Category Archives: Academic Life

Join the Antiracist Leadership Course!

Looking for a class to add to your schedule for the spring semester? Check out EDLD 130: Antiracist Leadership: Cases, Frameworks, and Praxis with Dr. Jolynn Asato! This class can help everyone expand as leaders and give you an opportunity to share your work and passions! Be a part of a learning community to co-construct this class and design a social action plan. This class will be offered on Mon/Wed from 9:00-10:15 am.

Course Description: This course explores historical and contemporary cases of antiracist action, for example, the Montgomery bus boycott and the elimination of the Oakland Unified School District’s police department. Course members study models of leadership from a variety of frameworks, such as Kendi’s on antiracism, and use them to engage in intersectional analysis.

New Lurie College Higher Ed Leadership MA and Teaching Certificate Programs

SJSU Cesar Chavez Monument

Our new MA program prepares higher education leaders through an equity-minded praxis approach to engage in transformative thinking and practice with the goal of disrupting how power, in the form of racism, classism, sexism, and related oppressions intersect to (re)produce and sustain disparate higher educational opportunities.  The first cohort of our 1-year program will begin in Summer 2022.  Learn more about the program and how to apply by March 1 at sjsu.edu/edleadership/academics/highered-leadership

Our Higher Education Teaching Certificate focuses on developing postsecondary faculty’s culturally-sustaining and responsive pedagogical knowledge grounded in social justice, equity, and inclusion. Students will enroll in a foundations course that examines the development and knowledge of theories related to diversity, equity and inclusion in U.S. higher education; a teaching methods course grounded in culturally-sustaining pedagogies; and a teaching fieldwork experience where students will put into practice culturally-sustaining and responsive teaching methodologies.  The first cohort of our 9 unit program will begin in Summer 2022.  Learn more about the program and how to apply by April 1 at sjsu.edu/edleadership/academics/certificate

Connect with Lurie College and SJSU!

Connect with the SJSU Lurie College of Education @sjsulurie

Stay connected to helpful online resources as we head into the Spring 2022 semester!  Here are some initial Lurie College of Education and SJSU resources:

Welcome (Back), Lurie College Students!

Dear Lurie College Students —

We are excited to have you join us for Spring 2022 semester!  As you prepare for the semester ahead, we wanted to reach out to share a few Lurie College-specific updates:
  1. All Lurie College courses will be online through Feb. 13, 2022.  Course instructors will reach out to registered students directly with more information about synchronous and asynchronous class meeting plans.
  2. Field experiences for Lurie College students will continue in the modality determined by our school and community partners.  We anticipate that most schools, clinics, and community-based programs remain open for in-person work and learning.  As long as our field partners continue to operate in person, we expect our students to be physically present in their field placements.
  3. Our Lurie College Student Success Center, department offices, and student support services continue to be open for both in person and virtual access.  Please check the relevant page(s) on our college website for hours, location, and contact information.
  4. Study space and computer equipment are available.  If you need a quiet space to study and/or need access to wifi for online classes, you are welcome to use the study spaces on campus, including our student success center in Sweeney Hall 106 and study and collaboration room in Sweeney Hall 446.   If you need computer equipment or technical assistance to be able to access courses online, please contact our student success center.
  5. We will return to the planned Spring 2022 schedule beginning on Feb. 14.  Please make plans to be available for on-campus class meetings by arranging your work schedule, securing housing in the region, obtaining your parking pass or public transit pass,  getting your ID card (required to access buildings on campus), getting your booster vaccine, etc.  For classes that are listed as hybrid, please refer to the course syllabi in Canvas for more information on specific on-campus meeting dates.  You can also obtain this information from department administrative assistants and/or advisors in the student success center.  We are also planning to host a Cocoa and Coffee in the Courtyard event around this time, so stay tuned for more details.
Connect with Lurie College on social media to stay up to date with events in the College. More information on ways to connect and available resources can be found on the Lurie College blog.
Finally, we know that these changes to the start of the semester has added a layer of unpredictability to an already stressful time.  Our faculty, staff, and college leaders are here to support you.  Please prioritize your health and well being and contact our student success center team if you need help.
With appreciation,
Heather Lattimer, Dean
Marcos Pizarrro, Associate Dean

Lurie College Faculty Publishes Opinion Piece

Congratulations to Counselor Education department faculty Kyoung Mi Choi, who recently published “The Invisibility of International LGBTQ+ Students on U.S. Campuses” on Visible Magazine.

“Based on my personal and professional experiences, I offer the following suggestions for faculty and staff to support international LGBTQ+ students on campuses:

Become familiar with common issues of international LGBTQ+ individuals, including fear of consequences after returning home, unfamiliarity with LGBTQ+ terminology, difficulties in developing intimate relationships, lack of knowledge of resources, and legal issues.

Be knowledgeable about LGBTQ+ movements and advocacy activities around the globe. Create trust and build allyship with international students and gently invite them to discuss complex and sensitive topics by asking questions like, “What are the norms around gender and sexuality in your home country?” or “What kinds of culture clashes or new ideas might they be exposed to on campus?”

Lastly, be an advocate for international LGBTQ+ students. Develop comprehensive cultural competency training that increases the awareness of the unique needs of international LGBTQ+ students and make inclusive campus policies to protect those students legally and culturally while studying in U.S. higher education.”

SJSU Lurie College of Education Counselor Education Department Faculty Kyoung Mi Choi

Lurie College Faculty Featured in Peer Connections Video

Child and Adolescent Development faculty Krissy Connell – Hassett was featured in a new SJSU Peer Connections video, which provides SJSU faculty with information about Peer Connections and its services for students as well as how Peer Connections can support the faculty in their own courses. Watch the video on the SJSU Peer Connections YouTube channel and learn more at sjsu.edu/peerconnections/about/faculty-info.

Lurie College Raises Over $5000 for Speech-Language and Hearing Clinic

Congratulations to our Communicative Disorders and Sciences Department, who recently raised over $5000 to invest in our Kay Armstead Center for Communicative Disorders (KACCD) as they prepare to reopen in 2022. Read more about the fundraiser on their Giving Tuesday webpage.

Lurie College Faculty Featured in Univision Story

Eduardo Muñoz-Muñoz Univision Interview

Teacher Education Department faculty and SJSU Critical Bilingual Authorization Program Coordinator Eduardo Muñoz-Muñoz was featured in the Univision story “Distritos escolares de California podrían eliminar las calificaciones ‘D’ y ‘F’” / “California school districts could eliminate ‘D’ and ‘F’ grades” – watch the full interview on the Univision website.

Lurie College Faculty Create Free Online Modules

SJSU Lurie College of Education Teacher Education Faculty Brent Duckor Carrie Holmberg

Teacher Education faculty Brent Duckor and Carrie Holmberg have turned their book, Mastering Formative Assessment Moves: 7 High-Leverage Practices to Advance Student Learning, into a free, accessible set of module-based learning pathways with the help of the California Collaborative for Educational Excellence (CCEE). Access the splash page for the 9 Modules and the final module that gives a flavor of overall takeaways.

Watch our Instagram Live Conversation with Lurie College Faculty Dr. Robert Marx

As part of our Lurie College Instagram Live series, Communicative Disorders and Sciences undergraduate student and Multimedia Student Assistant Caryn Iwakiri recently spoke with Child and Adolescent Development faculty Robert Marx.  Listen to them discuss their favorite morning beverages, the courses Prof. Marx teaches, the intersection of culture and education, Professor Marx’s journey to where he is now, and much more!

Join the Lurie College Discord!

Join the Lurie College Discord! Chat with current, former, and future students of SJSU’s Lurie College of Education!
Be able to connect and collaborate with one another! You can also participate in or host fun voice or video calls with anyone who wants to join!

Join our Lurie College Discord at bit.ly/lurie-discord

 

Watch our Institute for Emancipatory Education Speaker Series: Dr. David Stovall

Watch out Institute for Emancipatory Education speaker series! Dr. David Stovall talks about the constructs of Critical Race Theory (CRT) and Abolition to consider emancipatory education. If we are trying to create an education that liberates those who experience white supremacy in the form of isolation, marginalization, and dehumanization, we must be clear about the current socio-political moment. We must be willing to take away lessons of history to build a praxis (action and reflection in the world in order to change it) centered on the needs of our communities. Any struggle for change, time, space, and will is central moving forward.

Attend Our Intersectional Disability Studies Speaker Series

SJSU Lurie College of Education IEE Intersectional Disability Studies Speaker Series Lydia X.Z. Brown Alice Wong

The Intersectional Disability Studies Strand (IDSS), under the SJSU Lurie College of Education’s Institute for Emancipatory Education (IEE), serves as a community-engaged, culturally sustaining space that centers disability visibility and disability as an intersectional identity. Our strand provides specific resources and support to engage intersectional disability studies and accessibility in education.

Join us on Thursday, December 2, from 4:30-5:30pm PST on Zoom to learn from Alice Wong, disabled activist, writer, editor, media maker, consultant, and founder and director of the Disability Visibility Project. Live captions will be available at both events and ASL interpreters will be available at Alice’s event. If you are in need of additional accommodations, email luriecollege@sjsu.edu.

Learn more and RSVP at sjsu.edu/education/community/iee/ids.

 

Attend Our SJSU Ethnic Studies Collaborative Conversation

Join our SJSU Ethnic Studies Collaborative on Thursday, December 2, on Zoom for a conversation with Shadae Mallory, writer, educator, and social justice advocate who recently published children’s book (ages 6-9) focused on the history of the civil rights movement. You can register for this event at tinyurl.com/ShadaeMallory.

About the Author

Shadae B. Mallory, MA, is a writer, educator, and social justice advocate. They also work as a diversity, equity, and inclusion consultant and as a freelance writer. The History of the Civil Rights Movement is Shadae’s debut novel. You can follow them online at ShadaeMallory.com.

SJSU Lurie College of Education Ethnic Studies Collaborative Shadae Mallory

Lurie College Faculty Publishes Advocacy Piece

Shoutout to Child and Adolescent Development faculty Robert Marx, who published “Collective Memory for Queer and Trans Liberation” in Visible Magazine!

“Collective memory and intergenerational connection are the healing antidote to the forces of capitalism, White supremacy, and heteropatriarchy that aim to keep us too busy and downtrodden to see our own capacity to upend systems that work for only a very few. Just as I learned about my grandmother’s memories and ways of navigating oppression, so too does learning the ways of life of our queer and trans ancestors offer us a way to radically alter the material conditions which govern our lives and limit us.”

SJSU Lurie College of Education Child and Adolescent Development Faculty Robert Marx Visible Magazine

Hang out with out Lurie College Storytellers!

Come and hang out with our Lurie College Storytellers!  Keep up with them through the Lurie College Tik Tok and Instagram weekly to watch what they do during their weeks, give tips about school, talk about their passions, and more.

@sjsulurieAny fellow Swifties out there, what’s your favorite song from Red (Taylor’s Version)? ##storytellers ##redtaylorsversion ##sjsulurie

♬ Message In A Bottle (Taylor’s Version) (From The Vault) – Taylor Swift

@sjsulurieneeded this day off, but i hate when it feels like I wasted a day. 🙃 ##storytellers

♬ Paris Loves Lovers (Instrumental) – Cole Porter (composer), The MGM Studio Orchestra

Lurie College Faculty Co-Authors Book

Congratulations to Teacher Education faculty Allison Briceño, who has co-authored a forthcoming book, Conscious Classrooms: Using Diverse Texts for Inclusion, Equity and Justice Professional Development, which has been written to help teachers to include diverse texts and to support them in developing an equity lens in the classroom.

Become a ChAD Student Ambassador!

 

Hello Lurie College Undergraduate, and Graduate students! Are you looking for a hands on position in San Jose States most transformative educator program? This job might be for you. The ChAD Student Ambassador position piloted by Dr. Rayna Friendly continues Spring 2022 with Emily Slusser, and fellow peer Katrena Thompson. In this program you will give feedback, and participate in some of the many events we have open to students at Lurie College. This allows for improvement, and the continuation of growth for not only our staff but our students on and off campus. Please take some time to fill out the application that is due, December 31st, 2021 at 11:59.

Apply here!: https://forms.gle/3WUhZV62AUZ2t3xaA

Any Questions Email: Emily.slusser@SJSU.edu & Katrena.thompson@sjsu.edu D

Lurie College Faculty and Student Featured in CSU Panel

Shoutout to Teacher Education faculty Eduardo Muñoz-Muñoz and student Romina Román Shugan, who will be featured on the panel “Presente y futuro de los programas de preparación de educadores plurilingües: Educar y aprender en un contexto de translenguaje / Past and present in Plurilingual Teacher Preparation Programs: Educating and learning in translanguaging spaces” on Friday, November 19, at 10am as part of the CSU Educator Preparation and Public School Programs initiative.  Learn more and RSVP at calstate.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_HqaTvkwSTmS26qsOI3iD7Q

SJSU Lurie College of Education Teacher Education Faculty Eduardo Munoz-Munoz

 

Join Our Faculty Research Symposium

Join our SJSU Lurie College of Education faculty at our upcoming Faculty Research Symposium on Thurs., Nov. 18, from 11am-12pm, sjsu.zoom.us/j/81514161412, as they present their research related to university-community partnerships and first-generation faculty!
Presenters include:
– María Ledesma – Associate Professor, Department of Educational Leadership – “Towards a Tenure-Attaining Culture: Creating and Supporting Socialization Models for First-Generation Academicians”
– Danielle Mead – Assistant Professor, Department of Child & Adolescent Development – “Establishing a University-Community Partnership with the San Jose Public Library”

Attend Our Institute for Emancipatory Education Webinar

Join our SJSU Lurie College of Education Institute for Emancipatory Education on Monday, November 15, from 5-6:30pm for “Critical Race Theory and Abolition: Struggle and the Praxis of Emancipatory Education” with Dr. David Stovall!  Learn more and RSVP at sjsu.edu/education/community/iee

Watch and Relax with Our Storytellers

Sit back, laugh, and relax with our Lurie College Storytellers. Keep up with them through the Lurie College Tik Tok and Instagram weekly to watch what they do during their weeks, give tips about school, talk about their passions, and more.

https://www.tiktok.com/@sjsulurie/video/7027930966119288069?is_copy_url=0&is_from_webapp=v1&sender_device=pc&sender_web_id=7024232600864916998
https://www.tiktok.com/@sjsulurie/video/7026960920542956846?is_copy_url=0&is_from_webapp=v1&sender_device=pc&sender_web_id=7024232600864916998