Kavita Kapadia Matsko

Kavita Kapadia Matsko is an associate professor and associate dean for teacher education in the School of Education and Social Policy at Northwestern University. She has worked in the field of education in the Chicagoland area for over 25 years, wearing multiple hats including: teacher, mentor, teacher educator, residency director, and researcher. Her research interests focus on the study of teacher education, mentoring, and new teacher induction, with a particular interest in the clinical features of preparation that promote teacher readiness and equitable teaching. She is currently working on research projects which examine mentor teachers’ tacit beliefs about student-teacher learning, the role of context in teacher education, and how aspiring teachers begin to take up ideas about equitable teaching and learning.

Matsko and colleagues recently received the 2022 Outstanding Article Award from the Journal of Teacher Education for work from the “Chicago Teaching Pathways” project for which she was the principal investigator. Prior to joining Northwestern University’s School of Education and Social Policy, Matsko was associate professor and director of innovation and research at the National College of Education at National Louis University in Chicago. Matsko also served as the founding director of the University of Chicago’s Urban Teacher Education Program (UTEP) and as clinical faculty for the Committee on Education.