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Rosemarie Allen

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Rosemarie Allen

Professor of Early Childhood Education

Special Education, Early Childhood, and Culturally/Linguistically Diverse Education

Bio

Rosemarie Allen's life's work is centered on ensuring children have access to high quality early childhood programs that are developmentally and culturally relevant. She is currently an Associate Professor in the School of Education at Metro State University of Denver. Her classes are focused on ensuring teachers are aware of how issues of equity, privilege, and power impact teaching practices. Rosemarie has also served as the Director of the Division of Child Care for Colorado Department of Human Services. In that role, she oversaw the State鈥檚 child care licensing program, the federal child care assistance program, the redesign of the State鈥檚 quality rating and improvement system, the implementation of the State鈥檚 professional development plan, and assisted in the creation of Colorado鈥檚 early learning guidelines.

Dr. Allen's also serves as the President and CEO for the Institute for Racial Equity & Excellence (IREE), which is the lead agency for ensuring equity in educational practices throughout the nation. In this capacity she has worked with the United States Department of Education as well as 48 State Departments of Education, the United States Customs and Border Protection, Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), Police Officer Standard Training (POST) American Academy of Pediatrics and numerous police departments, school districts and other organizations providing training on implicit bias, microaggressions, anti-racism and racial equity. IREE is contracted with the State of Colorado to monitor and license early childhood facilities using a model she created, 鈥淐ulturally Responsive Community Based Licensing鈥�.

Rosemarie is a national expert on implicit bias and culturally responsive practices, speaking at conferences across the country. She is a respected keynote speaker, presenting on Implicit Bias, Racial Equity, Inclusive Practices, Culturally Responsive Practices, Cultural Competence, Micro-Aggressions, Disproportionality, Privilege, Power and Intersectionality, etc. She also has the distinct honor of being appointed as a 鈥淕lobal Leader鈥� connecting with world leaders in early childhood across the globe. Rosemarie earned her B. A. from California State University, Long Beach, Master鈥檚 of Education from Lesley University and Doctorate in Equity and Leadership in Education at the University of Colorado, Denver.

Degree

EdD in Leadership for Educational Equity

University of Colorado, Denver

Other in Equity Institute

University of Pennsylvania

Other in Curriculum and Instruction

Lesley University

BA in Black Studies/Child Development

California State University, Long Beach

Published Works

  • Bornfreund,, L., Allen, R., Machalicek, , W., Gordon, L., Bucher, E. (2026). The Pedagogy of Early Learning A STATE OF THE FIELD RESEARCH BRIEF. ,
  • Allen, R., Shapland, D. (2026). Instructor鈥檚 Guide for Becoming a Culturally Responsive Teacher Sustaining the Cultures of Young Children. ,
  • Allen, R., Shapland Rodriguez, D. (2026). Becoming a Culturally Responsive Teacher: Sustaining the Cultures of Young Children. (pp 176). National Association for the Education of Young Children. NAEYC.org
  • Allen, R., Hunter, A. (2025). Creating an Anti-Racist and Inclusive Early Care Environment. (). .
  • Allen, R., Shapland Rodriguez, D., Parker, A. . The Role of Implicit Bias and Social Determinants of Health. (). .
  • Meek, S., Soto Boykin, X., Catherine, E., Williams, C., ., Austin, R., Cardona, M., Bucher, E., Alexander, B., Iruka, I., Allen, R. (2025). Safeguarding the Civil Rights of Children and Families. ,
  • Bucher, E., Meek, S., Cardona, M., Alexander, B., Soto-Boykin, X., Catherine, E., Catasha, W., Jayswal, P., Allen, R. (2025). Preserving the Federal Role in Advancing Educational Opportunity.. Children's Equity Project, chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://cep.asu.edu/sites/default/files/2025-01/Preserving%20the%20Federal%20Role%20of%20Implementing%20Policies%20that%20Advance%20Equal%20Opportunity%20for%20Our%20Children%20and%20their%20Families%20%20%2829%29.pdf
  • Powell, T., Meek, S., Soto-Boykin, ., Allen, R., Iruka, U. ., Bucher, E., Ameley-Quaye, A., Alexander, B., Cardona, M., Aponte, Y. G., Gordon, L., Blevins, D., Loewenberg, A. (2024). Learning, Joy, and Equity: A New Framework for Elementary Education. . New America,
  • Harris, E., Allen, R., Shapland Rodriguez, D. (2024). Embedding Equity Social Studies Methods for Preservice Teachers Using Transformational Learning Practices. Black History Bulletin of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, 87(1), 6-11. .
  • Allen, R., Hunter, A. . Creating an Anti-Racist and Inclusive Early Care Environment . (). Brookes Publishing.
  • Alexander, B., Meek, S., Janssen, J., Cardona, M., Allen, R., Powell, T., Blevins, D., Catherine, E. (2023). National Equity Landscape of State Exclusionary Discipline Policies Across Pre-K - 12 Contexts. ,
  • Allen, R., Gilliam, W. (2023). Suspensions and Expulsions in Early Childhood Education. (pp 244). Brookes Publishing.
  • Allen, R., Meek, S., Alexandeer, B., Palomino, C., Blevins, D., Catherine, E., McIntosh, K., , M., Powell, T., Soto-Boykin, X. (2022). A Holistic Approach to Ending Exclusionary Discipline for Young Learners. Children's Eqity Project,
  • Shapland, D., Allen, R., Harris, E., Cook-LaPointe, S. (2022). Integrating Trauma Informed Teaching Practices Throughout an Early Childhood Education Program to Support Teacher Education Students. (). Information Age Publishing .
  • Allen, R. (2022). Preschool Suspensions: A Civil Rights Issue. (). Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
  • Kinavey Wennerstrom, E., Stegenga, S., Allen, R., McIntosh, K., Smith, L. J. (2021). Early Childhood Program-Wide PBS Benchmarks of Quality (EC-BOQ) Culturally Responsiveness Companion . , file:///Users/rosemarieallen/Library/Mobile%20Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs/ECBoQ_Cultural-Responsiveness-Companion.pdf
  • Allen, R., Shapland, D. (2021). Viewpoint. Creating Anti-Racist Early Childhood Spaces. National Association for the Education of Young Children,
  • Allen, R., Shapland, D., Neitzel, J., Iruka, I. (2021). Creating Anti鈥慠acist Early Childhood Spaces. (). National Association of Early Childhood Education.
  • Allen, R., Shapland, D., Neitzel, J., Iruka, I. (2021). Creating Anti-Racist Early Childhood Spaces. NAEYC,
  • Meek, S., Allen, R., Williams, C. (2020). Newspaper Opinion. the 74 Million,
  • Allen, R., Hunter, A., Barton, E., Riepe, B. (2020). Talking to Very Young Children 网曝吃瓜 Race: It's Necessary Now, More than Ever. ,
  • Meek, S., Smith, L., Allen, R., Catherine, E. (2020). Start With Equity: From the Early Years to the Early Grades. . Children's Eqity Project,
  • Allen, R. (2018). Cute and Curly. , LoveBeingBlack.com
  • Allen, R. (2018). Stylish and Straight. , LoveBeingBlack.com
  • Artman Meeker, K., Fettig, A., Hardy, J., Allen, R., Ampudia, S., Baggett, K., Carta, J., Conroy, M., Fox, L., Gilliam, W., Hemmeter, M. (2017). Position Statement on Challenging Behavior and Young Children. Zero to Three Journal, November 2017,
  • Fox, L., Hemmeter, M., Strain, P., Allen, R., Ferro, J., Perez Binder, D. (2016). Supporting Children & Families During a Difficult Time. ,
  • Allen, R., Steed, E. (2016). Culturally Responsive Pyramid Model Practices Program-Wide Positive Behavior Support for Young Children. . Topics in Special Education.
  • Allen, R. (2016). Preschool Suspensions: Addressing Disproportional Discipline Practices. ,
  • Allen, R., Smith, J. B. (2015). Expelling Expulsion: Using the Pyramid Model to Prevent Suspensions, Expulsions, and Disciplinary Inequities in Early Childhood Programs. Pyramid Consortium,
  • Allen, R. (2014). Necessary Spaces by Saundra Murray Nettles. Children, Youth and Environments, ,

Research Interests

Rosemarie鈥檚 passion and focus is on addressing inequities at all levels of the early childhood system, especially the disproportionate number of children of color who are expelled from early childhood programs.

Teaching Interests

Equity and Leadership in Early Childhood programs with a focus on social justice and addressing racial disproportionality in suspensions and expulsions in ECE programs.

Office Hours

Wednesday - [010:00 to 02:00]

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