Professional Biography
Kemi A. Oyewole is a Provost's Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education. Her research uses qualitative, quantitative, and social network methods to explore the institutional and organizational conditions that shape the enactment of K–12 educational policy. She also studies how collaborative research can be part of local efforts to advance educational justice.
Kemi is committed to using her knowledge and skills to work alongside students, educators, and community organizations. She has honed her skills through certificates in critical consciousness and anti-oppressive praxis, partnership research, and quantitative research in education. Her career in education began by teaching mathematics in Boston Public Schools through the Boston Teacher Residency.
Kemi’s recent work studies ways educational policy is implemented through instructional coaches. Her dissertation shows how instructional coaches are socialized into their roles through a professional learning network. As a postdoctoral fellow, she is delving into the origins of instructional coaching and how the often ambiguous role has persisted in resource-constrained educational settings. In her projects, Kemi enacts her commitments to ethical and impactful research by using research–practice partnerships, participatory design, and other egalitarian approaches.