Publications

BU Wheelock Scholarly Accomplishments May 2025

BU Wheelock presents the following faculty publications, presentations, and awards for March 2025.

Awards

Jennifer Bryson

MACURE Celebrate Literacy Award, from the Massachusetts Association of College and University Reading Educators

Tina Durand

Metcalf Cup and Prize for Excellence in Teaching, from Boston University

Anthony Jack

Massachusetts Book Award longlist for Class dismissed: When colleges ignore inequality and students pay the price, from the Massachusetts Center for the Book

Books and Book Chapters

Chong Park and Scott Solberg

Park, C. M., Ferrari, L., Scoda, A.-D., Ozdemir, N. K., Marsay, G., & Solberg, V. S. H. (Eds.). (2025). Social and emotional learning as foundation for future readiness: Translating research to practice. Springer Nature Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-84591-8

Kimberly Howard and Scott Solberg

Rodriguez, A., Esquivel, L. E., Park, C. M., Enriquez, D., Gomez, J. R. F., Erilus, I., Xie, H., Lue, S., Oliver-Davila, A., Trunfio, P., Nardi, C., Howard, K. A. S., & Solberg, V. S. H. (2025). Using STEM learning, STEM career development, and civic engagement to support middle school Latinx youth becoming future ready. In L. Rivera & M. Colón (Eds.), Critical perspectives in Latino education in Massachusetts (pp. 264–280). University of Massachusetts Press.

Articles

Olivia Chi, Ariel Tichnor-Wagner, and Sidrah Baloch

Chi, O. L., Bacher-Hicks, A., Tichnor-Wagner, A., & Baloch, S. (2025). Teacher licensure and workforce quality: Insights from the first wave of COVID era emergency licenses in Massachusetts. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.3102/01623737251329345

Kate Frankel

Frankel, K. K., Brooks, M. D., & Learned, J. E. (2025). Teachers’ perspectives on the structure of reading intervention classes in secondary schools: A meta-synthesis of qualitative research. Teaching and Teacher Education, 162. Advance Online Publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tate.2025.105029  

Ariel Tichnor-Wagner

Tichnor-Wagner, A., Okun, A., & Ferro, A. (2025). Changing the “micros” of teaching through collaborative inquiry: A qualitative case study of teacher-led professional learning in an urban School District. Teachers College Record. https://doi.org/10.1177/016146812513318

Presentations

Jennifer Bryson and Ryan Lovell

Bryson, J. & Lovell, R. (2025, March 21) Implementing the early literacy crosswalk as a tool to encourage cross-departmental collaboration and program revisions [Paper presentation]. Massachusetts Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, Sturbridge, MA.

Mary Churchill and Cara Mattaliano

Churchill, M., & Mattaliano, C. (2025, March 24). Developing a cohesive strategy for global work: Leveraging a college merger and senior leadership transition to increase global engagement [Conference presentation]. 69th Annual Conference of the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES), Chicago, IL, United States.

Churchill, M., & Mattaliano, C. (2025, April 1). Amplifying visibility, reach, and impact: A community-engaged communications strategy at BU Wheelock [Conference presentation]. Campus Compact Annual Conference, Atlanta, GA.

Irene Dennison and Jalene Tamerat

Dennison, I., & Tamerat, J. (2025, April 2). Strategy in service to Boston Public Schools: Boston University Wheelock’s Office of Community Engagement [Conference presentation]. Campus Compact Annual Conference, Atlanta, GA.

Leslie Dietiker

Dietiker, L. (2025, March). The influence of curriculum design and the interactions between teachers and textbooks [Invited Talk]. Loughborough University, UK.

Dietiker, L. (2025, March). Designing mathematics lessons with AI: Affordances and limitations. Shell Centre, University of Nottingham, UK.

Lauren Funk

Funk, L. and Nerlino, E. (2025, April 23). Shifting identity: A first-year teacher-educators’ duoship [Conference presentation]. Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association 2025 Convention, Denver, CO, United States.

Nerlino, E. and Funk, L. (2025, April 23). ‘Even-handed treatment of all sides’: A critical policy analysis of Massachusetts anti-discriminatory school committee proposals [Conference presentation]. Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association 2025 Convention, Denver, CO, United States.

Lauren Funk and Rob Martinelle

Funk, L., Martinelle, R., & Rowlings, B. (2025). A “difficult-ish” day: Social studies teachers’ approaches to (and reasons for) teaching 1/6/21 [Paper session]. Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Denver, CO.

Martinelle, R., Funk, L., & Lake, J. (2025). Back then, over there, never here, never now: Fascism according to K-12 social studies standards [Roundtable session]. Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Denver, CO.

Kaylene Stevens

Stevens, K. M., Fife, E., Martell, C. C., & Kulkarni, V. (2025, April 25). Designed to silence: How discriminatory censorship laws are impacting teachers [Conference presentation]. Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), Colorado Convention Center, Denver, CO, United States.

Stevens, K. M., Fife, E., & Martell, C. C. (2025, April 26). What resistance looks like: Stories from educators impacted by discriminatory censorship laws [Conference presentation]. Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), Colorado Convention Center, Denver, CO, United States.

Sen Wang

Wang, S., Cabell, S. Q., Wong, K. M., DeCoster, J., & Vasile, R. (2025, May). What children are watching at home and its relation to their language skills [Poster presentation]. Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Conference 2025. Minneapolis, MN.

Wang, S., Cabell, S. Q., Schatschneider, C., Phillips, B. M., & DeCoster, J. (2025, May). Exploring the impact of shared book reading and video viewing on preschoolers’ vocabulary and knowledge in informational text [Poster presentation]. Biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Conference 2025. Minneapolis, MN.