Publications

Scholarly Accomplishments, March 2026

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

Books

Passi, J., Thayer, P., Littlebear, J., & Parker-Katz, M. (2026). Family engagement in education: Inclusive approaches for creating collaborative and equitable school communities. Routledge.

Book Chapters

Shernoff, D.J & Bempechat, J. (2025). Sociocultural influences on flow as student engagement. In G.A.D. Liem, J. Fredericks, & Y.Z. Wong (Eds). Sociocultural perspectives on student engagement: Theory, research, and application, pp. 227-260. Emerald Group Publishing.

Articles

Kyle DeMeo Cook and Genevieve Guyol

Guyol, G., Cook, K.D., Lombardi, C., Parker, M.G., & Litt, J.S. (2026) Early relational health among children born preterm and with functional impairments enrolled in early Head Start. Academic Pediatrics. doi: 10.1016/j.acap.2026.103246

Sen Wang

Wang, S., Cabell, S. Q., Schatschneider, C., Phillips, B. M., & DeCoster, J. (2026). Exploring preschoolers’ vocabulary and knowledge acquisition from informational video and shared reading. Early Education and Development, 1–23. https://doi.org/10.1080/10409289.2026.2635575

Presentations

Aaron Brakoniecki

Brakoniecki, A., & Glassmeyer, D. (2026, February 5–7). Differences in elementary and secondary preservice math teachers’ selecting and sequencing of students’ proportional reasoning responses [Conference presentation]. AMTE 2026 Conference, Portland, OR, United States.

Jennifer Bryson

Bryson, J. (2026, February 9). How do we prepare pre-service teachers to really engage with families? Leveraging family literacy projects to broaden teachers’ perspectives of home literacy practices [Paper presentation]. Annual Meeting of the Academy of Educational Studies, San Diego, CA.

Bryson, J. (2026, February 7). Joy: Could it be that simple? Providing care, support, & a humanizing school experience for our youngest learners [Keynote presentation]. Annual BUILD all tutor training, Boston, MA.

Jennifer Bryson and Andrea Bien

Bryson, J., & Bien, A. (2026, February 9). Connecting universities and K–12 schools to prepare literacy leaders [Paper presentation]. Annual Meeting of the Academy of Educational Studies, San Diego, CA.

Joshua Goodman

Goodman, J. (2026, February 16). The effects of private tutoring centers on student achievement [Research talk]. DIW Berlin, German Institute for Economic Research.

Zach Rossetti

Rossetti, Z. (2026, February). Culturally responsive intervention in early childhood transition for Vietnamese families. Research on Tap- The Well-Being of Children in Immigrant Families: Research on Policy and Practice, Boston University Office of Research, Boston, MA. 

Meghan Shaughnessy

Boerst, T., & Shaughnessy, M. (2026, February). Using simulations to study prospective teachers’ building on student thinking[Paper presentation]. European Society for Research in Mathematics Education Topic Conference 19: Connecting the Learning of Mathematics Teaching to Practice. Prague, Czech Republic. 

Shaughnessy, M., Boerst, T., & Garcia, N. (2026, February). Teaching simulations as formative assessments of teaching practice[Paper presentation]. European Society for Research in Mathematics Education Topic Conference 19: Connecting the Learning of Mathematics Teaching to Practice. Prague, Czech Republic.

Farach, N., & Shaughnessy, M. (2026, January). Using video clubs to foster reflection and collaboration: Leading more equitable mathematics discussions [Presentation]. Western MA Mathematics Partnership Winter Institute. Mount Holyoke College, Holyoke, MA.

Shaughnessy, M., Garcia, N., Boerst, T., Gonzalez, M., Kwon, M., & Heck, D. (2026). Leveraging teaching simulations focused on eliciting and interpreting a student’s mathematical thinking in elementary methods courses [Session presentation]. Thirtieth Annual Meeting of the Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators (AMTE). Portland, OR.

Shaughnessy, M. Boerst, T., & Garcia, N. (2026). Teaching simulations as formative assessments of teaching practice. In R. Mosvold, J. Fauskanger, F. Ferretti, & N. Vondrová (Eds.), Proceedings of the Nineteenth ERME Topic Conference: Connecting the Learning of Mathematics Teaching to Practice (pp. 323–330). Charles University, Faculty of Education, and ERME. https://hal.science/hal-05463964

Boerst, T., & Shaughnessy, M. (2026). Using simulations to study prospective teachers’ building on student thinking. In R. Mosvold, J. Fauskanger, F. Ferretti, & N. Vondrová (Eds.), Proceedings of the Nineteenth ERME Topic Conference: Connecting the Learning of Mathematics Teaching to Practice (pp. 139–146). Charles University, Faculty of Education, and ERME. https://hal.science/hal-05463964

Meghan Shaugnessy and Anna Dailey

Remillard, J., Ghousseini, H., Shaughnessy, M., Dailey, A., Sayuj, R., & Bapat, A. (2026, February). Supporting mentoring for responsive mathematics teaching: Toward collaborative pedagogical reasoning [Session presentation]. Thirtieth Annual Meeting of the Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators (AMTE). Portland, OR.