Dr. Pamela Grossman
Nomellini-Olivier Professor of Education
Stanford University
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Pam Grossman is the Nomellini-Olivier Professor of Education at the Stanford University School of Education. Her research interests include teacher education and professional education more broadly, teacher knowledge, and the teaching of English in secondary schools. Along with her colleagues Don Boyd, Hamilton Lankford, Susanna Loeb, and James Wyckoff, she has been engaged with a five year study of pathways into teaching in New York City schools, focusing on the features of preparation that affect student achievement. She is currently investigating the classroom practices of middle-school English teachers that are associated with student achievement. She is the co-Principal Investigator of the Teachers for a New Era project at Stanford, funded by the Carnegie Corporation, and is the Faculty Director of the new Center to Support Excellence in Teaching. A former high school English teacher, Grossman also teaches the prospective English teachers in Stanford’s teacher education program.