“Excellence for ALL Students via Professional Development and Instructional Change”

Stephanie Curenton
Associate Professor, Curriculum and Teaching
Boston University

Wednesday, January 8th
12:45pm-2pm
Annenberg G02

This presentation will focus on racially minoritized learners’ (RMLs) experiences and achievement in school settings with a particular focus on discussing how the field measures instructional quality as it relates to RMLs’ experiences in the classroom. The presentation will provide suggestions about (1) how to measure culturally responsive anti-bias instruction, (2) changes for instructional approaches to engage RMLs, and (3) larger systemic changes to the way in which RMLs are educated.

Stephanie Curenton is a tenured associate professor in the Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. She studies the social, cognitive, and language development of low-income and minority children within various ecological contexts, such as parent-child interactions, early childhood education programs, early childhood workforce programs, and related state and federal policies. Curenton served as past associate editor for Early Childhood Research Quarterly and is currently an associate editor for Early Education and Development. She has received multiple national research policy fellowships, the Society for Research on Child Development/American Association for the Advancement of Science and worked in the Office of Child Care and the National Black Child Development Institute Policy Fellowship. She has served on education non-profit boards for the National Association for the Education of Young Children and local Head Start programs.