{"id":84551,"date":"2025-09-25T14:44:25","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T18:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=84551"},"modified":"2025-11-26T16:54:55","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T21:54:55","slug":"azaria-cunningham","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/profile\/azaria-cunningham\/","title":{"rendered":"Azaria Cunningham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Azaria Cunningham is a postdoctoral research associate at Boston University Wheelock College of Education &amp; Human Development.\u00a0As an interdisciplinary teacher educator rooted in critical STEM education, her research agenda focuses on examining the dynamic interplay between pre-service teachers and teacher educators learning experiences within authentic environments, specifically through teacher-driven mechanisms like real-time coaching, mentoring, and supervision practices. Informed by her background as a former middle school science educator and her extensive involvement in establishing school-university-community partnerships, she is dedicated to promoting justice and inclusivity by cultivating a sense of belonging within the field of education.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Cunningham earned a PhD in Curriculum and Instruction at Pennsylvania State University, where she wrote a dissertation entitled &#8220;Making the Invisible Visible: Examining Instructional Moves to Understand Pedagogical Reasoning During Real-Time Coaching in a University-Based Early Field Experience.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>pronouns: she\/her<\/p>\n<h3>Recent News<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"display-posts-listing\"><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/news\/articles\/2025\/bu-holmies-connect-at-the-aacte-research-and-dissertation-retreat\/\">BU Holmies Connect at the AACTE Research and Dissertation Retreat<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"profile-section-label\">In the Media<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"display-posts-listing\"><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/articles\/2025\/wheelock-holmes-scholars-program\/\">Wheelock Program Aims to Broaden Who Stands in Front of Classrooms<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":18489,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/84551"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18489"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/84551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86029,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/84551\/revisions\/86029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}