Pashmforoosh, Roya Assistant Professor

Dr. Roya Pashmforoosh is an assistant professor in the Department of Educational Psychology at the College of Education & Human Development at Texas A&M University, beginning in September 2024. From August 2022 to August 2024, she served as an Accountability, Climate, Equity, and Scholarship (ACES) Faculty Fellow. She obtained a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology (2021) with an emphasis on Bilingual/English as a Second Language (ESL) Education from Texas A&M University, and previously, she received a Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics with an emphasis on Teaching English as a Second Language (TESL) from Tehran University of Teacher Education (2018). She also holds a master's degree in Applied Linguistics with an emphasis on TESL from Sharif University of Technology (2011). In 2016, she was invited to be a Visiting Research Scholar in the Department of Teaching, Learning, and Culture in the College of Education and Human Development. Her scholarship is centered on researching Virtual Professional Development (VPD), Virtual Professional Learning Communities (VPLC), and Virtual Mentoring and Coaching (VMC) for teachers and school leaders who serve large numbers of emergent bilingual students (EBs), English learners (ELs), and economically challenged students (ECs) in high needs schools.