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Jamie Cho, PhD
Director of Public Education in Beloved Community Initiative
Justice-centered advocate who integrates research, community partnerships and equitable, inclusive and culturally sustaining pedagogies to transform educational systems.
Biography
Dr. Jamie Cho’s scholarship in education focuses on creating joyful, equitable, and just learning experiences for all children that honors their identities, histories, and lived experiences. Transformative education through family and community partnerships, anti-racist and culturally sustaining curriculum, and pedagogy, and collective action can be a reality. An early interventionist, inclusion specialist, teacher educator, field supervisor, researcher, and parent educator, she draws from her varied experiences to translate theory into practice toward realizing just educational systems.
Before joining Seattle University, Dr. Cho was Assistant Teaching Professor of Justice in Early Learning in the College of Education at the University of Washington.
Education
- Ph.D. in Special Education, UC Berkeley
- BA in Psychology with minor in Education, UC Berkeley
Courses Taught
Dr. Cho has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in Education, Early Childhood, Special Education, and Psychology. Her teaching interests including anti-racist leadership, anti-bias education, family and community partnerships, and early childhood curriculum. Her teaching philosophy centers humanizing approaches, critical pedagogies and unconditional positive regard.
She believes that we learn best in community and that we all hold responsibility to disrupt inequitable systems and leverage privilege to be advocates toward social justice. Inside and outside of classrooms, she seeks to model and support current and future educators to be changemakers in the field.
Publications
- Cho, J. & Gill, N. (2024). History in the Making: Embedding Historical Learning in Early Years. Exchange. Retrieved from History in the Making: Embedding Historical Learning in the Early Years
- Cho, J. & Gill, N. (2024). Who gets to be Neutral? Respectability Politics of Educational Justice. Exchange. Retrieved from Who Gets to Be Neutral? The Respectability Politics of Leading for Educational Justice