The necessity of holding the Fall 2020 California Council on Teacher Education (CCTE) Conference virtually has provided the organization with new opportunities to share the research of our members to a larger audience. Videos of the presentations accepted for the Conference program by the CCTE Research Committee were posted to a CCTE GoReact platform during the Conference and are now available for viewing on the CCTE YouTube channel and the full research papers are now published in this monograph.
Many of the articles resonate with the theme of the conference, “The Future of Teacher Education.” Some of them deal with the new realities of teaching in the time of COVID, such as Emily Bogus and Verna Lowe’s “Educator Preparation Policies During COVID-19,” and Marni Fisher’s “Mindfulness and Education in a Pandemic World.” Others focused on the changing world of special education, such as How Alpert and Anna Osipova’s “CSU Special Education Reading Methods Courses” and Nilsa Thorsos, Walker, and Klinger’s “Teaching Students with Disabilities During the Pandemic.”
Most heartening to us were the number of presentations on anti-racism. What we find remarkable about that is that the conference theme was planned well before the Black Lives Matter movement gained greater momentum and a call to action following the death of George Floyd, yet one-third of the research presentations focus on some aspect of anti-racist teaching. This demonstrates to us not only the Introductions commitment to social justice within the teacher education community, but also demonstrates the ability of teacher education researchers to respond quickly to important issues and the changing landscape we inhabit.
- Eric Engdahl, California State University, East Bay Co-Chair of the CCTE Fall 2020 Virtual Conference and President, California Council on Teacher Education
- Vicki Graf, Loyola Marymount University Co-Chair of the CCTE Fall 2020 Virtual Conference and President, California Association of Professors of Special Education eric.engdahl@csueastbay.edu & victoria.graf@lmu.edu
Contents
- Introductions from Fall Conference Co-Chairs and CCTE Research Committee by Eric Engdahl, Vicki Graf, & Karen Escalante
- CSU Special Education Reading Methods Courses: What We Teach and How We Teach It by How Alpert & Anna Osipova
- Voices from the Inside: Incarcerated Juveniles; Artistic Representations of the Postsecondary Academic Experience by Gregory Barraza
- Educator Preparation Policies During Covid-19: A National Review of the Impact on Diversifying the Educator Workforce, Improving Teacher Effectiveness, and Building Stakeholder Trust for P-12 Education by Emily Bogus & Verna Lowe
- New Teachers’ Perspectives on Good Teaching by Jessica Cruz & Andrea Zetlin
- Considering the Role of the CalTPA in Fostering Conversations About Anti-Racism and the Future of Teacher Education by Karen Escalante, Lara Ervin-Kassab, & Daniel Soodjinda
- Mindfulness and Education in a Pandemic World by Marni E. Fisher, Kimiya Sohrab Maghzi, & Meredith A. Dorner
- Collaborative Prismatic Inquiry: Examining the Initial Impacts of Education During a Pandemic by Marni E. Fisher, Kimiya Sohrab Maghzi, Meredith A. Dorner, Leslie C. Whitaker, James St. Amant, Susan M. Gapinski, & Sarah R. Gapinski
- The Other Pandemic: Engaging Black Families During Covid-19 by Kirk Kirkwood & David Sandles
- A 21st Century Approach to Preservice Teacher Education by Craig Kissock, Sue Masterson, & Kevin Zak
- Critical Teacher Autoethnography by Eduardo Lopez
- Bridging Anti-Racism Pedagogy Across Teacher Pre-Service and In-Service Programs: The Importance of Collaborative Solutions to Deepen Teacher Practice in Situ by Melissa Meetze-Hall & Allison Smith
- UC/CSU California Collaborative for Neurodiversity and Learning: Creating Different Models for Including Neurodiversity and Learning in Teacher Education Programs by Anna Osipova, Sue Sears, Laura Rhinehart, Kai Greene, & Renee Ziolkowska
- Portrayals of Black Men and Boys in Media: Narratives Intended to Inhibit Positive Societal Contributions by Gregory D. Richardson
- Got Resiliency? English Language Learners’ Perspectives in Online Learning Amidst Systematic Racism by Kimmie Tang & Nirmla Flores
- Together We Thrive: A Practical Session Addressing the Social-Smotional Development of K-12 Educators by Leslie Young, Wendy Baron, & Margaret Golden