Our very own Lurie College Dean, Heather Lattimer is on KQED to talk about Teaching Tough Subjects!! We are so proud!
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“When I was growing up, my father and I engaged in vigorous debates around the dinner table, often taking polar opposite positions on local and national issues. Sometimes those discussions led me to re-think my beliefs. Other times they reaffirmed them. Always they pushed me to learn and grow. And they strengthened the love and respect that my father and I felt for one another.”
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Enter to Dine with the Dean
SJSU Lurie College of Education undergraduate, graduate, credential, and doctoral students can enter your name for a chance to join Dean Heather Lattimer and a group of students for great conversation and a complimentary meal each semester during the academic year!
Attendees will be selected at random – none of your responses in the RSVP form will affect whether or not you’re selected, but they will help Dean Lattimer learn a little bit about you before the meal if you are selected.
Those who are selected to dine with the dean will receive an email notification approximately 1 week before each meal if once they’ve been randomly selected. Those who aren’t selected for a meal are still eligible to be selected for a future meal. Lurie College students are only eligible to enter their information once and attend at most one meal per academic year.
The next Spring 2022 Dine with the Dean event is scheduled to take place:
- Thursday, April 7, 12:00 – 1:30pm
Enter your name to dine with the dean here!

Learn about Creating an Inclusive Climate
Join and learn about Creating an Inclusive Climate: Queering Our Classrooms and Our Campus on Friday, March 25th from 10am-12pm. This training will provide information about gender and sexuality, best practices for creating affirming and supportive classrooms and extracurricular spaces, and insight gained from surveys and interviews with SJSU students about their experiences on campus and in the classrooms. This will be hosted by Kyoung Mi Choi and Robert Marx along with SJSU students! Register here!
Come out to Earth Gay
Come and join in a conversation as the Pride Center and Lurie College team up to talk about how to be an ally, actionable steps to be an ally, how to support Trans and Nonbinary People, and Polyamory and Ethical Non-Monogamy. Join us on April 22nd, from 10-12pm. Register here!
Apply for the SJSU College Corps
The SJSU Center for Community Learning and Leadership is now hiring for the CaliforniansForAll College Corps. Apply now to join a fun, innovative, and creative team of fellow students to provide computer programming enrichment for underserved third through sixth graders attending after-school programs. No programming experience
necessary! Learn more on how to apply here! Applications will be open until all spaces are filled.
Join the Strategic Plan Steering Committee
Strategic Plan Grant | Apply by Fri., April. 15
Students are encouraged to apply for Lurie College Strategic Plan Seed Grants for 2022-23. These grants are designed to advance the priorities articulated in our strategic plan. We are also seeking 4 students to participate on the strategic plan steering committee to review and help award grant funding. This is the committee will meet via zoom during April and May. The total time commitment is approx. 10-15 hours. There is a $250 stipend for student steering committee members. Please contact Ana Paz-Rangel if you are interested in joining. Please join us!
Join the Transformative Leadership Minor Info Session!
Thinking about a new minor? Learn more about the Transformative Leadership Minor! Join their upcoming informational session on Wednesday, March 16th from 4:30pm-5:30pm! There will be more dates to come as well!
To register for the session click here!
Click here if you are interested in the Minor!
Learn about Communicating With Your Child About Tough Stuff
Talking to our children can be so hard sometimes! Join the Healthy Development Clinic about Communicating With Your Child About Tough Stuff. They will be hosting these workshops on February 28th, March 1st in Spanish, and March 2nd in Vietnamese.
Join the workshop here!
Attend our Intersectional Disability Studies Speaker Series
Join our Intersectional Disbaility Studies Speaker Series on Monday, March 14 from 4-5pm on Zoom! Learn from 12-year old Helena Lourdes Donato-Sapp, self-declared “Black Girl Scholar”‘ who uses her art and voice for social, economic, and environmental justice. To learn more about Helena Lourdes Donato-Sapp click here!
Register for the event here.
Use Our Student Study Rooms
Come and use the study rooms in the Lurie College building! If you need a study area or to do your online classes there are open to students in the Lurie College. All the rooms will have wifi.
Join the First Club Meeting for ESAN
The Early Childhood Student-Alumni Network is having its first meeting of Soring 2022. Come and learn about ESAN’s plans for student engagement this semester on February 16 at 4-4:30. Click here to join the zoom!
Join the Institute of Emancipatory Education Workshop
Join the Institute of Emancipatory Education in their Pedagogies of Community Cultural Wealth Workshop Series. Join Dr. Lori D. Patton with Drs. Rivers, Farmer-Hinton, Lewis, Haynes, Jenkins, and High School Scholar Dallas Watson as they speak on Black Women Scholars Deconstructing What it Means to Educate and Be Educated in Urban Educational Environments. It will be on Wednesday, February 9th at 4 PM on Zoom. Click here to register.
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.
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
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
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
Join Our Faculty Research Symposium

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.
MA in Higher Education Info Sessions

- Monday, November 8, 12-1pm
- Monday, November 15, 5:30-6:30pm
- Wednesday, December 1, 4:30-5:30pm
Look to the Future With Our Lurie College Storytellers!
Watch as our storytellers think about what the future will be like when they leave Lurie College! 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!
@sjsulurie##greenscreen Some of the many inspirations I have to become a teacher. ##sjsulurie ##storyteller ##teacher
@sjsulurieFuture SLP, sometimes in college the future feels so far, but i know it’s not far! also shameless plug for NSSHLA! CDS students join SJSU NSSHLA! ❤️
Dance with our Lurie College Storytellers!
Dance along with Ana and Caryn as they talk about being a speech and language pathologist and a teacher! 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!
@sjsulurieIf you want to be a teacher, now is the time. ##sjsulurie ##storyteller ##studentteacher ##newteacher♬ original sound – Matt Randone
@sjsulurieSo many more reasons why i want to be an SLP!! ❤️ Have you ever considered being an SLP???? ##storytellers ##sjsu♬ original sound – SPANKY YNVS
Spend A Day With Our Lurie College Storytellers!
Spend a day with Ana and Caryn as they take us through a day in their lives and make matcha! 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!
@sjsulurieDay in the life of a student teacher! ##sjsulurie ##storyteller ##dayinthelife♬ Lazy Sunday – Official Sound Studio
@sjsuluriep.2 to mental health series. Do something that grounds you into the present. you are so LOVED!! ##sjsu ##storytellers♬ Fall Sounds – Lofee
Take A Break With Our Lurie College Storytellers!
Grab a coffee and watch as Ana and Caryn talk about taking a break and mental health. 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!
@sjsulurieHi everyone! I this past week was really stressful for me so I wanted to talk about the importance of making time for yourself. ##storyteller♬ original sound – Lurie College of Education
@sjsuluriept. 1 to a little mental health series i’m doing. Be kind to yourself and know any victory is one to be celebrated. ❣️ ##sjsu ##sjsustorytellers♬ original sound – Lurie College of Education
13th Annual Marion Cilker Conference for Arts in Education
Registration is now open for the 13thth annual Cilker Arts Conference. The conference will be held virtually on Friday, Nov. 5th and Saturday, Nov. 6th (from 8:00 am – 1:00 pm) and is FREE for SJSU students! This year’s conference will focus on addressing the new environment of learning and teaching and emphasize how the arts can be a means to promote cultural inclusivity. You can learn how to incorporate the arts into preschool to 8th-grade classrooms. There will be workshops in areas including theater, dance, music, digital arts, and visual arts led by teaching artists and local arts organizations.
This conference is co-sponsored by the SJSU Lurie College of Education and the Santa Clara County Office of Education. Learn more and register at https://whova.com/portal/registration/mccae_202111
#IBelongAtLurieCollege | Alejandra Romo
What provides you with a sense of belonging at Lurie College? Is it your drive to become a transformative educator, counselor, therapist, school or community leader? A faculty member, advisor, your friends or student groups? The events and culture? Share with us on Instagram by tagging @sjsulurie and using the hashtag #IBelongAtLurieCollege in your caption or email us at brian.cheungdooley@sjsu.edu so we can share uplifting stories from our community. Learn about Alejandra Romo, Department of Communicative Disorders & Sciences undergraduate student, and what provides her with a sense of belonging!
“Lurie College has been a great place to call home here at SJSU because of the strong sense of community I always feel around me. It has opened many doors to many opportunities, connections, and resources and for that I am extremely grateful. I have broken out of my shell and owe that to my program and Lurie College for making every student feel like they’re capable of great things.”