Noah Borrero

Noah Borrero is a professor in the teacher education department, with a focus in urban education and social justice. He teaches courses in bilingual/bicultural education, teaching for diversity and social justice, critical pedagogy, and action research. Professor Borrero's scholarship focuses on promoting equity in schools through focusing on students' and teachers' cultural assets.

After earning a doctorate from Stanford University in 2006, Professor Borrero co-founded the Urban Education and Social Justice master's program upon coming USF. Prior to USF, he was a middle school and high school English teacher.

• Urban education
• Cultural assets
• Issues of diversity and social justice in teaching
• Adolescent development
• Bilingualism
• Teacher education
• Immigration

• PhD, Education, Stanford University School of Education, Stanford, CA

• Borrero, N. E. & Yeh, C. J. (2012). Outstanding Research Award, Division E of the American Educational Research Association.
• Borrero, N. E. (2012). Outstanding Reviewer Award, American Educational Research Association.
• Borrero, N. E. (2010-2011). Distinguished Research Award, University of San Francisco.

• Borrero, N. E. (2024). Deepening Divides or Inciting Change? Ongoing Impacts of COVID-19 on Teaching and Teacher Education in the United States. COVID, 4. 
• Borrero, N. E. & Yeh, C. (2024). Connecting through mapping: Introduction to the IJME special issue. International Journal of Multicultural Education, 26 (1), 1-7.
• Borrero, N. E., Camangian, P. R., Ayers, R., Martinez, S. & Flores, E. (2020). Half an Inch from the Edge: Teacher Education, Teaching, and Student Learning for Social Transformation. New York: Roman & Littlefield.
• Borrero, N. E., Yeh, C. J., De La Cruz, G., Collins, T. (2022). The COVID-19 pandemic and emerging cultural assets. Equity and Excellence in Education, 1-14.
• Borrero, N. E. & Yeh, C. J. (2021). Justice oriented transformative collaboration in
• schools as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic. International Journal of Education, 9(1), 57-72.
• Yeh, C. J., Borrero, N. E., Suda, J. F., & Cruz, C. I. (2021). Place matters: Exploring Native Hawaiian youths’ cultural selves, pride, and generativity. Asian American Journal of Psychology, 12(1), 76.