Rate My Professor Shaneé Washington

Shaneé Washington is an Assistant Professor of Justice and Equity in Teacher Education. Her academic background includes a Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction from Boston College (2019), where her dissertation focused on 'Family-School-Community (Dis)Engagement: An Indigenous Community’s Fight for Educational Equity and Cultural Reclamation in a New England School District.' She also holds an M.Ed. in Education Leadership and Policy from the University of Maryland (2004), a Graduate Certificate of Professional Teaching Standards from The George Washington University (2009), and a B.A. in Elementary Education from Lincoln University (2000). Prior to her academic career, Washington served as an elementary and middle school teacher for 14 years at Prince George’s County Public Schools, working with Black and Brown multiply-marginalized young people.

Washington's research specializations center on Indigenous and Black educational self-determination, family-school-community engagement, land-based and Indigenous methodologies, culturally sustaining pedagogies, and climate justice in education. Her key publications include 'Indigenous methodologies in international research on Indigenous family and community engagement' (Review of Educational Research, 2024, co-authored), 'Engaging Indigenous families and community members: Leadership towards relationality and relational accountability' (Education Administration Quarterly, 2025), '“It’s a vibe”: Belonging, healing, and liberation in community spaces by us and for us' (Equity & Excellence in Education, 2024), 'Towards culturally sustaining/revitalizing Indigenous family-school-community leadership' (Frontiers in Education, 2023), 'An Indigenous Community’s fight for cultural continuity and educational equity with/in and against a New England school district' (Teachers College Record, 2021), and 'Sustaining Indigenous students' and families' well-being and culture in an Ontario school board' (Journal of Professional Capital and Community, 2021). These works have garnered significant citations, with her most cited paper, 'The sustainability and unsustainability of teachers’ and leaders’ well-being' (2020), receiving 169 citations. Major awards include the 2023 AERA Division K Outstanding Reviewer Honorable Mention, 2020 Outstanding Dissertation Awards from AERA Leadership for Social Justice SIG and Family-School-Community Partnership SIG, 2019-2020 Martin Howell Outstanding Advisor Award, and 2018 Donald J. White Teaching Excellence Award from Boston College. She has held editorial roles as a reviewer for journals such as Educational Researcher, Equity & Excellence in Education, and Teaching and Teacher Education, and contributed to committees including Faculty Council, Teacher Education Council, and AERA divisions. Washington's scholarship influences the field by centering People of the Global Majority's ways of knowing, promoting decolonizing practices, and advancing justice-driven teacher education through projects like Designing for Relationality as Environmental Justice and Co-Designing with Community for Justice-Driven Teacher Education.