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Gleason, Emily

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Research

research overview

  • 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”. This past year, Dr. Gleason became a co-PI on a New Frontiers grant, supporting multi-modal storytelling and co-created materials between 'Newcomer' culturally and linguistically diverse families and teachers. Previous to this, Dr. Gleason's 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.

keywords

  • Teacher Leadership, rural education, community-based research, multi-modal storytelling, trust and belonging, teacher learning, newcomer familiies, co-design, culturally sustaining curricular design

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Teaching

courses taught

  • EDUA 5000 - Introduction to History, Policy and Advocacy for CLD Educators
    Primary Instructor - Fall 2023 / Summer 2024 / Fall 2024
    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
    Primary Instructor - Fall 2023 / Fall 2024
    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
    Primary Instructor - Fall 2023 / Summer 2024
    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
    Primary Instructor - Summer 2021 / Summer 2022 / Summer 2023 / Summer 2024
    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 5004 - The Teacher in SEL - Powerful Personal and Professional Emotions
    Primary Instructor - Fall 2024
    In this course, we elaborate the need for the teacher to enhance her/his knowledge of self, especially his/her own social and emotional terrain. A guiding premise is that deeper teacher self-understanding facilitates and enhances deeper student relations and greater chances for the transformative possibilities for student and teacher. A related premise is that by examining our deeply held cherished beliefs and emotional responses to situations and texts, we create opportunities for further insights into why and the ways we teach.
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