Stephanie Kim

Prior to joining the USC Rossier School of Education, Dr. Kim served as an English-Language Arts and English Language Development (ELD) teacher in both the ABC Unified School District and Anaheim Union High School District. During her teaching tenure, she also served as the chair for the ELD department as well as an educational consultant for Cal State Fullerton’s Fullerton International Resources for Students and Teachers (FIRST) program, providing professional development around issues of culturally relevant pedagogy.

She received her Master’s Degree in Education from UC Irvine and completed her doctoral studies in Educational Leadership at USC with a concentration in Teacher Education in Multicultural Societies.

Currently Dr. Kim is teaching EDUC 534, Integrating English and Social Studies in the Secondary Classroom for the online MAT program at USC.

Her research interests include community, school, and university partnerships for school transformation; improving student engagement and motivation by accessing students’ funds of knowledge; and the potential of dialogue to create new cultural models and cultural settings in the classroom.