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Biography
Dr. Pope specializes in curriculum studies, service learning, student engagement, school reform, and qualitative research methods. She is particularly interested in student voices and the students' perspectives of school. She focuses on academic stress and its consequences for students' mental and physical health, and works with schools across the globe to improve student well-being, belonging, and engagement. She co-founded Challenge Success (www.challengesuccess.org) to partner with schools and families to elevate student voice and implement research-based strategies to help all students thrive. She is the author of "Doing School": How We Are Creating a Generation of Stressed Out, Materialistic, and Miseducated Students (Yale University Press, 2001), which was awarded Notable Book in Education by the American School Board Journal, 2001. She is co-author of Overloaded and Underprepared: Strategies for Stronger Schools and Healthy, Successful Kids (Wiley, 2015). Dr. Pope co-hosts the podcast "School's In" with GSE Dean Dan Schwartz.
Other titles
Senior Lecturer, Graduate School of Education
Program affiliations
CTE
(MA) POLS
(MA) MA/MBA
(MA) CTE
Research interests
Adolescence | Child Development | Curriculum and Instruction | Leadership and Organization | Parents and Family Issues | Professional Development | Social and Emotional Learning | Teachers and Teaching
Recent publications
Pope, D. C., Miles, S., Pacheco, M., & Ciannella, C. (2025). Stressed, tired, and yearning for support. PHI DELTA KAPPAN, 106(5-6), 9–14.
Miles, S., Selby, S., & Pope, D. (2024). How Can Schools Support Gender-Diverse Students' Well -Being? EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP, 81(5), 8–10.
Miles, S., Pope, D., & Ciannella, C. (2024). Helping students to learn and grow. PHI DELTA KAPPAN, 105(5), 13–18.
