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Cassandra O'Sullivan Sachar, Ed.D.

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Cassandra Sachar
Title(s)
Associate Professor
Department
Education

Cassandra O’Sullivan Sachar received her Ed.D. in Educational Leadership with a Literacy Specialization from the University of Delaware. She also holds a Master of Instruction from the University of Delaware and a Bachelor of Arts in English with a Writing Concentration from York College of Pennsylvania. Furthermore, she was certified in Secondary Education English at York College of Pennsylvania and later attained National Board for Professional Teaching Standards certification for English Language Arts/Adolescence and Young Adulthood. Additionally, she holds a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion certificate from the University of South Florida Muma College of Business.

Contact Information
Office Hours

Mondays

12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

Tuesdays

3:30 PM - 4:00 PM

Wednesdays

1:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Thursdays

12:45 PM - 1:45 PM

Fridays

10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Teaching and Research Interests

Prior to her career at BU, Dr. Sachar taught secondary English in underprivileged Delaware public schools for fifteen years. This experience contributed to her research interests that center around providing meaningful feedback, utilizing metacognitive revision to promote writing achievement, and working with at-promise students. She has presented on the subjects of writing strategy instruction, literacy, equity, and inclusion at international, national, and regional conferences including the Writing Research Across Borders Conference, the World Literacy Summit, the National Organization for Student Success Conference, and the Lilly Conference.

While most of her published writing is in the form of research studies or practitioner pieces in periodicals including Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Faculty Focus, The Teaching Professor, Research & Teaching in Developmental Education, Modern English Teacher, Edutopia, Women in Higher Education, Inside Higher Ed, Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, The Teacher Trainer Journal, and Education Week, Dr. Sachar is also an avid creative writer. Her personal essays, short stories, flash fiction, microfiction, and poetry have appeared or are forthcoming in Adelaide Literary Magazine, The Dillydoun Review, Little Old Lady Comedy, The Dribble Drabble Review, Friday Flash Fiction, The Centifictionist, Dark Drabbles, Eerie Christmas 2, Black Petals Horror/Science Fiction Magazine, The Drabble, and Merlyn’s Pen.

Courses Taught

  • ENGL371 - Composition Theory
  • ENGL493 - Independent Study
  • WRIT101/102 - Foundations in Composition/Lab
  • WRIT103 - Foundations in Composition