Katelin Tharp (she/her) is currently pursuing both her Masters in Education and her Single Subject Teaching Credential in English with additional authorizations in Computer Science and Psychology through the Berkeley Teacher Education Program (BTEP).
Katelin is originally from Mountain View, Calif. Her journey began at Northeastern University, where she earned her Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Cognitive Psychology with a minor in English. Her academic career extended internationally during a summer semester at University College London, where she achieved distinction...
Sarah Warshauer Freedman specializes in the development of written language, and the teaching and learning of writing, English, and history in educational settings. Her research focuses on US schools but also incoroporates cross-national comparisons to provide a broad understanding of educational practices and their effects. Professor Freedman is a strong advocate for bridging research and practice, often collaborating with teachers and practitioner-researchers in her studies.
A significant dimension of Professor Freedman's work explores societal divisions, conflict, and inequality...
Libby Gerard, EdD, is an Associate Adjunct Research Professor in the University of California, Berkeley School of Education and a Research Director for the Technology-Enhanced Learning in Science (TELS) Center. Her research examines how innovative learning technologies can capture student ideas and help teachers and principals use those ideas to make decisions about classroom instruction. Gerard’s recent projects explore the use of automated assessment of student written essays...
George Ellis has served as Director of the California Reading & Literature Project (CRLP) at UC Berkeley since 2017. In this role, he oversees the annual Teacher Leadership Invitational, collaborates with school districts to advance evidence-based reading initiatives, and consults on projects focused on continuous improvement and Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS). He designs and leads professional development in language and literacy instruction, reading comprehension, the science of reading, the California Dyslexia...
Associate Professor, Learning Sciences & STEM EducationAffiliate, UCB Center for Race & Gender Affiliate, UCB Asian American Research Center
Research
Dr. Sengupta-Irving’s research explores the sociocultural, disciplinary, and political dimensions of children’s mathematics learning. Broadly, her work asks a deceptively simple question: What, in addition to mathematics, do children learn when they learn mathematics? Dr. Sengupta-Irving works closely with teachers to understand and design pedagogical...
Veronica serves as the STEM Faculty Advisor for the Berkeley Teacher Education Program (BTEP). Her journey in education began as an undergraduate in the CalTeach program at UC Santa Cruz, where she obtained her teaching credential and MA in Education. Throughout her career, she has held various roles including middle and high school science teacher, assistant principal, and teacher on special assignment, working with students, teachers, and communities in Watsonville, Sacramento, Santa Rosa, and South San Francisco. Veronica is deeply committed to reducing barriers and expanding access to...
Thomas M. Philip is a Professor in the Berkeley School of Education, where he also serves as the Faculty Director of the Berkeley Teacher Education Program. He studies how ideology shapes learning and how learning is a site of ideological contestation and becoming. As a learning scientist and teacher educator, he is interested in how teachers make sense of power and hierarchy, and act on their sense of agency as they navigate and ultimately transform classrooms and institutions toward more equitable, just, and democratic practices and outcomes. His scholarship also explores...
Fatimah Nadiyyah Salahuddin is a lecturer and the secondary Humanities Faculty Advisor for the Berkeley Teacher Education Program (BTEP). Fatimah is a Black San Francisco native and Oakland teacher-scholar who brings more than 10 years of teaching experience at all secondary levels. She strongly believes in the liberatory power of Ethnic Studies embedding it into every subject she has taught as a K-12 humanities teacher. As Faculty Advisor her commitment extends to empowering pre-service teachers to incorporate Ethnic Studies into their teaching as well. Before joining BTEP, she taught...
The California Commission on Teacher Credentialing has awarded $1.5 million to three University of California campuses, bolstering the state’s ability to prepare thousands of newly credentialed teachers to serve another quarter-million children statewide.
California lawmakers and the governor aim to extend Universal Pre-kindergarten (UPK) to all 4-year-olds by 2026. But the scarcity of new teachers has slowed implementation, a snag that Governor Gavin Newsom confronts in his new budget, due out this week.
Manny Herrera is the Elementary Faculty Advisor and lecturer for the Berkeley Teacher Education Program (BTEP). He graduated from UC Berkeley's teacher education program in 2007 when it was known as Developmental Teacher Education (DTE). Manny's masters thesis focused on re-envisioning family engagement as he knew family voice was key to teaching to the whole child. By bringing family voice into the classroom space through home visits he disrupted schools' traditional views on family participation. He continued this action research into his actual teaching practice by starting every school...
