Bio

Jeannette is a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Stanford Graduate School of Education and a Lecturer in Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Through her research, she aims to better understand the instructional, cultural, and psychosocial mechanisms that contribute to-- and help to mitigate-- disparities in mathematics education. Her work sits at the intersections between teacher education, mathematics education, and social psychology. Using methods from the field of measurement, experimental designs, computational methods, and qualitative approaches, and pulling from critical perspectives and implicit social cognition theory, she aims to better understand the factors that shape teachers’ instructional decision-making and student opportunities to learn in reform-oriented math classrooms. Guiding her work is a vision for a more just education system and a fundamental belief that all children deserve rigorous, relevant and joyful learning experiences in mathematics.

She is a proud alumna of the Los Angeles Unified School District and earned her B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley where she studied Environmental Sciences. She began her teaching career with a teacher residency program in the Oakland Unified School District and continued to teach in Providence, Rhode Island where she led her school's mathematics department. After teaching mathematics at Title I schools for several years, Jeannette began her graduate studies at the Harvard Graduate School of Education as an Urban Scholar. As a Graduate Prize Fellow, she completed her PhD in Education at Harvard University in the Human Development, Learning, and Teaching (HDLT) concentration. Her teaching fellowships included graduate-level courses in How People Learn, Evidence 101, Topics in Educational Psychology, Statistical and Psychometric Methods for Educational Measurement, and the Gutman Writing Center. She has also taught math methods to pre-service elementary school teachers at Wellesley College. Jeannette formerly served as an Editor and Content Chair for the Harvard Educational Review. In her free time, Jeannette enjoys cooking and baking, bird watching, practicing yoga, and spending time with her family.