A. Lin Goodwin is the Evenden Professor of Education and vice dean at Teachers College, Columbia University in New York. She is immediate past vice president of the American Educational Research Association-Division K: Teaching and Teacher Education (2013-2016). In 2015, she was honored as a Distinguished Researcher by AERA’s Special Interest Group: Research on the…
Dr. Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz, Ph.D. is Associate Professor at Teachers College, Columbia University where the courses she teaches include The Teaching of English in Diverse Social/Cultural Contexts, Participatory Action Research Methods, and The Teaching of Writing. Her research interests include racial literacy development in urban teacher education, critical English Education with Black and Latino male high…
Tatyana Kleyn is an associate professor in the Bilingual Education and TESOL programs at the City College of New York. She served as acting Co-Principal Investigator for the CUNY New York State Initiative on Emergent Bilinguals, which supports administrators in developing school-wide bilingual ecologies. In 2007, she received an Ed.D. in international educational development at Teachers…
This interview with Dr. Susan H. Fuhrman appears as the sixth installment in a year-long series on the public scholarship of women in education leadership. Dr. Susan H. Fuhrman is the President of Teachers College, Columbia University, founding Director and Chair of the Management Committee of the Consortium for Policy Research in Education (CPRE), and former President of…
This interview with Professor Dr. Alma Harris appears as the fifth installment in a year-long series on the public scholarship of women in education leadership. Dr. Harris is internationally known for her research and writing on leadership and school improvement. She started her career as a teacher in South Wales and has held senior academic appointments at five…
This interview with Dr. Karen Edge appears as the fourth installment in a yearlong series on the public scholarship of women in education leadership. Karen Edge is the Pro Vice Provost (International) at University College London (UCL) and Reader in Educational Leadership at the UCL Institute of Education in London, UK. Karen is an academic and advocate committed to…
This interview with Helen Janc Malone appears as the third installment in a yearlong series on the public scholarship of women in education leadership. Dr. Helen Janc Malone is the Director of Institutional Advancement and National Director of the Education Policy Fellowship Program at the Institute for Educational Leadership. Her areas of expertise include education…
This interview with Gillian Hamilton appears as the second in a yearlong series on the public scholarship of women in education(al) leadership. Gillian Hamilton is Chief Executive of the newly formed Scottish College for Educational Leadership. She has worked in Scottish education for 24 years, and has held posts as a Primary Teacher, Senior Teacher,…
This interview with Andrea Stringer appears as the first in a yearlong series on the public scholarship of women in education leadership. Andrea Stringer is a teacher in Sydney, Australia, who has just received the The Keith Tronc Award for the most outstanding teacher from the Australian Council for Educational Leaders. In this interview, she…
A yearlong interview series presented by Esteem: Conversations Between Educators This year, Esteem will publish a series of interviews that connect two compelling areas of interest. One is the AERA 2016 Conference theme of public scholarship for diverse democracies. The other is women’s leadership in education. Recently, these two areas have converged on Twitter as…
Dr. Sonia Nieto has devoted her professional life to questions of diversity, equity, and social justice in education. A native of Brooklyn, New York, she began her teaching career in 1966 in an intermediate school in Brooklyn, moving two years later to P.S. 25 in the Bronx, the first fully bilingual school in the Northeast.…
The following interview was conducted in Spanish. To read a translation by the author in English, click here. Chile es el país Latinoamericano con el tercer mayor Producto Interno Bruto (PIB) per cápita y con la mayor desigualdad económica entre los 34 países miembros de la Organización para la Cooperación y el Desarrollo Económicos (OCDE).…
Dr. Jeehun Kim and Dr. Jangham Na are visiting scholars in the department of Curriculum and Teaching at Teachers College, Columbia University, who are both studying topics relevant to the broader theme of multiculturalism in South Korea. Jeehun Kim is an Associate Professor in the Department of Social Studies Education, Inha University, and Jang-ham Na is an Associate Professor in the Department…
Dr. Luis A Huerta is an Associate Professor of education and public policy at Teachers College, Columbia University. His research and scholarship focus on issues of decentralization related to school choice reforms, as well as the impact of school finance inequities on implementing school reform. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.…
Although native to las Américas and with thousands of years of history on this continent, the increasing Latin@ population in the United States is undeniable and the influence that Latin@s have had on shaping the social, political, cultural, and literary fabric of this country is profound. Creating alternative and supplementary knowledge spaces for learning, and…
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