YES Stories

During her gap year, Nicole worked as a field instructor for Campfire Wilani, an outdoors school in Oregon.

Youth organizing is at the heart of Jenny’s capstone: “The Chicago Youth Movements Oral History Project: Documenting Abolitionist Youth Resistance.” 

Saket Malhotra wrote his Education Studies capstone on anti-racist science education. 

Akio’s research helps us to better understand the experiences of young people who learned remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Research from Dr. Debs’s “Happiness Oriented Parents: An Alternative Perspective on Privilege and Choosing Schools” was recently featured in The 74.

Joy didn’t have the opportunity to learn about the historical, cultural, and political contexts of education until coming to Yale.

Through peer to peer support, the EDST Future Teachers group provides Yale students who are interested in becoming classroom teachers.

Since fifth grade, Bea Maron Schaeffer (YC ‘24) has wanted to become a teacher.

Our Education Studies courses aim to foster a culture of care.

Sarah Medina Camiscoli, an EDST Lecturer, will soon join Rutgers Law School as a tenure-track assistant professor.