Meet Ellie Jurmann, a passionate future educator dedicated to making math both engaging and empowering for middle school students. Ellie shares her journey through Brown’s Bacc/MAT program, the joys of student teaching, and her hopes for creating a classroom where students feel supported, challenged, and valued.

Niyanta’s project merged her passion for engineering with her deep commitment to social justice

Professor Palella contributed an essay on queer comics to the forthcoming book, Teaching LGBTQ+ History: Practical Strategies and Voices of Experience

In this paper, Professors Yoko Yamamoto and Jin Li, along with their co-authors, examine young children's perspectives on parental support for children's learning (PSCL) within Chinese immigrant families. While extensive research has explored PSCL in these communities—primarily from the parents' perspective—there is little insight into how young children themselves perceive and experience this support.

In this chapter, Professors Yoko Yamamoto and Jin Li, along with their co-author, examine East Asian immigrant parents' involvement in their children's education, with a particular focus on family-school relationships. Their research highlights the diverse models of family-school engagement that shape immigrant families’ motivations and approaches to supporting their children's learning both at home and in school.

Nina’s capstone explored the ethical complexities of working within entrenched systems