Tracey Tokuhama-Espinosa
Educational researcher and co-founder of Conexiones: The Learning Sciences Platform
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Tracey Tokuhama-Espinosa is an associate editor of Nature Partner Journal Science of Learning, and is a former member of the OECD expert panel to redefine teachers’ new pedagogical knowledge thanks to contributions from technology and neuroscience.
She is co-founder of Conexiones: The Learning Sciences Platform, which provides evidence-based resources for teachers in Spanish and English. She has taught Kindergarten through University, and now works closely with the Global Science of Learning Network, the International Mind, Brain, and Education Society, the American Educational Research Association’s Special Interest Group on Brain, Neurosciences, and Education, and the UNESCO Chair for Education and Neuroscience.
Her research focuses on the integration of Mind, Brain, and Education science into teachers’ daily practice and professional development; transdisciplinary thinking; curriculum changes to enhance math and literacy skills; bilingualism and multilingualism; and the leveraging of technology to enhance learning outcomes. Her most recent books are Writing, Thinking, and the Brain, the first book on the neuroscience of writing; Questions Kids Ask About Their Own Brains, a response to 400 of the most common questions about the bran; and Bringing the Neuroscience of Learning to Online Teaching which shares 40 interventions that work equally well online as in person.
Originally from Berkeley, California, she has lived and worked professionally in Tokyo, Lima, Boston, New York, Geneva, and currently in Washington, D.C., where she works with teachers, schools, governments, and NGOs in 40 different countries.
