Bree Picower

Bree Picower is an Assistant Professor/ Postdoctoral Fellow at New York University where she also received her Ph.D.  Her dissertation research, "The Unexamined Whiteness of Teaching", explored the role that race plays in how student teachers conceptualize urban education and was awarded the NYU-Steinhardt Outstanding Dissertation Award of 2007.   Her current research focuses on the role of Critical Inquiry Groups as a strategy to support urban educators to teach for equity and social justice.  Dr. Picower is a core member of the New York Collective of Radical Educators (NYCoRE), a grassroots collective that organizes teachers to take action on issues of educational justice.  She has taught in public elementary schools in Oakland, California and New York City.  She can be contacted at bree@nyu.edu.

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