Bio

Headshot of Jeannette Garcia Coppersmith standing in Radcliffe Yard at Harvard University

Dr. Jeannette Garcia Coppersmith is a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Stanford Graduate School of Education in the EduNLP Lab. She currently leads a research-practice partnership with the San Francisco Unified School District that leverages computational tools to describe teacher and student talk and support instruction. Through that partnership, she co-designs planning and reflection cycles with teachers to support academic ownership and productive mathematics discourse for multilingual learners. 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 school. 

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. More recently, she has served as a Lecturer in Education for the summer foundational Evidence 101 course at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. 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.