Temple University College of Education

Adjunct Professor

Taught a qualitative research course to doctoral students enrolled in the College’s Educational Leadership Executive Program. The 15-week course culminated in a final project in which students applied their understanding of interpretive frameworks, research questions, literature reviews and methods to craft a proposal that many subsequently used as the basis for their dissertation proposal defense. Throughout the course, connections were made to issues students were experiencing at their schools, as all concurrently held full-time positions as practitioners.

Temple University College of Education

Adjunct Professor

Introduced students to the historical, social, political and economic foundations of education in the United States. Coursework was geared toward helping students to think more deeply about the various factors that shape our schools and the ways they are experienced by children, parents and teachers. From an urban education perspective, one of my primary goals was for students to leave the course with an increased awareness of educational equity, social justice and how to teach in more inclusive and culturally response ways.

Temple University College of Education

Adjunct Professor

Taught a service-learning course designed to help students consider the ways in which globalization impacts education globally, nationally and locally. Specifically, we examined how increased globalization has created new possibilities for learning but is also implicated in exacerbating educational inequities. In addition to teaching the course, I was responsible for establishing partnerships with local non-profit organizations through which students completed their service-learning hours. During class, I facilitated weekly reflective exercises to help students make connections between the course and their experiences in the field.

Young Scholars Charter School

Middle Years English Teacher

Provided reading and writing instruction to 7th and 8th grade students. During my tenure, I was charged with helping to develop a literacy curriculum for 6th, 7th and 8th grade students to ensure an enriching, vertically aligned reading program.

The College of New Jersey

Assistant Professor of Urban Education

Teach undergraduate and master’s level courses in the Department of Elementary and Early Childhood Education, with a joint appointment in the Department of Educational Administration and Secondary Education; supervise clinical interns in their student-teaching placements; provide academic advising; engage in scholarly work and contribute to the department, school and college communities through service. Research interests include examining the impact of urban school reform on students and families; the teaching and learning of African American history; and preparing pre-service teachers to engage students from culturally diverse backgrounds.

My people did this—The Shaping of Collective Remembrance in an African American History Class

Book chapter In L. King (Ed.), Perspectives on the Teaching of Black History in Schools. Charlotte, NC: Information Age

My people did this—The Shaping of Collective Remembrance in an African American History Class

Book chapter In L. King (Ed.), Perspectives on the Teaching of Black History in Schools. Charlotte, NC: Information Age

The Influence of Teacher Expectations on Student Achievement

Paper presented at the annual meeting for the American Educational Research Association

My people did this—The Shaping of Collective Remembrance in an African American History Class

Book chapter In L. King (Ed.), Perspectives on the Teaching of Black History in Schools. Charlotte, NC: Information Age

The Influence of Teacher Expectations on Student Achievement

Paper presented at the annual meeting for the American Educational Research Association

An Ethnographic Study of Black Students Learning about African American History: Implications for Teaching

Paper presented at annual meeting for The Black Doctoral Network

My people did this—The Shaping of Collective Remembrance in an African American History Class

Book chapter In L. King (Ed.), Perspectives on the Teaching of Black History in Schools. Charlotte, NC: Information Age

The Influence of Teacher Expectations on Student Achievement

Paper presented at the annual meeting for the American Educational Research Association

An Ethnographic Study of Black Students Learning about African American History: Implications for Teaching

Paper presented at annual meeting for The Black Doctoral Network

'They were Savages’: Examining the Relationship between Black Students' Interpretations of Historical Black activism and Civic Capacity

Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History

My people did this—The Shaping of Collective Remembrance in an African American History Class

Book chapter In L. King (Ed.), Perspectives on the Teaching of Black History in Schools. Charlotte, NC: Information Age

The Influence of Teacher Expectations on Student Achievement

Paper presented at the annual meeting for the American Educational Research Association

An Ethnographic Study of Black Students Learning about African American History: Implications for Teaching

Paper presented at annual meeting for The Black Doctoral Network

'They were Savages’: Examining the Relationship between Black Students' Interpretations of Historical Black activism and Civic Capacity

Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History

(Re)envisioning Teacher Preparation for Multicultural Urban Settings

Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Association for Multicultural Education—Pennsylvania Chapter