Director of Arizona Teacher Residency; Assistant Clinical Professor
Northern Arizona University
Victoria Theisen-Homer is the Founding Director of the Arizona Teacher Residency. She grew up in Arizona and is a product of public schools in Phoenix. Prior to joining NAU's faculty, she was a postdoctoral research fellow at Arizona State University’s School of Social Transformation and completed her Doctorate in Education at Harvard University, where she studied teacher residencies. She was also an English teacher at a large public Title-1 high school in Los Angeles, where she received a Los Angeles Unified School District Teacher of the Year award. Victoria served as an editor on the Harvard Educational Review Board and continues to review manuscripts for a range of journals. Her own research – which lies at the intersection of teaching, teacher residencies, and the formation of meaningful human relationships – is represented in the book Learning to Connect: Relationships, Race and Teacher Education, scholarly journals like Journal of Teacher Education, Schools and Theory and Research in Education, and periodicals like Salon, Education Week, Alternet and The Arizona Republic.
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