Jennifer’s research focuses on increasing children’s school-based agency through technology, project-based instruction and other 21st century teaching/learning approaches in the early grades. Her work on student agency and its link to development, civic action and early education is generously supported by the Foundation for Child Development and the Spencer Foundation. Jennifer has published in journals such as Teachers College Record and Young Children and has just co-authored the book Children Crossing Borders. Her latest article published in the Harvard Educational Review is about agency and capabilities in the early grades. She has won numerous early early career awards and spoken at conferences and universities around the world. Jennifer is also the mother of three young children and a former preschool teacher.