Jada Kohlmeier profile and information
Learn more about Jada Kohlmeier
- Professor and Program Coordinator, Secondary Social Sciences Education
- Humana-Germany-Sherman Distinguished Professor
kohlmjl@auburn.edu
345 W Samford Ave, Room 2322
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Short Bio
Dr. Kohlmeier is the program coordinator for secondary social sciences education and teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in that program. She conducts professional development with secondary teachers and researches teacher learning through a professional development structured titles lesson study. She also researches student learning, specifically secondary students historical, ethical, and civic reasoning.
Education
B.A. HistoryKansas State University1992
M.A.T. Secondary EducationWashington University1993
Ph.D. Secondary Social Sciences EducationUniversity of Kansas2003
Professional Experience
Dr. Kohlmeier received her B.A. in History from Kansas State University and her Master of Arts in Teaching degree from Washington University in St. Louis. She taught public school social studies in Kansas for 10 years while earning her Ph.D. from the University of Kansas in 2003. She has taught at Auburn since 2003.
Innovation
Dr. Kohlmeier researches student and teacher learning. Her research on student learning focuses on secondary students' historical, ethical, and civic reasoning through discussion and writing. Her research on teacher learning examines how teachers experience various forms of lesson study and teacher noticing video reflection.
Engagement
Dr. Kohlmeier is the current director of the Persistent Issues in History Network, which is a collaborative effort of classroom teachers and teacher educators dedicated to developing social studies instruction around persistent problems of the public good. She has conducted Lesson Study with local history teachers every summer for over 20 years. She has also conducted Lesson Study with externally funded projects. Plowing Freedom's Ground worked with 30 U.S. History teachers for three years across seven high needs districts. In the summer of 2021, she and Dr. Steven Brown in political science, received funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities to provide a two-week institute on Landmark Supreme Court cases that originated from Alabama citizens to U.S. history and government teachers around the United States. That project grew into her current project with Dr. Brown, the C.L.E.A.R. (Civic, Legal, Ethical, and Analogous Reasoning) Thinking project, which is funded by the U.S. Department of Education. This project is conducting Virtual Lesson Study with 40 teachers across the U.S. developing lessons that promote civic reasoning with 7th-12th grade students.
