Endowed Professor of Teacher Education
University of Washington
Dr. Betina Hsieh (she/her) is the Endowed Professor of Teacher Education and Teacher Learning for Justice at the University of Washington (Seattle) after previously serving at California State University, Long Beach as professor and chair of the department of teacher education and directing the teacher education program at the University of La Verne. Dr. Hsieh’s teacher education work is informed by 10 years of urban middle school classroom experience in the San Francisco Bay Area, and work supporting professional learning among teachers, notably as co-director of the Bay Area Writing Project. Dr. Hsieh has published widely in peer reviewed journals and presented over 40 research papers on issues related to teaching and teacher education. Recent peer-reviewed publications include articles in Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education, English Teaching: Practice and Critique, Literacy Research and Instruction, Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, the Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, the Peabody Journal of Education, and the Journal of Teacher Education.
Dr. Hsieh believes in the importance of educational research that is accessible to teacher education practitioners and educators, in addition to the research community. To that end, she has published in K-12 focused journals and magazines like Educational Leadership, the English Journal, and Voices from the Middle, as well as being cited in the Atlantic. Additionally, she has given a TEDx talk, “Learning from One Another: Lessons in (Educational) Excellence” and appeared as a guest on multiple educational podcasts including the Black Gaze Podcast and All of the Above. Her recent book The Racialized Experiences of Asian American Teachers co-authored with Dr. Jung Kim is the first comprehensive research monograph focused on the experiences of Asian American teachers using the tenets of Asian Critical Race Theory.
Dr. Hsieh has been an active member of multiple state and national organizations including American Educational Research Association (AERA), where she currently serves on the Social Justice Action Committee, previously chaired AERA’s Research on the Education of Asian Pacific Americans (REAPA) Special Interest Group (SIG) and served as a social media scholar for the Writing and Literacies SIG. She also has served as the chair of the research foundation trustee board for the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) and co-facilitates the NCTE Asian/Asian American Caucus. She served as the President of the California Council on Teacher Education from March 2022-2024.
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