Sarah A. Coppersmith

Sarah A. Coppersmith most recently has been an Assistant Research Professor in the University of Missouri, St. Louis (UMSL) College of Education and an Adjunct Instructor of Geography in the Humanities Division at Lindenwood University, St. Charles, Missouri. She is currently a Fellow in the Inquiry Circle Program on global competency (Longview Foundation, UMSL Global, and UMSL College of Education, 2019-2020). Her recent research includes a focus on in-service and pre-service teachers’ application of linguistically and culturally responsive teaching practices with English learners; stress, self-efficacy, and inquiry learning with pre-service teachers; explorations of inquiry learning in the Fur Trade Era in the Mid-Mississippi Valley in an International Baccalaureate Language Immersion setting, and moral agency beliefs of undergraduates studying World Regional Geography.

Publications

Resilience in Crisis: Developing Community Through Action Research
Alina Slapac, Sarah A. Coppersmith, Kathryn G. O'Brien, Phyllis Balcerzak. © 2021. 26 pages.
Teacher action research serves as a framework that can transform practice while supporting inquiry, investigation, and problem-solving. This chapter provides a research report on...
Preparing and Enriching Linguistically and Culturally Responsive Educators Through Professional Development
Alina Slapac, Sujin Kim, Sarah A. Coppersmith. © 2021. 18 pages.
This chapter examined a cohort of 12 in-service teachers' and three administrators' views in regards to areas of successes, challenges, and priorities in working with...
Beyond Language Learning Instruction: Transformative Supports for Emergent Bilinguals and Educators
Alina Slapac, Sarah A. Coppersmith. © 2020. 422 pages.
Educators all over the world are being challenged to provide effective instruction for culturally and linguistically diverse learners and immigrant communities while valuing and...
Preparing and Enriching Linguistically and Culturally Responsive Educators Through Professional Development
Alina Slapac, Sujin Kim, Sarah A. Coppersmith. © 2020. 23 pages.
This chapter examined a cohort of 12 in-service teachers' and three administrators' views in regards to areas of successes, challenges, and priorities in working with...