Deliman, A., (2025). From Picturebooks to Play: Dialogic Pedagogy for Cultivating Agency and Social Awareness in Young Learners. Education Sciences, 15:6, 731. doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci15060731
- Deliman, A., (2025). Fostering Engagement and Learning Through Texts. Educating Young Children *
- Deliman, A., Smith, J., Robertson, M.K, Bunnell, G., De Oliveira, J., (2024). The Texts, The Tasks, The Talk: Reading, Discussing, and Exploring Children’s Literature. The Dragon Lode, 42:2, 47-57.
- Robertson, M., Deliman, A., Turner, R., (2024). Combining social-emotional learning competencies and contemporary concerns picturebooks to foster early literacy practices: An interdisciplinary approach. . International Literacy Association, 78:3, 19-25.
- Deliman, A., Robertson, M.K, Turner, R.K, (2024). Combining Social–Emotional Learning Competencies and Contemporary Concerns Picturebooks to Foster Early Literacy Practices: An Interdisciplinary Approach. The Reading Teacher, 78:3, 165-176. doi: 10.1002/trtr.2357
- Deliman, A., (2024). First Opinion - Rebuilding Resilience: A Child’s Journey Through “Small Things”. First Opinions, Second Reactions, 16:3
- Turner, R.K, Deliman, A., Robertson, M.K, (2023). Curriculum Integration Using Picturebooks: Combining Language Arts and Social Studies Standards to Address Controversial Issues. Social Studies and the Young Learner, 36:1, 27-32.
- Deliman, A., Lott, K., (2023). Inquiry Based Learning on Biomimicry: Linking Science and Literacy Using Children’s Picturebooks in the Early Childhood Classroom. Science and Children, 60:6, 20-24.
- Deliman, A., Breitenstein, J., (2022). Nurturing Meaningful Student Agency: A Kindergarten Teacher Supports Beginning Readers Using Wordless and Post-Modern Picturebooks. The Dragon Lode, 40:2, 25-36.
- Deliman, A., (2021). Picturebooks and Critical Inquiry: Tools to (Re)Imagine a More Inclusive World. Bookbird: A Journal of International Children's Literature, 59:3, 46-57. doi: 10.1353/bkb.2021.0044
- Medina, C.L, Perry, M., Lee, B.K, Deliman, A., (2021). Reading with drama: relations between texts, readers and experiences. Literacy, 33:2, 136-144. doi: 10.1111/lit.12246
An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.
Publications | Other
An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.