Dr. Gleason's research examines teacher identities and engagement practices in online communities of practice that are part of a new program in teacher leadership. This research explores how teachers engage in online spaces as they cross metaphoric boundaries of geography, discipline, and context to work together in virtual spaces. Dr. Gleason is interested in the opportunities that online communities of practice invite for meaning-making, learning, and reimagination of one’s own “place” in the world through interaction with people they may not interact with “in real life”. Her research also explores themes of trust and belonging with Latinx youth and schools. In collaboration with her team at the Renee Crown Wellness Institute, this research explores how creating 'circles de confiaza' with high school students allow youth to heal from experiences of distrust, racial micro-aggressions, and feelings of isolation- as well to envision educational spaces as sites of belonging.
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Teacher Leadership, rural education, youth voice, trust and belonging, community-based research, multi-modal storytelling, equity and justice, teacher learning, politics of place, youth voice
EDUA 5000 - Introduction to History, Policy and Advocacy for CLD Educators
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Fall 2023
This course will contextualize policies and programming for bilingual and multilingual education for K-12 students through providing a historical foundation of bilingual/multilingual education in the United States. This course is embedded with opportunities for critical reflection to guide participants in developing skills as an advocate and educator of culturally and linguistically diverse students.
EDUA 5001 - Intro to Designing Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy
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Fall 2023
Students will be introduced to critical topics such as multicultural education, culturally relevant pedagogy and culturally sustaining teaching practices. Key topics of this course include: How do multicultural education, culturally relevant and culturally sustaining pedagogies overlap and differ? What are multicultural education frameworks & models? How can we recognize our own identities and positionalities? What is the impact of relationships and connections on student engagement and learning? Students will be invited to critically reflect on one's identities as well as to consider strategies for curricular choices and teaching practices that might be support CLD students.
EDUA 5002 - Introduction to Teaching Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Learners
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Fall 2023
This course addresses effective instructional strategies for teachers of culturally and linguistically diverse learners. It explores evaluation and assessment tools applicable to CLD learners as well as instructional strategies for oral language development, literacy, and content-area language while also explaining how to support children�s linguistic, cognitive, academic, and social development.
EDUA 5003 - Teaching Culturally/Linguistically Diverse Learners: Capstone
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Summer 2021 / Summer 2022 / Summer 2023
This four credit course serves as the culminating experience for the certificate in Teaching Culturally/Linguistically Diverse Learners. It builds upon the previous courses in the capstone by asking students to synthesize past course ideas and topics like advocacy for culturally/linguistically diverse learners and critical consciousness in pedagogy. Students will create a showcase tool or plan that represents the learning they have achieved throughout the certificate.
EDUA 5007 - Social and Emotional Learning Capstone
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Summer 2021 / Summer 2022 / Summer 2023
This four credit course serves as the culminating experience for the certificate in Social and Emotional Learning. It builds upon the previous courses in the capstone by asking students to synthesize past course ideas and topics like outcomes and assessment in SEL, critiques of traditional SEL programs for teachers and students, and the role of testimonio and other strategies as culturally responsive alternatives. Students will create a showcase tool or plan that represents the learning they have achieved throughout the certificate.
EDUA 5019 - Compassion and Dignity for Educators: Awareness and Intention
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Fall 2023
Explores the ways compassion practices and a focus on the dignity of educators and students can contribute to the wellness of schools, supporting educator retention, student learning, and community wellness. Educators are introduced to compassion foundations and connections between compassion and leadership. Educators will reflect on their experiences, and identify barriers to compassion, including implicit biases and pity grounded in deficit views based on social identities.
EDUA 5020 - Self-Compassion and Dignity
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Fall 2023
Focuses on developing concepts of dignity and self-compassion and teaches leaders to apply self-compassion as an antidote for burnout and as a resource for well-being and positive relationships. Educators will imagine ways of developing self-compassion that can help them practice leadership daily. They will construct affirmations that facilitate self-compassion in difficult situations, including situations of social suffering (e.g., racism) that affect all people, but are experienced differently by different persons.
EDUA 5021 - Compassion In Fullness
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Fall 2023
Focuses on compassion for others, through concepts of common humanity, equity, and justice. This course addresses the ways structural inequality creates suffering and the importance of attending to everyday suffering. Educators consider skillful responses to pain as they begin to develop strategies for creating more compassionate schools and for bringing compassion to relationships. They consider the ways cultivating compassion leads to more robust leadership where others feel safe, valued, and recognized with dignity.
EDUA 5027 - Introduction to Inclusive and Special Education
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Fall 2023
This course is the first course in the Rethinking Inclusive and Special Education certificate in the Master�s in Teacher Leadership program. The overarching goal of this course is to build understanding of the historical, political and social influences on the education of students who are identified with dis/abilities or who benefit from additional supports. Participants will explore culturally sustaining multi-tiered systems of support structures and special education identification practices.
EDUA 5029 - Strategies for Inclusive Teaching
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Fall 2023
This course is the third course in the Rethinking Inclusive and Special Education certificate in the Master�s in Teacher Leadership program. The overarching goal of this course is to build understanding of instructional strategies for including students with learning dis/abilities and those with a range of learning strengths and challenges in curriculum and school structures. This course will also address issues related to the intersections of race, culture, language, and dis/ability.
EDUC 2411 - Educational Psychology for Elementary Schools
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Fall 2019
Integrates theories and ideas from elementary school child development, educational psychology and the learning sciences. Explores theories of learning and child development and considers implications for teaching, student engagement and the design of equitable and effective learning environments. Students are required to attend a practicum off-site for this class.
EDUC 4112 - Educational Psychology and Adolescent Development
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Fall 2018 / Fall 2021 / Fall 2022 / Fall 2023
Examines current theory and research about adolescent learning and development and explore implications for secondary teaching. Topics include human diversity as a resource for learning, adversity and agency, connecting instruction to students' everyday lives, and the role of belonging and relationships in positive youth development. This course is appropriate for masters degree students. Same as PSYC 4114 and EDUC 5112.
EDUC 8260 - Qualitative Methods II
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Spring 2019 / Spring 2020 / Spring 2021 / Spring 2022 / Spring 2023 / Spring 2024
Builds on EDUC 8250 to develop knowledge and skills in ethnographic and case study research. Second of a two-course sequence covering qualitative research design, theoretical perspectives, and methods.
PSYC 4114 - Educational Psychology and Adolescent Development
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Fall 2018
Examines current theory and research about adolescent learning and development and explore implications for secondary teaching. Topics include human diversity as a resource for learning, adversity and agency, connecting instruction to students' everyday lives, and the role of belonging and relationships in positive youth development. This course is appropriate for masters degree students. Same as EDUC 4112 and EDUC 5112.
