Colloquium Presented by Dr. Sarah Schneider Kavanagh

Dr. Sarah Schneider Kavanagh is a research assistant professor of teacher education in the Teaching, Learning, and Leadership Division. She is currently a Co-Principal Investigator of two large research projects studying innovative designs for teacher learning. Her current and recent funded projects total more than $6 million. Prior to joining Penn GSE, Dr. Kavanagh was a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford University's Center to Support Excellence in Teaching and a research scientist at the University of Washington’s College of Education, where she started the Mentor Labs Project, a research and development initiative focused on transforming the practice of teacher mentoring in K-12 schools. Dr. Kavanagh received her Ph.D. from the University of Washington, where she co-founded Teacher Education by Design, an open-source curricular library of practice-based tools for teacher education with a membership of teacher educators that spans over 500 school districts, 150 institutions of higher education, and 16 countries. Among other journals, her work has appeared in the American Educational Research Journal, Teachers College Record, and the Journal of Teacher Education.