Erika Kitzmiller

K12 Education

How One Public High School Transformed First-Gen College Success with Dr, Erika Kitzmiller

In this episode of Trending in Education, host Mike Palmer welcomes Erika Kitzmiller, a research associate professor at the University of Chicago and author of the new book, ⁠Unchartered: How One Public High School Transformed First Generation College Success⁠. Drawing on her own background as a former middle school teacher and a proud first-generation college graduate, Kitzmiller shares the insights gained from an intensive, multi-year case study of a public high school pseudonymously named Clayton.

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