Yared Portillo is a Ph.D. candidate in Learning Sciences and Human Development at UC Berkeley’s School of Education with a focus on Language, Literacy, and Culture. She is a jaranera, leonera, guitarist, poet, and music teacher with over 15 years of experience. Raised in an agricultural Latine immigrant community in Santa María, California, her research interests sit at the intersection of music education, translanguaging pedagogies, and sociocultural approaches to learning. Yared’s research and teaching are influenced by her years as a grassroots immigrant rights community organizer in...
Aloha kākou! Kourtney Kawano (she/her) is a wahine ʻŌiwi (Native Hawaiian woman) from the village community of Nānākuli on the island of Oʻahu. She is an Assistant Professor at the Berkeley School of Education.
As a settler in Ohlone territory, Dr. Kawano pays her respect to the Indigenous caretakers of xučyun by centering place-based stories and histories in her research and teaching. A critical race resistance scholar and a graduate of Native Hawaiian culture-based schooling, Dr. Kawano embraces the proverb “ʻAʻohe pau ka ʻike i ka hālau hoʻokahi (all knowledge is not taught in...
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...
I am a learning scientist whose work explores computational literacy, with special focus on how young people learn about scientific computing, its power, and its limitations. Most recently, I have explored how two varieties of scientific computing in particular, visual data analysis tools and agent-based simulation, can be responsibly introduced as epistemic tools within the precollegiate curriculum. Because my research focuses on the ways in which these tools allow youth to explore large-scale systems with significant social impacts (e.g. climate, health patterns, nutrition, pollution), I...
Marcia C. Linn is Evelyn Lois Corey Professor of Instructional Science, specializing in science and technology in the School of Education, University of California, Berkeley. She is a member of the National Academy of Education and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the American Psychological Association, the Association for Psychological Science, and the International Society of the Learning Sciences (ISLS). She has served as...
Mark Wilson's interests focus on measurement and applied statistics. His work spans a range of issues in measurement and assessment from the development of new statistical models for analyzing measurement data, to the development of new assessments in subject matter areas such as science education, patient-reported outcomes and child development, to policy issues in the use of assessment data in accountability systems.
He has recently published three books: the first, Constructing measures: An item response modeling approach (Erlbaum), is an introduction to modern...
Alan Schoenfeld is a Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Berkeley. He holds the Elizabeth and Edward Conner Chair in the School of Education and is an Affiliated Professor in the Mathematics Department. Schoenfeld is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), and a Laureate of the education honor society Kappa Delta Pi. He is an elected member of the International Academy of Education and the U.S. National Academy of Education, and has served as President of AERA and vice...
Dr. Yang is an associate professor of school psychology in the Berkeley School of Education at the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Yang’s research interests focus on understanding how school members interact with their ecological contexts to find their resilience individually and collectively when facing risks and adversities, such as bullying, teacher-targeted violence, and mental health challenges. Three central questions focused in her research agenda are: (1) how to assess and counterbalance the risks and adversities experienced by vulnerable school members as...
Maggie Chan is an Assistant Professor in the School of Education at the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to this role, she served as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Utah State University from 2023 to 2025. She earned her Ph.D. in Combined Counseling, Clinical, and School Psychology from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2023 and completed her pre-doctoral internship at the Hawai‘i Psychology Internship Consortium. She is a Nationally Certified School Psychologist.
Dr. Chan’s research focuses on advancing equity in education by studying...
