Annamarie Francois

Principal Investigator, UCLA STEM+C3 Teacher Residency Program (ED)
Principal Investigator, IMPACT Urban Teacher Residency Program: Inspiring Minds through a Professional Alliance of Community Teachers (ED)
Principal Investigator, California Subject Matter Projects at UCLA (UCOP)
Co-Principal Investigator, 21st Century School Leadership Academy Center (CDE)

Co-Principal Investigator, California Teacher Education Research and Innovation Network (UCOP)
Co-Principal Investigator, Next Generation STEM Teachers for Urban Schools: Recruiting, Preparing, and Mentoring UCLA Undergraduates for Innovative STEM Teaching (NSF)

Ed.D., Educational Leadership, University of California, Los Angeles
M.A., Administration, Supervision and Higher Education, California State University, Northridge
B.A., History, University of California, Los Angeles

Francois, A., and Hunter-Quartz, K. (September, 2021). Preparing and sustaining social justice educators for urban schools. Cambridge: Harvard Education Press
Francois, A., and Kawasaki, J. (in press, 2021). IMPACT: 10 Years of lessons learned from an urban teacher residency program.
Francois, A. and Kawasaki, J. (September, 2021). Learning to become a community teacher. In Francois, A. & K.H. Quartz (Eds.), Preparing and sustaining social justice educators (Chapter 2). Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press.
Nava, I., Isken, J. & Francois, A. (2020). Open the door to diversity: Teacher residencies in urban schools boost retention and achievement. The Learning Professional. Vol. 41 No.6.

Kawasaki, J., Clark, H.F., & Francois, A. (2020). Supporting novice teachers’ learning to enact a social justice framework of science teaching. In M. Gresalfi & I. Horn (Eds.), Proceedings of the Interdisciplinarity of the learning sciences: The international conference of the learning sciences (ICLS) 2020. Nashville: ISLS
Orange, T., Isken, J. Green, A., Parachini, N., Francois, A. (2019). Coaching for equity: Disrupt and transform practices that reveal implicit and explicit biases. The Learning Professional.
Kawasaki, J., Quartz, K.H., & Francois, A. (2019). Examining mentors’ ideas about being a social justice educator. Mid-western Educational Researcher, Special Issue on Mentoring.
Kawasaki, J., Anderson-Levitt, K.A., Nenadal, L., Tanio, N., Pham, J., Diera, C., and Francois, A. (2018). From theory to practice: How pre-service teachers learn to become social justice educators. In J. Kay & R. Luckin (Eds.), Proceedings of the Rethinking Learning in the Digital Age: Making the learning sciences count. The International Conference of the Learning Sciences, 2018 (Vol. 2, pp 713-720). London: ISLS.
Hunter-Quartz, K., & Francois, A. (2014). Learning to teach in residence. Huffington Post Education Blog.