Jameelah Wright Professor • Department of Teacher Ed: PreK-12 View CV Website Jameelah R. Wright is an assistant professor in the Department of Teacher Education: PreK-12. She has a PhD in Teacher Education and Teacher Development from Montclair State University. Dr. Wright has many years of experience as a teacher, mentor, and administrator at the early childhood level. Jameelah’s scholarship includes work on transformational classrooms, promoting parental/family involvement, and the experiences of Black women early childhood educators. Professional Interests Black Childhood/Girlhood Studies, the Professionalization of the Early Childhood Workforce, Sociolinguistics, and Equity in Gifted Education Degrees PhD Teacher Education and Teacher Development, Montclair State University Montclair, NJ MEd Teacher Leadership, University of Delaware Newark, DE MA Reading Specialization, Kean University Union, NJ BA Sociology, Douglass College, Rutgers University New Brunswick, NJ Specialization Early Literacy, Early Childhood Education, Gifted Education Licenses and Certifications 12/31/2019 Supervisor, 12/31/2010 Teacher of Reading, 12/31/2010 Elementary School Teacher in Grades K-6, 12/31/2010 Reading Specialist, 12/31/2006 Teacher of Preschool through Grade 3, Representative Publications Black English and the White Voice: Bidialectalism as social and cultural capital; , NABE Journal of Research and Practice; 2026 https://doi.org/10.1080/26390043.2025.2603471 The Year of Isaiah; Educational Psychology and Transformational Classrooms; Routledge; 2022 https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003276098-2 Collectively Caring: Co-Creating a Critical Feminist Community of Teacher Educators; Self-Study of Teaching and Teacher Education Practices; Springer ; 2022 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-5430-6_2 Notable Courses Taught CIEC 3250 Language and Literacy in Early Childhood Education: PreK-KindergartenCIED 2050 Foundations of Bilingual and Multicultural EducationCIED 2160 Child and Adolescent Development & Learning Email 973 720 4102 4098 Valley Road By appointment
