Please join us for our next RILE Speaker Series Event on April 28th, 3-4pm PST. Our panel of GSE Alumni will discuss their experiences and research in the field of Education. To register please click the link below. We hope you will join us.

Charmaine Mangram, Ph.D., is an associate professor of mathematics education at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. She conducts research that serves to increase access to high quality mathematics education for learners from communities that have been historically marginalized by the US educational system. Viewing thoughtful mathematical inquiry as a social justice issue, Dr. Mangram has focused much of her scholarship on building the capacity of both teachers and parents to support K-12 learners’ engagement in the Common Core State Standards for Mathematical Practice. She is currently applying insights from her work in mathematics education to the investigation of instructional practices for financial literacy and empowerment for working class families.

Dr. Harper B. Keenan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy at the University of British Columbia, where he serves as the Robert Quartermain Assistant Professor of Gender & Sexuality in Education. Broadly, Dr. Keenan’s research analyzes how adults teach children to make sense of the social world. Much of his work investigates the management, or scripting, of children’s knowledge, and ways that educators and their students might work together to interrupt that process and imagine something different. Today, Dr. Keenan’s research projects center around two themes: 1.) the history and contemporary interaction of colonialism, racism, and gender in schools and 2.) the continued development of critical queer and trans pedagogies.

Dr. Luis Poza's research investigates how beliefs about language, language learning, race, and nation are embedded in educational practice and policy. He uses qualitative methods, principally ethnography and participant observation, to examine how these ideologies and their curricular and legal manifestations shape students’ experiences in schools. Dr. Poza also draws upon his research in his teaching to support teacher candidates learning how to best serve students from historically marginalized populations.