Programs

  • Royce Fellowship
Emily
Taylor

Concentration 

Ethnic Studies

Award Year 

2009
What We Talk About When We Talk About Community: Conflict Resolution in a New York City Public School

Faculty Sponsor: Peggy Chang

Emily explored an innovative, classroom-based conflict resolution strategy in a 4th grade class in New York City, with particular attention to ways in which the social context of the classroom impacts conflict and power, as well as how the classroom community used language to resolve conflicts. Emily will use her observations to develop a teachers’ guide that both outlines the process and practice of these conflict-resolution meetings and provides insights into best practices for classroom problem solving.

Emily was a third-grade classroom teacher at Excellence Girls Charter School in Brooklyn, New York. She recently completed a year of teacher preparation at Stanford University, where she specialized in bilingual education. In 2010, Taylor received the Woodrow Wilson–Rockefeller Brothers Fellowship for Aspiring Teachers of Color. Taylor is currently the Assessment Producer at Newsela in Palo Alto, CA.