UC Davis School of Education alumni are featured in three moving
videos about foster youth scholars and their mentors. In the
first video, Lynn Romano (Credential ’12, MA ’13), the 2011-12
recipient of the School’s Guardian Teacher
Scholarship, talks about her journey to earning her teaching
credential and her dream of becoming a teacher.
Barbara Rogoff, Distinguished Professor of Psychology at UC Santa
Cruz, gave a talk at UC Davis titled “Learning Through Pitching
In.” The 2012-13 Distinguished Educational Thinkers Speaker
Series is co-hosted by the UC Davis School of Education, Graduate
Group in Education and the School of Education Alumni Annual
Fund. Lectures are free to the public.
Listen to this panel discussion from a forum hosted by the
Chicana/o Studies Department at UC Davis. Gloria Rodriguez,
associate professor of education in the UC Davis School of
Education, moderated. Featured here is former School of Education
professor Patricia Gandara, now an education professor at UCLA,
and Richard Ramirez, an administrator at American River College
who graduated from the School’s Capital Area North Doctorate in
Education (CANDEL) program in 2011. Download
Gandara’s PowerPoint presentation here.
As part of the School’s Critical Consciousness Speaker Series,
Professor and high school English teacher Jeff Duncan-Andrade,
Ph.D. gave a talk at UC Davis titled “Note to Educators: Hope
Required When Growing Roses in Concrete.” Duncan-Andrade is
associate professor of Raza Studies and Education at San
Francisco State University and Director of the Educational Equity
Initiative at the Institute for Sustainable Economic,
Educational, and Environmental Design (ISEEED).
As part of the UC Davis School of Education’s Distinguished
Educational Thinker Series, Professor Noah Finkelstein gave a
talk titled “Science, Math and Engineering: Their Influence on
National Education Transformation.” Finkelstein is professor of
physics at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
As part of the UC Davis School of Education’s Distinguished
Educational Thinker Series, Professor Guadelupe Valdés gave a
talk at UC Davis in January 2013 titled “Understanding Language
in Schools.” Valdés argues that English learners must be given
access to grade level content while they are learning English.
“Writing is about ideas, but we pretend with English learners
that language must emerge pristine before they can engage in the
academic content. We must push for comprehension before focusing
on production because it is most important for learning.”
Each year, the School’s youth literacy program, Sacramento Area Youth Speaks (SAYS),
hosts an all-day summit for about 1,000 middle school and high
school students. Students attend workshops on literacy, social
justice, community organizing, and urban art. The Summit closes
with a performance of spoken word poetry by the final six
students who competed during the months of March and April to
represent Sacramento in the International Brave New Voices youth
poetry competition.
