Sarah Warshauer Freedman studies the development of written language, as well as ways writing, English, and history are taught and learned in schools. Her research focuses on US schools but also includes cross-national comparisons. Besides studying writing development, she is has conducted research on societal divisions that lead to conflict and inequality. She has studied how adolescents on varied sides of societal divides develop as citizens and civic actors. Her work on societal divides has included studies of the role of education in reconstructing societies after genocide in Rwanda...
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...
Dana Miller-Cotto is an Assistant Professor at UC Berkeley’s School of Education. She earned her PhD in Education from Temple University and her MEd from Temple University.
Dr. Miller-Cotto has used approaches from cognitive science, sociology, and educational psychology to study predictors of educational inequity, particularly as they relate to marginalized students learning math. A significant portion of her research focuses on individual differences in math performance for Black and Latine students living in poverty who generally demonstrate lower performance in mathematics in...
Dr. Pardos is an Associate Professor of Education at UC Berkeley studying adaptive learning and AI. His current research focuses on knowledge representation and recommender systems approaches to increasing upward mobility in postsecondary education using behavioral and semantic data.
He earned his PhD in Computer Science at Worcester Polytechnic Institute with a dissertation on computational models of cognitive mastery. Funded by a National Science Foundation Fellowship (GK-12), he spent extensive time with K-12 educators and students working to integrate educational technology into...
Travis J. Bristol is an associate professor of teacher education and education policy in Berkeley’s School of Education and (by courtesy) the Department of African American Studies. He is also the faculty director of the Center for Research on Expanding Educational Opportunity. Before joining Berkeley's faculty, he was a Peter Paul Assistant Professor at Boston University. Using qualitative methods, Dr. Bristol explores three...
Darryl is a visionary Learning Scientist and performance‑enhancement specialist, He is set to complete his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, in Spring 2025. His career blends the strategic execution skills honed while directing large‑scale U.S. Navy operations with deep expertise in educational psychology, yielding a rare perspective on how disciplined action and human‑centered research converge to drive excellence.
Drawing on advanced knowledge of educational technology, online learning, artificial intelligence, and the science of learning, he designs data‑driven...
Zoe Silverman is a doctoral candidate in Learning Sciences & Human Development at UC Berkeley. Her research engages video-based interaction analyses of talk, gaze, gesture, touch, space, and movement during facilitated education programs to illuminate how participants — both human and non-human — collaborate to do hands-on learning with objects in museums.
Zoe worked for more than a decade as an education specialist and program coordinator at a variety of arts and cultural institutions in Boston and Los Angeles. In previous lives, she was a high school social studies teacher and...
Ken Singer is a grad student in the Learning Sciences. A stubborn and rebellious child of educators and entrepreneurs, he started his career as a tech entrepreneur and then transitioned into higher ed, proving once again that despite all efforts, some of us become our parents. Ken has spent his teaching career trying to reach innovators and risk-takers, finding that many resist or reject traditional forms of instruction. As a result, he co-created new pedagogies to help non-traditional learners, across cultures, access entrepreneurial knowledge and develop entrepreneurial mindsets and...
Kelly is a fifth year doctoral candidate at the Berkeley School of Education in the Learning Sciences and Human Development cluster. Kelly’s work is deeply informed by her teaching experience in Oakland, California and former students. In pursuing a graduate degree, Kelly hopes to highlight the amazing work Oakland students and STEM teachers are doing to integrate local justice issues into classroom projects and conversations.
Kelly's current research focuses on collaborating with Bay Area teachers to design learning environments that support students in using data science to...
Ratih is a PhD student in the Learning Sciences and Human Development at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research focuses on promoting epistemic diversity and cultural funds of knowledge in students by integrating culturally situated embodied cognition into mathematics education. Currently, she is working on the Geometry Resources in Dance (GRiD) project, a gridded floor mat to objectify tacit attentional anchors for movement coordination into auxiliary lines for geometric practice.
Originally from Bali, Ratih formal background is in mathematics education, and she...
