Senior Inclusive Innovation Researcher
Digital Promise, United States
Dr. Latia White has over 20 years working in the education sector as an educator, instructional coach, and researcher. Her educational background in special education and organizational leadership was applied in the public school setting to support school leaders and teachers in mitigating factors leading to disproportionality in special education by creating equitable and inclusive learning environments. Within the Center for Inclusive Innovation, she applies culturally responsive and participatory research and design methodologies to co-research challenges important to historically and systematically marginalized communities and co-design solutions that they themselves will be the direct beneficiaries of. Currently, Dr. White is co-leading and supporting Inclusive Innovation projects by collaborating with teachers to create equitable and inclusive classrooms and supporting instructional mathematics coaches to increase the use of equitable math practices among their teachers.
Dr. Alexandra Merritt Johnson is a Senior Inclusive Innovation researcher at Digital Promise with over ten years of experience leading research and evaluation projects that center equity. Her educational background is in developmental psychology with a focus on positive development of youth from historically and systematically excluded communities. Her recent work has spanned topics such as equity in education R&D processes, critical consciousness development, racial identity development across various contexts, and culturally responsive teaching. Her methodological training and expertise centers on transformational research practices that are mutually beneficial, participatory, culturally responsive and contextualized to meet the needs of stakeholders. Currently, Dr. Merritt Johnson co-leads the research of an Inclusive Innovation project aimed at increasing teachers’ capacity to lead racial discourse in the classroom in partnership with a district-community team of district leaders, teachers, students, parents and other community members using a culturally responsive community-based participatory research approach.
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Friday, October 13, 2023
3:45 PM – 4:45 PM ET