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The 猫咪社区app University School of Education (SOE) presents a Big Ideas in Education webinar: 鈥�70 Years Later: Critical Education Policy to Live Out the Promise of Brown v. Board of Education鈥�

An amazing panel of experts听delves into crucial policy considerations in today's educational landscape while reflecting on the enduring legacy of the landmark case Brown v. Board of Education and offer insights into the policy levers necessary to uphold the ideals set forth by the case seven decades later.

PANELISTS:
鈥� Dr. Travis J. Bristol - Associate Professor of Teacher Education and Education Policy in the University of California, Berkeley鈥檚 School of Education; 2024 AERA Early Career Award awardee; and chair of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards Board of Directors
鈥� Dr. Linda Darling-Hammond - President and CEO of the Learning Policy Institute and the Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education Emeritus at Stanford University
鈥� Zaretta Hammond - Teacher educator and author of the book Culturally Responsive Teaching and The Brain: Promoting Authentic Engagement and Rigor Among Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students
鈥� Moderator Dr. Phelton C. Moss - SOE Senior Professorial Lecturer for the MEd in Education Policy and Leadership (EPL) program, Acting Director of the EPL MEd program, and Center for Education Innovation and a Research Fellow at the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)

Dr. Travis J. Bristol is an Associate Professor of Teacher Education and Education Policy in the University of California, Berkeley鈥檚 School of Education. Bristol's research explores the role of educational policies in shaping teacher workplace experiences and race and gender in educational settings. His scholarship has appeared in over 60 peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, policy briefs, and opinion editorials. Bristol was awarded the 2024 Early Career Award from AERA. He is the Board chair of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards Board of Directors, the first Black person to hold this position. He also chairs the California Department of Education Teacher Diversity Advisory Group.听

Dr. Linda Darling-Hammond,听is the President and CEO of the Learning Policy Institute. She is also the Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education Emeritus at Stanford University where she founded the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education and served as the faculty sponsor of the Stanford Teacher Education Program, which she helped to redesign. A past president of AERA and recipient of its awards for Distinguished Contributions to Research, Lifetime Achievement, and Research-to-Policy, she is also a member of the 猫咪社区app Association of Arts and Sciences and of the National Academy of Education. Among her more than 500 publications are a number of award-winning books.

Zaretta Hammond is a teacher educator and the author of Culturally Responsive Teaching and The Brain: Promoting Authentic Engagement and Rigor Among Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students. She has a passion for books, and teaching reading, and听blogs at ready4rigor.com. She is听a curriculum developer, consultant, and coach to translate the latest research and teacher experiences on equity, literacy, and culturally responsive teaching into practical tools and strategies for the classroom. Hammond听works听with school teams to design engaging, hands-on professional learning experiences as well as deliver fun and informative professional development. She听creates online learning opportunities听around two equity-focused topics: culturally responsive teaching and reading development in the form of webinars, online courses, and screencasts.

Dr. Phelton Cortez Moss, moderator, is a Senior Professorial Lecturer in the听Education Policy and Leadership program, is Acting Director of the Education Policy and Leadership Masters Program, and an Inclusive Pedagogy Fellow in the Center for Teaching, Research, and Learning at 猫咪社区app University. Additionally, he is a Fellow in the Center for Education Innovation and听Research at the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People听(NAACP). He serves as the Executive Pastor at All Nations Worship Assembly of Washington, DC.听Moss served as a Senior Policy Adviser to Congresswoman Frederica Wilson (D-FL-24), Chair of the Congressional Higher Education and Workforce Investment Subcommittee. He was the former congressional liaison to the 猫咪社区app Commission on the Social Status of Black Men & Boys. Prior he served as tenure-track Assistant Professor of Teacher Education at Tougaloo College and Senior Leader at the Mississippi Department of Education.
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"A Conversation of School Violence" was a thought-provoking fireside chat with Dr. Sophia Rodriguez, moderated by Dr. kecia hayes and听centered on听critical issues of school violence and school safety.

In an era marked by increasing concerns about the safety and well-being of students and educators, this intimate conversation provided听a platform to explore the multifaceted challenges and opportunities facing our educational institutions. From understanding the root causes of school violence to examining strategies for prevention and intervention, our guest expert delved into the complex dynamics shaping the landscape of school safety in today's society.

Dr. kecia hayes听(Moderator)

Moderator听Dr.听kecia听hayes听is a听senior professorial lecturer at 猫咪社区app University's School of Education and has been a champion of antiracist k-12 leadership and praxis across a variety of organizational settings in New York City for more than two decades. She led two community-focused organizations at Columbia University and was an assistant professor of educational leadership at Montclair State University where she taught courses in leading school reform and improvement; community and school relations; research methods; and group dynamics.

Dr. Sophia Rodriguez

Sophia Rodriguez is an Associate Professor in Urban Education at the University of Maryland, College Park, and an incoming Associate Professor of Educational Policy Studies at NYU.听Her interdisciplinary scholarship -听drawing听on tools from听education, anthropology, and sociology -听asks questions about the social and cultural contexts of education policy and practice. Her integrated research agenda addresses issues related to racial equity, urban education, leadership, and policy, and centralizes minoritized youth voices. Her current projects utilize mixed-methods and ethnographic designs听to investigate how community-school partnerships, teachers, leaders, and critical school-based personnel promote equity and advocate for immigrant youth.

She recently founded and directs the听ImmigrantEdNext听Research Lab, a public-facing research hub that involves mentoring doctoral students in multiple projects about how districts, schools, community-based organizations can create spaces of belonging for immigrant youth. She was awarded a mentoring grant from the W.T. Grant foundation to support junior researchers of color in this effort. She received the Early Career Award for Division G (Social Contexts of Education) from the 猫咪社区app Educational Research Association.听

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This webinar,听which took place in February of听2024,听shed听light on the plight of immigrant families who have children in 猫咪社区app schools; the recurring challenges to landmark court cases, including political battles happening during this election year; the obstacles threatening immigrant families' fundamental right to education; and the possibilities and promises for the future.

Panelists:

鈥� Dr. Ernesto Casta帽eda - Director of the Center for Latin 猫咪社区app and Latino Studies at 猫咪社区app University (AU); Founding Director of the Immigration Lab; and Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director of the MA in Sociology, Research, and Practice at AU

鈥� Karina Ayala-Bermejo, JD - President and CEO of the Instituto del Progreso Latino

鈥� Celina Moreno, JD - President and CEO, IDRA (Intercultural Development Research Association)

鈥� Moderator: Dr. Eric Macias - Professorial Lecturer at 猫咪社区app University鈥檚 School of Education

Karina Ayala-Bermejo, JD

Karina Ayala-Bermejo is the President and CEO of Instituto Del Profreso Latino. Formerly she worked at听Metropolitan Family Services where she served as General Counsel and Executive Vice President and the Executive Director of the Legal Aid Society of Metropolitan Family Services. Prior to Metropolitan, she worked for the City of Chicago in Mayor Daley鈥檚 administration as Acting Commissioner, First Deputy Commissioner, and Managing Deputy Commissioner for the Department of Human Resources.听Karina spent seven years as the Director of Community Services for the Chicago Bar Association where she encouraged attorneys to take on pro bono work and collaborated with the bar and various divisions of the Circuit Court of Cook County on initiatives to improve the justice system. She also served as the first Executive Director of the Sun Times Judge Marovitz Lawyers Lend-A-Hand to Youth Program, a foundation that mobilizes the legal profession around mentoring youth, where she was instrumental in securing a $2 million dollar award. Karina鈥檚 legal career began as an attorney in the Litigation Division of the Chicago Board of Education handling labor and employment matters.

Dr. Ernesto Casta帽eda

Dr. Ernesto Casta帽eda听is the听Director of the Center for Latin 猫咪社区app and Latino Studies at 猫咪社区app University; Founding Director of the Immigration Lab; and Graduate Program Director of the MA in Sociology, Research, and Practice at 猫咪社区app University.听He conducts research on migration, urban issues, health disparities, marginalized populations, and social movements. He compares immigrant integration and ethnic political mobilization in the U.S. and Western Europe.听Casta帽eda is the author of "A Place to Call Home: Immigrant Exclusion and Urban Belonging in New York, Paris, and Barcelona" (Stanford 2018), and "Building Walls: Excluding Latin People in the United States" (Lexington 2019), editor of "Immigration and Categorical Inequality: Migration to the City and the Birth of Race and Ethnicity" (Routledge, 2018); co-editor with Cathy Lisa Schneider of "Collective Violence, Contentious Politics, and Social Change: A Charles Tilly Reader." (Routledge 2017), and co-author with Charles Tilly and Lesley Wood of "Social Movements 1768鈥�2018" (Routledge 2020).

Celina Moreno, JD

, JD, is the president and CEO of IDRA, a national non-profit organization dedicated to equity and excellence in education. IDRA strengthens and transforms public education by: providing dynamic educator training, actionable research, and bold policy advocacy; directing powerful student and parent leadership programs; and building people power to create schools that nourish all students.听Ms. Moreno previously directed policy and litigation for the Southwest Regional Office for MALDEF (Mexican 猫咪社区app Legal Defense and Educational Fund), the nation鈥檚 leading Latino legal civil rights organization. At MALDEF, she successfully represented DREAMers to defend DACA and against a separate lawsuit that would have invalidated the Texas DREAM Act. Ms. Moreno also served as trial and appellate co-counsel in the challenge against the inequity and inadequacy of the Texas school finance system. She represented Bexar County and the cities of San Antonio, El Paso and others against Texas鈥� anti-immigrant Senate Bill 4 (2017). She served as co-counsel in the Texas redistricting case seeking to protect the rights of Latino voters, in a case challenging the conditions and the detention of an asylum-seeking woman at the Hutto Residential Center, and in a case representing the 猫咪社区app GI Forum to reverse a 鈥淲hites-only鈥� cemetery policy. She also co-authored MALDEF鈥檚 amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of over 20 Latino organizations to support the University of Texas at Austin鈥檚 race-conscious admissions plan.

Moderator: Dr.听Eric Macias

Eric Macias (He/Him/El), Professorial Lecturer at 猫咪社区app University's School of Education,听is an interdisciplinary scholar whose work focuses on minoritized and illegalized youth who have been pushed-out of the educational pipeline. Dr. Macias received his PhD from the University at Albany (SUNY). His research and work often lay at intersection of migration and education. He is also interested in topics such as immigrant youth and families, urban education, anti-racist education, race and ethnicity, critical ethnography, alternative education, critical pedagogy, Latinx studies, and youth studies. Dr. Macias is currently working on a book manuscript about undocumented immigrant youth who left school and the challenges of navigating different illegalities and creating a sense of belonging and socio-emotional wellbeing despite their criminalization in and out of school settings.

This webinar took place on October 12, 2023听with experts who weighed in on the history of banned books, what is happening politically today, and the potential impact on students in the future.听

PEN America听reports over 30 states have banned books in the last two years, with nearly 1,500 separate instances of banned books in nearly 200 school districts in the 猫咪社区app, including nearly 900 unique titles. This year SOE honors Banned Books Week with this first听Big Ideas in Education听webinar of the school year. We support the 听听and efforts to engage communities, schools, parents, and students to be advocates and create awareness about the importance and freedom to read.

Moderator: Dr. Ocheze Joseph

Dr. Ocheze Joseph is a DC native, and she is passionate about teaching and learning in urban settings. Joseph's areas of specialization are pre-service teacher development and mentoring, literacy and reading education, culturally relevant pedagogy, and family and community engagement. Her scholarly work focuses on the preparedness of pre-service teachers to teach literacy.听Joseph has served in several K-12 roles including serving as a reading specialist, an assistant principal, and a Title I principal.听Joseph has taught courses on Theory and Methods of Reading, Recognizing and Responding to Diverse Learners, Literacy for Diverse and Special Needs, and has led Early Childhood and Elementary Student Teaching Seminars.听Joseph earned her doctorate in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies from The University of Maryland, College Park.

Dr. Ingrid Bynum

Dr. Ingrid Bynum is in her 17th year as a public school principal, and is the principal of Alexandria鈥檚 Patrick Henry K-8 School. She is the current Mrs. Virginia America and is using her title to work with organizations such as Reading is Fundamental to ensure children who live in underserved communities have access to quality literacy materials. She is also an adjunct professor at Regent University where she received her doctorate. She has won numerous awards to include the Reading is Fundamental of Northern Virginia鈥檚 Literacy Luminary Award and the Washington Post Principal of the Year for Alexandria City Public Schools.

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Kiese Laymon

,听Libbie Shearn Moody Professor of Creative Writing and English at Rice University, is a Black southern writer from Jackson, Mississippi. He authored the genre-bending novel, Long Division and the essay collection, How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America. Laymon鈥檚 bestselling memoir, Heavy: An 猫咪社区app Memoir, won the 2019 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction, the 2018 Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose, the Austen Riggs Erikson Prize for Excellence in Mental Health Media, and was named one of the 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years by The New York Times. The audiobook, read by the author, was named the Audible 2018 Audiobook of the Year. Laymon is the recipient of 2020-2021 Radcliffe Fellowship at Harvard. Laymon, a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and Oxford 猫咪社区app, is at work on several new projects, including the long poem, Good God, the horror comedy, And So On, the children鈥檚 book, City Summer, Country Summer and the film Heavy: An 猫咪社区app Memoir. He is the founder of 鈥淭he Catherine Coleman Literary Arts and Justice Initiative,鈥� a program aimed at getting young people and their parents more comfortable reading, writing, revising and sharing.

Dr. Tanji Reed Marshall

Tanji Reed Marshall, PhD听brings more than two decades of experience in education to advance the work of practice on behalf of students of color, those experiencing economic uncertainty, those perpetually left on the margins of our education system. Dr. Marshall partners with states, school districts, schools, and education organizations to solve complex issues related to educational equity. Through strategic thought partnerships, educational leader and educator development, curriculum review, vetting, and restructuring, and on-going system support, she seeks to ensure every student has access to the education they deserve. She听is a nationally recognized and sought-after expert on educational equity and educational leadership. She has consulted with organizations throughout the 猫咪社区app and abroad to improve educational leadership, stem the effects of systemic inequity, improve teacher instructional practice and student outcomes. Dr. Marshall has presented at international and national conferences on topics related to educational equity and power dynamics, curriculum development, literacy, critical literacy, education leader and teacher development, and authentic pedagogies. Most recently, Dr. Marshall served as the Director of P12 Practice at The Education Trust where she led their work on assignment analysis work, performing educational equity audits and designing a way to analyze curriculum to ensure representationally balanced depictions of people, cultures, and topics.听

David听Saia

A 32-year veteran of public education, David is the librarian at Heim Middle School, part of the Williamsville Central School District in New York. He chaired the 猫咪社区app Library Association's 2023 Stonewall Book Award committee, a national children's book award for queer literature written for young people. He also served on the 2019 and 2022 Stonewall committees, as well as the 2021 John Newbery Medal committee. A 1986 graduate of 猫咪社区app University, he also holds a master's in library and information science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a master's in education from the University at Buffalo. He and his husband live in Buffalo,听New York.

In this听July 10, 2023 webinar event, 猫咪社区app University School of Education (SOE) Dean Dr. Cheryl Holcomb-McCoy (a counselor educator) moderates a conversation with counseling and higher education professionals - Dr. Diana Camilo (Assistant Professor of Counseling, College of Education, California State University, San Bernardino), Dr. Erin Mason (Assistant Professor of School Counseling, Counseling Education & Practice, Georgia State University), Dr. Brian McGowan (Provost Associate Professor, 猫咪社区app University, School of Education), and Dr. Mandy Savitz-Romer (Senior Lecturer in Human Development and Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education) - about the ramifications of the recent decisions by the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOT猫咪社区app). Feel free to access the PowerPoint slides from Drs.听听and听听featured in the webinar.

With gun violence plauging 猫咪社区app education communities, this one-hour webinar taps into the expertise of panelists who bring diverse perspectives to propose practical solutions to support our school leaders as they grapple with this problem.听This event took place virtually on February 14, 2023.

Join a panel of experts: Zachary Parker, District of Columbia Ward 5 Councilmember; Dr. George Parker, III, Former Superintendent of Newport News Public Schools; Dr. Cheryl Holcomb-McCoy, Dean, SOE; Dr. Gregory C. Hutchings, Jr., Executive-in-Residence, SOE and Founder and CEO of Revolutionary ED; and Moderator Dr. Terence Ngwa, Director of SOE's ARASL Program and Senior Professorial Lecturer.

Panelists unpack recent situations at school districts around the country, share their perpectives, and take questions from the moderator, as well as questions from webinar registrants.

Dr. Gregory C. Hutchings Jr., Executive-In-Residence at the School of Education and former Superintendent of Alexandria City Public Schools, spoke as part of the 鈥淏ig Ideas in Education鈥� series focused on antiracism in education at the School of Education at 猫咪社区app University. This event took place virtually on March 29, 2022.

Facilitated by Dr. Phelton Moss, Senior Professorial Lecturer in the School of Education, Dr. Hutchings shared insights into his experiences during his time serving as Superintendent of Alexandria City Public Schools and how he has led with an antiracism framework at his core amidst what he describes as 鈥渄ual pandemics.鈥� In addition, he shared key learnings and takeaways for current and future educational leaders to repeat his success in their local communities. If you're interested in leading education with a focus on antiracism, check out SOE's听.

In this webinar, Dr. Arelis Diaz, Director of the the Office of the President at the Kellogg Foundation, Dr. Andre Perry,听School of Education Scholar in Residence and Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institute, and Dr. Bren Elliott,听Chief of School Improvement and Supports at the District of Columbia Public Schools, engage in a conversation about antiracism in K-12 education.听This virtual event took place on March 17, 2021. Learn more about SOE's Antiracist Administration, Supervision, and Leadership Certificate Program here.

In this webinar, Dr. Cynthia Miller- Idriss, current faculty member at AU School of Education and author of "Hate in the Homeland,"听engages in a conversation with Dr. Cheryl Holcomb-McCoy, Dean AU School of Education, about her new book. This virtual event took place on February 22, 2021. Learn more about SOE's Master of Arts in International Training and Education Program here.

Miller-Idriss is a sociologist and professor in the School of Public Affairs and in the School of Education, and runs the Polarization and Extremism Research & Innovation Lab (PERIL).

Dr. Miller-Idriss has testified several times before the U.S. Congress and regularly briefs policy, security, education and intelligence agencies in the U.S., the United Nations, and other countries on trends in domestic violent extremism and strategies for prevention and disengagement. She is the author, co-author, or co-editor of six academic books, including her most recent books Hate in the Homeland: The New Global Far Right (Princeton University Press, 2020) and The Extreme Gone Mainstream: Commercialization and Far Right Youth Culture in Germany (Princeton University Press, 2018). She has also published over one hundred peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and essays on nationalism, extremism, education, higher education and internationalization.听

In addition to her academic work, Miller-Idriss writes frequently for mainstream audiences. She is an opinion columnist at MSNBC, and has additional recent by-lines in Foreign Affairs, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Boston Globe, CNN, The Hill, Politico, The Guardian, Le Monde, Salon, and more. She appears regularly in the media as an expert source and political commentator, including regular appearances on Fareed Zakaria GPS as well as other CNN news programs, PBS News Hour, NPR's Morning Edition and All Things Considered, MSNBC's Meet the Press Daily with Chuck Todd and Hardball with Chris Matthews, NBC's Evening News with Lester Holt and The Today Show, C-SPAN's Washington Journal, ABC's Good Morning America, and in global news outlets in over a dozen countries, including BBC News, Deutsche Welle, France 24, al Jazeera and more.听

罢丑别听first featured speaker for the Big Ideas in Education series was the Honorable Dr. John King Jr, former Secretary of Education. Dr. King engaged in a conversation with Dr. Cheryl Holcomb-McCoy, Dean of the AU School of Education, and Dr. Jason Snyder, AU Faculty Member and former Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy in the U.S. Department of Education, about his Big Idea in Education.