About Lea Ann Christenson (Edit profile)

Lea Ann Christenson, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the department of early childhood education at Towson University. Her research interests include early literacy and STEM instruction for young dual language learners and professional development for in-service and pre-service teachers in urban and international settings (El Salvador, Nepal, Zimbabwe, China, Sweden and Denmark). Prior to earning her doctorate. at the University of Maryland, College Park in curriculum and instruction with a focus on early literacy, she taught kindergarten-second grade and ESOL, and was an assistant principal in California public schools.