College of Education Featured Stories

CED faculty and students gave four presentations at a recent international conference of the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education (SITE), held in Las Vegas, NV in March, 2019.

Are you looking to become a leader or advocate for early childhood organizations working with children from birth through age 8? Are you a Transitional Kindergarten (TK) teacher in California seeking 24 units of Early Childhood Education coursework to fulfill the SB 876 requirement?

Instructor Victoria Bryan’s LST211 class, Theatre, Dance and Movement for Inclusive Elementary Classrooms, focuses on using elements of the performative arts such as theater, dance, and movement in the inclusive, elementary classroom.

Join us at The Beach for a free event on STEAM integration at the elementary, middle, and high school levels.  Presenters include keynote speakers, seasoned teachers, alumni of CSULB’s math education program, and CSULB pre-service teacher candidates. Date: April 13, 9-12 pm Location: Anatol Center

Congratulations to Dr. Betina Hsieh who was nominated to join the California Council of Teacher Education (CCTE) Board of Directors! CCTE is the largest and most comprehensive forum for educator preparation in the state.

CED alumna, Leigh Kokenes (School Psychology ‘05) was just named School Psychologist of the Year by National Association of School Psychologists (NASP). Kokenes is a School Psychologist in North Carolina where she has worked in the Wake County Public School System since 2006.

Professor Trini Lewis, Dual Language Development (DLD) Master’s Degree Coordinator presented with two DLD graduate candidates, Dorinda Peterson and Ashley Harrell at the California Association for Bilingual Education on March 21, 2019. The presentation, Improving Dual Language Learners Linguistic Repertoire:  Lessons from Conducting Classroo

Drs. Alejandra Priede Schubert and Betina Hsieh will lead a presentation at the upcoming annual American Educational Research Association (AERA) conference in Toronto, Canada. Their presentation, “Where Do We Teach?

Educational Leadership alum, Michael McClellan, was recently appointed as Dean, Instructional Support, Guided Pathways, Kinesiology, Nutrition and Athletics at Chaffey College in Rancho Cucamonga, California. A graduate of Cohort IV, Dr.

In January, the Educational Leadership Department held its 9th Annual Educational Leadership Symposium.

I was awarded a sabbatical this fall to work with school librarian educators at the University of Borås in Sweden. This university, which is located about an hour east of Gothenburg, offers the most extensive school librarian preparation in the country. I wanted to explore the school librarianship situation in Sweden first hand.

Dr. Jessica Pandya, Department Chair, Liberal Studies has received the University Achievement Award from Academic Affairs for Outstanding Faculty Impact Accomplishment in Research, Scholarly and Creative Activity.