- Houston Endowment Endowed Chair of Urban Education, School of Education and Human Development, Texas A&M University
- Founding Director, Collaborative for Innovation in Teacher Education, School of Education and Human Development, Texas A&M University
- Professor, Teaching, Learning and Culture, School of Education and Human Development
Cheryl J. Craig is a Professor, an Endowed Chair of Urban Education and the Program Lead for Technology and Teacher Education in the Department of Teaching, Learning and Culture, Texas A&M University. She is an American Educational Research Association (AERA) Fellow, a recipient of the AERA Division B (Curriculum) Outstanding Lifetime Career Award, a winner of the AERA Division K (Teaching & Teacher Education) Legacy Award and has been honored with AERA's Michael Huberman Award for Outstanding Contributions to Understanding the Lives of Teachers. She additionally was awarded the AERA Exemplary Research in Teaching and Teacher Education in 2021. Craig also has been honored with the International Study Association on Teachers and Teaching STAR Award for Significant and Exemplary Contributions through Research, Teaching and Professional Service in the International Field of Teaching and Teacher Education. Being an AERA Fellow and an ISATT STAR awardee, coupled with her many other recognitions (including KDP Teacher of the Year) make her one of the most distinguished professors in teaching and teacher education and the general field of education today. Further proof is that she is the only professor in AERA history to be honored with the Division K Legacy Award and Division K Exemplary Research Award in the same year (2021).
- University of Toronto - (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), Postdoctoral Training 1994
- Ph.D. in , University of Alberta - (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada) 1992
- B.E. in , Brandon University - (Brandon, Manitoba, Canada) 1985
- M.Ed. in , University of Calgary - (Calgary, Alberta, Canada) 1980
- B.A. in History; English/Music, Brandon University - (Brandon, Manitoba, Canada) 1976
Academic Articles121
- Li, J., & Craig, C. J. (2023). A beginning teacher's living of counter stories in a high-needs school in rural China. RESEARCH PAPERS IN EDUCATION. 38(1), 1-20.
- Craig, C. J., Li, J., Rios, A., Lee, H., & Verma, R. M. (2022). Wounded healer: The impact of a grant-supported scholarship on an underrepresented science, technology, engineering, and mathematics student's career and life. FRONTIERS IN EDUCATION. 7, 1043518.
- Kelley, M., Curtis, G. A., Craig, C. J., Reid, D., & Easley, A. (2022). Reflection through critical friendship: Promoting growth of teachers. FRONTIERS IN EDUCATION. 7, 1056471.
- Craig, C. J., Flores, M. A., Van Overschelde, J. P., & Hill-Jackson, V. (2022). Problematizing the Taken-For-Granted: Talking Across Differences in Teacher Education. JOURNAL OF TEACHER EDUCATION. 73(3), 221-224.
- Craig, C. J., Li, J., & Kelley, M. (2022). 'Charting waters of New Seas': the scholarly contributions of Elliot Eisner. JOURNAL OF CURRICULUM STUDIES. 54(2), 147-164.
Books7
- Craig, C. J., McDonald, D. M., & Curtis, G. A. (2023). Learning, Leading, and the Best-Loved Self in Teaching and Teacher Education. Springer Nature.
- Craig, C. J. (2020). Curriculum Making, Reciprocal Learning, and the Best-Loved Self. Palgrave MacMillan.
- Craig, C. J., Turchi, L., & McDonald, D. M. (2020). Cross-Disciplinary, Cross-Institutional Collaboration in Teacher Education Cases of Learning and Leading. Palgrave MacMillan.
- Craig, C. J., Curtis, G. A., Kelley, M., Martindell, P. T., & Prez, M. M. (2020). Knowledge Communities in Teacher Education, Sustaining Collaborative Work. Springer Nature.
Chapters73
- Craig, C. J. (2023). Challenges to lived curriculum making: 19902020. International Encyclopedia of Education(Fourth Edition). 339-349. Elsevier.
- Craig, C. J., Flores, M. A., Marcondes, M. I., & Ciuffetelli Parker, D. (2023). Cases of Four International Reforming Contexts: Prelude to the Pandemic and Beyond. The Palgrave Handbook of Teacher Education Research. 1431-1460. Springer Nature.
- Craig, C. J. (2023). The Best-Loved Self: Where to from Here?. Learning, Leading, and the Best-Loved Self in Teaching and Teacher Education. 333-342. Springer Nature.
- Craig, C. J. (2023). Tracing the Roots of the Best-Loved Self. Learning, Leading, and the Best-Loved Self in Teaching and Teacher Education. 9-29. Springer Nature.
- Monroy, M. B., Norton, M., & Craig, C. J. (2023). Unleashing the Best-Loved Self: Autobiographical Narratives of Experience in Higher Education. Learning, Leading, and the Best-Loved Self in Teaching and Teacher Education. 171-193. Springer Nature.
Books8
- (2011). Cultivating Curious and Creative Minds The Role of Teachers and Teacher Educators. R&L Education.
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- EDCI636 Educator As Researcher Instructor
- EDCI644 Curriculum Development Instructor
- EDCI645 Soc&educ In World Pers Instructor
- EDCI646 Instruction Theory Instructor
- Etchells, Matthew James (2018-12). How Pre-Service Teachers Make Sense and Form Professional Identities as Teachers During Initial Field Placement in an Alternative and Discipline Alternative Education Placement. (Doctoral Dissertation)
- Meister, Samantha Marie (2018-08). Baptized by Fire: A Narrative Study of Two White Females Transitioning from Student to Teacher in an Urban School Context. (Doctoral Dissertation)
- Li, Jing (2018-08). Narrative Inquiries into Teachers' Fostering Their Best-Loved Selves in Rural China. (Doctoral Dissertation)
- Zhu, Gang (2018-08). Narrative Inquiry of Chinese and American Student Teachers' Professional Identities in Their Teaching Practicums: A Story Constellations Approach. (Doctoral Dissertation)
- Meister, Samantha Marie (2018-08). Baptized by Fire: A Narrative Study of Two White Females Transitioning from Student to Teacher in an Urban School Context. (Doctoral Dissertation)