Amy Tondreau, PhD

Dr. Amy Tondreau (Boston College ’04)                               

Amy Tondreau is a former elementary school educator and current teacher who demonstrates a passion for preparing public school teachers to take on social justice issues in their practice. She also is committed to ensuring that novice educators who come from traditionally marginalized backgrounds have access to the resources that they need to successfully navigate the profession Amy has co-authored multiple book chapters and articles on culturally sustaining elementary school literacy teaching.  

Since graduating from her doctoral program, Amy has worked as an Assistant Professor at public universities in Tennessee and now Maryland. In both positions, she has been dedicated to supporting first generation college students. Notable in this work has been her academic advising. Prior to her current position as an assistant professor of elementary education at the University of Maryland Baltimore County, Amy worked at Austin Peay State University where she worked with a group of undergraduate future Black women educators to form a club which the members named the Social Philosophy of Teaching and Service. This group served as a place for members to recruit more Black teachers into the teacher education program at Austin Peay.