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Dr. Khalil Muhammad Visits TC

Citing Lewis Lapham’s claim in “Ignorance of Things Past” that Americans have “a wonderful talent for grand simplification,” Dr. Muhammad made an unimpeachable case for the significance of history, archival work, and the Schomburg center in undoing at least a century of historical oversimplification of the black experience in America, and the American experience writ …

Posted 20 days ago by Pressible

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TESOL Topics: ETS Presentation

The TESOL and Applied Linguistics Programs would like to extend a warm thanks to Dr. Philip Everson and Emilie Pooler from Educational Testing Service (ETS) for their innovative presentation on computer-based testing at TC this past Thursday, April 11th. At the presentation, Dr. Everson and Ms. Pooler shared with TC students and faculty the groundbreaking …

Posted a month ago by Pressible

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Educating Harlem, Histories of Learning and Schooling in an American Community

The Department of Arts and Humanities would like to invite you To a Public Lecture by Dr. Khalil Muhammad, the Director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Grand Simplification: Historical Illiteracy in the Age of Mass Incarceration Wednesday, April 24th Lecture: 4-6pm in Room 179 Grace Dodge Hall Reception immediately following in …

Posted a month ago by Gretchen

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From TC to Joe’s Pub: Music Ed Students Play the City

Since getting their undergraduate degrees at The New School, Christian Nourijanian and Dustin Kaufman have followed a similar trajectory in their career and educational paths.  Dustin recently graduated from Teachers College with a dual Master’s degree that pairs a jazz performance major from Manhattan School of Music (MSM) with a music education major from Teachers …

Posted 2 months ago by marieweller

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Cancelled: “Ella Baker: Radical Educator with Harlem Roots”

CANCELLED CANCELLED CANCELLED Due to a severe winter storm in Chicago, Prof. Ransby was unable to make the trip to New York for this event. We are working now to reschedule and hope that you will join us at a later date this spring. Please join us for the first lecture of the Educating Harlem …

Posted 2 months ago by Pressible

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CANCELLED CANCELLED CANCELLED Due to a severe winter storm in Chicago, Prof…

Conversations From the Classroom: Monica Carvalho reflects on her journey to become a teacher

Now in her last semester of the Teaching of English MA program at Teachers College, Carvalho is student teaching at the Beacon School, a public high school on Manhattan’s upper west side. Because of the school’s reputation for having a high quality academic program (to get in, students must go through a rigorous application process …

Posted 15 months ago by Liz Hoelzle

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Breaking Barriers: English Education Diversity Class Welcomes The Steinhardt School of Education

English Education’s Diversity class, taught by Professor Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz, recently welcomed special guests: 26 New York University Steinhardt School of Education undergraduates, along with their two professors, Dr. Suzanne Carothers (Director of the Undergraduate Childhood Program in Teaching & Learning at Steinhardt) and Ms. Susan Browne, (lead teacher at NYC's Children's Workshop school).

Posted 15 months ago by Amy Wolf

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Racial Literacy Roundtable: Monday, February 13, 2012

The Language of Race with Lauren Kelly (English Education Doctoral Student) and Miyo Tubridy (English Education MA alumna), Monday, February 13, 2012, 6-8 pm, Horace Mann 152.

Posted 15 months ago by Amy Wolf

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INSTEP program in English Education

For three weeks each summer, Teachers College is home to a group of graduate students from across the country who come together for a three-week session in the Intensive Summer Teacher Education Program.

Posted 16 months ago by Liz Hoelzle

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English Education Professor Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz on Bullying

In a story investigating a spate of violent anti-Asian attacks in an impoverished, culturally mixed South Philadelphia high school, Spot.us (a nonprofit platform to pioneer community powered reporting) spoke to English Education Professor Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz about the underlying causes of bullying. Read her response--as well as the steps this particular school took to make the classroom …

Posted 17 months ago by Amy Wolf

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Conversations From the Classroom: English Education student teacher Rachel Stern shares her story

For Rachel Stern, teaching is both exhilarating and challenging, but she didn’t find this calling overnight. Having studied English at the University of Michigan, she then moved to Los Angeles in hopes of pursuing a career writing for film and television. Disillusionment soon followed, however, when she found screenwriting in the entertainment industry to be …

Posted 19 months ago by Liz Hoelzle

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New Faculty Profile: Dr. Ernest Morrell

Dr. Ernest Morrell’s move from California to New York signals an exciting addition to both Teachers College and the Institute for Urban and Minority Education (IUME). Both are pleased to welcome Dr. Morrell, who is taking on a faculty position in the English Education program, as well as the role of director of the IUME. …

Posted 20 months ago by Liz Hoelzle

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To Be Heard: Giving young people a voice through poetry

“Power writing is about taking control of your life in this world. It’s about using the power you have that people absolutely do not want you to use.” This quote from To Be Heard director, producer, and teacher Roland Legiardi-Laura sums up the essence of why he and his fellow power writing teachers place so …

Posted 22 months ago by Liz Hoelzle

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Academic Conferences: TC Students, Faculty and Alumnae Share Their Experiences

Arts & Humanities students and faculty were in heavy rotation this past academic year, presenting at leading academic conferences around the globe. About 60 A&H folks participated in 15+ conferences, bolstering TC’s legacy of intense involvement in the world of scholarly discourse.

Posted 22 months ago by Amy Wolf

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Peace Corps Fellows at TC

The Elliot and Roslyn Jaffe Peace Corps Fellows Program recruits Returned Peace Corps Volunteers to teach in New York City's high-needs public schools while concurrently working towards a Masters degree. The program at TC is the nationwide flagship and has just celebrated a 25th anniversary, just as the national Peace Corps program marked its own …

Posted 23 months ago by Amy Wolf

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The Inconvenient Truth Behind Waiting for ‘Superman’ and One Teacher’s Two Cents

Last fall, Waiting For ‘Superman,’ a documentary about the charter school movement in the US, hit theaters nationwide. It brought with it a tidal wave of media attention, shining a spotlight on the charter vs. public school debate. As a public school teacher, the film of course grabbed my attention. Its main tenets are that …

Posted 23 months ago by Liz Hoelzle

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Arts and Humanities Students: “Most Likely to Succeed at Changing the World”

“When I really want to kvell about Teachers College, I talk about our students,” says Susan Fuhrman in President’s Letter of the Spring 2011 issue of TC Today.  Her comments kick off a special issue dedicated to student profiles, which once read, easily prove Fuhrman’s assertion that TC students are special both for their desire …

Posted 24 months ago by Amy Wolf

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Suzanne Choo wins Walter M. Sindlinger Award

Congratulations are in order once again for Suzanne Choo, PhD candidate in English Education at TC. She is this year’s recipient of the Walter M. Sindlinger Award for her paper, “On Literature’s use(ful/less)ness: Reconceptualising the literature curriculum in the age of globalization.” The essay, written for Professor Ruth Vinz’s course and published in the Journal …

Posted 24 months ago by Liz Hoelzle

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Seeing and Hearing Multiple Perspectives—A Roundtable Discussion

Recently at TC, 28 people from a diversity of backgrounds and affiliations gathered for two hours for the semester’s final Racial Literacy Roundtable workshop. Facilitated by English Education MA student Noah Gordon, the session began with an open letter to discussants where Gordon shared his hope that “by exploring multiple perspectives, we may begin to …

Posted 24 months ago by Amy Wolf

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Fieldwork and Observation in Secondary English: A Mix of the Theoretical and the Practical

The Teaching of English M.A. program offers a bi-weekly workshop series with a goal of connecting M.A. students with the work of nationally eminent theorists and teachers in ways that will inspire them to implement innovative instructional practices in their own classrooms. Developed by Professor Sheridan Blau and coordinated by Doctoral student and Adjunct Instructor …

Posted 26 months ago by Amy Wolf

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