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Spring 2023

 

 

The Bi-Co Education Program proudly introduces one of our Spring 2023 classes,鈥滻nquiries into Black Studies, Language Justice, and Education,鈥 (EDUC 308),  co-designed and co-taught at 91传媒 by Sabea Evans (HC 鈥18), and (HC 鈥19).

The Education Department is glad to announce the publication of -- a guide to mentoring, building trust, and igniting change!

Written by 5 Posse Scholars, now 91传媒 alum - co-editor/writer Jada Ceasar and writers Alexis Giron, Torr Mundy, Princes Jefferson, and Kathryn Gonzales - and Professor Alice Lesnick. 

The authors hope this guide will serve people doing and preparing others to do this work of mentoring, trust, and change.

Read Professor Alison Cook-Sather's Spring '23 publication in Faculty Focus, describing the Bi-Co Education Department's practice of . Learn what accountability partners are, how to incorporate them within a course, and how students experience this structure.

To whom and for what are students accountable in higher education? The language of 鈥渉olding鈥 students accountable connotes a kind of control faculty wield over students, carrying the threat of consequences if students do not answer to the demands placed on them. But what if we as faculty thought about 鈥渉olding鈥 in a different way鈥攁s holding space for students to take agency and as holding students as they took that agency? And what if we thought of 鈥渁ccountability鈥 as the ability of students鈥攖he opportunity and the capacity鈥攖o articulate for themselves, and for others to witness and support, how they are taking responsibility in their learning?

Eight students pursuing the minor in Educational Studies鈥擡mma Adelman (BMC 鈥25), Kat Erickson (HC 鈥25), Claire Ford (BMC 鈥25), Joanna Gu (BMC 鈥23), Olivia Harkins-Finn (BMC 鈥23), Isabel Martin (HC 鈥23), Sunny Martinez (HC 鈥24), and Thea Risher (HC 鈥24)鈥攗ndertook an independent study with Alison Cook-Sather in the Fall-2022 semester to conceptualize and write a proposal for a major in Education Studies. The proposal was approved on the 1st of February 2023 by 91传媒鈥檚 Curriculum Committee, who lauded it as a 鈥渄etailed and thoughtful, intellectually engaging proposal.鈥 The major offers students the choice of five specializations. All five entail studies of how knowledge, culture, language, and power interrelate and bear on teaching and learning across contexts. Each is studied within the overarching frame of Research, Policy, and Practice, and focused in one of the following arenas: Elementary Education, Secondary Education, Secondary Education with Certification, Higher Education, and Out-of-School Contexts. The option to complete a minor remains, both for those students seeking secondary teaching certification and those seeking a more general preparation for lifelong teaching and learning. We join peer institutions, including Barnard, Amherst, Wellesley, and Wesleyan, in creating new majors in Education Studies, affirming that this is an important moment for studying, practicing, and advocating for education.

Four Ed Department minors鈥擡bony Graham (HC 鈥23), Olivia Harkins-Finn (BMC 鈥23), Theo Smith (HC 鈥23), and Kayo Stewart (BMC 鈥23)鈥攁re drawing on their experience as to support more that 20 student partners who are working with faculty members across disciplines at McGill University. Each of these Ed Department minors has been hired as an independent contractor to meet regularly with small groups of McGill student partners to provide the kind of support and guidance they offer one another in weekly SaLT student consultant meetings in the Bi-Co. Ebony, Olivia, Theo, and Kayo are crafting, while still undergraduates, a new version of this kind of partnership, which was pioneered by three Education Department graduates through post-bacc fellow positions: Sophia Abbot, independent major in education (Educational Identity and Empowering Pedagogy, BMC 鈥15) and Khadijah Seay (BMC 鈥16) and Mia Rybeck (HC 鈥17), both Ed Department minors. See for a discussion of Sophia鈥檚 and Khadijah鈥檚 work and for a discussion of Khadijah鈥檚 and Mia鈥檚 work.

Fall 2022

Alison Cook-Sather

Alison Cook-Sather: How to Structure Student Voice Into Higher Education

Education Program faculty Alison Cook-Sather speaks about How to Structure Student Voice Into Higher Education to Harvard Education Press, explaining the arguments in her new book, Co-Creating Equitable Teaching and Learning. Click to learn more about this book. Click below to watch the video!

Professor Alison Cook-Sather at Stanford Graduate School of Education Award

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Alison Cook-Sather receives Stanford University Graduate School of Education Alumni Excellence in Education Award. Click on "Read More" to learn more about the award! Click to view the full awards ceremony.

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