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Peter Williamson

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Peter Williamson

Associate Professor (Teaching)

peterw@stanford.edu

Assistant: Mitch Gilmer

Office: CERAS 413

Biography

Peter Williamson is an Associate Professor, Teaching, at Stanford University. He served as the Faculty Director of the Stanford Teacher Education Program (STEP) for Secondary Teachers from 2015 to 2021. Before coming to Stanford, Peter was an associate professor at the University of San Francisco, were he co-founded the San Francisco Teacher Residency Program. He earned his doctorate at Stanford, and he studies urban education, English education, education with incarcerated youth, curriculum, and literacy. Peter began his career as a special education teacher working with students who were identified with emotional and behavioral challenges, and then later taught middle and high school English and journalism in the Bay Area’s urban schools.

Other Titles

Associate Professor (Teaching), Graduate School of Education

Program Affiliations

CTE
CTE: Literacy, Language, and English Education
CTE: Teacher Education
(MA) CTE

Research Interests

Civic Education | Curriculum and Instruction | Diversity and Identity | Equity in Education | Literacy and Language | Poverty and Inequality | Professional Development | Race and Ethnicity | School Reform | Secondary Education | Social and Emotional Learning | Teachers and Teaching

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Recent Publications

Williamson, P., & Appleman, D. (Eds.). (2021). School, not jail: What educators can do to disrupt school pushout and mass incarceration. Teachers College Press.

Williamson, P., & George, M. A. (2017). Toward Clinically Rich English and Literacy Teacher Preparation: A Tale of Two Programs. Innovations in English Language Arts Teacher Education (pp. 185–202). Emerald Group Publishing Limited.

Williamson, P., Apedoe, X., & Thomas, C. (2016). Context as Content in Urban Teacher Education: Learning to Teach in and for San Francisco. URBAN EDUCATION, 51(10), 1170–97.

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