Jerusha Beckerman

Jerusha Beckerman serves as Director of the MSEd Art of Teaching program at Sarah Lawrence College and is an adjunct faculty member in Early Childhood and Childhood Education programs at Westchester Community College. A former 2nd/3rd and 4th/5th grade teacher at The Ella Baker School and former infant & toddler teacher at Basic Trust Childcare Center, she brings deep classroom experience to her work in teacher education.

Education:

• BA, Bard College
• MS, Sarah Lawrence College

Her professional interests revolve around literacy, identity, and equity in early childhood education. She is particularly focused on observation and description of children and their work, emergent curriculum, and self-chosen, open-ended making and doing in classroom settings. These themes are woven into the language-and-literacy and curriculum courses she teaches at the graduate level.

Beckerman leads teacher-inquiry groups and delivers professional-development workshops and conference presentations for educators and scholars. She has been recognized as a Prospect Archives Practitioner Fellow (2013) for her contributions to reflective practice in teaching.

Courses taught at Sarah Lawrence College:

• Language and Literacy I & II
• Observation and Documentation
• Emergent Curriculum I & II
• Practicum Seminar

While no specific research grants or recent scholarly articles are listed in the provided text, her ongoing work centers on supporting teachers through reflective practice, documentation, and equity-focused pedagogies.