College of Education Strategic Plan

Vision: Leaders in advancing equity and urban education. 

Commitment: CSULB’s College of Education commits to advancing equity and urban education by enacting racial and social justice. We illuminate sources of knowledge and truths through our intersectional scholarship, pedagogy, and practice. We collaborate with and are responsive to historically marginalized communities. We cultivate critical and innovative educators, counselors, leaders and life-long learners to transform urban education, locally and globally.

We Value

Racial Justice 

We are committed to equitable education and committed to removing institutional barriers to transform systems that affect our communities..

Intersectional Praxis 

We develop critical consciousness and enact change through active collaboration and reflection with our partners. 

Asset-Based Approaches 

We honor and value the strengths of all our constituents and communities. We integrate these assets through culturally sustaining pedagogies and practices into all aspects of our work as a college and in community with others.

Being Locally & Globally Responsive 

We are committed to examining the everchanging social, political, and economic landscapes to advocate, collaborate and better serve the needs of our local and global communities.

Life-Long Learning 

We are a community of life-long learners seeking knowledge and understanding through our innovative scholarship, leadership, teaching, learning, service, and engagement with the world.

Elevating Wellness 

We foster holistic wellness, positive mental health, and collective healing that addresses trauma for all students, faculty, and staff as we move toward equity.

Our Aspirations

Actions: 

  1. Engage in multidisciplinary learning and partnerships.
  2. Hold timely critical conversations.
  3. Maintain a SPEL knowledge base and professional learning opportunities.

Actions:

  1. Create, revise and assess programs and courses to ensure evidence- and equity-based best practice.
  2. Emphasize pedagogies that provide opportunities to study the intersection of education, sociohistorical, political, and economic forces.
  3. Make curriculum development more effective and efficient.

Actions:

  1. Design a multi-dimensional wellness strategy for students, faculty, staff, and practice partners.
  2. Improve positions, responsibilities and functions to optimize human talent and leadership capacity.
  3. Create processes and supports to mitigate the societal challenges among faculty, staff, and students.
  4. Increase student engagement, design holistic advising services, and uplift student assets to create a sense of belonging and foster leadership skills for CED students. 

Actions: 

  1. Craft diverse educator pipeline programs and support.
  2. Partner with school districts, community colleges, and community agencies that align with our values and strengths and challenge us to address our shortcomings.
  3. Strategically include families and communities in college initiatives.
  4. Serve as a resource to urban schools and communities.

Actions:

  1. Ensure that clinical practice and supervision reflect evidence- and equity-based practice for excellence in urban settings.
  2. Increase funding opportunities for students in clinical practice.
  3. Expand practice-based opportunities for all programs.

Actions: 

  1. Advance high quality public education at the local, state, and national levels.
  2. Conduct innovative scholarship to impact equity in public education; translate and disseminate scholarship and practice for transformational change.
  3. Convey and interpret legislation, policy, and current events to inform to students, faculty and relevant external stakeholders.

Note: 

We commit to revisiting our commitment statement, values, aspirations and actions on an annual basis to ensure relevance to meet the needs of changing educational and community contexts.