Rebecca Eunmi Haslam Associate Professor of Education, Coordinator of Racial Equity & Educational Justice Graduate Certificate Program
Bio
Ph.D. Educational Leadership and Policy, The University of Vermont, 2019
M.Ed. Arts in Education, Saint Michael’s College, 2012
B.A. Elementary Education & Fine Arts, Saint Michael’s College, 2003
Areas of Expertise:
- Educational Equity & Justice
- School Culture & Climate
- Racism & Bias-Based Harm in Schools
- Culturally Responsive & Sustaining Pedagogy
- Curriculum & Instruction
- Universal Design for Learning
- Elementary Education
Courses I Teach:
- ED 231 Inquiry & Innovation: Education in the 21st Century
- ED 239 Antiracism & Collective Liberation
- GED 509 Integrative Curriculum
- GED 558 Intro to Critical Inquiry & Educational Research
- GED 571 Antiracism: Critical Theory & Praxis
- GED 577 Applied Critical Inquiry for Educational Justice
- GED 684 Schools & Community
Serving As:
- Coordinator, Racial Equity & Educational Justice Graduate Certificate Program
- Coordinator, M.Ed. Curriculum & Instructional Design
- Faculty Senator, School of Society & Culture
- Advisory Committee, Equity Studies Program
- Advisory Board, Antiracism Council (ARC)
Founder of Seed the Way LLC, Educational Consulting for Justice & Equity (est. 2015)
For more information about Professor Haslam, please visit Seed the Way LLC, Educational Consulting for Justice & Equity.
Publications
2025 American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting, Denver, CO
Addressing Racism and Bias-Based Harm in Middle and High School: The Listening Circles Project, April 2025.
2024 Harvard Business Publishing Education
Haslam, R. E. (2024, August 8). The World Is Politically Charged. Bring Those Conversations into the Classroom: Four Strategies to Cultivate Civically Engaged Students. (A. Saltzman, Ed.). Harvard Business Publishing Education.
2024 Harvard Business Publishing Education
Haslam, R. E. (2024, December 5). HBP Education’s Must Reads: Encouraging and Navigating Challenging Class Discussions: Strategies for Inviting Open, Respectful Dialogue Among Students. (L. Swedberg, Executive Editor). Harvard Business Publishing Education.
2024 Harvard Business Publishing Education
Haslam, R. E. (2024, July 4). Educators’ Picks: 12 Book and Podcast Recommendations. (A. Saltzman, Ed.)
2022 Middle Grades Review
Haslam, R. E. (2022). Critical Representation: Mattering & Belonging for Students of the Global Majority. Middle Grades Review, 8(3).
2022 Seed the Way LLC
Haslam, R. E. (2022) Interrupting Bias: Calling Out vs. Calling In. Seed the Way LLC.
Originally developed in 2018, Interrupting Bias: Calling Out vs. Calling In has since been adopted by over thirty colleges & universities and numerous organizations across six countries, cited in five research articles and three academic books, and translated into French, Spanish, and an ADA accessible version. Full listing here.
2020 The Review of Higher Education
Simpfenderfer, A. D., Robles, J., Drummond, J., Garvey, J. C., Haslam, R. E., Dews, S. D., & Weaver, C. A. (2020). Campus Climate Perceptions and Residential Living Among Queer and Trans Students: An Exploration Using Structural Equation Modeling. The Review of Higher Education, 44(1), 31-56.
2019 Teacher2Teacher Network
Haslam, R.E. (2019, February 28). Changing perceptions about equity. Teacher2Teacher Network.
Cited in four academic books:
- Aquino, E., Manchester, H., & Wadhwa, A. (2021). The Little Book of Youth Engagement in Restorative Justice: Intergenerational Partnerships for Just and Equitable Schools. Good Books. email request
- Baker, C. K., & Bitto, L. E. (2021). Interrogating the Tensions of Becoming Antiracist Mathematics Teacher Educators via Critical Friendship and Rehearsals. Studying Teacher Education, 1-18.
- Faircloth, B. S., Gonzalez, L. M., & Ramos, K. (2021). Resisting barriers to belonging: Conceptual Critique and critical applications. Lexington Books.
- Nicholson, J., Kurtz, J., Rivas, L., Henneman, T., Peterson, E., Bryant, S., & Lin, B. (2021). Trauma-Responsive Family Engagement in Early Childhood: Practices for Equity and Resilience. Routledge.
2018 Literacy Today, International Literacy Association
Haslam. R. E. (2018). Checking our bias at the door: Centering our core values in the classroom. Literacy Today, International Literacy Association. July/August 2018, p. 24-26.
2018 Education Week
Haslam, R. E. (2018). Someone Like Me: How One State Teacher of the Year Moved from Bias to Equity Literacy. Education Week. Feb 2018.
“Every lesson, every interaction, every moment with young people is a conversation with the future. We can’t afford to teach without reverence. We cannot continue this work without recognizing that we are part of a long line of spiritual workers, that we are standing in the classroom with our ancestors behind us, our students before us, and generations ahead of us waiting to be shaped by what we do."
Awards & Recognition
Professional Affiliations
- Vermont Professionals of Color Network
- American Association of University Professors (AAUP)
- American Educational Research Association (AERA)
- Div G: Social Context of Education
- Div K: Teaching and Teacher Education
- SIG 144: Critical Educators for Social Justice
- SIG 104: School Community, Climate, and Culture
- Kappa Delta Pi National Educational Honor Society
- National Network of State Teachers of the Year (NNSTOY) and Vermont State Teachers of the Year (VSTOY) network
- Vermont Educational Equity Collective (VEEC), organized by the Vermont Principal’s Association (VPA) and Vermont School Board’s Association (VSBA)