Publications

Scholarly Accomplishments, February 2026

BU Wheelock presents the following faculty publications, presentations, and research grant awards for February 2026.

Honors

Beth Warren

Elected to National Academy of Education Read more

Books

Franklin Jones, Jr.

Jones Jr., F. R. (2026). Learn Black American Sign Language: A history and complete beginner’s guide with over 200 words and phrases. Wellfleet Press.

Book Chapters

Grace Kim

Kim, G. S., & Okubo, Y. (2025). Not your accessory: Exploring Asian American women faculty’s invisibility in academia. In C. Dobbs & C. Leider (Eds.). Until every woman is free: Equity and belonging in the academy through duoethnography. Bloomsbury.

Articles

Greg Benoit

Salopek, G., Xu, X., Hammonds, K. E., Beaudine, G., & Benoit, G. (2025). Leveraging memes for student reflection. Mathematics Teacher Learning and Teaching PK-12, 118(11), 856–863. https://doi.org/10.5951/mtlt.2025.0034

Erica Caasi

Caasi, E., & Glenn, W.J. (2025). (Re)inscribing ideologies: Examining ideological positioning of Black women athletes in nonfiction for children and young adults. Children’s Literature Association Quarterly 49(4), 340-363.

Schwartz, L. H., Aguirre-Ortega, B., Caasi, E., Jacob, D., & Wagenknecht, L. (2025). Aprovechando funds of knowledge with the engaged arts and humanities student scholars: creating equity-oriented zones of collaboration/Aprovechando los fondos de conocimiento con investigadoras comunitarias en formación en artes y humanidades: creando zonas igualitarias de colaboración. Studies in Psychology: Estudios de Psicología, 46(1-3), 706-728. https://doi.org/10.1177/02109395251397556

Stillman, J., Staley, S., Tetu, E., Hedrick-Shaw, D., & Caasi, E. (2025). Learning to “sit in the messiness”: Leveraging critical and queer pedagogies in teacher educator development. Teachers College Record: The Voice of Scholarship in Education, 127(9-10), 67-100. https://doi.org/10.1177/01614681251401631

Mary Churchill, Stephanie Curenton, and Anthony Abraham Jack

Churchill, M., Curenton, S., & Jack, A. A. (2025, October 31). Three paths: One foundation. Three educators find their common roots in Head Start. National Head Start Association. https://nhsa.org/resource/three-paths-one-foundation/

Kyle DeMeo Cook

Cook, K.D., & Guyol, G.G. (2025). Early childhood education matters for child, family and community health. Current Opinions in Pediatrics. DOI: 10.1097/MOP.0000000000001529

Stewart, O. G., Cook, K. D., & Sore, I. (2026). Education doctoral students’ perceptions on mixed methods research: Value, rigor, and feasibility. Journal of Education, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/00220574261416887

Cliff Freeman, Eli Tucker-Raymond, Kate Frankel, and Maria Olivares

Freeman, C., Tucker-Raymond, E., Frankel, K. K., & Olivares, M. (2025). Models of leadership in youth near-peer STEM teaching organizations. Journal of Adolescent Research. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/07435584251398909

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

Kaylene Stevens and Erin Fife

Stevens, K. M., Fife, E., & Martell, C. C. (2026). Navigating and resisting: A multi-state study of teachers and discriminatory censorship laws. Equity & Excellence in Education, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1080/10665684.2026.2614961

Sen Wang

Hadley, E.B., Wang, S. & Cabell, S.Q. (2025). Exploring explicit vocabulary instruction during kindergarten informational text read-alouds. Early Childhood Education Journal. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10643-025-02098-0

Zach Rossetti

Li, C., Burke, M. & Rossetti, Z. (2026). From belief to action: The role of disability connectedness and moral conviction in parent advocacy activities. Journal of Developmental and Physical Disabilities. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10882-025-10046-4

Presentations

Detris Adelabu, Linda Banks-Santilli, K’Nadja Sims, Ritchel Amankwah, and Laysha Hernandez

Adelabu, D. H., Banks-Santilli, L., Sims, K., Amankwah, R., Hernandez, L., & Castiblanco, M. (2025, November). Building on parents’/caregivers’ knowledge of child development to foster rural students’ success [Conference presentation]. Annual Conference of the Northeastern Education Research Association on Promoting Social Responsibility in Educational Research, Trumbull, CT.

Detris Adelabu, Jerry Whitmore, Jr., K’Nadja Sims, Mya Kelly, Jon Sibley, Dayanah Belcher, Jose Cruz, and Jamila Rodriguez

Adelabu, D. H., Whitmore, J., Sims, K., Kelly, M., Sibley, J., Belcher, D., Cruz, J., Rodriguez, J., & Henderson, K. (2025, November). Early measures of success of the Sankofa Scholars Undergraduate Research Program to increase college success [Conference presentation]. Annual Conference of the Northeastern Education Research Association on Promoting Social Responsibility in Educational Research, Trumbull, CT.

Pia Caronongan

Caronongan, P. (2025, November 14). Examining wage growth in ECE programs: Evidence from Massachusetts [Conference presentation]. In State and local strategies for supporting the financial well-being of the early care and education workforce (Panel), Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Fall Conference, Seattle, WA.

Mary Churchill

Churchill, M. (2025, November 18). How scholars can effectively engage with the media [Panel discussion]. Boston University, Boston, MA.

Kyle DeMeo Cook

Cook, K. D. (2026, January 14). Exploring the research: Preschool to kindergarten transitions [Invited webinar talk]. Early Learning Cohort Webinar, AASA, The School Superintendents Association.

Lauren Funk and Rob Martinelle

Funk, L. and Martinelle, R. (2025, December 6). Teaching history as it’s happening: Social studies educators’ approaches to teaching in troubling times [Conference presentation]. National Council for the Social Studies Annual Conference, Washington, DC.

Anna Lim

Lim, A. (2026, January). Each Deaf student is a world of languages: Engaging with intersectional language ecologies in Deaf education [Conference presentation]. Multilingual Education SIG meeting, Association of College Educators for the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing (ACEDHH) Conference, Denver, CO.

Jerry Whitmore, Jr., and Detris Adelabu

Whitmore, J., & Adelabu, D. H. (2025, November). Assessing a research mentoring intervention to reduce inequality in academic outcomes for underrepresented students of color and low-income first-generation students [Conference presentation]. Association for the Study of Higher Education, Denver, CO.

Scott Solberg

Solberg, S. (2025, October). Contemporary challenges and prospects in career counseling, vocational guidance, and labor market integration: Artificial intelligence and skills development in youth [Keynote address]. Artificial Intelligence and Youth Skills Development Conference, European University of Cyprus, Athens, Greece. https://euc.ac.cy/en/career-guidance-counseling-oct25/