Join us for a virtual open house on Friday, October 30, from 4-5:30pm to learn about how to become a transformative speech therapist through our graduate program in Speech-Language Pathology at San Jose State University, and learn about changes to the 2020-2021 admissions process. Register to attend at https://tinyurl.com/y2qzz9bs
In recent months, we’ve witnessed a significant amount of advocacy around social justice issues such as addressing racial injustice and systemic racism, greater access to healthcare, home and food insecurity, wealth inequality and unemployment, climate change, and more. With that in mind, Lurie College is organizing a Student Social Justice Short Film Festival to amplify the voices of middle school, high school, community college, and university students around what social justice issues are significant to them. Learn more and submit your 1-3 minute film by Monday, October 26, at sjsu.edu/education/film-festival
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Join a panel of SJSU Lurie College of Education faculty, staff, and students on Friday, October 23, at 2pm to gather insights, resources, and support around being both an SJSU student and a parent of one or more children in elementary school. Topics for the panel are likely to include:
To RSVP and get access to the Zoom link for this panel, complete the brief Google form below.
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. In this episode, Anne leads a dialogue with Gabi, Jackie, Leslye, and Vinson as they dive deeper into cultures of power in the classroom.
The call to action for this episode: Take some time to invest in your own cultural responsiveness – utilize the resources below as a starting point!
Join us live for the next episode on Monday, October 26, at 7:15pm on the Lurie College YouTube channel at bit.ly/lurie-youtube.
Connect with Lurie College at https://linktr.ee/sjsulurie to receive more news about academic and student life!
Join the SJSU Lurie College National Student Speech Language Hearing Association (NSSLHA) on Fri., Oct. 23, at 12pm for a film discussion of I Am Not Your Negro: James Baldwin and Race in America. To participate in the discussion, watch the film in advance at sjsu.kanopy.com and email NSSLHA at sjsunsslhachapter@gmail.com to get access to the Zoom link.
Congratulations to SJSU Alumni and Department of Teacher Education student Erin Enguero, who was interviewed by EdSource to discuss her experiences with our K-12 Online Teaching Academy! Read the EdSource article and learn more about our K-12 Online Teaching Academy.
While we at the Lurie College of Education are saddened that we are unable to have an in-person commencement ceremony during the Fall 2020 semester as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak, we also realize the importance of continuing to follow our current public health orders for the health and safety of our families, our communities, and society as a whole. Despite these constraints, we still want to celebrate with all of our Lurie College graduates this semester to recognize their accomplishments and perseverance, even if we must do so in a virtual environment.
Plans are underway for a live, virtual Lurie College of Education Graduation Celebration on Friday, December 18, at 4pm and we will send out an email invitation with more detailed information to our graduates, faculty, and staff in the near future. Graduating students can still apply to become the graduation speaker by submitting a 3-5 minute video of you reciting your speech by Sunday, October 11, via this Google form. To nominate a Lurie College faculty member who you’d like to speak at the graduation celebration, please email luriecollege@sjsu.edu with the name of the faculty member and a 1-2 sentence description of why you are nominating them by Sunday, October 18.
More information about graduation and commencement for Lurie College of Education students is available at sjsu.edu/education/graduation.
At the SJSU Lurie College of Education, we prepare transformative educators, counselors, therapists, school and community leaders. We do this through an emancipatory approach across our teaching, scholarship, and service. While this has been a challenging and tumultuous year, our annual report shines a light on the numerous ways that we’ve embodied these principles and the many reasons for gratitude, pride, and hope in the work of our Lurie College students, faculty, staff, and alumni. Read the 2019-2020 annual report.
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. In this episode, Leslye leads a dialogue with Anne, Gabi, Jackie, and Vinson as they dive deeper into the topic of California’s Proposition 16 and the implications of universities and government offices ability to factor in someone’s race, gender or ethnicity in making hiring, spending and admissions decisions.
The call to action for this episode: Research and discuss the upcoming California propositions so you can make a well-informed decision on election day, which is Tuesday, November 3, 2020! Eligible California voters can register to vote by Monday, October 19, at sos.ca.gov/elections/voter-registration
A few additional resources they mention include:
Join us live for the next episode on Monday, October 12, at 7:15pm on the Lurie College YouTube channel at bit.ly/lurie-youtube.
Connect with Lurie College at https://linktr.ee/sjsulurie to receive more news about academic and student life!
This year, the conference will take place online on Fri., Nov. 6th, and Sat., Nov. 7th. The conference features two days of professional development addressing the conditions of the new environment of learning and teaching by curating sessions with a strong focus on integrated learning, inclusion, and culturally responsive teaching through the arts while continuing to feature standards-based workshops in the arts and arts integration. In the true spirit of the arts, our workshops continue to exemplify creativity, excellence, and cultural inclusivity.
This conference is co-sponsored by the SJSU Lurie College of Education and the Santa Clara County Office of Education. Learn more and register (free for SJSU students) at sites.google.com/sccoe.org/cilkerconference2020
In recognition of Indigenous Peoples Day on Monday, October 12, We’re Still Here, a documentary by Lurie College faculty Bob Gliner in partnership with EdD Director Brad Porfilio, is scheduled to air on Bay Area PBS station, KRCB, Monday, October 12 at 9pm and repeats on Tuesday, October 13, at 3am. (Comcast carries the station as channel 200 in the greater San Jose area and channel 22 in San Francisco and the North Bay).
In We’re Still Here, First Nation indigenous Hip Hop artists in Canada lead an effort to right long standing social injustices, heal personal traumas, and preserve their cultures, in a cutting edge and poignant look at how Hip Hop plays an important role in transforming the lives of both musicians. their audiences and communities. Narrated by First Nation indigenous Hip Hop artist Mike Scott, We’re Still Here weaves engaging interviews with powerful live performances and street demonstrations, portraying the challenges and journeys also shared by Native Americans as well as other marginalized populations across the United States.
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. In this episode, Gabi leads a dialogue with Anne, Jackie, Leslye, and Vinson as they dive deeper into the topic of ethnic studies and how the implementation of ethnic studies in education is empowering, engaging, and beneficial for all students.
The call to action for this episode: Reflect on and discuss a time from your K-12 experience where you learned a view of history that you later learned was untrue or didn’t portray the full story!
A few additional resources they mention include:
Join us live for the next episode on Monday, October 5, at 7:15pm on the Lurie College YouTube channel at bit.ly/lurie-youtube.
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Video description: Lurie College student Giselle Arellano – BA, Child and Adolescent Development, speaks at our Spring 2020 ceremony.
Lurie College wants to select a graduating student to represent and speak on behalf of the Lurie College community at the Fall 2020 ceremony. The date and time for the ceremony are still to be determined, but it will tentatively take place online on Friday, December 18, at 4pm. In order to be eligible to apply to become the student speaker, you must also be eligible to graduate. Your speech can take any number of approaches, but should be original and should resonate with the event attendees, which will be made up of Lurie College students of different academic levels and disciplines, SJSU and Lurie College faculty and staff, and family and friends of all ages and backgrounds.
To apply, submit a 3-5 minute video of you reciting your speech by Sunday, October 11, via this Google form. More information about graduation and commencement for Lurie College of Education students is available at sjsu.edu/education/graduation.
Join our Lurie College student orgs for their upcoming meetings!
David Trautman – Twitter: @datraut – Principal at Oneonta Elementary School, and Pa Yang, 1st Grade Teacher at Oneonta Elementary School, led this conversation:
The transition to distance learning was abrupt and we had to adjust quickly. In this session, we’ll share some best practices and lessons learned to support primary literacy using tools such as Seesaw and Google Hangouts.
Intended audience: Those who teach grades K-2. The slides for this webinar are available via Google Drive. Additional resources are available via Google Drive
The SJSU Lurie College of Education has established this free K-12 Online Teaching Academy to support pre-service teacher candidates and current teachers to strengthen their online teaching skills and adapt to our current circumstances. Learn more about the academy at sjsu.edu/education/k12-academy
Connect with Lurie College at https://linktr.ee/sjsulurie to receive more news about academic and student life!
Stephanie Tague, Coordinator of Safe and Healthy Schools at the Santa Clara County Office of Education, led this conversation:
In this session, we will 1) Identify how adaptations of evidence-based strategies for classroom practices can be incorporated into virtual learning and 2) Explore examples of how California educators incorporated these practice into their distance learning during Shelter in Place.
Intended audience: Those who teach grades K-12. The slides for this webinar are available via Google Drive. Additional resources available at pbis.org, casel.org, pbis.
The SJSU Lurie College of Education has established this free K-12 Online Teaching Academy to support pre-service teacher candidates and current teachers to strengthen their online teaching skills and adapt to our current circumstances. Learn more about the academy at sjsu.edu/education/k12-academy
Connect with Lurie College at https://linktr.ee/sjsulurie to receive more news about academic and student life!
Eric Cross – Twitter: @sdteaching – 7th Grade Science Teacher at Albert Einstein Academy Middle School, led this conversation:
This session addresses how technology can be used effectively to increase engagement, build community during distance learning, and provides practical tools for upgrading your digital cultural competency.
Intended audience: Those who teach grades 6-8. The slides for this webinar are available via Google Drive. Additional resources are available via Google Drive
The SJSU Lurie College of Education has established this free K-12 Online Teaching Academy to support pre-service teacher candidates and current teachers to strengthen their online teaching skills and adapt to our current circumstances. Learn more about the academy at sjsu.edu/education/k12-academy
Connect with Lurie College at https://linktr.ee/sjsulurie to receive more news about academic and student life!
George Barcenas – Twitter: @mvsgbarcenas – Technology Coordinator at Bellevue Union School District, led this conversation:
Death by PowerPoint is an example of technology being used in the wrong way. We stand in front of the classroom and talk about what is already on the slide. Students have to read, hear and understand all in one slide. What if our slides became our message and we the conductors. We can change the presentation from the lecture up front to group discussions, interactions and most importantly, an experience.
Intended audience: Those who teach grades 6-12. The resources for this webinar are available on this Google Site
The SJSU Lurie College of Education has established this free K-12 Online Teaching Academy to support pre-service teacher candidates and current teachers to strengthen their online teaching skills and adapt to our current circumstances. Learn more about the academy at sjsu.edu/education/k12-academy
Connect with Lurie College at https://linktr.ee/sjsulurie to receive more news about academic and student life!
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. In the first episode, you can learn more about our student co-hosts through their name stories:
They also share a preview of some of the topics they plan to discuss in more detail later this semester and begin a dialogue regarding the implementation of ethnic studies at the California State University and K-12 levels. A few additional resources they mention include:
Join us live for the next episode on Monday, September 21, at 7:15pm on the Lurie College YouTube channel at bit.ly/lurie-youtube.
Connect with Lurie College at https://linktr.ee/sjsulurie to receive more news about academic and student life!
Lurie College students, join Dean Heather Lattimer and Associate Dean Marcos Pizarro for a conversation on Friday, September 25, from 3-4pm to share insights about your Fall 2020 semester experiences thus far! The Zoom link will be emailed to all Lurie College students’ via a Google calendar invitation.
Meet the Lurie College National Student Speech Language Hearing Association (NSSLHA)! This SJSU chapter is for students who are interested in the study of speech language pathology or audiology and is active in creating and attending professional development opportunities, community service, and more. Their first Fall 2020 meeting will take place on Monday, September 21, at 12pm – learn more by connecting with them on Instagram @sjsunsslhschapter, emailing them at sjsunsslhachapter@gmail.com, or visiting their webpage sjsu.edu/cds/student-resources/nsslha
Brent Duckor – Twitter: @BrentDuckor – associate professor in the Department of Teacher Education at San Jose State University, and Carrie Holmberg – Twitter: @CarrieHolmberg – lecturer and preservice teacher educator at San Jose State University, led this conversation:
We blend research-based, high-leverage instructional and assessment strategies (the “7 Moves framework”) to energize, re-engage and foreground student voices in synchronous learning environments. Using Zoom, Google Docs, and other distance learning tools we demonstrate how to make it happen with you and your students. Join us to open up real conversations and explore new directions in online assessment for learning.
Intended audience: Those who teach grades 6-12.
The SJSU Lurie College of Education has established this free K-12 Online Teaching Academy to support pre-service teacher candidates and current teachers to strengthen their online teaching skills and adapt to our current circumstances. Learn more about the academy at sjsu.edu/education/k12-academy
Connect with Lurie College at https://linktr.ee/sjsulurie to receive more news about academic and student life!
The California Educational Research Association (CERA) will hold its annual conference virtually from November 17-19, 2020. The conference is focused on educational equity and the ways in which data and assessments can drive change. On Tuesday, November 17, there will be a graduate student pre-conference session from 10 am to 12 pm PST that explores a range of important topics for researchers amidst the current social climate with ongoing calls for anti-racist reform.
Speaking at the graduate student pre-conference session will be Dr. Leigh Patel, Dr. Kevin Kumashiro, Dr. David Tackas, and Dr. Daniela DiGiacomo. Dr. Leigh Patel, an Associate Dean and professor in the School of Education at the University of Pittsburgh, will be sharing about decoloniality and research. Dr. Kevin Kumashiro, an education expert and former Dean of the School of Education at the University of San Francisco, will be presenting on how to leverage research to impact policy. Dr. David Takacs, a professor of law at University of California Hastings and an international environmental consultant, will be sharing about bias in research. Dr. Daniela DiGiacomo, a professor and learning scientist in the College of Communication and Information at the University of Kentucky, will be presenting on approaches for community-based research. Learn more and register ($75) on the CERA Conference webpage.
If you have any questions, please email chewko@ucsc.edu.
Abigail Joseph – Twitter: @drabigailjoseph – MS Director of Learning, Innovation, and Design at the Harker School, led this conversation:
Distance learning requires a flip in the way we engage students with Computer Science material. An alternate approach is to have students explore and question so that they are motivated to learn concepts when it is emergent for them. This webinar will discuss approaches to a play-first methodology for teaching computer science.
Intended audience: Those who teach grades 6-8. The slides for this webinar are available via Google Drive
The SJSU Lurie College of Education has established this free K-12 Online Teaching Academy to support pre-service teacher candidates and current teachers to strengthen their online teaching skills and adapt to our current circumstances. Learn more about the academy at sjsu.edu/education/k12-academy
Connect with Lurie College at https://linktr.ee/sjsulurie to receive more news about academic and student life!
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: