Faculty
- Pronouns she, her, her, hers, herself
- Title
- Associate Professor
- Division Social Sciences Division
- Department
- Education Department
- Affiliations Feminist Studies Department
- Phone 831-459-1893
- Website
- Office Location
- McHenry Library, 3161
- Office Hours By appointment
- Mail Stop Education Department
- Mailing Address
- 1156 High Street
- Santa Cruz CA 95064
- Courses Education 60: Introduction to Educational Issues, Education 160: Theories of School Reform, Education 182: The American Teacher, Education 237: Qualitative Research Methods, Educational Policy (PhD Seminar)
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
