Title
Associate Professor
Contact Information
Office: 206-H MCKB
Phone: 801-422-3241
Email: bryant_jensen@byu.edu
Dr. Bryant Jensen is an associate professor in the Department of Teacher Education at BYU. He teaches courses on learning and instruction, multicultural education, research methods, and public education for societal development. His research addresses equitable teaching and teacher learning to transform their interactions and lesson activities to enrich learning opportunities for children and youth from minoritized communities. Currently, Bryant is collaborating with public school educators and research colleagues to develop and test supports such as peer observation systems for teachers to learn together to enact equitable teaching practices in rural Mexico, for Native Islander children in Hawaii, and for Latinx students from immigrant families in Utah.
Previously Bryant was a Fulbright scholar in Mexico, teacher educator in California's San Joaquin Valley, and a postdoc fellow at the University of Oregon. His recent book, with Dr. Patricia Gandara, is The Students We Share: Preparing Mexican and US Teachers for Our Transnational Future (SUNY Press). Bryants research articles appear in Early Childhood Research Quarterly, Educational Assessment, Educational Researcher, Journal of Teacher Education, Reading Research Quarterly, Teaching and Teacher Education, and various other journals. Bryant serves on the editorial boards of The Elementary School Journal, International Journal of Educational Development, Review of Educational Research, and Theory Into Practice. His work has been funded by the U.S. Dept. of Education, Fulbright, the Mexican government, BYU, and a handful of foundations. Bryant is a first-generation college graduate and with his superhuman spouse, Taryn, is raising five spirited children in Provo, Utah.
Multicultural Education; Learning and Instruction; Research Methods; Equitable Teaching; Educational Foundations; International Development
Teacher Learning; Equitable Teaching; Sociocultural Interactions; Moral Work of Teaching; Teacher Collaboration; School Change; Mexican/Central American Schooling; Language/Literacy; Latina/o Education; Migration and Education
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Fulbright Specialist —
2021–2025
- Sponsor: U.S. Dept. of State
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Nancy Peery Marriott Excellence in Scholarship Award —
2021–2022
- Sponsor: BYU McKay School of Education
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Visiting Scholar —
2021
- Sponsor: Center for Research on Education, Diversity & Excellence (CREDE), University of Hawai'i at Mnoa
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Early Career Grantee, National Academy of Education —
2013–2014
- Sponsor: National Academy of Education
- Financial support and recognition to develop a new classroom observation system--using the MET longitudinal database--that reliably captures cultural aspects of teacher-student interactions.
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Fulbright-Garcia Robles Fellow —
2007–2008
- Sponsor: Fulbright
URL: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00224871231183090
Publisher: Sage
Volume: 74
Issue: 4
Pages: 299-314
Journal: Journal of Teacher Education
Date: 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Volume: 35
Issue: 6
Journal: Language and Education
Date: 2021
URL: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00405841.2019.1665417
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Volume: 59
Issue: 1
Pages: 1-7
Journal: Theory Into Practice
Date: 2019
URL: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00405841.2023.2258735
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Volume: 62
Issue: 4
Pages: 404-419
Journal: Theory Into Practice
Publisher: ElSevier
Volume: 131
Journal: Teaching and Teacher Education
URL: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.3102/0013189X211014859
Publisher: SAGE
Volume: 50
Issue: 8
Journal: Educational Researcher
URL: https://ila.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/rrq.409
Publisher: Wiley
Volume: 56
Journal: Reading Research Quarterly
Publisher: SUNY Press
Journal: The Students We Share
URL: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10627197.2018.1515010
Publisher: Routledge
Volume: 23
Issue: 4
Journal: Educational Assessment