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Dr. Sunmin Lee

  • Assistant Professor - Curriculum And Instruction
Portrait of Dr. Sunmin Lee
  • Adair, Jennifer K. (Principal), Park, Soyoung (Co-Principal), Lee, Sunmin (Co-Principal), McManus, Molly E. (Co-Principal), Odim, Nnenna (Co-Principal), Sachdeva, Shubhi (Co-Principal). Determining Contextual Support for Individual and Collective Agency in PreK-3rd Classrooms serving Young Children from BIPOC Communities, Brady Education Foundation, Private / Foundation / Corporate, $300000. (Funded: September 2022 - August 2025). Grant.
  • Adair, Jennifer K. (Principal), McManus, Molly E. (Supporting), Park, Soyoung (Supporting), Colegrove, Kiyomi S.S. (Supporting), Lee, Sunmin (Supporting), Odim, Nnenna (Supporting), Sachdeva, Shubhi (Supporting), Payne, Katherina A. (Supporting), Jones, Natacha (Supporting). Dynamic Innovation For Young Children (DIFYC) Partnership, San Antonio ISD, San Antonio ISD, $750000. (Funded: August 2018 - August 2020). Grant.
  • Adair, Jennifer K. (Principal), Payne, Katherina A. (Supporting), Colegrove, Kiyomi S.S. (Supporting), Lee, Sunmin (Supporting), McManus, Molly E. (Supporting), Sachdeva, Shubhi (Supporting), Falkner, Anna (Supporting). Civic Action and Young Children Study, Spencer Foundation, Private / Foundation / Corporate, $350000. (Funded: August 2015 - August 2016). Grant.
  • Payne, K. A., Lee, S., & McManus, M. E. (n.d.). Young Children’s Civicness: A Close Look at Membership and Community. Democracy and Education.
  • Lee, S. (2025). Mothers of children with disabilities as agents of change: Questioning the notion of verbalness. Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood.
  • Payne, K. A., Adair, J. K., Lee, S., McManus, M., Falkner, A., Sachdeva, S., & Colegrove, K. (2025). Child-focused civics: Seeing civic action in young children’s everyday interactions. Theory & Research in Social Education, 1–32.
  • Lee, S., & Alonzo, M. (2024). A Strength-Based Approach to Inclusive Education for Children of Color with Disabilities. Young Children, 79(3), 14–22.
  • Adair, J. K., Park, S., Alonzo, M., McManus, M., Odim, N., Lee, S., … Colegrove, K. S. S. (2024). Equitable Access to Agency-Supportive Early Schooling Contexts for Young Children of Color. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 69(4), 49–64.
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  1. Other

    Young Children

  2. Member

    Instructional Aide Course Design Working Group

  3. Reviewer / Referee

    American Educational Research Association: SIG Disability Studies in Education

  4. Reviewer / Referee

    Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education

  5. Reviewer / Referee

    Journal of Childhood Studies

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    Research Enhancement Committee

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