Rosalynne Elisabeth Duff

Rosalynne E. Duff (She/ Her/ Hers) is an international educator, leader, and healer with over a decade of experience in urban education. She is a teacher educator of professional learning, serving in a predominantly Black university and school district in Atlanta, GA. She is also a doctoral student at Georgia State University’s College of Education and Human Development, examining Teaching and Teacher Education. Black Women's holistic, healing, and liberatory practices are at the heart of her dissertation. She aims to develop a holistic framework for teacher education utilizing critical contemplative pedagogy, integrating educational equity, SEL, and academics. Duff authored “My Freedom Framework,” a chapter in the book Black Women Navigating Historically White Higher Education Institutions and the Journey Toward Liberation (2022). She has co-authored three book chapters on innovative methods of (re)centering well-being, equity, and social justice in teacher-educator professional development and programs. Nationally, she has studied social and emotional learning (SEL), mindfulness, equity, and leadership through the Transformative Educational Leadership (TEL) program at the Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, NY. She was a facilitator with Millennium Forum, a platform for educator well-being. Internationally, she contributed to creating an innovative social and emotional curriculum with the SEE (Social, Emotional, and Ethical) Learning program and traveled to India to speak on a global teaching panel about the impact of SEE Learning in the urban classroom.

Publications

Black Women Professors' ART for Well-Being in Teacher Education
Black Women Professors' ART for Well-Being in Teacher Education
Rosalynne Elisabeth Duff. © 2024. 27 pages.
Within the academy, Black Women professors have cultivated theories and practices for well-being, utilizing memoirs for theorization and social movements. However, their theories...
My Freedom Framework: Mitigating the MESS of Higher Education Through ACTS of Liberation
My Freedom Framework: Mitigating the MESS of Higher Education Through ACTS of Liberation
Rosalynne Elisabeth Duff. © 2022. 18 pages.
ACTS of Liberation is a freedom framework for any educator grappling with mitigating the mental, emotional, social, and spiritual stress (MESS) of higher education. It is a...