Tracey Tokuhama-Espinosa, Ph.D., is a teacher at Harvard College and the Harvard University Extension School where her course, “The Neuroscience of Learning: An Introduction to Mind, Brain, Health, and Education” offers a transformative self-learning adventure. She is the co-founder of Conexiones: The Learning Sciences Platform, an Associate Editor of Nature Partner Journal Science of Learning, and a former member of the OECD expert panel to redefine Teachers’ New Pedagogical Knowledge thanks to contributions from Technology and Neuroscience.
Tracey is the author of 12 books and dozens of peer-reviewed articles to improve teaching, expand transdisciplinary research, improve Mind, Brain, Health, and Education, and to help students and teachers better understand their own brains. She has coordinated multiple international research projects and facilitates workshops for thousands of teachers each year. She has published with UNESCO, Columbia University Teachers College Press, W.W. Norton, Frontiers in Psychology, Frontiers in Education, Frontiers in Educational Leadership, Johns Hopkins’ Horizons, and the Mind, Brain, and Education (MBE) Journal, among others. Her most current activities include work with the Global Science and Learning Network and with the International Mind, Brain, and Education Society, acting as Secretary of the American Educational Research Association’s Special Interest Group on the Brain, Neurosciences, and Education, and filling the role of UNESCO Chair for Education and Neuroscience in Latin America.
Her research focuses on the integration of Mind, Brain, and Education science into teachers’ daily practice and professional development, curriculum changes to enhance early math and pre-literacy skills, bilingualism and multilingualism, and the leveraging of technology to enhance learning outcomes.
