Dr. Nora Hyland is the Associate Dean and Faculty Director of Teacher Education at the GSE since 2017 and on the faculty of Learning and Teaching for 18 years. During her more than 20 years in higher education (at Rutgers, Brooklyn College, University of Delaware, and University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign) has focused on teacher preparation and anti-racist and equity pedagogy. of Delaware.  She was an elementary school teacher, reading specialist, special educator, and after school program coordinator in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, NY for ten years, and has done extensive work as an educational and grants consultant to schools across the country.