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"Understanding the Identity Work of Elementary Students of Color in the Science Classroom" This study examined how elementary students of color constructed their science identities at a time in which the Next Generation Science Standards were taking root within their school's science program. While the standards were developed under the paradigm of science being representative… Read More »
Michigan State University’s College of Education will host the Engaged Scholar Speaker Series during the Spring 2020 semester. The series features six scholars who conduct scholarship in ways that directly benefit the schools and community-based organizations they serve. Engaged scholarship can take on many forms, and this speaker series is designed to reflect this diversity.… Read More »
Scholarly Communication in the Connected World As libraries continue to navigate the transition of scholarly communication into a digital-first model, new needs arise at many institutions and with them, new roles for the 21st-century library. Digital identity management for scholars, altmetrics for the impact of scholarship, library publishing, and open access to scholarship and data… Read More »
The course MTH133 is the second semester in our main calculus sequence, and focuses on integral calculus, sequences and series, and the calculus of planar curves. The majority of enrolled students (~2000 per year) have declared interest in engineering and are in their first three semesters at MSU; the remainder are primarily students from the… Read More »
Dr. Savannah Shange, UC Santa Cruz Dr. Shange is author of "Progressive Dystopia: Abolition, AntiBlackness, + Schooling in San Francisco" and is assistant professor of anthropology and principal faculty in Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. This event is part of the Electric.Marronage, a collaborative digital/material project based on… Read More »
"Accessibility and Appeals: Methods for Inclusivity" The accessibility movement exists to ensure an equitable learning environment for all students, as does the need for multi-modal appeals to faculty, students and practitioners to implement accessible practices. This talk will explore an interdisciplinary approach to coalition building centered on six methods for encouraging adoption of accessible practices:… Read More »
"The Role of Civic Debt in Civic Education" In this talk, Lo argues that the civic empowerment gap, and gaps like it, are a manifestation of a larger civic debt that is partially rooted in the racial grammar of civic education. In other words, she challenges the ways in which civic education has mostly been… Read More »
"Robotic learning: A diffractive critique of the STEM education project with an urban high school robotics team" Robotics teams have become an interestingly large part of many youth's STEM learning experiences, engaging them in the collaborative work of designing, fabricating, building and organizing that leads to participation in competitions. Drawing on a three-year digital video… Read More »
Join for dialogue and activities to kick off the national Black Lives Matter at Schools Week. Facilitated by the TE 250 instructional team.
This session will discuss the support the Center for Community Engaged Learning (CCEL) can provide to instructors who are developing and enhancing course-based community-engaged learning opportunities for students. The gathering will include networking time for participants to connect with each other and share current and/or future project plans. REGISTER NOW
"The Meaning Beyond the Words: How Language, Race and Culture Impact Science Teaching and Learning" This presentation explores how race, culture and language intersect to create the condition of contemporary learning. Through a sequence of research, this presentation explores the theoretical and pragmatic aspects of this dilemma. From a theoretical perspective, the talk will explore… Read More »
Exploring the common challenges of being a first generation college student by engaging in activity-based reflections. This group will focus on topics that impact the first-generation experience and how these impacts may influence stress, transition, and the overall balance of mental wellness. This group will meet weekly for 8 weeks and will be drop-in to… Read More »
This seminar is a part of the NSCL Women and Minorities Lecture Series hosted by the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory at MSU. This talk features Prof. Julie Martin from Ohio State University, speaking on "Deconstructing Deficit Thinking for Underrepresented Students in Science and Engineering." She is an associate professor of Engineering and Science Education and… Read More »
Join Rueda Latin@ for our first spring meeting! We want to welcome back members and provide important updates about new events coming soon. Questions? msuruedalatina@gmail.com
The Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine presents the 20th annual Dr. William G. Anderson Lecture Series. All activities are free. THURSDAY, FEB. 6 - KEVIN R. MURRIEL Dr. Kevin R. Murriel currently leads over 7,000 members as senior pastor of Cascade United Methodist Church in Atlanta, GA. A dynamic preacher, avid reader and… Read More »
Are you working on an outreach or engagement journal article, grant proposal, book chapter, thesis, dissertation, curriculum, or portfolio? Join on the first Friday of each month for three hours of dedicated writing time to advance your community-engaged scholarship. Participants should plan to write for the full time period and bring their own laptops. Write-Ins… Read More »
The Department of Teacher Education Elementary Social Studies Search Committee cordially invites you: "Sonic Civics, Heard Histories: Towards a 'Sound' Theory of Elementary Social Studies" Taking an ethnographic ear to young children’s civic education, this presentation explores the audible contours of inquiry and social action in elementary social studies. Drawing on data from a longitudinal… Read More »
The Department of Teacher Education World Language Search Committee cordially invites you: "Teaching Arabic to Children and Youth: Between Love and Indictment" In this presentation, I describe an exploratory study with bilingual Arabic teachers using an anti-racist framework of understanding language that is focused on raciolinguisitics. In this talk, I bring classroom-based teaching practices into… Read More »
Youth leaders from Mexico and El Salvador bring messages of hope and inspiration to MSU's campus about the complex, transnational issue of forced migration. The educational tour seeks to overcome barriers by connecting young people and building cross-national understanding and empathy through arts and culture. Presented by Strangers No Longer + Build Bridges Youth Tour.… Read More »
Sponsored by the Department of Prevention, Outreach and Engagement (POE) at MSU, this interactive, two-hour workshop will engage faculty, staff and graduate students in the College of Education. Participants will discuss the institution of sexism and learn strategies to interrupt sexist acts/language within the workplace. REGISTER TODAY
"Women Do it Differently!" This highly interactive session is designed to expand women's sense of who they are as leaders and what they need, on an on-going basis, for support and encouragement from one another. We will use the Athena Leadership Model as our base and discuss how women leaders lead differently from the traditional… Read More »
"Supporting Students in Moving from Reading to Writing through Discipline-specific Focus on Language" School subjects represent different cultures of learning and doing, and in this talk Schleppegrell will show how elementary and secondary school teachers can support students' literacy development by focusing on how knowledge is presented in language in ways that vary across school… Read More »
School subjects represent different cultures of learning and doing, and in this talk I will show how elementary and secondary school teachers can support students’ literacy development by focusing on how knowledge is presented in language in ways that vary across school subjects. I will report on work we are doing with teachers to support… Read More »
The Department of Teacher Education Science Search Committee cordially invites you: "What counts as science writing and who gets to be good at it? How ideas about language can undermine equity in high school biology." Writing plays an important role in K-12 science education. Because of its importance, science writing should be examined critically as… Read More »
Do you have a great service-learning, outreach teaching, or community engagement project, but are not sure how to write it up for a peer-reviewed publication? Would you like to get more than one publication out of your community-engagement projects? Are you familiar with disciplinary journals and interested in branching out into interdisciplinary ones but not… Read More »
The Department of Teacher Education World Language Search Committee cordially invites you: "The World Language Classroom as a Critical Space: Realities, Challenges, and Possibilities." This talk will examine how intersections of critical and social justice perspectives are transforming and redefining the traditional goals and purposes of language education. The interdisciplinary framework presented seeks to understand… Read More »
Associated Students of MSU (ASMSU) is hosting a question and answer event with MSU President Samuel L. Stanley Jr., M.D. at the Business College Complex (room N130). All faculty, staff and students are welcome to attend, and to submit questions for the president in advance. Questions? Contact Bridget Ertl at executive.assistant@msu.edu.edu.
"Leading for Change: Strategies for Advancing Transformational Change Goals in Educational Contexts" Organizational leaders—including teachers and administrators—are often grappling with how to lead in ways that support transformational change goals. I am a researcher who has been studying change processes in higher education. I am often asked why change is so hard in educational contexts… Read More »
Dr. Enrique (Henry) Suarez, Asst. Professor of Math, Science and Learning Technologies at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, will be visiting CREATE and the College of Education on Wednesday, February 19. Please help us welcome him as he presents "Estoy Explorando Science: Emergent bilingual students problematizing physical phenomena leveraging multiple communicative resources."
"Cultural excavation for global competence: Implications for teacher education" While study abroad is often cited as a quintessential experience for gaining intercultural competence (Brecht & Ingold, 2000), these experiences must include ample opportunity for reflection in order to have their desired impact (Byram, 2006). A reflective study abroad experience is particularly important for US K-12… Read More »
“Name and Shame”: An Effective Strategy for College Tuition Accountability? Due to concerns about college affordability, in 2011 the Department of Education began producing two annual public lists of institutions with the highest change in tuition and fees and average net price within sector (top 5% and at least $600 increase). This study investigates the… Read More »
If you're considering applying for an NSF or other early career award, join this discussion as past recipients discuss the application process and strategies for success. Panelists: Sophia Lunt, Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science Matthew Hirn, Assistant Professor, Department of Computational Mathematics, Science & Engineering and Department… Read More »
Join Connected Mathematics Projects teachers, staff and authors for a rich professional learning experience. Designed to be provide thought-provoking and insightful conversations, the conference focus is around mathematics teaching, learning, and assessing for all. Discussions will focus on sharing new CMP ideas; strategies for increasing pacing; deepening understanding; utilizing engaging and productive approaches; meeting the… Read More »
The Department of Teacher Education’s World Language Education Search Committee cordially invites you: "Moving Across Linguistic, Cultural, and Geographic Boundaries: The Circulation of Care in Multilingual and Transnational Immigrant Children." Dr. Jungmin Kwon’s research focuses on how transnationalism shapes young immigrant children’s language, literacies, and funds of knowledge. In this presentation, she will share her… Read More »
After this presentation, you will be able to: Understand emergency planning for athletic situations Describe new national EMS spine injury standards Presented by Ron Courson, ATC, PT, NRAEMT, CSCS, the senior associate athletic director and head athletic trainer at the University of Georgia. 2.0 CEU's presented by Michigan State University's Athletic Training Program, and presented… Read More »
This session will discuss creative examples, strategies for grading, and best practices for leading students to reflect upon and make meaning of their community-engaged learning experiences. Hear from faculty peers, dialogue with colleagues, and leave with new ideas to enhance student learning and complement your teaching practices. Light breakfast provided. REGISTER TODAY
Reconciliation and Decolonization in the University: The Canadian Experience The goal of cultural reconciliation is among the highest priorities of the Canadian government. The effort to develop understanding between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Canadians is at the heart of reconciliation. A historical series of reports and Commissions have all arrived at the same general conclusion: reconciliation… Read More »
"Keeping the Language in Second Language and Multilingual Writing Instruction" How much language-focused instruction—defined in a variety of ways—to include in teaching second language learners has been a matter of controversy for at least 40 years in all areas of instruction. In the area of writing instruction, there has recently been a focus on writing… Read More »
The Department of Teacher Education’s Elementary Social Studies Education Search Committee cordially invites you: "Intersectional Lessons on Black (In) Adequacy: Black Students’ Social Education During School Desegregation" In newly desegregated schools, how did informal curricula shape African American students’ social education, and what did school desegregation teach them about their social identity-dependent roles in U.S.… Read More »
"Training the Fundamental Movement Skills of Preschoolers with Autism Spectrum Disorder in Early Intensive Behavioral Intervention Centers" Isabella Felzer-Kim, M.D./Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Kinesiology and the College of Human Medicine will present on this topic. Felzer-Kim works with children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Her current research in the PLAY'd LAB with Dr.… Read More »
Learn how culture influences understandings of academic ethics, and how to train international and education abroad students, faculty, and staff to prevent crises. This session examines issues of academic integrity in cross-cultural contexts. Students traveling across cultures may encounter different cultural definitions of cheating and plagiarism—what is considered “sharing” in a collectivist culture may be… Read More »
What does it mean to teach from a place of love? Middle and high school educators are invited to join Tamara Butler, Ph.D., assistant professor in English Education and African American Studies, for a workshop that will explore the concept of belonging through written and visual messages. In connection with the collection exhibition, Visual Citizenship,… Read More »
