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Robin Brandehoff PhD

Assistant Professor, Educational Foundations

School of Education & Human Development

Email Address:robin.brandehoff@ucdenver.edu

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Research, Publications, Projects

Hailing from Hawai'i and East LA, I am a first-generation high school and college graduate emphasizing the importance of individualized advising and mentorship for all students—particularly first-generation Students of the Global Majority. I was a high school administrator and educator for over twelve years, working in alternative education as an English, ELD, and Leadership teacher, as well as a site & grant coordinator for an elementary-based after school program in San Francisco. During my doctoral studies, I held the role of program director for Pathways2Teaching, which allowed me to explore what it truly means to teach for social justice and equity. This work led to my invitation of membership to the national Grow Your Own Collective, which I now co-lead. In this role, I have worked and presented with various GYO programs and leaders from around the country to create a sustainable model for recruiting & retaining diverse, community-grounded Teachers of Color. I have recently completed my tenure as a board member and co-president of the international Pedagogy and Theatre of the Oppressed, Inc., which I proudly served for many years. I am currently conducting research back home in Hawai'i, to further develop work around my pedagogical framework, Hānai Pedagogy (Brandehoff, 2023).

Areas of Expertise

Mentorships of Latine, Gang-Affiliated Youth
Theatre of the Oppressed with At-Promise Youth
Grow Your Own Teacher Programs
Diversifying the Teacher Workforce
Hānai Pedagogy

Education, Licensure & Certifications

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Education - 2020 - University of Colorado Denver, Denver CO
Master of Education (M.Ed.), Secondary Education - 2007 - Whittier College, Whittier CA
Bachelor of Arts in Theatre Performance - 2005 - Whittier College, Whittier CA
Bachelor of Arts in Dramaturgical Critique - 2005 - Whittier College, Whittier CA

Resumes/CV:

Brandehoff, Robin

Awards

SEHD Excellence in Teaching (IRC) Award 2023
Mentorship & Mentoring Practices SIG Dissertation of the Year Award, AERA, April 2022.

Affiliations

Pedagogy and Theatre of the Oppressed, Inc. – Co-President and Board Member (2017-2022; Current member of organization)
ThinqStudio – Fellow (2021-2023)
National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity – Faculty Success Program Fellow
American Educational Studies Association (AESA)
American Educational Research Association (AERA)
Arts and Inquiry in the Visual and Performing Arts in Education
Mentorship and Mentoring Practices – 2020-2024 Proposal Reviewer
Mentorship and Mentoring Practices – 2024 Dissertation Reviewer
Paulo Freire Sig
Division K: Teaching and Teacher Education
Division B: Curriculum Studies
Division G: Social Context of Education
Division H: Research, Evaluation, and Assessment in Schools

Research

My research agenda follows the paths of two interwoven threads: Grow Your Own Teaching programs and mentoring relationships among members of non-dominant communities of the global majority. Within these research community spaces, I have focused my partnerships and collaborations with (1) gang-affiliated Latine at-promise youth in urban and rural California settings (2) predominantly Latine, Black, and Native Hawaiian students and educators in Grow Your Programs in Colorado, Illinois, and Hawai’i; (3) first-generation Latine doctoral students in Colorado, and (4) Kanaka ‘Ōiwi and Asian American/Pacific Islander students, families, and educators in rural Hawai’i. At the heart of my research is direct engagement with educators and community members within these spaces which has afforded me opportunities to further explore the ways in which mentorship intersects with teaching opportunities, learning, and pedagogy. My strongest areas of methodology include ethnographic case studies, phenomenology, and using critical race theory, community cultural wealth, and indigenous methods of narrative data collection and analysis to elucidate findings.

Publications and Presentations

Brandehoff, R. (2023). The ripple effect of mentorship: A cross-case analysis of five rural Latinx youth. Journal of Latinos and Education. 10.1080/15348431.2023.2258198
Brandehoff, R. (2023). Introducing Hānai pedagogy: A call for equity in education through an AANAPI lens. Pedagogy and Theatre of the Oppressed Journal, 7(3).
Griffen, A. J., Brandehoff, R., Parnther, C., & Johnson, D. (2022). CRT receipts and the trust inequity. Reparative Justice, Racial Restoration, and Education – K-12 and Higher Education (Samuel DeWitt Proctor Institute special issue).
Rogers-Ard, R., Knaus, C., Bianco, M., Brandehoff, R., Gist, C. (2019). “The grow your own collective: A critical race movement to transform education.” Teacher Education Quarterly, 46(1), 23-34.
Goings, R. B., Brandehoff, R., & Bianco, M. (2018). “Disrupting educational inequities by diversifying the teacher workforce: Grow your own teachers.” Educational Leadership, 75(8), 50-55.

Presentations:

Invited Keynotes

Brandehoff, R. (2023, November 4). Mālama Pono: Rebellion Leadership Through Care, Reflection, and Hānai Pedagogy. Invited Keynote - Educators of Color Summit, 2023. University of Nebraska Lincoln and Lincoln Public Schools, Lincoln, NB.
Brandehoff, R. (2023, November 4). Movement for Action: Image Theatre as Critical Pedagogy. Invited Breakout Session - Educators of Color Summit, 2023. University of Nebraska Lincoln and Lincoln Public Schools, Lincoln, NB.

Refereed Presentations

Brandehoff, R. (February 2024). Looking to the Past to Teach Future Generations: A Call for Hānai Pedagogy. AACTE, 2024. Aurora, CO.
Brandehoff, R. (April 2024). Teach—But Make it Hānai: A Call for Equity in Education. AERA, 2024. Philadelphia, PA.
Brandehoff, R. (2023, April 16). Amplifying voices of mentorship across campus: Explorations of race, culture, and power. AERA, Mentorship and Mentoring Practices SIG. Chicago, IL.
Brandehoff, R. (2023, January 7). Building cultural wealth through natural mentorships: Five Latinx gang affiliated youth share their stories of resilience (Invited paper, Spotlight). IAFOR 2023, Honolulu, HI.

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