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Pronouns she, her, her, hers, herself

Division Social Sciences Division

Department/College/Unit Education Department

Title Associate Professor

Affiliation Faculty

Faculty Type Regular Faculty

Areas of Expertise Education
Labor and Social Movements
Immigration
Sociology

Web Site

Primary Office Location McHenry Library
3161

Office Hours for Students/ Office Hours By appointment

Mail Stop Education Department

Biography, Education and Training

Ph.D. Education, U.C. Berkeley

M.Ed. Curriculum & Instruction, Secondary English
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA

B.A. English Literature
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA

Summary of Expertise

COVID-19 as a Context for Teachers' Work

Teachers and Teachers' Work

Concpetions of the teaching profession 

Conditions of teacher commitment

Composition of teacher workforce

Transnational teacher migration

Schools as workplaces for teachers

Research Interests

My goal as a scholar is to advance and develop knowledge related to teachers’ professional commitment, conceptions of teacher professionalism and the composition of the teacher workforce. I am interested in schools as workplaces for teachers and the reciprocal relationship between educational policy and teachers’ orientations to their work. My work seeks to unpack notions of teachers’ work held by individuals, professional communities, organizations, and policy makers. I am interested in the consequences of the interactions of those competing conceptions for creating and maintaining a professional workforce.

Awards, Honors and Grants

• Educator's Room 2025 Top International Educator Award
• Sloan Center for Work and Family Post doctoral Fellow
• Atlantic Public Policy Fellow
• Labor Employment Research Fund Grant 
• Smith Richardson Foundation Policy Fellow
• National Science Foundation Noyce Grant 
• UCSC Excellence in Teaching Award
• National Science Foundation Research Grant
• Center for Social Transformation Research Grant

Selected Publications

Books:

• Going the Distance: The Teaching Profession in a Post-COVID World (2025) Harvard Education Press
• Migrant Teachers: How U.S. Schools import Labor (2014) Harvard University Press

Selected News articles & OpEds

• What we Learned About Teachers during the Pandemic: A Series

Selected Journal Articles & Chapters:

• Specifying Hybrid Models of Teachers’ Work During COVID-19
• Not Remotely Familiar: How COVID-19 is Reshaping Teachers’ Work and the Implications for Teacher Education
• What’s in a Calling: Unpacking the Call to Teach Controversy
• Seeking to Stay: Job search process and teacher retention
• The Teacher Workforce and Problems of Educational Equity
• The Evolution of New Teacher Induction Policy: Support, Specificity and Autonomy
• Expanding Teacher Work Roles: resource for retention or recipe for overwork

Selected Recordings

EdWeek: A Seat at the Table What Have We Have Learned from Teachers During the Pandemic.

National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine. “Being a teacher: The Experience of the Last Year" at online workshop Teaching & the Teacher Workforce Amid the Struggles of COVID-19 and for Racial Justice.

UC Santa Cruz University Forum: Suddenly Distant and Still in Flux: The Implications of COVID-19 for K12 Teachers’ Work and Schooling

KCRW To the Point: Teachers Are Battling Back

Advisees, Grad Students & Researchers Collins, Riley (riacolli)
Card, Micah (mncard)
Bozkurt, Esra (ebozkurt)
Valdez, Cheralen (cvaldez8)

Courses Education 60: Introduction to Educational Issues
Education 160: Theories of School Reform
Education 182: The American Teacher
Education 190: Undergraduate Senior Capstone Seminar
Education 235: Introduction to Educational Inquiry
Education 237: Qualitative Research Methods
Education 250: Teaching and Teachers
Education 277ABC: Proseminar
Teachers' Work Research Group