Publications

Scholarly Accomplishments September 2025

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

Awards

Anthony Abraham Jack

2025 Independent Publisher Book Award (IPPY) Gold Medal for Current Events I (Political/Economic/Foreign Affairs) for Class Dismissed: When Colleges Ignore Inequality and Students Pay the Price

Elena Forzani

Albert J. Harris award from the International Literacy Association for the coauthored paper, “Prioritizing equitable social outcomes with and for diverse readers: A conceptual framework for the development and use of justice-based reading assessment,” published in Educational Psychologist.

Nermeen Dashoush

Founding and lead educator of MarcoPolo Learning, which was named one of the World’s Top EdTech companies of 2025 by Time Machine and Statista.

New Grants

Amelia Becker and Naomi Caselli

Postdoctoral Fellowship: SPRF: Documenting Patterns of Variation in Sign Language Using Computer Vision
Funder: National Science Foundation

Jennifer Lillis, Liz Bettini, and Alexandra Allen-Barrett

ONBOARD: Building Sustainable Professional Learning Opportunities for Paraeducators
Funder: Spencer Foundation, Research-Practice Partnership Grant

Eli Tucker-Raymond

Explorations: Expanding Access to Advanced Manufacturing Training Through an Experiential Learning Model
Funder: National Science Foundation

Anna Ward

A Qualitative Analysis of Sport Psychology Professionals’ Experiences Navigating Their Own Child(ren)’s Youth Sport Participation
Funder: Association for Applied Sport Psychology (AASP)

Books

Christina Dobbs

David, A. D., Covino, K., Dobbs, C. L., Emeran, C., & Letcher, M. (Eds.). (2025). The impacts of censorship, Vol. 1: Research on the intersection of censorship and teaching English. National Council of Teachers of English.

Book Chapters

Stephanie Curenton

Curenton, S. M., Ibekwe-Okafor, N., Lechuga, K., & Surrain, S. (2025). How racism influences quality and access in early care and education. In G. Sykes, B. Schneider, & D. N. Plank (Eds.), Handbook of education policy research (2nd ed.). American Educational Research Association.

Laura Jiménez

Halko, G. and Jiménez, L.M. (2025). Race. In R. Rowe (Ed), Children’s literature and culture: An introduction (1st ed.). Routledge.

Meghan Shaughnessy

Shaughnessy, M., & Boerst, T. (2025). Using teaching simulations to launch work on eliciting and interpreting student thinking. In D. Polly and C. S. Martin (Eds.), Elevating clinical practices in mathematics education: Cases that showcase teaching practices in action (pp. 609–620). Emerald Publishing.

Garcia, N., & Shaughnessy, M. (2025). Using student contributions to build collective understanding: A case of using coached rehearsals to learn to conclude mathematics discussions. In D. Polly and C. S. Martin (Eds.), Elevating clinical practices in mathematics education: Cases that showcase teaching practices in action (pp. 219–230). Emerald Publishing.

Garcia, N., Shaughnessy, M., Ball, D. L., Robinson, D., & Goldin, S. (2025). Building community through collaborative observation: Structures and moves to intervene on biases and support more equitable instruction. In C. Koestler & E. Thanheiser (Eds.), Building community to center equity and justice in mathematics education. Emerald Publishing.

Articles

Erin Barno, Greg Benoit, and Leslie Dietiker

Barno, E., Benoit, G., & Dietiker, L. (2025). Designing digital clinical simulations to support equitable mathematics teaching. Educational Designer, 5(18). http://www.educationaldesigner.org/ed/volume5/issue18/article76/

Michael Alan Chang

Chang, M. A., & Philip, T. M. (2025). Caught between expansive world-building and the status quo: Using figured worlds to understand world-building in AI for educational co-design contexts. Journal of the Learning Sciences, 1–49. https://doi.org/10.1080/10508406.2025.2490514

Chang, M. A., Tissenbaum, M., Philip, T. M., & D’Mello, S. K. (2025). Co-designing AI with Youth Partners: Enabling Ideal Classroom Relationships through a Novel AI Relational Privacy Ethical Framework. Computers and Education: Artificial Intelligence, 100364. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.caeai.2025.100364

Kyle DeMeo Cook and Stephanie Curenton

Cook, K.D., McQueen, E., Nazaire, O.R., Babrow, D., Zhang, X., Cole, J. & Curenton, S.M. (2025). Centering equity in the planning & implementation of universal preschool: Lessons learned from a county-wide program. Early Childhood Education Journal. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10643-025-01970-3

Davena Jackson

Jackson, D., & Coles, J. A. (2025). Engaging Black educational consciousness: Unpacking intersectional youth voices in urban schools. Urban Education. https://doi.org/10.1177/00420859251353779

Leslie Dietiker

Schwartz, A., Wikner, E., Dietiker, L., & Singh, R. (2025). Designing captivating mathematics lessons for high school. Mathematics Teacher: Learning and Teaching PK-12, 118(6), 445–452. https://doi.org/10.5951/MTLT.2024.0132

Dietiker, L., McKenney, S., Rycroft-Smith, L., & Schunn, C. (2025). Editorial for Special Issue of Educational Designer: On Design for Justice and Belonging. Educational Designer, 18. https://www.educationaldesigner.org/ed/volume5/issue18/article77/

Leslie Dietiker and Pelin Jackson

Dailey, A., Dietiker, L., Jackson, P., & Keyes, M. (2025). Influences on teachers’ attending to mathematics textbooks: Patterns in lesson planning. In Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Mathematics Textbook Research and Development. Trondheim, Norway.

Lauren Funk

Funk, L. (2025). Teaching on the margins: When political clarity is compromised. Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy, 1–25. https://doi.org/10.1080/15505170.2025.2503347

Ava Glick and Yasuko Kanno

Glick, A. M., & Kanno, Y. (2025). Book review of Household perspectives on minority language maintenance and loss: Language in the small spaces, by I. Velázquez (2025). Journal of Language, Identity & Education, 1–3. https://doi.org/10.1080/15348458.2025.2539799

Grace Kim and Tanya Songtachalert

Kim, G. S., Shah, T. N., Songtachalert, T., Wong, L., & Rosenzweig, L. (2025). Existing as Asian/Asian American women: A collaborative autoethnographic exploration of racial trauma, coping, and resistance. Qualitative Psychology, 12(2), 269-288. https://doi.org/10.1037/qup0000334

Grace Kim, Rohan Arcot, Tanya Songtachalert, and Melissa Holt

Shah, T. N., Kim, G. S., Arcot, R., McFarland, G., Songtachalert, T., Chen, A., & Holt, M. K. (2025). Asian Women in counseling psychology research: A systematic content analysis from 2000-2020. Journal of Counseling Psychology. Advance online publication. https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/cou0000819

Meghan Shaughnessy

Goldin, S., Robinson, D. D., Shaughnessy, M., Garcia, N. M., Blunk, M., Pynes, D. & Mortimer, J. P. (2025). Beyond technical fixes: Reconsidering equity sticks and expanding notions of equitable teaching. Urban Education. https://doi.org/10.1177/00420859251359261

Presentations

Amelia Becker

Becker, A. (2025, January). Mechanisms of early vocabulary acquisition under variability [Paper presentation]. Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Michael Chang

Chang, M. A., Rajala, A., Philip, T. M., Cortez, A., Shaw, M., Lehtinen, J., Taimela, I., Garcia, J. E., Vishwanath, A., Pea, R., & Mirra, N. (2025). Constructions of feasibility within expansive designs for justice with communities. In A. Rajala, A. Cortez, R. Hofmann, A. Jornet, H. Lotz-Sisitka, & L. Markauskaite (Eds.), Proceedings of the 19th International Conference of the Learning Sciences – ICLS 2025 (pp. 2460–2468). International Society of the Learning Sciences.

Chang, M. A., Penuel, W. R., & Philip, T. M. (2025). “It goes both ways”: Envisioning mutually compassionate relations between teachers and students. In A. Rajala, A. Cortez, R. Hofmann, A. Jornet, H. Lotz-Sisitka, & L. Markauskaite (Eds.), Proceedings of the 19th International Conference of the Learning Sciences – ICLS 2025 (pp. 547–555). International Society of the Learning Sciences.

Kyle DeMeo Cook

Cook, K. D., Lucas, K., Robeson, W., Connors, M., Carson, J., & Bravo, L. (2025, July). Collaboratives, networks, consortia, oh my! What does it look like to coordinate research partnerships across different organizations and projects? Workshop presented at the National Network of Education Research Practice Partnerships (NNERP) Annual Forum 2025, St. Louis, MO.

Leslie Dietiker

Dietiker, L. (2025, May). Designing joyful mathematical experiences [Keynote]. Annual meeting of the International Society for the Design and Development of Education (ISDDE), Galway, Ireland. https://sites.google.com/view/isdde2025/featured-invited-speakers?authuser=0

Dietiker, L. (2025, April 30). Narrative characteristics of interesting math lessons [Invited talk]. Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN.

Leslie Dietiker and Pelin Jackson

Ilhan, A., Dietiker, L., & Jackson, P. (2025, April 18). International education and research [Invited talk]. Silk Road Career Expo, Inonu University, Turkey. https://ipekyolukaf.inonu.edu.tr/index.html

Grace Kim

Kim, G. S. (2025, August). Toward intersectional feminist psychology: Building on the past, living the present, and envisioning the future [Presidential address]. American Psychological Association, Division 35. Presented at the American Psychological Association Annual Convention, Denver, CO.

TJ McKenna

McKenna, T. J. (2025, August). From theory to practice: Developing capacity for sensemaking in K–12 education, and university methods courses [Conference presentation]. European Science Education Research Association, Copenhagen, Denmark.

McKenna, T. J. (2025, May). Designing sensemaking-centered instruction across K–12 and methods courses [Conference presentation]. International Society for the Design and Development of Education (ISDDE) Conference, University of Galway, Ireland. https://www.isdde.org/about-isdde/list-of-fellows/

TJ McKenna and Felicity Crawford

McKenna, T. J. (Presenter), Crawford, F. A., Osborne, M., Shah, B., Labadorf, A., & Rueger, T. (2024, March). Teaching more than facts: A systematic approach for detecting bias in scientific communications [Conference presentation]. European Science Education Research Association, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Zach Rossetti

Rossetti, Z. (2025, September). Prioritizing friendship in school and community [Invited speaker]. 21st Annual Goldstick Family Lecture in the Study of Communication Disorders, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. https://education.illinois.edu/alumni/the-goldstick-family-lecture

Jalene Tamerat

Tamerat, J., & Adkins-Sharif, J. (2025, July 18). Breaking down hierarchies: Co-designing teaching and learning for educational transformation [Conference workshop]. ASCD Ghana International Educators’ Summit, Accra, Ghana. https://ghascd.org/event/ies2025/

Tamerat, J. (2025, August 13). Exploring reciprocity in global community engagement [Roundtable discussion]. International Association for Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement (IARSLCE) Annual Conference, Durban, South Africa. https://www.iarslce.org/2025conference

Podcasts

Greg Benoit and Meghan Shaughnessy

Benoit, G., Bondurant, L., Howell, H., Sapkota, B., & Shaughnessy, M. (2025, June 10). Can simulation train equitable teaching? [Invited interview]. In M. Lesser (Host), No Such Thing: Education in the Digital Age. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/can-simulation-train-equitable-teaching/id1279984850?i=1000712337390

Appointments

Sen Wang

Appointed as a member of the Interdisciplinary Committee of the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD), 2025–2027. https://www.srcd.org/about-us/who-we-are/committees/interdisciplinary