Megan Lynch

Co-Principal Investigator & Project Monitoring Specialist

Megan E. Lynch (PhD, The Pennsylvania State University) is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the University of North Florida in the College of Education and Human Services, where she engages in practitioner inquiry in collaboration with faculty, students and school partners in both UNF’s Professional Development Schools and partner schools and the Urban Education Scholars Program. She is also a Co-Principal Investigator and Progress Monitoring Specialist on Project PREP: Partnering to Renew the Educator Pipeline. Dr. Lynch is a teacher educator who has experience supervising teacher candidates, teaching embedded field experience courses and seminars, and facilitating in-service teacher professional learning. She has taught educational foundations courses on teaching multilinguals, language and power in the classroom, multicultural and urban education, and an introduction to the teaching profession. She has nearly 10 years of experience teaching multilingual learners. Her research draws on Critical Theory to better understand and shape the development of socially just pedagogies and political activism alongside teacher candidates, in-service teachers, and P-12 students through supervision in school-university partnerships. She is currently the Lead Associate Editor for School-University Partnerships and is the Program Chair for the AERA Cultural-Historical Research SIG and the incoming Secretary/Treasurer for the AERA Supervision and Instructional Leadership SIG.