Laura Rogers
Lecturer
Co-Director, School Psychology Program

• Ed.D., Harvard University
• Ed.M., Harvard University
• B.A., Mount Holyoke College

Laura Rogers is a licensed psychologist and a licensed school psychologist. For the past thirteen years, Laura has served as the school psychologist and special education administrator in the Francis W. Parker Charter Essential School, a school she helped to found. She also helped to develop the New Teacher Collaborative, a site-based teacher preparation program in the Theodore R. Sizer Teachers Center. Laura brings a deep commitment to understanding the developmental pathways of child and adolescent experiences to her work in the design and operation of school communities. She is particularly interested in helping teachers and others stay attuned to how children and adolescents experience instructional practices. She has also worked as a clinician in a variety of settings in Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Kathmandu, Nepal, including in private practice, prisons, a health clinic, and a child guidance clinic. She teaches courses in adolescent development, serving children with special needs, cognitive assessment, social and emotional assessment, and learning disabilities.

Selected Publications
Cushman, K., Rogers, L. (2008) Fires in the Middle School Bathroom. New York: The New Press.

Cushman, K., Rogers, L. (2008) What middle school students say about social forces in the classroom. Middle School Journal, 39(3), 14-24.

Cushman, K., Rogers, L. (2007) Using our energy to help us learn: Voices from the middle grades. Texas Study of Secondary Education, 16(2), 22-24.

Rogers, L. (2005) Adolescent risk-taking: Re-conceptualizing middle school intervention. Paper presented at the Oxford Round Table, Oxford University.

Rogers, L., Kegan R.G. (1991) "Mental growth" and "mental health" as distinct concepts in the study of developmental psychopathology: Theory, research, and clinical implications. In D Keaton, H Rosen (Eds.), Constructivist Perspectives on Developmental Psychopathology and Atypical Development. New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Rogers, L., Wolf, B. (1994) Counseling Training Manual, The Centre for Victims of Torture, Kathmandu, Nepal.

Kegan, R.G., Noam, G, Rogers, L. (1982) The psychology of emotion: A neo-Piagetian view. In D Cicchetti and P Hesse (Eds.), New Directions for Child Development: Emotional Development. San Francisco, CA: Jossey Bass.