THEME: SC Educators Leading and Shaping: Identities, Cultures and Futures

Keynote Speaker

Dr. Tambra Jackson,
University of South Carolina

Tambra O. Jackson, Ph.D. (Michigan State University) is an Assistant Professor in the Elementary Education program. Her research interests include teacher learning across the career span (preservice, induction and continued professional development) that specifically focuses on preparing teachers for diversity, preparing teachers to teach for social justice, and culturally responsive teaching and pedagogy. Her current projects focus on the preparation and support of program interns as teachers at a Children’s Defense Fund Freedom School.

Dr. Jackson is a recipient of NCTE’s Cultivating New Voices Fellowship and a participant and contributor for AERA’s Division G Research Project.