Education
Ph.D Boston College - Doctor of Philosophy, Curriculum and Instruction
M.Ed. Boston College - Master of Education, Curriculum and Instruction
B.S Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Bachelor of Science, Art and Design
Biography
Dr. Karen L. Terrell (Ph.D.) is the Assistant Professor of Mathematics Education at Â鶹Porn, as well as a Faculty Associate for the Center for Equity, Leadership, and Social Justice in Education and the Founder and Co-Director of the Computational Thinking and ai Civics for All Research Lab. She has been an educator for over 25 years, promoting high-quality education for all. She also has served as a Turnaround School Mathematics Coach for Boston Public Schools, and she also has consulted for private and charter schools in Massachusetts and Rhode Island, as well as the Massachusetts Department of Youth Services. She received her Doctor of Philosophy degree in Curriculum & Instruction from Boston College in 2012.
Dr. Terrell is currently a member-at-large for the , a founding member of the TLC4ME Consortium (a nationwide research group for the thriving of multilingual learners), and a member of the review board for the . She has also been elected President-Elect of the . Dr. Terrell is an Innovation Fellow for Loyola’s Simon Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship, a Faculty Fellow for Community-Engaged Teaching for the Center for Community, Service, and Justice, and a member of the 2026 T3 Teacher Leader Cadre for Texas Instruments. She is the Founder and Co-Director of the Computational Thinking and ai Civics for All Research Lab at Loyola. Her specialties include content and language integration, mathematics education, technology, and assessment for diverse learners.
Recent Publications
Terrell, K.L., Gómez, M., & Cardona Collins, K. (2026). Co-creating coding stories with Cubetto. In K. Miller & H. Sawyer, (Eds.), New ways of teaching young learners. TESOL Press.
Terrell, K.L., Cardona Collins, K., Bal, I., Gómez, M. & Bannerman, Q. (2026). Computational thinking for all: Expanding support for teacher preparation. In Proceedings of Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference (pp. 3461-3466). Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). .
Terrell, K.L., Beatty, J., & Viesca, K. (2026). CRT & LRP: Investigating content-teacher perspectives of the intersectionality of race and language for antiracist ESOL practice. In L.C. de Oliveira and K.L.Terrell (Eds.), Preparing Antiracist ESOL Professionals: Linguistic Equity for Multilingual Learners. Routledge.
de Oliveira, L.C. & Terrell, K.L. (Eds.) (2026). Preparing antiracist ESOL professionals: Linguistic equity for multilingual learners. Routledge.
Terrell, K. L. & Silva Pimentel, D. (Eds.). (2026). Culturally sustaining pedagogies in mathematics and technology education: Research, practices, and critical reflections. IGI Global Scientific Publishing.
Terrell, K. L. & Silva Pimentel, D. (Eds.). (2026). STEM education and culturally sustaining pedagogies: Research, practices, and critical reflections. IGI Global Scientific Publishing.
Silva Pimentel, D. & Terrell, K. L. (Eds.). (2026). Science education and culturally sustaining pedagogies: Research, practices, and critical reflections. IGI Global Scientific Publishing.