My current research focuses on how teachers learn through being involved in co-designing (designing alongside curriculum designers and researchers) reform-based, student-centered, storyline-driven, science curricula. I look at how teachers learn over three years of being involved in co-designing and then enacting the materials they co-designed. My curricular values framework a) characterizes design dilemmas as moments when a design team encounters multiple ways in which they can proceed with the design process and b) identifies curricular values that underlie criteria used to make design decisions. By focusing on design dilemmas and the values being raised, we can better understand the complexities of the decisions that are being made when very new and necessary types of curricula are being written. I have found that there are tensions that teachers grapple with specifically around making the curriculum coherent and equitable for students. Understanding how teachers learn about these new ways of teaching can help us to better prepare all educators to serve the next generations of students in more meaningful ways. 

Here are some papers about these issues:

Pomian Bogdanov, Katarzyna. (2024). Understanding Longitudinal Teacher Learning across Co-Design and Enactment of Curricular Materials.  ISLS Proceedings 2024 (p.152-153). 

Pomian Bogdanov, Katarzyna. (2024). A Teacher’s Journey with Curricular Materials. Hawaii International Education Conference Proceedings 2024.

Pomian  Bogdanov, Katarzyna. (2022). "It's so frustrating" Understanding Design Dilemmas in Co-Design through curricular values. ICLS Proceedings 2022. 

Grants and Fellowships Received

Total Grants: $299,000

Multidisciplinary Program in Education Sciences (MPES), 09/2020-06/2023 

$144,000

US Department of Education | Institute of Education Sciences 

Dennis R. Washington Leadership Graduate Scholarship, 09/2016-06/2019

$120,000

Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation

Rising Star International Scholar Award, 2012, 2016 & 2018

$15,000

Polish and Slavic Federal Credit Union

Provost Fellowship, 2015 & 2016

$4,000

Loyola University Chicago                                                                                                               

Mulcahy Fellowship, 2014 & 2015

$4,000

Loyola University Chicago      

Horatio Alger State Scholar, 2012-2016

$15,000

Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans