Contact Information
Cindy Ballenger
cballenger@brandeis.edu
Cindy Ballenger
Lecturer in Education
| Cindy Ballenger is a literacy specialist in the Cambridge Public Schools and founding member of the Brookline Teacher Researcher Seminar. She has taught children who spoke many languages and came from many backgrounds, particularly children from Haiti. Ballenger has authored many books and articles which present research stories focused on the meaning-making of children. She did her doctoral work in Applied Linguistics at Boston University, and has received grants from the Spencer Foundation, the National Science Foundation, and the National Council of Teachers of English to explore teacher research as a practice and as a means of professional development for teachers. Other interests include the teaching of science, urban education, and classroom discourse in relation the intellectual strengths of children from less literate and less academic backgrounds. |  |