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social network analysis, network interference, Bayesian statistics, statistical modeling, data science, machine learning
Motivation and Literacy, Reading Comprehension and Differentiated Instruction, Cognitive and Motivational Reading Development of Children from Diverse Language Backgrounds or Emergent Bilinguals, Reading Comprehension of Children with Literacy Related Learning Difficulties
I study underrepresented groups and their teachers in STEM, literacy, and exceptional education contexts. My research aims to center the voices of marginalized learners, particularly women and girls, as well as individuals who identify as Black, Latino/a/x, or Native American (BLNA), highlighting and affirming the cultural, ancestral, linguistic, scientific, and historically-divergent knowledge profiles that are significantly erased in their classrooms. I investigate, lead, and co-facilitate this work, primarily in the United States and Cuba. The following terms describe my scholarship: *Science/STEM Education, *[International] Teacher Education, *Ancestral STEM/computing knowledge, *Culturally responsive, culturally relevant, and culturally sustaining pedagogies, *anti-racist, race-visible teaching, *STEM [teacher] recruitment/retention, *Interdisciplinary and Digital Literacy, *[Black] ESOL/English Learners and dialect shifting, *Teacher attitudes/dispositions toward under-represented groups, and *The HBCU Experience.
Trauma sensitive pedagogy, early childhood policy, culturally responsive curricula/pedagogy, project-based learning, teacher education and children's mental health.
Economics and finance of higher education, state higher education policy, labor market outcomes of graduate students, and quantitative research methods
social/political cognition, civic education cross-nationally, cross-cultural and inter-cultural studies, research related to social policy, Interaction in technology-rich environments, social studies and history learning. <em>Areas of Student Supervision:
reading online, digital media and learning, reading comprehension, learning online, teaching online, digital literacy
culturally responsive literacy instruction; Black youth futures; critical multimodal literacies; arts-based research methods
Research focuses on teaching and teacher education, cultural diversity, and school-community partnerships.