Cara Kronen

Cara Kronen


Associate Professor
Deputy Chairperson
Teacher Education

EMAIL: ckronen@bmcc.cuny.edu

Office: S-616G

Office Hours:

Phone: +1 (212) 776-5621

Cara Kronen is a tenured full professor and the Deputy Chairperson of the Teacher Education Department. She is also the Program Coordinator for the Secondary Education Programs.
Cara was raised and attended public schools in the Bronx. After earning a BA from Hunter College, she was accepted to the New York City Teaching Fellows program and earned an MA in Secondary Education from City College. Before joining the faculty at BMCC, Professor Kronen worked as a teacher, student adviser, and professional developer in a Bronx high school. Later, she began work as an adjunct instructor at Lehman College. Realizing that she could affect more change in our city’s schools by training and mentoring future teachers, pursued a career in post-secondary education. She earned her PhD at Rutgers University-Newark in Urban Systems, specializing in Urban Education Policy. While at Rutgers University, she taught in the Urban Teacher Education Program and worked closely with the Newark Schools Research Collaborative. Cara also serves as the Deputy Mayor of the Village of Tuckahoe in Westchester County.

Expertise

Education Policy, Urban Public Schooling, Social Foundations of Education, Sociology of Education,  School Desegregation and Gentrification, Social Studies Education, Teacher Education, Teacher Certification,  Schooling K-12

Degrees

  • B.A. Hunter College/CUNY, Latin American and Caribbean Studies,2002
  • M.A. City College/CUNY, Secondary Education,2004
  • Ph.D. Rutgers University, Urban Systems, Specialization in Urban Education Policy,2014

Courses Taught

Research and Projects

  • Comprehensive Teacher Empowerment Program
  • CUNY Computer Integrated Teacher Education Program

Publications

  • Semel, S. F., Makris, M. V., & Kronen, C. (Eds.). (2022). Foundations of Education: Essential Texts and New Directions. Taylor & Francis.
  • Garte, R. & Kronen, C. (2022) Community College Students Make Great Future Teachers: Where’s the Support?. Teachers College Record.
  • Kronen, C., Makris, M. V., & Huang, T. S. (2020). Young men of color in privately-owned public spaces: unexpected findings. Journal of Cultural Geography, 1-16.https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08873631.2020.176000
  • Garte, R., & Kronen, C. (2020). You’ve met your match: Using culturally relevant pairing to cultivate mentoring relationships during the early practicum experience of community college preservice teachers. The Teacher Educator, 55(4), 347-372.
  • Garte, R. & Kronen, C. (2020) From the Margins of the Classroom to Mattering: How Community College Education Students Develop Future Teacher Identities. The Educational Forum.
  • Kronen, C. (2018) I’m a Sinner, I’m a Saint: A Teacher’s Perspective on Moonlighting. Blair, E. (Ed.) By the Light of the Silvery Moon: Teacher Moonlighting and the Dark Side of Teachers’ Work.  Meyers Education Press.
  • Garte, R. & Kronen, C. (2017). From the margins to mattering: New perspectives on pre-service teacher education. Proceedings of the World Congress on Education WCE-2017. , World Congress on Education
  • Kronen, C (2016) Selling Out: Parenting, the Realities of Urban Education, and the Hidden Curriculum in Schools. The Social Foundations Reader: Critical Essays on Teaching, Learning, and Leading in the 21st Century. Blair, E. & Medina, Y (Eds.)
  • Sadovnik, A., Coughlin, R., Ferguson, C., Kronen, C., & AB Rosenblum, E. Post-Secondary Outcomes of Newark Public School Graduates (2004-2011).

Honors, Awards and Affiliations

  • 2016 PSC CUNY Grant B
  • 2016 Kellogg Foundation Grant
  • 2018 Community College Research Grant
  • 2022-2024 CITE Sponsored Programs

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