Faculty

Lora Bartlett
  • Pronouns she, her, her, hers, herself
  • Title
    • Associate Professor
  • Division Social Sciences Division
  • Department
    • Education Department
  • Phone
    831-459-1893
  • Email
  • Website
  • Office Location
    • McHenry Library, 3161
  • Office Hours By appointment
  • Mail Stop Education Department
  • Mailing Address
    • 1156 High Street
    • Santa Cruz CA 95064
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise Education, Labor and Social Movements, Immigration, Sociology
  • 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
  • Advisees, Grad Students, Researchers Riley Collins, Micah N Card, Esra Bozkurt, Cheralen Arroyo Valdez

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

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

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

Honors, Awards 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 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