Dr. Maleka Donaldson is an associate professor of Education and Child Study at Smith College, located in Northampton, MA. She studies teaching and learning from mistakes in real-world classrooms, and earned her doctorate in Human Development and Education from Harvard University. Maleka has devoted herself to the field of education for nearly 20 years. Her formative professional experiences as a Kindergarten teacher continue to shape and inspire her academic research, collegiate teaching, and orientation to the world.

You can check out Dr. Donaldson's book, "From Oops to Aha

Portraits of Learning from Mistakes in Kindergarten" here.

You can learn about the Donors Choose Project that Maleka played "Teacher Feature Trivia" for here.