April Boozer is a Clinical Associate Professor in the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College at Arizona State University. She serves an instructor for early childhood special education in undergraduate and graduate programs. She's taught early childhood and elementary school in urban public schools prior to her role at ASU. She uses her teaching experience and current research practices to help prepare pre-service teachers.
Professor Boozer's research interests include teacher preparation with an emphasis on early childhood special education and culturally responsive teaching practices. She has participating in funded grants as a faculty advisory board member and content developer for the W.F. Kellogg Foundation-iTeachAZ Community Embeddedness Project and US Department of Education Indian Education Professional Development-Preparing Early Childhood Educators for Arizona's Indian Communities (PEAIC) Grant, respectively.
Professor Boozer emphasizes mentorship and service to the community through her work as a volunteer in local schools and mentor to in-service and pre-services teachers.
Education
Ed.D. Leadership and Innovation, Arizona State University 2014
M.Ed. Curriculum and Instruction, Arizona State University 2004
Boozer, A., & Carlson, D.L. (2016). Planning backwards to go forward: Examining pre-service teachers’ use of backward design to plan and deliver instruction. Teacher Education and Practice, 28(4), 522-547.
Ramirez, P., Jimenez-Silva, M., Boozer, A., & Clark, B. (2016). Going against the grain in an urban Arizona high school: Secondary pre-service teachers as culturally responsive educators. Multicultural Perspectives, 18(1), 20-28. doi:10.1080/15210960.2016.1127076
Boozer, A., & Mullady, A. (2015). Enhanced video supervision for early childhood interns in preschool. Imagine the Possibilities Conference, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.
