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Earlier this month we welcomed students from Robert F. Kennedy Community of Schools' Los Angeles High School of the Arts to expand their knowledge on storytelling and learn about our Project CYCLE (Crafting Young Children’s Literary Experiences). The students, most of whom are enrolled in an English Language Development (ELD) program, were able to apply their acquired knowledge to tell their own story and create their own culminating activity for their required portfolios and senior project defense.

The students heard from a variety of speakers, including Jenefer Mateo, alumna from our Liberal Studies department and current student in our MA in Education: Dual Language Learning; Ms. Wei Ma, Electronic Resources Librarian in the CSUDH Library; Dr. Yesenia Fernández, Associate Professor in our School Leadership Program; and many more.

Thanks to all of the members of Project CYCLE for making this possible, and in particular to Dr. Jen Stacy for coordinating and planning the visit!

For more information about Project CYCLE, visit https://bit.ly/CSUDH-COE-ProjectCYCLE

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We are proud to announce and celebrate the success of our School and College Counseling faculty, staff, students, and alumni by announcing that the program has officially been elevated and is now recognized as an academic department.

The School and College Counseling Program is now...the Department of School and College Counseling! 👏

“The Counseling faculty and I are elated to be becoming our own department,” says Dr. Adriean Mancillas, now Department Chair.

“The elevation of the School and Counseling program to a department affirms the university and college’s commitment to continual growth,” says Dr. Jessica Zacher Pandya, Dean of the college.

For more information on the elevation, visit https://bit.ly/CounselingElevation

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Congratulations to Dr. Maggie Landeros, Assistant Professor in our School & College Counseling program, who received the Western Association for College Admission Counseling's (WACAC) 2024 Joseph P. Allen Human Relations Award for making "an extraordinary commitment of talent and effort on behalf of underserved students and counselors."

The award was presented to Dr. Landeros on May 30th at WACAC's 2024 Annual Conference, held at the SAFE Credit Union Convention Center in Sacramento.

Please join us in congratulating Dr. Landeros on this award! 👏

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We are proud and honored to announce that seven of our COE faculty are awardees for California State University, Dominguez Hills' 2024-25 Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity (RSCA) Awards Program.

Congratulations to the following faculty:
· Dr. Angela Macias, Associate Professor & Chair in Liberal Studies (upper left)
· Dr. Jenny Chiappe, Assistant Professor in Special Education (upper middle)
· Dr. Maggie Landeros, Assistant Professor in Graduate Education (upper right)
· Dr. Minhye Son, Assistant Professor in Teacher Education (lower left)
· Dr. Nallely Arteaga, Assistant Professor in Teacher Education (lower middle)
· Dr. Steph Cariaga, Associate Professor in Teacher Education (lower right)
· Dr. Conrad Oh-Young, Assistant Professor in Special Education (not pictured)

Join us in congratulating our outstanding faculty members and wishing them the best on their RSCA projects! 👏

For a full list of CSUDH faculty awardees, visit https://www.csudh.edu/gsr/research/funding/internal-grants

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Our offices are closed today, May 27th, in observance of Memorial Day. 🇺🇸

Have a safe and enjoyable holiday!

Congratulations to Dr. Maggie Landeros, Assistant Professor in our School & College Counseling Program, for being one of the recipients of CSUDH's 2024-25 Exceptional Levels of Service to Students Award! 👏

Dr. Landeros joined CSUDH and our College of Education as a part-time faculty member in Fall 2021, but then quickly became a full-time faculty member one year later in Fall 2022. In the two short years that she has been in our college as a tenure-track faculty member, Dr. Landeros has had a tremendous impact in our Counseling program.

Growing up in Compton as a 14 year old, young Dr. Landeros knew at this age that she wanted to go into counseling because of her affinity to serve and give back to her community. Now as an adult professional, she saw some gaps in training and development. She sought to contribute with a different lens to educate and prepare the next generation of counselors by providing them with opportunities to build an identity as scholar practitioners and educational leaders. She also likes to encourage counseling graduate students to pursue an advanced degree, such as an Ed.D. or Ph.D., so that their voices are heard in the literature of their chosen field.

Please join us in congratulating and thanking Dr. Landeros for her exceptional service to students and their success! 👏

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Congratulations to all students in our School Leadership Program (SLP) for completing their Preliminary Administrative Services Credential and--most of them--the MA in School Leadership degree! 👏

These are current teachers, counselors, or nurses who decided to become school administrators to have a wider impact in the communities they serve. They had their SLP Culmination Ceremony to celebrate their completion of the program. Congrats, SLP Class of 2024!

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Class of 2024, your big day is coming! 🎉

Our CSUDH Liberal Studies undergraduate students will have their commencement ceremony tomorrow, May 17th at 9AM and our graduate students will have their ceremony on Saturday, May 18th at 6PM.

Join the celebration at the Dignity Health Sports Park Tennis Stadium. For more information about commencement, visit https://www.csudh.edu/commencement

If you are not able to come in person, you can watch the livestreams on the csuDHTV YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/user/csudhtv/live

See you all tomorrow and Saturday, and 🤘

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Congratulations to the master's candidates in our M.A. in Special Education program for their research poster presentations and for completing their culminating activity as part of their degree requirement! 👏

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We appreciate all the students who stopped by at the last COE Study Hall. We wish you all the best as the spring 2024 semester comes to a close. Best of luck to all during finals week!

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As cultural graduations are still being celebrated and the university-wide commencement ceremonies are just around the corner, we'd like to congratulate the Class of 2024! We want to congratulate two graduates in particular, Karla Chacon and Karla Sales Gonzalez, both whom work/ed as student assistants in the College of Education.

Karla Chacon is a student assistant in our Division of Graduate Education and will earn her B.A. in Sociology. She proudly represented her country of El Salvador.

Karla Sales Gonzalez was a student assistant in our CSUDH Educational Leadership for Justice Program and will earn her B.A. in English with a concentration in literature. She proudly represented her country of Honduras.

Join us in congratulating both Karlas as they complete their bachelor's degrees and go on to the next chapter of their life! 👏

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Come join us and your Associated Students, Inc., COE Representative on Thursday, May 9th from 3:30PM-5PM for the last study hall of the spring 2024 semester. We are dubbing it the Finals Edition!

Stop by for free snacks, a chance to recharge between classes, and to meet your COE leadership team!

The event will be held in the North Patio of the COE building, located on the northeast corner and just outside COE 1407 and 1409. See you there!

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Last evening we honored and celebrated our COE faculty who reached 5, 10, or 20 years of service milestones, and those who received distinguished awards. Join us in congratulating all of the faculty of our college for their service and accolades!👏

Faculty present at the awards reception included:

Dr. Steph Cariaga, Associate Professor in our Teacher Education department, who reached 5 Years of Service

Dr. Jeff Sapp, Professor in our Teacher Education department, who received the Presidential Outstanding Service Award

Dr. Ed Curammeng, Associate Professor in our Teacher Education department, who received the Excellence in Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity Award

Congratulations as well to all other COE faculty who were not able to attend. (See full list in last two photos.)

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We are excited to have our Dean, Dr. Jessica Zacher Pandya, join Assemblymember Al Muratsuchi of CA's 66th Assembly District for a conversation about how to build the Golden State's educator workforce in the face of a teacher shortage. Join the conversation virtually this Wednesday, May 1st at 10AM.

Register to UNITE-LA's Education Means Business Webinar: Building CA’s Educator Workforce at https://t.co/RklG0Uxy7k

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Today, faculty who participated in the Affordable Learning $olutions (AL$) Initiative were recognized for their contributions in providing their students with more affordable, quality educational content.

By reducing student course material expenses, more students acquire the course materials they need to succeed and benefit from their learning experience. As a result, faculty and students have greater access to quality free and low-cost learning materials through a variety of AL$ programs and partnerships.

In this academic year 2023-24, there were 235 total faculty participants, saving students nearly $2.8M! Kudos to all CSUDH faculty, and in particular, the COE faculty for making education more equitable through the AL$ Initiative! 👏

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Yesterday we hosted Los Angeles Unified School District's Educators of Tomorrow Symposium and had nearly 300 seniors from various high schools in LAUSD visit our campus. The high school seniors participated in a resource fair, heard from a CSUDH student & LAUSD alum panel, and were even interviewed for jobs!

We wish them the best in their future careers in the field of education and hope they'll one day become part of the Toro Nation! 🤘

📷 credit: Matt Brown, CSUDH University Photographer

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The College of Education celebrates the month of April in honor of Arab American Heritage Month!

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Our offices are closed today, Monday, April 1st in observation of César Chávez Day. We will re-open tomorrow, April 2nd and will stay open throughout the rest of spring break.

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Congratulations to Amber Olmos, graduate student in our School & College Counseling Program, for wining the College of Education Representative election! 👏 We look forward to working with her during 2024-25 on behalf--and in the interest of--all students in our college.

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Are you an undergraduate student majoring in Liberal Studies or Ethnic Studies major such as Chicana/o Studies, Asian Pacific Studies, or Africana Studies and are interested in becoming a teacher? We have a program for you!

The Multilingual/Minoritized Educators Networked-Learning and Development (MEND) Fellows Program aims to increase and retain the number of multilingual and minoritized teachers in Southern California. MEND focuses on pre-service teachers’ wellness, academic pursuits, and high-quality early clinical experiences in schools.

As part of the MEND Fellows Program, you will receive the following benefits:
- Approximately $1,600 per year
- Individualized Academic Advising
- Mentorship and Community
- Professional Development, and more!

If you are interested in becoming part of MEND's second cohort, please complete the interest form at https://forms.gle/Y2xzf67CXbzfZw1q8

For additional background about MEND: https://news.csudh.edu/mend

Send questions about MEND to [email protected]

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📢 Attention COE current students! Today is the last day to vote in the 2024-25 Associated Students, Inc., elections! One of the positions is the College of Education Representative, so make sure to exercise your right to vote for your next COE Rep!

To participate, check your Toromail and open the email with the subject, "REMINDER: Vote In ASI's 2024 General Elections NOW!" (Make sure to check your spam folder if you don't find it in your inbox.) Voting ends TODAY, March 28th at 11:59 PM!

Other running positions include, President, Executive Vice President, VP of Academic Affairs, Director of Student Services, College of Natural & Behavioral Sciences, Representative, Organizations Commissioner, and Elections Commissioner.

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We would like to congratulate Dr. Jeff Sapp, Professor in our Division of Teacher Education, for receiving the 2024 Presidential Outstanding Professor Award! 👏

The Outstanding Professor Awards were originally established by the Board of Trustees of The California State University in September 1963 to give recognition for excellence in teaching. In 1995, the statewide awards were discontinued, but Dominguez Hills continued the program as an annual campus-based award. Revised in 2004 and now called the Presidential Outstanding Professor Award, this honor recognizes an individual who has demonstrated outstanding achievements in all areas of faculty performance, i.e., as a teacher, as a member of their profession, and as a member of the campus and community.

Please join us in congratulating Dr. Sapp for this award and for his contributions to the teaching profession, to our College of Education, and to CSUDH! 👏 Dr. Sapp considers his students to be the most precious of awards.

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We would like to congratulate Dr. Ed Curammeng, Associate Professor in our Division of Teacher Education, for receiving the 2024 Excellence in Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity (RSCA) Award! 👏

The Excellence in RSCA Award was established in 2004 to acknowledge that research, scholarship, and creative activity are essential components of the mission of CSUDH. Moreover, this award recognizes that these professional activities provide intellectual stimulation and motivation for student learning, are an impetus for students to emulate the work of their professors, and bring recognition and prestige to the institution; that it is important to recognize faculty who are working at the frontier of their discipline and contributing to human knowledge; that maintaining current involvement in their disciplines enables CSUDH faculty to be part of, and to reach out to, the academic community at large as well as the immediate community that we serve; that scholarship, research, and creative activity distinguish the professional work of faculty in higher education; and further, that the CSUDH has a tradition of excellent research, scholarship, and creative activity.

Please join us in congratulating Dr. Curammeng for this award and for his contributions to research, scholarship, and creative activity in the College of Education and at CSUDH! 👏

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Last Friday was International Women's Day, but we are still celebrating Women's [Her]story Month in March. In our College of Education we have many women who are extraordinary leaders who day-in and day-out work to make the experience of our students positive and rewarding. Such examples of these women are members of our COE leadership team, including Dean Dr. Jessica Zacher Pandya, Associate Dean Dr. Corinne Martinez, COE Student Success Center Director Dr. Aimee Arreygue, and COE Associated Students, Inc., student representative Ms. Aanisah Duru. Happy belated International Women's Day to all women who make our college, our university, and the world a better place!

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Don't forget to join us today at 3:30PM in the COE patio/courtyard (aka The COvE)! First 20 students to show up will receive a COE swag bag with lots of goodies! See you soon!

Come to take a break, study 🤓, grab a snack 🍪🍫, drink some coffee ☕, and meet your College of Education leadership team 🤝, including the Dean, Associate Dean, and the Director of the COE Student Success Center. Come by before, in-between, or after class! We'll see you there!

For more info: https://www.facebook.com/events/800238918709948

Event also co-sponsored by: Snap Inc. Institute for Technology and Education (SITE)

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📢 Attention current and aspiring teachers, counselors, school nurses, and school administrators!

If you are looking for a career in education, make sure to attend tomorrow's Education Career Fair held from 1:30PM-4:30PM in the Loker Student Union ballrooms.

The CSU Dominguez Hills Career Center will host this career fair for aspiring educators, which will be an excellent opportunity to learn about different employment opportunities related to education. CSUDH alums are welcome to attend! Register via Handshake at https://csudh.joinhandshake.com. Meet with recruiters from:

· Los Angeles Unified School District
· Long Beach USD
· Torrance Unified School District
· Compton Unified School District..and more!

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Students, are you ready for midterms yet!? Come to the next session of our COE Study Hall series to take a break, study 🤓, grab a snack 🍪🍫, drink some coffee ☕, and meet your College of Education leadership team 🤝, including the Dean, Associate Dean, and the Director of the COE Student Success Center. Come by before, in-between, or after class! We'll see you there!

For more info: https://www.facebook.com/events/800238918709948

Event also co-sponsored by: Snap Inc. Institute for Technology and Education (SITE)

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Why feel, especially in these times? How might feeling help us cultivate freedom and healing, for ourselves as educators, our learning communities, and beyond?

Join us for our speaker series on Justice & Equity in Teacher Education called Feeling Towards Freedom on Tuesday, March 26, 5pm-6:30pm PST. It will be a virtual conversation with Prentis Hemphill and Jen Soriano to discuss ways we can practice healing justice as educators.

Register here: http://tinyurl.com/FeelingFreedom-DH

View full details and speaker bios at https://www.facebook.com/events/426408633137417

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The College of Education celebrates Women's [Her]story Month!



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