Dr. Jessica Charles

Assistant Professor

Bio

Dr. Charles is a professor, researcher, and program director of the MS.Ed. Teacher Education program. She has worked in the field of education as a teacher, teacher educator, and teacher education researcher for nearly 30 years. She joins the faculty of Marist after serving in leadership positions at Bank Street Graduate School of Education and the University of California, Berkeley, where she also taught courses in teacher education and conducted her own research.

She is particularly interested in the role of organizations as mediators of teacher education programs and in how equity- and social-justice-oriented teacher education can be developed within university contexts to prepare teachers who can better serve pre-K-12 students.

Education

PhD, Education, University of California, Berkeley, 2013
MA, Social Studies Education, Brooklyn College (CUNY), 2004
BA, Cultural Studies, Eugene Lang College (New School University), 1999

Research Interests / Areas of Focus

The organizational contexts that mediate teacher education programs, teacher educator learning, signature problems of teacher education, education of the professions, history of teacher education

Selected Publications

Charles, J., Hyler, M.E., Rushing, J., Virella, P. and Yun, C. (in press). Cross institutional reflections on resilience: Voices of research and leadership from EdPrepLab and Bank Street College. In Hacıfazlıoğlu, Ö., Cheung, R. & Yang, C. (Eds.), Leading with resilience: Voices of teacher, school, and system leaders in challenging times (pp. XX-XX). Information Age Publishing.

Charles, J. & Stone, S. (2019). Revisiting the visiting teacher: Relearning the lessons of the whole child approach. Social service review, 93(4), 833-861.

Charles, J., Cheung, R., Rosekrans, K. (2019). Performance Assessment of Aspiring School Leaders Grounded in an Epistemology of Practice: A Case Study. International Journal of Professors of Educational Leadership, (14)1, 77-98.

Stone, S. & Charles, J. (2018). Conceptualizing the problems and possibilities of interprofessional collaboration in schools. Children & Schools.

Mintrop, R., & Charles, J. (2016). The formation of teacher work teams under adverse conditions: Towards a more realistic scenario for schools in distress. Journal of Educational Change, 1-27.

Creative Work

Cheung, R., Robinson, J., Rufo-Tepper, R., & Charles, J. (2021). Adapting a Critical Friends Consultancy to a Virtual Environment. Bank Street College of Education. Retrieved from https://educate.bankstreet.edu/gse/7

Charles, J., & Rufo-Tepper, R. (2020). EdPrepLab as a Learning Community. Bank Street College of Education. Retrieved from https://educate.bankstreet.edu/gse/2

Cheung, R., Robinson, J., Rufo-Tepper, R., & Charles, J. (2020). Reflections on Developing a Cross-Institutional Inquiry Project. Bank Street College of Education. Retrieved from https://educate.bankstreet.edu/gse/3

Cheung, R., Robinson, J., Rufo-Tepper, R., & Charles, J. (2020). Reflections on Developing a Cross-Institutional Team. Bank Street College of Education. Retrieved from https://educate.bankstreet.edu/gse/4

Chandler, T., Blachly, M., Colón, C., Charles, J. (2019). The ideas came from the kids: The Developmental-Interaction Approach at Castle Bridge, a New York City Public School (film). New York, NY: Bank Street College.

Chandler, T., McKersie, A., Kerlin, A., Charles, J. (2019). A Civics Lesson: Perspective Taking in Early Adolescence (film). New York, NY: Bank Street College.

Charles, J. (2018). Descriptive Inquiry at Bank Street: Building intellectual community while responding to accreditation. New York, NY: Bank Street College.

Charles, J., McNamara, M., Hellerstein, S. (2018). Midtown West: The restaurant study. New York, NY: Bank Street College.

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Contact Information

Academic School

School of Social and Behavioral Sciences

Office

Dyson 3091

Email

jessica.charles@Marist.edu

Phone

(845) 575-3000