Tran Templeton
For her TC dissertation, (Ed.D. 鈥�18) equipped 11 preschoolers with digital cameras, believing that 鈥減eople being studied should have an equal hand in designing research about them 鈥� and who knows better about childhood than young children?鈥�
At age 3, Templeton escaped with her family from South Vietnam in a shrimp boat. In public school in Houston, she recalls, 鈥渘o one was asking me what I felt.鈥� Even after winning a first-grade writing award, she was placed in a remedial English as a Second Language class.
She鈥檚 since helped found a special education school in Guatemala and won a $20,000 American Educational Research Association . As a tenure-track Assistant Professor at the University of North Texas this fall, Templeton hopes to 鈥渃hange the way we teach children by giving them more agency in what they learn and how they learn.鈥� 鈥� Robert Florida