During the Spring 2020 transition to remote teaching and learning, we asked a handful of our Lurie College students to share their insights on learning as they relate to our priority areas – community-engaged, culturally sustaining, interdisciplinary, and holistic. Learn more about Kattia Martinez, an undergraduate student in our Department of Child & Adolescent Development. In this video, Kattia discusses the opportunities that exist for learning and connecting in a remote learning environment.
Watch all of the student features and view some additional course features from our Lurie College Learning Showcase at sjsu.edu/education/showcase
Connect with Lurie College at https://linktr.ee/sjsulurie to receive more news about academic and student life! Video edited by Sydney Ahmadian.
There’s no better time than now to become a transformative educator, counselor, therapist, school or community leader, and so we would like to invite you to the SJSU Lurie College of Education Fall Welcome event on Tuesday, September 15, from 2:30-4:30pm to learn about our academic opportunities and resources. On that date and time, visit sjsu.edu/education/admissions to choose from any of the available Zoom links to meet with our faculty and staff representatives for the following:
Shoutout out to Special Education Department faculty Matt Love, who has been asked to lead the upcoming California Council for Exceptional Children webinar “Supporting Students Learning Online” on Thursday, September 17, at 4pm on Zoom! Learn more and register to attend at bit.ly/33hFodl
If you missed our conversation with Eugene Puryear – twitter.com/EugenePuryear – longtime journalist and community organizer, you can now watch the recording below! During the conversation, Eugene ruminates on a wide range of topics such as public and popular education, Black liberation and anti-racism movements, community organizing, and more.
Additional participants:
Introduction to and organizer of the conversation: Bradley Porfilio, PhD – SJSU EdD Leadership Program
Introduction of Eugene Puryear: Derek Ford, PhD – Depauw University Education Studies
Q&A moderator: Brian Cheung Dooley – SJSU Lurie College of Education
Emancipatory Education Now is a new student-led initiative at the SJSU Lurie College of Education that examines what emancipatory education – the critical evaluation of the systems and structures of oppression that maintain the status quo in our educational institutions – looks like in today’s society and advocates for the expansion of emancipatory education research, policies, and practices.
Join us for the live discussion on Monday, September 7, at 7:15pm on the Lurie College YouTube channel – bit.ly/lurie-youtube – to learn from the student co-hosts and get a preview of some of their upcoming dialogues!
Anne Lockmiller – Counselor Education
Gabi Gupta – Sociology
Jackie Rivas Lopez – Child & Adolescent Development
Leslye Tinson – Ed.D. Leadership Program
Vinson Vu – Business and Child & Adolescent Development
Watch the opening remarks from SJSU Lurie College of Education Dean Heather Lattimer and Associate Dean Marcos Pizarro from the first Dean’s Forum of the Fall 2020 semester. In this forum, they acknowledge the multiple crises we’re all juggling as we transition into the semester and begin to discuss first steps in moving forward in our determination to prepare transformative educators, counselors, therapists, school and community leaders. Join us for more upcoming Dean’s Forums at:
Friday, September 25, 3-4pm
Wednesday, October 21, 3-4pm
Thursday, November 19, 3-4pm
Dean Lattimer and Associate Dean Pizarro would also like to form a student social justice ambassador group that meets with the deans periodically throughout the semester to identify and discuss ways to advance the college’s social justice priorities. To express interest in joining this group, please complete this brief Google form.
Are you a teacher or future teacher in the areas of special education, bilingual education, or curriculum and instruction? Join a research study on professional development for teachers entitled Disability-Centered, Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies Series! Participants will receive:
Small cohort supports and trainings in accessible instruction / UDL
Flexible, virtual sessions through Zoom(R)
1:1 classroom supports with a facilitator
Engagement with community-scholar disability activists
Ongoing mentorship and connection to a community of justice-oriented scholars
Shoutout to Counselor Education and EdD Leadership Program faculty Bob Gliner, whose documentary WalktheWalk – which showcases a unique college class where students go beyond talking about possible solutions to the problems facing American society to implementing actual policy changes that get at their root causes – is airing on Wed., Sep. 9, at 6pm on PBS station KQED+ (Comcast/Xfinity 10 or 710 HD) throughout the San Francisco and Monterey Bay areas. Watch it there or access it at any time on theMLK Library website.
The purpose of the Early Childhood Student-Alumni Network (ESAN) is to create an interdisciplinary group of current pre-service San Jose State University students and alumni working in the Early Childhood field and engage students in the Early Childhood Institute’s mission of supporting each and every child from the start. For more information about upcoming events and opportunities and their upcoming meeting on Tuesday, September 8, at 5pm, visit the ESAN Instagram, Facebook group or Wix website.
Eugene Puryear calls for a living wage and justice for Mike Brown as protesters storm Walmart in Washington, November 25, 2014. (AP/Carolyn Kaster)
As an ongoing uprising for Black Lives continues to sweep the country the questions of how we got here and what it portends for the future remains. Over time, the struggle around the right to education, the content of educational curriculums, and who is doing the teaching have been central to the broader Black Liberation Movement. In our current moment, the struggle over historical memory has reinforced these themes and reminds us of the pivotal role of education, in the broad sense, around the struggle for Black Lives.
Join the SJSU Lurie College of Education’s EdD Leadership Program and Dr. Derek Ford, Assistant Director of Education Studies at DePauw University, on Fri., Sep. 4, at 6pm on Zoom at sjsu.zoom.us/j/96722887679 for a conversation with Eugene Puryear – twitter.com/EugenePuryear – who is a longtime journalist and community organizer currently-based in New York City. As a high school student in Charlottesville, Va, Eugene organized a walkout when the war in Iraq began in 2003, and helped to organize a number of the large-scale demonstrations that took place against the continuing U.S. war and occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan. He was a key leader In the struggle to free the Jena Six in 2007, was a founder of the anti-gentrification group Justice First as well as the Jobs Not Jails coalition, DC Ferguson Movement and Stop Police Terror Project-D.C. Puryear is the author of the book Shackled and Chained: Mass Incarceration in Capitalist America, and worked for the past four years as the lead host of “By Any Means Necessary” a public affairs radio program in Washington D.C. Currently, he is the lead host of the News on BreakThrough a social justice media project.
If you are not able to access the event on Zoom, you should be able to view it live on the Lurie College of Education YouTube channel at bit.ly/lurie-youtube.
The Child & Adolescent Development (ChAD) club is a student-run organization that is open to all interested students, alumni, and faculty in the Child & Adolescent Development department. This organization plans events that focus on personal, academic, and professional development as well as community outreach. For more information about upcoming events and opportunities, visit the ChAD Club Instagram, Facebook group, or webpage.
During the Spring 2020 transition to remote teaching and learning, we asked a handful of our Lurie College students to share their insights on learning as they relate to our priority areas – community-engaged, culturally sustaining, interdisciplinary, and holistic. Learn more about Janeth Canseco, an SJSU alumni and current graduate student in our Department of Counselor Education. In this video, Janeth reflects upon her experiential learning opportunities and the importance of community and connections.
Watch all of the student features and view some additional course features from our Lurie College Learning Showcase at sjsu.edu/education/showcase
Connect with Lurie College at https://linktr.ee/sjsulurie to receive more news about academic and student life! Video edited by Sydney Ahmadian.
With the support of a Lurie College Student Research Award, Julia Doan worked with our Supporting Early Education and Development (SEEDs) research team to conduct a study on children’s early understanding of numbers and math. Julia is an undergraduate student who has just completed her Junior year pursuing a ChAD major, with a focus on Community Programming, and a minor in Deaf Education. She is also an active member of our ChAD community and has recently taken on a leadership role in the new Early Childhood Student-Alumni Network (ESAN). “I got a chance to apply the knowledge that I have learned in my classes into research, which helps me retain that knowledge and understand how it applies in real life situations,” said Doan. “I am proud to be a part of the team’s collective study and data collection efforts and I am excited to contribute additional knowledge about number and counting abilities that children have, which can possibly be used by teachers in the future during their teaching practices.” An early report of study findings was presented at the biennial meeting of the Cognitive Development Society and Julia will present a final report at the upcoming Western Psychological Association conference (rescheduled for Fall 2020). This work would not have been possible without Julia and the support of Lurie College.
Hi! I’m Heather Lattimer, Dean of the Lurie College of Education, and I’m delighted to welcome you to SJSU for the Fall 2020 semester.
Although circumstances prevent us from being able to be able to greet you in person and learn together on campus this fall, we want you to know that we are 100% here to support your success. Our faculty and staff have spent significant time over the summer making plans to ensure that you will have high-quality learning experiences in your courses, fieldwork, and co-curricular activities. We’re excited about the plans that are in place for interactive, relevant, and responsive learning opportunities here at Lurie College in the coming semester.
This summer, we saw calls for racial justice reverberate around the country and throughout our community in response to the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery. As a college of education, we are committed to equitable, anti-racist policies and practices and to preparing transformative educators, counselors, therapists, school and community leaders.
Over the past three months, our faculty and staff have engaged in hard conversations as we examine the racism and bias that persist in our own systems and structures, and work to reform the way in which we engage with each other, our students, and the larger educational ecosystem. During the coming semester, we’ll be eliciting your input on how we can better live our mission and our values. Please look for invitations to participate in the Deans’ racial justice and educational equity student advisory group. We hope you’ll join us.
Emancipatory Education Now is a new student-led initiative at the SJSU Lurie College of Education that examines what emancipatory education – the critical evaluation of the systems and structures of oppression that maintain the status quo in our educational institutions – looks like in today’s society and advocates for the expansion of emancipatory education research, policies, and practices!
Student co-hosts from across Lurie College’s academic programs will meet regularly throughout the fall semester to engage in dialogue about critical topics in education and share those thoughts out with the Lurie College, SJSU, and local community. Co-hosts will be compensated hourly for their participation and receive a high-quality USB microphone.
Congratulations to Child & Adolescent Development faculty Robert Marx, who recently received a Society for Research in Child Development Grant for his proposal “The Trans Resilience Project: Understanding Trans Youth Resilience in Communities of Color”
The Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) recognizes the importance of capacity building for early career scholars seeking to establish their research programs, especially considering the limited funding available for conducting exploratory work and particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Small Grants Program for Early Career Scholars addresses this need within developmental science by supporting pilot or small-scale research projects proposed by members who completed their doctoral degree within the last five years.
An overwhelming majority of adolescents in the U.S. receive insufficient sleep which has significant repercussions on their cognitive functioning, psychological well-being and physical health. Relative to the increasing knowledge on the importance of sleep for healthy development, less is understood about contextual factors that promote optimal sleep. As such, the overarching goal of this study was to investigate how family dynamics affect adolescent sleep. Restful sleep is facilitated by perceptions of physical and emotional security and given that the family is a primary context in which important feelings of emotional safety are nurtured, it is critical to better understand how features of the family context shape adolescent sleep.
The SJSU Lurie College of Education established our free K-12 Online Teaching Academy during the 2020 summer to support pre-service teacher candidates and current teachers to strengthen their online teaching skills and adapt to our current circumstances. Each of the 23 webinars in the academy features a 1-1.5 hour presentation and conversation on a different topic with a current educator along with links to their slides and additional resources, and ABC7 News recently featured the academy for its impact and value. Read the ABC7 News story at abc7ne.ws/33B9g6f and watch any of our webinars at sjsu.edu/education/k12-academy
Congratulations to Lurie College Department of Teacher Education faculty Tammie Visintainer and Associate Dean Marcos Pizarro, who are part of a team of faculty across SJSU who secured a $1.69 million dollar grant from the National Science Foundation for their proposal “Transforming Undergraduate Teaching and Learning Through Culturally Sustaining, Active and Asset-Based Approaches to Introductory Science Courses,” which aims to increase diversity, inclusion and retention in STEM! Read the full story on the SJSU Newsroom website at https://go.sjsu.edu/2PlWosg
The transition to a remote teaching, learning, and working environment during the COVID-19 pandemic has shined a spotlight on the ongoing inequities in education when it comes to students having access to equitable learning opportunities and the resources required to support those learning opportunities. NBC Bay Area recently interviewed Lurie College Dean Heather Lattimer to gather her insights on this – watch the video of the story below and read the full story at on the NBC Bay Area website.
This summer, Lurie College is hosting a Summer Film Series to bring together students, alumni, faculty, and staff to discuss films around identity. To receive the link to any of the discussions below, register via this Google form.
Upcoming film discussions
Thu., Aug. 13, 4pm |Voting Matters | A woman in the U.S. works tirelessly to ensure that people of color are granted their right to vote
Co-hosted by the Student Success Center and Dean’s Office
Login to sjsu.kanopy.com with your SJSU credentials to watch the film prior to the discussion
Join @sjsulurie and @luriesuccess on Instagram Live for a conversation on Mon. Aug. 10, at 4pm to learn more
Learn about Clarissa Johnston, recent alumni of the moderate-severe credential program in the Department of Special Education at the SJSU Lurie College of Education. Clarissa was also recognized as the Teacher of the Year of her school, Ryan STEAM Academy, and her school district, Alum Rock Union School District, for the 2019-2020 academic year!
Connect with Lurie College at linktr.ee/sjsulurie to receive more news about academic and student life. Video and audio recorded by Brian Cheung Dooley. “Storybook” provided royalty-free by Scott Holmes.
Shoutout to Lurie College Dean Heather Lattimer, who has been asked to serve as a speaker at the upcoming annual Silicon Valley Leadership Group Education Summit on Fri., Aug. 14!
Framed by COVID-19 and tensions in the wake of George Floyd, with legislators, school administrators, teachers and parents operating – literally – in separate spaces, this year’s convening has become a crucial information-sharing forum.
Interact with key local, state and national decision makers in brief, timely panels, active Q&A, and topic-based networking rooms. Get the latest updates on school reopening straight from school leads. Discover how top CLOs are reimagining Learning and Development to drive equity and fuel corporate success.
The SJSU Lurie College of Education provides a range of grants to support students in their academic endeavors to become transformative educators, counselors, therapists, and leaders. As a result, Lurie College faculty Robert Marx and Kyoung Mi Choi were able to collaborate with SJSU students, the SJSU Pride Center and the SJSU International Student and Scholar Services to conduct workshops to increase awareness around the unique challenges and strengths among LGBTQ+ international students. This initiative has since grown into the Queer Educators and Counselors Network (QECN) – learn more at sjsu.edu/education/qecn.
With the COVID-19 crisis making it abundantly clear the critical role that educators play in our society, Lurie College is recognizing SJSU Educators of Impact who have made a transformative difference in the lives of children, families, and communities. Learn more about SJSU Alumni Manny Nuñez below. To nominate an SJSU graduate who is an Educator of Impact, please complete this brief Google form.
“Dr. Nunez is a graduate of the Counselor Education program and now serves as the Assistant Superintendent in charge of Human Resources in the Monterey Peninsula USD. He is a caring, conscientious educator and a strong advocate for all of his students, their families and all employees of the MPUSD. His counseling background has been a strong asset for his leadership roles.”