Amy Hylen

Amy Hylen

Amy Hylen is a Master of Education candidate at Vanderbilt University, specializing in Reading Education, K-12, in the Department of Teaching and Learning. Her studies involve how to support students' literacy development and how to create opportunities for meaningful engagement with literacy, supported by her passion for fostering a love of reading and writing.

As a Research Assistant for the Barnes Lab with Project AIM-K, Amy currently supports a grant-funded study on supporting kindergarten students in attention-integrated mathematical learning. In this role, she provides assessments that inform the research, in addition to attention training and instruction through the Whole Number Foundation.

Recently, Amy graduated from Saint Michael's College with a B.A. in Elementary Education and Psychology and her teaching license. She student taught in a kindergarten classroom and will begin teaching this fall at Ensworth in Nashville as a Kindergarten Teaching Assistant. Through her experience supporting kindergarten students in content-areas such as literacy and math, she will strive to provide effective, equitable, and evidence-based instruction to nurture her students' growth, while also celebrating their strengths to foster joy within a positive learning community.