research overview
- Dr. Dutro’s research investigates questions about how to design for teaching and learning that centers children's knowledge and perspectives. Her studies have focused on the nature and impacts of high stakes education reform policies, children's responses to curriculum and pedagogy, and how to design for teachers' collaborative learning. Her current research includes studies of 1) pedagogies designed to support critical, responsive approaches to trauma in classrooms; 2) two school partnership studies of job-embedded professional development that support teachers' collective learning, one in an urban school focused on facilitating text-based discussion and one in a rural school supporting teachers to respond to policy mandates on reading instruction. Professor Dutro's research is situated in research practice partnerships with public schools and is driven by the crucial need to better understand how to design for more just and responsive policies, schools, and literacy classrooms for children and youth.
