Are you interested in engaging in creative outlets that will inspire innovation, help you cope with stress, promote rejuvenation and allow you to discover new interests, hobbies and talents?!
Feelin’ Fresh Fridays is a new workshop that will be held every Friday this semester at 11-12pm at the USC Kortschak Center for Learning and Creativity (STU 311). Stop by without needing to RSVP and take-away a newly created product for your enjoyment and de-stressing needs (see flyer attached).
USC Rossier School of Education invites you to join us at our 2019 ASHE Reception!
WHEN:
Friday, November 15 7:00-9:00 p.m.
WHERE:
Captain Gray I
545 SW Taylor
Portland, Oregon 97204
RSVP:
Reply by November 5.
For questions, contact the Rossier Events Office at
rossier.events@usc.edu or 213.740.9559
Want to hear and support awesome student poetry? Looking to perform a new piece in a fun, supportive environment? Spoken Justice is coming up on Thursday, November 7 at Ground Zero. Spoken Justice is an open mic, spoken word night where members of the USC community can perform their spoken word poetry, focused on identity and social justice.
Sign-ups to perform begin at 6:15pm and the event will run from 6:30pm-8pm. Food will be provided. Spoken Justice is co-sponsored by Latina/o Graduate Student Association, Rossier Master’s Program Office, and Residential Education.
If you have any questions about our events, please reach out to us at socialjustice@usc.edu. We hope to see you there!
Center for Education, Identity and Social Justice
USC Rossier School of Education, WPH 1003
(213) 740-1445
Dear USC Rossier Faculty, Staff and Students,
I’m happy to announce the next book we will read and discuss in our USC Rossier Book Club: The Other Americans, by Laila Lalami. Our school-wide discussion will take place in the USC Hotel’s Central Ballroom on Wednesday, October 30, from 12:00–2:00 p.m. Lunch will be provided, so please RSVP by Friday, October 11.
Books will be available for pick up, with my compliments, in WPH 1102 beginning Monday, September 23, from 10:00-12:00 p.m. and 2:00-4:00 p.m., until Friday, October 11. At this time, we do not have audio copies available. ***Please note that your acceptance of the book indicates your commitment to read it and participate in our discussion! ***
We also welcome participants to join the discussion remotely. Please provide a mailing address if you will need the book shipped to you. A link to our virtual classroom will be provided closer to the date of our gathering.
Part of the Rossier Way
We launched the Book Club as part of our initiative, “The Rossier Way,” which is designed to cultivate a culture of caring and support amongst faculty, staff and students. I am hosting the Book Club events in partnership with Darline Robles, Associate Dean of Equity and Inclusion.
Our goal is to select a work of fiction that helps us explore themes relevant to our mission to advance educational equity. You can find a brief synopsis of The Other Americans here. Reviews of the book include:
Washington Post: Lalami “plunges into lives of fictional yet convincingly real individuals, who, despite their differences in origin and socioeconomic station, all have a whiff of the unwanted hovering about them, and a desperate wish for dignity lodged within them…. Lalami gives us a searching exploration of the lives of several individuals with whom mainstream American society has a vexed relationship.”
The Atlantic: “To the extent that the The Other Americans is a mystery or procedural, the novel does offer an answer to its central case, a nudge toward some small amount of justice. Even so, the book’s conclusion about American identity is a far more tenuous one than this legal resolution: For people on the country’s margins, particularly immigrants, not gesture of patriotism will ever be enough.”
Laila Lalami is the winner of the 2019 Simpson/Joyce Carol Oates Prize and is the author of Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits; Secret Son; and The Moor’s Account, which won the American Book Award, the Arab American Book Award, and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Her essays have appeared in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, The Nation, Harper’s Magazine, and The Guardian. A professor of creative writing at the University of California at Riverside, she lives in Los Angeles.
We look forward to a lively discussion in October.
Want to learn more about the Rossier Doctoral Support Center (DSC)? Join Doctoral Support Specialists Christopher Mattson (Ed.D., M.F.A.) and Evelyn Felina Castillo (Ed.D.) in an online webinar covering academic writing tips, presentations, events, Q&A opportunities, and how to schedule draft reviews.
Topic: Christopher Mattson’s Zoom Meeting
Time: Oct 11, 2019 12:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
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USC Rossier is excited to announce the visiting faculty for its fourth annual Scholars of Color Research Lecture Series. Sponsored by the USC Rossier Office of Research, the 2019-20 series will bring seven visiting researchers to the USC campus throughout the school year to present to students, faculty and staff.
Dana Miller-Cotto
University of California, San Francisco
Noon, October 8, 2019
Dauterive Hall LL-101
Dr. Miller-Cotto’s research applies a psychological, ecological systems theory perspective to math and science achievement. She aims to understand the associations among antecedent factors (e.g. SES, race) and opportunities (e.g., classroom instruction, home and child-care experiences) that shape children’s readiness in math and science.
Constance Lindsay
UNC Chapel Hill
Noon, October 31, 2019
Dauterive Hall LL-101
Dr. Lindsay has worked in education policy in various contexts, applying her research training in traditional studies and in creating and evaluating new systems and policies regarding teachers. Lindsay’s areas of expertise include teacher quality and diversity, analyzing and closing racial achievement gaps, and adolescent development. Before doctoral study at Northwestern, she was a Presidential Management Fellow at the U.S. Department of Education.
Niral Shah
University of Washington
Noon, November 6, 2019
Dauterive Hall LL-101
Dr. Shah’s research focuses on equity and implicit bias in STEM education. Although mathematics is often seen as “neutral” and “race free,” Shah’s research shows that math classrooms are highly racialized spaces. Through classroom observations and student interviews, he studies how false racial narratives (e.g., “Asians are good at math”) affect classroom interaction and serve to position students as more or less capable of learning math. Shah also studies how perceptions of status affect student learning in elementary computer science.
Cheryl Matias
2019-20 IRISE Visiting Faculty, University of Denver
Noon, November 20, 2019
Dauterive Hall LL-101
Dr. Matias’s research focuses on race and ethnic studies in education with a theoretical focus on critical race theory, critical whiteness studies, critical pedagogy and feminism of color. Specifically, she uses a feminist of color approach to deconstruct the emotionality of whiteness in urban teacher education and how it impacts urban education. Her other research interest is on motherscholarship and supporting women of color and motherscholars in the academy.
Denisa Gándara
Southern Methodist University
3 p.m., January 29, 2020
Waite Phillips Hall 403
Dr. Gándara’s research agenda broadly explores higher education policy formulation processes and impacts, especially on populations traditionally underserved in higher education. Her work appears in The Journal of Higher Education, Research in Higher Education and Review of Higher Education, and she is a co-author of the book Outcomes Based Funding and Race in Higher Education: Can Equity be Bought? Dr. Gándara is the recipient of an AERA Research Grant and a dissertation fellowship from the Ford Foundation and the National Academies of Sciences.
Amalia Dache-Gerbino
University of Pennsylvania
February 25, 2020
Time and location TBD
Dr. Dache-Gerbino’s major research areas include the postcolonial geographic contexts of higher education, racial justice movements and the college access experiences of African diasporic students and communities. Her experiences as a former Cuban refugee and student traversing U.S. educational systems, such as urban K-12 schools, community college, state college and a private research intensive university inform her research and professional experiences.
Nolan Cabrera
University of Arizona
April 9, 2020
Time and location TBD
Dr. Nolan Cabrera studies the racial dynamics on college campuses, with a particular focus on Whiteness, and was the only academic featured in the MTV documentary White People. Dr. Cabrera is also involved in the controversy surrounding the Tucson Unified School District’s former Mexican American Studies program. He is a recipient of the Spencer/National Academy of Education postdoctoral fellowship.
The USC Writing Center presents: How To Read Like a Graduate Student
Feeling overwhelmed by your workload? Wish you retained more from your readings? Join the Writing Center for lunch and an interactive workshop!
We will go beyond the normal advice about skimming to analyzing the types of arguments that academics frequently make. Students will become familiar with the article structure in various disciplines, as well as the thesis statements that repeatedly appear in academic publishing.
We will also discuss how to prioritize your readings, how to take notes you will actually use, and – above all – how to gain a feeling of control over a daunting workload.
To reserve your seat, email: writing@usc.edu
The workshop will take place Monday, October 7 @ from 12 PM – 1:30 PM in THH 118
Dr. Dana Miller-Cotto (UC San Francisco) will be visiting Rossier on Tuesday, October 8th as part of the Rossier Scholars of Color Lecture Series. She will present her talk, entitled Examining Sketching as a tool to offload working memory in math and science at 12:00 pm in Dauterive LL-101.
About Dr. Dana Miller-Cotto: My research applies a psychological, ecological systems theory perspective to math and science achievement. I aim to understand the associations among antecedent factors (e.g. SES, race) and opportunities (e.g., classroom instruction, home and child care experiences,) factors that shape children’s readiness in math and science. As a result, my research focuses on two strands. The first strand focuses on determining early predictors of student readiness in math and science. The second strand focuses on evaluating classroom instructional practices based on learning principles in cognitive psychology and how they can promote or inhibit math and science learning. I use experimental, longitudinal, and meta-analytic approaches to examine these two strands.
If you would like to meet with Dr. Miller-Cotto during her visit, please contact Susan McKibben at smckibbe@rossier.usc.edu.
In today’s world of international testing and country league tables, nations with high scoring students are held up as exemplars of great educational systems to be emulated by others. Is this a valid way to compare educational system quality? Is the problem international testing or poor quality comparative education research? Are there ways ro use test data to gain better insights into how nations educate their children and what this implies for national development the future of culture and education in the 21st century?
Join Dr. Martin Carnoy, Vida Jacks Professor of Education at Stanford University as he discusses these issues and draws on his new book-The Transformation of Comparative Education: Fifty Years of Theory Building at Stanford, which traces the various underlying conceptualizations for understanding education and educational change internationally and intra-nationally.
Location: Waite Phillips Hall 403
Date: October 10, 2019
Time: 4:00 p.m.
Undergraduate and graduate students are invited to apply for scholarships to attend the 6th Annual Women’s Leadership Counts Conference that will be held November 7, 2019, in Beverly Hills. Presented by the Japan America Society of Southern California, the theme of this year’s conference is: “From Locker Room to C-Suite,” examining how playing sports can foster the skills necessary for individuals to become influential leaders in their professional careers.
Scholarship applications are now being accepted and are due Friday, October 4, 2019, at 5:00 p.m. Scholarship recipients will be notified in late October via email. If selected, students will receive a full waiver of the registration fee (transportation and/or parking are not covered). Recipients will be expected to actively participate in the roundtable discussion and take notes; complete a participant survey after the conference; and write a brief report about their conference experiences, sharing what was learned.
To apply, please visit https://www.jas-socal.org/event-3501861