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Aaliyah El-Amin is a lecturer at Harvard Graduate School of Education, focusing on ensuring educators have the knowledge and tools to disrupt systems of oppression. Her specific interest areas include liberatory education models, social justice schooling, critical pedagogy, and youth participatory action research. She is currently conducting an ethnographic inquiry into emancipatory schools in the United States to understand how these schools operate and to prepare young people to work towards a just society. Aaliyah collaborates with Professor Scott Seider from Boston University and Professor Daren Graves from Simmons College on a longitudinal mixed-methods study of six New England schools aimed at nurturing critical consciousness among students. Before joining HGSE, she served as an elementary classroom teacher and instructional dean in Atlanta, GA, and as the executive director of Teach for America in Charlotte, NC.
Harvard Graduate School of Education • Cambridge, MA
Teaching and conducting research related to education policy and methods for disrupting systems of oppression.
Atlanta Public Schools • Atlanta, GA
Oversaw instructional practices and supported teachers in enhancing classroom learning outcomes.
Teach for America • Charlotte, NC
Led local operations to enhance educational equity and excellence in under-resourced schools.
Administered via Harvard Griffin GSAS; encompasses PhD in Education.