Sascha C. Mowrey

Campus: Springfield

Details

Education

  • PhD, Learning, Teaching and Diversity, 2017, Vanderbilt University
  • MAT, Early Childhood and Elementary Education, 2004, Willamette University
  • BA, Human Development and Linguistics, 2003, University of California, San Diego

Teaching

  • ECE 304 The Early Childhood Professional
  • ECE 401 Curriculum for Early Childhood Education
  • ECE 402 Assessing Young Children
  • ECE 403 Integrated Arts in the Early Childhood Curriculum
  • ECE 575/675 Study Away Mexico—Seeing the World through Young Children’s Eyes
  • ECE 724 Foundations of Early Childhood Education
  • ECE 731 Advanced Curriculum Development for Early Childhood Programs
  • ECE 762 Seminar in Early Childhood and Family Development
  • ECE 771 Proposal Development

Professional experience

Recent presentations

  • Mowrey, S.C. (June 2017). Collaboration and teaching teams: A social network analysis of collaboration and mentoring. Poster presented at the National Association for the Education of Young Children Professional Learning Institute, San Francisco, CA.
  • Mowrey, S.C. (April 2017). Collaboration and teaching teams: A social network analysis of leaders, teachers and assistants in three pre-kindergarten schools. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Austin, TX.

Publications

  • Mowrey, S.C. & King, E. K. (in press). Sharing experiences and working better together: Within and across-sector collaboration among public preschool educators. 
  • Mowrey, S.C. & Farran, D.C. (2016). Performance and preparation: Alignment between student achievement, teacher ratings, and parent perceptions in urban middle-grades mathematics classrooms. Journal of Urban Learning, Teaching and Research, 12, 61-74. 

Research and professional interests

  • Pre-kindergarten to 3rd grade education
  • Professional roles and identities
  • Educators’ social networks
  • Assistant teachers in early childhood education
  • Professional culture and capital
  • Pre-kindergarten to kindergarten transitions and school readiness

Awards and honors

  • Outstanding Graduate Mentor Nominee, Missouri State University Graduate College, March 2019
  • Diversity Scholar, Missouri State University Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning, September 2018
  • College of Education Conference Travel Award, Missouri State University
  • Peabody Dean’s Fellowship, Vanderbilt University
  • Graduate Honor Scholarship, Vanderbilt University
  • Mary Stuart Rodgers Scholarship, Willamette University
  • Phi Beta Kappa, University of California San Diego