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Dr. Bree Picower is a Full Professor at Montclair State University in the College of Education and Human Development. She is the Co-Director of two innovative teacher education programs, the Urban Teacher Residency, Newark Teacher Project as well as the Critical Urban Education Speaker Series with Dr. Tanya Maloney at MSU. She is the author of Reading, Writing and Racism, Practice What You Teach: Social Justice Education in the Classroom and the Streets and the co-editor of What’s Race Got To Do With It? How current school reform maintains racial and economic inequality and Confronting Racism in Teacher Education: Counternarratives of Critical Practice.
Across her writing and teaching, Dr. Picower examines the role of racism in education and how to prepare teachers to disrupt Whiteness in order to advance social and racial justice. She has taught in public elementary schools in Oakland, California and New York City.
Research interests
Examines the role of racism in education and how to prepare teachers to disrupt Whiteness in order to advance social and racial justice.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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SDG 4 Quality Education -
SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities
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Active Solidarity: Centering the Demands and Vision of the Black Lives Matter Movement in Teacher Education
Mayorga, E. & Picower, B., 1 Feb 2018, In: Urban Education. 53, 2, p. 212-230 19 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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We Are Victorious: Educator Activism as a Shared Struggle for Human Being
Valdez, C., Curammeng, E., Pour-Khorshid, F., Kohli, R., Nikundiwe, T., Picower, B., Shalaby, C. & Stovall, D., 3 Jul 2018, In: Educational Forum. 82, 3, p. 244-258 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Confronting racism in teacher education: Counternarratives of critical practice
Picower, B. & Kohli, R., 1 Jan 2017, Taylor and Francis. 176 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
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Introduction
Picower, B. & Kohli, R., 1 Jan 2017, Confronting Racism in Teacher Education: Counternarratives of Critical Practice. Taylor and Francis, p. 1-17 17 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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“Run Like Hell” to “Look Before You Leap”: Teacher educators’ responses to preparing teachers for diversity and social justice in the wake of edTPA
Picower, B. & Marshall, A. M., 1 Jan 2016, Teacher Performance Assessment and Accountability Reforms: The Impacts of edTPA on Teaching and Schools. Palgrave Macmillan, p. 189-212 24 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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FOUR EDUCATION EXPERTS WEIGH IN ON KEY ISSUES
Picower, B., Fox, J. K., Virella, P. & Isaacs, E.
18/08/23
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