Background

Bethany is a doctoral student at The Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice. She graduated from Crown with an A.M. in social work and is a licensed clinical social worker. Her clinical career focused on training social workers and working with clients living with chronic illness to navigate the health system. Most recently, Bethany was the senior research project coordinator at Northwestern University working on research focused on district organizational learning, and continuity and alignment in PreK-3 math instruction.

Research

Bethany’s research interests include trauma-informed models in education with a focus on the connections between organizational dynamics, district learning for classroom practice, policy implementation, and how different kinds of stakeholder perspectives are incorporated in decision-making in schools in relationship to the growth of these models.