Elizabeth Stringer Keefe

Elizabeth Stringer Keefe is an Associate Professor and researcher at Stonehill College, where she serves as Director of Graduate Teacher Education. Her research focuses on teacher education and teacher education policy. She has held faculty appointments in higher education for nearly 20 years and served as a public school teacher prior to her work in teacher preparation. Her work as a teacher educator has included the development of several teacher preparation programs and graduate certificates. Stringer Keefe’s research agenda, Research Innovations in Teacher Education (RITE), includes several current projects aimed at advancing the field of teacher education/preparation, particularly identifying innovations and new understandings about teacher preparation for diverse student groups and educational contexts. She is Principal Investigator of the Inclusive Catholic Education Research (ICER) Project, and co-Principal Investigator on a Spencer Foundation multi-year research study of new Graduate Schools of Education (nGSEs) with Dr. Marilyn Cochran-Smith (Boston College). Her research has also focused on teacher education policy initiatives and reforms, including Project TEER, a group of teacher education scholars and practitioners who collectively research issues related to teacher education, education reform, policy, and politics.

Stringer Keefe is president of Massachusetts Council for Exceptional Children (MCEC), a state chapter of CEC, the largest international professional organization for special education professionals. She the co-author of Reclaiming Accountability in Teacher Education and Remixing the Curriculum: The Teacher’s Guide to Technology in the Classroom (Rowman and Littlefield).