Jalene Tamerat
Director, Carol Johnson Leadership Fellowship
Senior Lecturer
Dr. Jalene Tamerat is a senior lecturer in education leadership at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. She is also the director of the Carol Johnson Leadership Fellowship, a co-designed collaboration between Boston University and Boston Public Schools that is focused on developing leadership capacities among educators within the district. Her research interests include funds of knowledge pedagogy, global education, immigrant education, teacher/leader preparation, and institutional-community partnerships.
Before joining Boston University, Dr. Tamerat served as the associate director of Community-Engaged Teaching & Research at Northeastern University, where she led faculty development for service-learning and engaged research. Previously, she served as dean of Sposato Graduate School of Education, a practice-oriented residency and master’s program for aspiring teachers. She began her career in education 2003 as a middle school science teacher and teacher leader in Boston Public Schools before eventually transitioning to serve as the district’s Director of New Teacher Development.
An active participant in the Boston community, Dr. Tamerat serves on the board of directors for the League of Women in Community Service, one of the nation’s oldest and longest-running Black women’s social clubs, and recently concluded her term as co-chair of the Community Advisory Board at GBH. She is a design team member and facilitator for the Teachers’ Lounge CLOC Fellowship, a teacher diversity PLC consultant with the Massachusetts Department of Elementary & Secondary Education/William James College, and serves on an advisory council to the Boston Teacher Residency.
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Education
EdD, Boston University
EdM, Harvard University
MAT, Emmanuel College
BA, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Courses
WED AP 720: Performance Based Instructional Leadership
Selected Publications
Tamerat, J., & Lee, C. (2023, May). Centering educators of color in teacher preparation. Kappan, 104(8).
Sylvain, P., Tamerat, J., & Cerat, M. L. (2022, February). Education across borders: Immigration, race, and identity in the classroom. Beacon Press.
Tamerat, J. (2020). Funds of knowledge and global competence in urban middle schools. Middle Grades Review, 6(3). https://scholarworks.uvm.edu/mgreview/vol6/iss3/5
Seider, S., Tamerat, J., Clark, S., & Soutter, M. (2017, February). Investigating the development of critical consciousness in marginalized adolescents through a character framework. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 46.
El-Amin, A., Seider, S., Graves, D., Tamerat, J., Clark, S., Soutter, M., Johannsen, J., & Malhotra, S. (2017, February). Critical consciousness: A key to student achievement. Kappan, 98(5).
Selected Presentations
Mouchrek, N., Schulte-Grahame, K., & Tamerat, J. (2024, June). Developing empathy: Learning to listen and create mutual trust to design with people. Workshop presented at the Design Research Society Annual Conference, Boston, MA.
Tamerat, J., Smarr, R., Foulis, E., Loggins, J., & Reiff, J. (2024, May). The future of anti-racist community engagement. Panel discussion presented at the Campus Compact Virtual Symposium.
Tamerat, J., & Lauder, C. (2023, October). From R/Evolutionary practices to defining impact in faculty/community co-design. Roundtable discussion presented at the International Association for Research on Service-Learning & Community Engagement Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA.
Tamerat, J., Berkey, B., & Lauder, C. (2023, May). From global experience to local action: What an honors studio series can teach us about bridge-building, service-learning, & connectivity. Presentation delivered at the Northeastern University Conference for Advancing Evidence-Based Learning, Boston, MA.
Tamerat, J. (2021, April). Centering equity & inclusion in global learning. Presentation delivered at Diversity Abroad, Berkeley, CA (virtual presentation).