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Emily J Klein
Professor, Teaching and Learning, College for Education and Engaged Learning
- Office:
- University Hall 3189
- Email:
- kleine@montclair.edu
- Phone:
- 973-655-3454
- Degrees:
- BA, Barnard College
- MA, Stanford University
- PhD, New York University
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Emily J. Klein is a professor at Montclair State University of New Jersey in the Department of Teaching and Learning, the Undergraduate Program Coordinator, and a member of the doctoral faculty in Teacher Education and Teacher Development. Additionally, she is the Co-Managing Editor of the journal The Educational Forum. She is co-PI on a the WIPRO Science Education Fellowship which is a teacher-leadership program that supports experienced K to 12 science teachers to deepen their practice while staying in the classroom. She earned her doctorate in English Education from the Steinhardt School of Education at New York University. She previously taught high school English in NYC where she developed and implemented interdisciplinary curriculum with the American Social History Project and the NYC Opera Project. She is the author of several articles on high school professional development, building communities of practice, and teacher leadership, and published a book about scaling up of successful high school designs with Teachers College Press: Going to scale with new school designs: Reinventing high school. In 2015 she published a book about her work in the Newark Montclair Urban Teacher Residency entitled: A year in the life of a third space urban teacher residency: Using inquiry to reinvent teacher education. Her newest book, Our bodies tell the story: Using feminist research and friendship to reimagine education and our lives, came out in 2023.
Specialization
School Change, Teacher Professional Learning, Teacher Leadership, Professional Communities of Practice, Urban Teacher Residencies, Feminist teaching and learning,
Resume/CV
Office Hours
Fall
- Monday
- 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Spring
- Wednesday
- 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Documents
- Teaching for Equity and Deeper Learning: How Does Professional Learning Transfer to Teachers’ Practice and Influence Students’ Experiences?
- Finding a third space in teacher education
- Changing leadership: Teachers lead the way for schools that learn
- Allowing the Personal to Drive Our Self- Study: Texting, Emailing, and Facebook Messaging Our Way to Feminist Understanding
- Dislodging Patriarchal and Academic Boundaries: Dialoguing on Trauma Through Text
- Using Embodied Practices with Preservice Teachers: Teaching and Reflecting Through the Body to Re-think Teacher Education
- Putting professional development into practice: A framework for how teachers in Expeditionary Learning Schools implement professional development
- Environmental Education in Action: How Expeditionary Learning Schools Support Classroom Teachers in Tackling Issues of Sustainability
- Networking for Teacher Learning: Toward a Theory of Effective Design
- Rethinking Professional Development: Building a Culture of Teacher Learning
- Learning, Unlearning, and Relearning: Lessons from one school?s approach to creating and sustaining learning communities
- Wearing the "student hat": Experiential professional development in Expeditionary Learning Outward Bound Schools
- Deepening Roots: Building a Task-Centered Peer Mentoring Community
- Mingling Fact and Fiction: Strategies for integrating literature into History and Social Studies Classrooms
- Dissertation Support Groups: Building a Community of Practice Using Noddings' Ethic of Care
- Scaling Up the Big Picture, essay three (February 2004)
- Scaling Up the Big Picture, essay four (August 2004)
- Shape shifting or becoming third space teacher educators
- Triggered by the Kavannaugh hearings: Unraveling trauma together and interweaving empathy into teacher education through dialogic personal writing.
- Exploring the tensions science teachers navigate as they enact their visions for science teaching: what their feedback can tell us
- Growing our own: Fostering teacher leadership in K-12 science teachers through school-university partnerships.
- Tending to ourselves, tending to each other: Nurturing feminist friendships to manage academic lives.
- Tensions of reimagining our roles as teacher educators in a third space: Revisiting a co/autoethnographic through a faculty lens.
- Making the leap to teacher: Pre-service residents, faculty and school mentors taking on action research together in an urban teacher residency program,
- Freezing out injustice: Using ICE to foster democratic inquiry in science classrooms.
- Scaling up teacher professional learning: How to grow teacher knowledge while growing school networks
- Exploring inquiry in the third space: Case studies of a year in an urban teacher residency program
- Taking teacher learning to scale: Sharing knowledge and spreading ideas across geographies.
- Teacher educators struggling to make complex practice explicit: Distancing teaching through video.
- Navigating teacher leaders’ complex relationships using a distributed leadership framework.
- Professional development for teacher leaders: using activity theory to understand the complexities of sustainable change
- Building an Urban Teacher Residency in a Third Space Partnership
- Collaborative professional learning: cultivating science teacher leaders through vertical communities of practice
- Feminist Teacher Leadership: Disrupting the Patriarchal binary
- Scaling Up the Big Picture, essay two (June 2003)
Research Projects
WIPRO SEF Program
This is a longitudinal study of teacher leadership in the WIPRO SEF program.