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Emily J Klein

Professor, Teaching and Learning

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,

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Office Hours

Fall

Monday
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Spring

Wednesday
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm

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Research Projects

WIPRO SEF Program

This is a longitudinal study of teacher leadership in the WIPRO SEF program.