Megan Hopkins, Ph.D.

UC San Diego
mbhopkins@ucsd.edu

Megan Hopkins, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Education Studies at the University of California, San Diego. Her work is motivated by her experience as a bilingual elementary school teacher in Phoenix, Arizona, before and after the state passed its English-only law. She received her Ph.D. in Education from the University of California, Los Angeles, where she also mentored first-year bilingual teachers in the Los Angeles Unified School District. Her research seeks to identify systems-level approaches to equity-oriented educational change, with an emphasis on designing schools that engage and challenge immigrant-origin and refugee students and facilitate teacher learning and development. She has collaborated with school districts across the country to provide research-based guidance related to language policy implementation, and to co-design supportive professional learning contexts for teachers of English learners.