Dr. Jennifer L. Martin is an associate professor of teacher education in the School of Education at the University of Illinois at Springfield (UIS). Prior to working in higher education, Dr. Martin worked in public education for 17 years, 15 of those as the department chair of English at an urban alternative high school for students labeled at-risk for school failure in metropolitan Detroit. She has been the editor in chief of the Journal of Urban Learning Teaching and Research (JULTR) since 2018. She is the editor of Racial Battle Fatigue: Insights from the Front Lines of Social Justice Advocacy (Recipient of the 2016 AERA Division B’s Outstanding Book Recognition Award). She is the 2019 recipient of the Paula Silver Case Award for Volume Year 2018, UCEA Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership (Volume 21): for her co-authored piece “The Bathroom Case: Creating a Supportive School Environment for Transgender and Gender Non-conforming Students.” Her most recent co-authored book is: Mentoring the Mentor: Celebrating the Intersection of Learning Together, A Reciprocal Journey. In 2021, she was awarded the Burks Oakley II Distinguished Online Teaching Award (UIS). Dr. Martin was selected for the 2022 – 2023 cohort for the system-wide Public Voices Fellowship and was named University Scholar at UIS for the 2022 – 2023 academic year. Follow her podcast eduCATE.

Her research interests include culturally responsive teaching and leading, curriculum theory/critical theory, educational equity/multicultural equity, English education/literacy, service learning, and urban education.

Jen founded a podcast called eduCATE: Caring Activist Teachers for Equity. the podcast about all things education and equity.

She teaches: TEP 315: Managing the Diverse Classroom, TEP and TEP 325: English Methods, 419: Content Area Literacy Methods, TEP 449 Middle Level and High School Clinical Practice Seminar

View Dr. Martin's Curriculum Vitae.