Faculty

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.

Biography, Education and Training

Ph.D. Education, U.C. Berkeley 2001

M.Ed. Curriculum & Instruction, Secondary English
University of Massachusetts, Amherst. 1990

B.A. English Literature
University of Massachusetts, Amherst. 1989

Honors, Awards and Grants

Sloan Center for Work and Family Post doctoral Fellow (2003)
Atlantic Public Policy Fellow, (2004)
Labor Employment Research Fund Grant (2008)
Smith Richardson Foundation Policy Fellow (2008)
National Science Foundation Noyce Grant (2009 - 2012)
UCSC Excellence in Teaching Award (2012)

Selected Publications

• What we Learned About Teachers during the Pandemic: A Series
• 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
• Migrant Teachers: How U.S. Schools import Labor (2014) Harvard University Press

Selected Recordings

KUSP interview on Global Teacher Migration