Kaylene Stevens
Promoting Equity and Diversity in the Classroom
School- and university-based initiatives designed to promote equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) have faced increased scrutiny and outright hostility over the past several years. Across the United States, laws restricting teachers’ freedom to discuss issues like race, gender identity, or sexuality, book banning efforts that disproportionately remove books representing the experiences of individuals from marginalized […]
Study Explores Impact of Massachusetts Social Studies Materials
Kaylene Stevens and Rob Martinelle, BU Wheelock lecturers in social studies education, will work with the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) to study the impact of Investigating History, new social studies curricular materials for grades 5 through 7 being developed by the Department. As part of the Investigating History project, Stevens and […]
Educators, You Can Lead the Charge for Change
As a public school teacher for the last 15 years, I have seen quite a bit. I was fortunate enough to spend the majority of my career taking in these experiences in a truly beautiful place, Framingham High School (FHS), which sits within a wonderfully diverse urban district. “It’s a school that really looks like […]
BU Wheelock Welcomes New Faculty Members
BU Wheelock was joined this fall by several new faculty members. Davena Jackson Clinical Assistant Professor, English Education Davena Jackson joins BU Wheelock from Michigan State University, where she completed her PhD in Curriculum, Instruction & Teacher Education. Her dissertation is titled “Black Symmetry: Carving Out a Black Space in an Eleventh-Grade English Class.” Jackson’s […]