Category Archives: Professional Development

2018 K-12 Education Career Fair

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2018 K-12 Education Career Fair is Open For Registration

Thursday, March 15, 2018

3:00 pm – 5:00 pm

 

USC City Center

1149 South Olive Street, 6th Floor

Los Angeles, CA 90015

 

Registration deadline is March 1, 2018

 

Register

 

If you would like to see the name of the employers who have expressed interest in hiring from your program click here.

 

Sincerely,

 

Nare Khodadadians

Career Services Specialist

USC Rossier School of Education

1150 S. Olive St., Suite 2100 | Los Angeles, CA 90015-2798

(213)740-2157 | nkhodada@rossier.usc.edu

 

Continuing Legal Education (CLE): Muslim Ban 3.0

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On Wednesday 10/18, we will be hosting our second Continuing Legal Education (CLE) lunch of the academic year. This month’s topic is Muslim Ban 3.0 and will feature two panelists, Zulaikha Aziz JD (Human Rights Attorney and Assistant Professor of the Practice, School of International Relations at USC) and Marwa Rifahie JD (Council on American-Islamic Relations, Los Angeles). The event will be in WPH 403 from 12:15-1:30pm and we encourage attendees to being their own lunch. Thank you to the PhD office for providing refreshments! For more information, see the attached flyer, visit our CLE website page or check out our Facebook event page.

Oct 18 CLE Muslim Ban 3.0

 

First Generation College Student Summit Committee: Call for Proposals

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The First Generation College Student Summit Committee is excited to announce that our call for program proposals is now OPEN for the 3rd Annual First Generation College Student Summit: Building CommUNITY. The summit will take place Friday, February 2nd, 2018 from 10:30am to 6:00pm at USC, Ronald Tutor Campus Center.

We are looking for looking for first generation college students, staff and faculty to submit program proposals that highlight this year’s goals for the summit to:

• Build community for first-year first generation undergraduate and graduate college students.
• Educate around issues, practices, and research on first generation college students.
• Bring visibility to the first generation college student community and intersectional identities.

Presentation proposals are due by 11:59PM PST on Monday, October 23rd, 2017. Please go to the link here to submit your proposal: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdL5iiLZStUdrGt3rb1go17BBe-YZGUZCWK1NyglcODBwtD_w/viewform. Please share widely to your students and colleagues.

Please direct any questions regarding the First Generation College Student Summit programming to Mary Ho (maryho@usc.edu) and/or Tim Khuu (tkhuu@rossier.usc.edu). Thank you!

Best,
Tim Khuu, M.Ed.
Academic Advisor, MAT-TESOL

University of Southern California
Rossier School of Education
Masters of Arts in Teaching Programs
1150 Olive St., Suite 2100
Los Angeles, CA 90015
Office: (213) 821-3405

 

 

Online Master of Studies in Law (MSL) Info Session – October 11th

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USC Gould School of Law is hosting an on-campus information session on Wednesday, October 11th and a webinar on Thursday, November 9th to share more about the Master of Studies in Law (MSL), a degree intended for seasoned and early-career non-lawyer professionals who would like to build their expertise in legal responsibilities and issues related to their work.  The flexibility and convenience of this master’s degree allows students to complete their coursework in as few as three semesters.  Both our on-campus information session and webinar will provide an overview of USC Gould, curriculum, application process and the online learning experience.

 

On-Campus Information Session

Wednesday, October 11, 2017 | 6:00-7:30pm (Pacific Time)

Amy King Dundon-Berchtold University Club of USC

Click here to register for the information session.

 

Webinar Online Event

Thursday, November 9, 2017 | 5:30-6:30pm (Pacific Time)

Click here to register for the webinar.

USC Rossier unveils 2017-18 lecture series speakers

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USC Rossier unveils 2017-18 lecture series speakers

October 4, 2017

The USC Rossier School of Education returns its annual research lecture series beginning this November, hosting six scholars who specialize in diversity and equity in education. For the second year in a row, all speakers are scholars of color, bringing expertise on social-emotional learning, socializing and curricular reform, among many others topics.

All lectures take place on the University Park Campus at noon, and will be livestreamed through the USC Rossier Facebook page.

Tressie McMillan Cottom
Tressie McMillan Cottom
Virginia Commonwealth University
Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2017Tressie McMillan Cottom is an assistant professor of sociology. Her book, Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy(2017, The New Press) has received national and international acclaim. Cottom publishes widely on issues of inequality, work, higher education and technology.

Huriya Jabbar
Huriya Jabbar
University of Texas Austin
Thursday, Feb. 8, 2018Huriya Jabbar is an assistant professor in the Educational Policy and Planning program in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy. Her research examines the social and political dimensions of market-based reforms and privatization in education, including school choice and decision-making in K-12 and higher education contexts.

Terrance Green
Terrance Green
University of Texas at Austin
Thursday, Feb. 22, 2018Terrance L. Green is an assistant professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy. His research focuses on the nexus of urban school reform and socially just community development with a particular focus on school and community leaders. Green’s scholarship also examines issues of geography of educational opportunity for children of color from low-income backgrounds.

Fantasy Lozada
Fantasy Lozada
Virginia Commonwealth University
Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2018Fantasy Lozada is an assistant professor of developmental psychology whose research takes into consideration how cultural-related beliefs (i.e., beliefs about emotion, race, and discrimination) and race-related experiences (i.e., racial identity, discrimination and socialization) impact social-emotional competence among ethnic minority youth.

DeLeon Gray
DeLeon Gray
NC State University
Wednesday, March 7, 2018DeLeon Gray is an assistant professor of educational psychology. His research examines how adolescents and emerging adults perceive and interpret their social encounters in achievement contexts, and whether these mental representations account for their achievement beliefs and behaviors. His work includes investigations highlighting the role of social identity processes in achievement contexts, particularly in terms of students’ strivings to “stand out” and “fit in” within their peer circles, as well as understanding students’ judgments about socializers (e.g., teachers, parents and mentors), and students’ interpretations of the messages that these socializers convey about scholastic achievement.

Kalena Cortes
Kalena Cortes
Texas A&M University
Wednesday, April 11, 2018Kalena Cortes is an associate professor at the Bush School of Government and Public Service, and is a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). Her research focuses on policies relating to curriculum reform, diversity in higher education, post-secondary returns to education and educational achievement of immigrant children in the United States.

The 2017-2018 Research/Equity Series is sponsored by the USC Rossier Research Office. Any questions can be addressed to Deb Karpman, Assistant Dean for Research at dkarpman@rossier.usc.edu.

New Publications from Rossier Faculty

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NEW PUBLICATIONS

 

Ahmadi, S., Cole, D., Castellanos, M., Manson, S., & Zhou, J. (2017). Hate Speech and Hate Crimes on Campus: Anti-Muslim Speech and Cyberbullying. The Applied Scholarship of Melvin C. Terrell. Information Age Publishing Incorporated.

Bensimon, E. M. “Bridging the Artificial Gap Between Activism and Scholarship to Form Tools for Knowledge.” (forthcoming) in Advancing equity, inclusiveness, and social change in higher education: How academics connect research, advocacy, and policy, edited by Perna, L.W. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Malcom-Piqueux, L., Bensimon, E. “Taking Equity-Minded Action to Close Equity Gaps,” AAC&U’s Peer Review: 2017. 

*Fisher, O., *O’Donnell, S. C. & Oyserman, D. (2017) Identity-based motivation and social class. Current Opinions in Psychology, 18, 61-66. DOI: 10.1080/1047840X.2017.1337406 

*Fisher, O. & Oyserman, D. (2017). Assessing interpretations of experienced ease and difficulty as motivational constructs.  Motivational Science, 3(2), 133-163. 

Gehrke, S. & Cole, D. (In press). An Empirical Examination of the Relationship between Faculty Teaching Culture and Spiritual Development in College. Journal of College and Character.

Goodman, K. & Cole, D.  (Eds.) (In press). Supporting Students through Data-Driven Decision Making: Considerations for Student Affairs Practitioners. New Directions for Student Services: Supporting Students through Data-Driven Decision Making: Considerations for Student Affairs Practitioners. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

Heddy, B. C. & Sinatra, G. M. (2017). Transformative parents: Facilitating transformative experiences and interest with a parent involvement intervention. Science Education, 101(5), 765-786.

Heddy, B. C., *Danielson, R. W., Sinatra, G. M., & Graham, J. (2017). Modifying knowledge, emotions, and attitudes about genetically modified foods. Journal of Experimental Education 85(3), 513-553.

Kim, James S., Mary A. Burkhauser, David M. Quinn, Jonathan Guryan, Helen Chen Kingston, and Kirsten Aleman. (2017). “Effectiveness of Structured Teacher Adaptations to an Evidence-based Summer Literacy Program.” Reading Research Quarterly.

Oyserman, D. & Schwarz, N. (2017). Conservatism as a situated identity: implications for consumer behavior Journal of Consumer Psychology, 27(4). 

Oyserman, D., *Lewis Jr., N. A., *Yan, V. X., *Fisher, O., *O’Donnell, S. C., & *Horowitz, E. (2017). An identity-based motivation framework for self-regulation. Psychological Inquiry, 28(2-3), 139-147.

Quinn, David M. and James S. Kim. (2017). “Scaffolding Fidelity and Adaptation in Educational Program Implementation: Experimental Evidence from a Literacy Intervention.” American Educational Research Journal.

Quinn, David M. (2017). “Racial Attitudes of PreK-12 and Postsecondary Educators: Descriptive Evidence from Nationally-representative Data.” Educational Researcher.

Quinn, David M. and Joe McIntyre. (2017). “Do Learning Rates Differ by Race/ethnicity over Kindergarten? Reconciling Results across Gain Score, First-Difference, and Random Effects Models.” Economics of Education Review, 59, 81-86.

Using NVivo as a Research Tool webinar

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You are invited to the upcoming Using NVivo as a Research Tool webinar.  This free webinar will provide an overview demonstration of key functionality of NVivo software for qualitative research.  Topics to be covered in the webinar include:

  • Visualizations (coding stripes, charts, word trees, word clouds, mind maps, hierarchical charts, sociograms)
  • Queries (text search, word frequency, matrix coding, coding comparison, automated insights)
  • Data types (surveys, images, audio, video, text, social media)
  • Social Network Analysis
  • Automated Insights to identify themes and sentiment

Please join this webinar to learn how NVivo software can help you take your research to the next level.

Date:  Thursday, September 28, 2017

Time:  3:00 PM EDT

Please use the link below to register in advance:

https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/7850538696405216258

 

Hawaii International Conference on Education – Call for Papers Extended

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Call for Papers

(For full conference details, visit our website at: http://www.hiceducation.org )

Submission/Proposal Deadline EXTENDED to: September 18th, 2017

The 16th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Education will be held from January 4th (Thursday) to January 7th (Sunday), 2018 at the Hilton Hawaiian Village Waikiki Beach Resort in Honolulu, Hawaii. Honolulu is located on the island of Oahu. Oahu is often nicknamed “the gathering place”. The 2018 Hawaii International Conference on Education will once again be the gathering place for academicians and professionals from Education and related fields from all over the world.

Topic Areas (All Areas of Education are Invited)

·         Academic Advising and Counseling

·         Adult Education

·         Art Education

·         Business Education

·         Counselor Education

·         Curriculum, Research and Development

·         Distance Education

·         Early Childhood Education

·         Educational Administration

·         Educational Foundations

·         Educational Measurement and Evaluation

·         Educational Psychology

·         Educational Technology

·         Education Policy and Leadership

·         Elementary Education

·         ESL/TESL

·         Health Education

 ·         Higher Education

·         Human Resource Development

·         Indigenous Education

·         Kinesiology & Leisure Science

·         Language Education

·         Libraries and Learning Commons

·         Music Education

·         Reading Education

·         Secondary Education

·         Social Studies Education

·         Special Education

·         STEM Education

·         Student Affairs

·         Teacher Education

·         Cross-disciplinary areas of Education

·         Other Areas of Education

Submitting a Proposal/Paper:

You may submit your paper/proposal by following the instructions on our website. To make a submission, and for detailed information about submitting see:

http://www.hiceducation.org/call-for-papers/

American Educational Research Association (AERA)

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The AERA GSC is happy to announce that the “Behind the curtain: Inside insights in writing a high-quality AERA proposal” webinar that took place on June 28th is now available for streaming. In addition, we have included the resources that were shared during the webinar.

  • See here for the recording of the webinar.
  • The GSC encourages you to submit a proposal to the 2018 AERA convention and allow this recorded webinar to assist you in that process.
  • Also, should you wish to collaborate to compose a proposal for the 2018 AERA convention, please add your name and contact information here.
  • This is a self-managed list, so please feel free to reach out directly to any student listed there that you wish to collaborate with.
  • For sample AERA proposals see here.
  • We wish to support all graduate students in their professional development needs so please sign up for our mailing list to receive additional information.

With gratitude,
AERA GSC