Dr. Chloe Bolyard

Details

Education

• PhD, Educational Leadership: Leadership, Culture, and Curriculum, 2016, Miami University
• MEd, Educational Leadership, 2012, Evangel University
• BA, Elementary Education, 2008, Evangel University

Teaching

• ELE 410 Teaching and Learning in the Elementary Classroom
• ELE 710 Elementary School Curriculum
• ELE 711 Contemporary Issues in Elementary Curriculum
• ELE 720 Advanced Theory and Practice in Student Assessment and Evaluation
• EDU 929 Curriculum Change and Innovation

Professional experience

Selected Publications

• Bolyard, C. (2026). Returning to the elementary classroom: Reflections from a sabbatical spent co-teaching with a first-year teacher. Currere Exchange Journal, 10(1). https://cej.lib.miamioh.edu/index.php/CEJ/article/view/401/219

• Bolyard, C., *Hainline, M., *Mann, R., *Mielke, M., *Pon, M., & *Dove, J. (2025). Navigating the latest culture war: Insights from the Currere Collective on culturally responsive curriculum design. Currere Exchange Journal, (9)2. https://cej.lib.miamioh.edu/index.php/CEJ/article/view/326/207
• Winn, V., & Bolyard, C. (2025). Teacher positionalities: Response to reading activist memoirs. Critical Questions in Education, (16)2. https://academyforeducationalstudies.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/winn-bolyard-final-1.pdf
• Benedict-Chambers, A., & Bolyard, C., & Belue, A. (2025). Anti-deficit framing and preservice teacher noticing for equity throughout a teacher education program. Teaching and Teacher Education, (160). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tate.2025.105007
• Livers, S. D., Rich, E., Bolyard, C. S., Bettum, A. R., & McCafferty, J. (2025). Mission to Mars: A curriculum equity analysis. In A. Wheeler, & P. Kaur Bharaj (Eds.), Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Research Council on Mathematics Learning (pp.2-8). RCML.  https://rcml.memberclicks.net/assets/Proceedings/2025%20RCML%20Proceedings%20-%20Final.pdf
• Howard, A., Bolyard, C., & Finley, S. L. (2024). Deficit to asset thinking: An exploration of incorporating community cultural wealth on preservice teachers’ mindsets. Journal of Teaching and Learning, 18(2). https://jtl.uwindsor.ca/index.php/jtl/article/view/8806
• Bolyard, C., Howard, A., & Finley, S. L. (2024). Applying relational pedagogy in teacher education: Using the case method to analyze controversial issues. Journal of Educational Controversy, 16(1). https://cedar.wwu.edu/jec/vol16/iss1/6

Graduate Program Director

•  Master of Science in Education, Elementary Education

Research and professional interests

• Curriculum studies
• Teacher education
• Multicultural education
• Relational pedagogy
• Ungrading

Awards and honors

• MACTE President’s Award, Missouri Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, 2026
• Faculty Excellence in Community Engagement Award, MSU 2026
• Featured Researcher, Mind’s Eye Magazine (Forthcoming), MSU 2026
• Teaching Excellence Award, Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning, Missouri State University, 2024
• Faculty Mentor, Maroon & White Honors Banquet for Student-Athletes, Missouri State University, 2019, 2022
• Master Online Course Recognition Award (MOCRA): Best in Interaction and Best in Assessment and Feedback, Missouri State University, 2019
• Diversity Scholar, Missouri State University, 2018
• Certified Distance Educator, Missouri State University, 2017
• Outstanding Dissertation (nomination), American Education Research Association (AERA) Division B (Curriculum), 2017
• Dissertation Scholar, Miami University, 2015-2016
• Outstanding Student Paper Award, Ohio Valley Philosophy of Education Conference, 2014

Additional resources

• Curriculum Vitae

Media Appearances