University of California Irvine

Rossella Santagata is a Professor at the UC Irvine School of Education and Associate Director of the Center for Research on Teacher Development and Professional Practice. She holds an MA in Developmental and Educational Psychology from the University of Padua (Italy) and a PhD in Developmental Psychology from UCLA. Her research areas include mathematics and science teaching and learning and teacher professional development (PD). She has conducted extensive research on teacher noticing and on the use of video to foster teacher professional competence. Her current projects are grounded in participatory methodologies and aim at addressing racial and socio-economic inequities through co-design approaches that engage educators, students, and communities as partners. She has disseminated her findings through publications in journals such as the Journal of Teacher Education, the Journal of Educational Change, the American Education Research Journal, and the Journal of the Learning Sciences. In addition, she has given several keynote presentations both nationally and internationally including in Chile, Germany, Finland, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, and South Korea. She is currently the PI of a project funded by the WT Grant Foundation on reducing inequalities in opportunities to learn mathematics through adaptive teacher PD. She also serves as the PI of three NSF -funded projects on teacher noticing in college mathematics, environmental engineering education, and conversational agents to support high-school students’ science communication.