2024 Christa McAuliffe Excellence in Teacher Education Awarded to LCOE for diversifying the teacher pipeline
2024 Christa McAuliffe Excellence in Teacher Education Award Recipient

The Connie L. Lurie College of Education is proud to receive the 2024 Christa McAuliffe Award; Diversifying the Teacher Pipeline from the American Association of State Colleges and Universities. The Christa McAuliffe Award has long honored exemplary teacher education programs at AASCU member campuses that can document the success of their graduates in improving P-12 pupil learning outcomes. The award recognizes programs that have been adapted using evidence of P-12 impact in their pre-service and in-service programs.

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At the SJSU Lurie College of Education, you will gain the skills and knowledge to prepare yourself for a future as a transformative educator, counselor, therapist, or school and community leader. Experience an emancipatory approach while you explore teaching, scholarship, and service opportunities.

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The Male Educators of Color Initiative

Men of Color have a profound impact on student success in our K12 classrooms. The Male Educators of Color Initiative is open to all SJSU teacher credential candidates committed to combating the systemic and interpersonal barriers that disproportionately impede and discourage men of color from entering the teaching profession. The MECI does not consider race, color, national origin, sex, or any other protected status for candidates seeking to participate in MECI programs and activities.

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Lurie College Awarded the Christa McAuliffe Excellence in Teacher Education

The American Association of State Colleges and Universities recognizes the Connie L. Lurie College of Education for diversifying the pipeline within the education workforce, addressing a long-existing disparity in the community.

Read about what this Award Means

New PK-3 Teaching Credential Program

Julia Halprin Jackson explains the story behind how Lurie College became the first to offer a PK-3 Teaching Credential program.

Learn More about our Brand New Program

Commencement: A Family Affair

Use this opportunity to learn Fernanda Renteria-Gonzalez and David Salinas' impressive journey toward their master's degrees at Lurie.

Read about these Students Journeys

Unlocking Wonder

Take a second to get to know Joy Foster and her experience as the Director of our Child and Adolescent Development Lab Preschool.

Learn More on the Impact of Joy Foster

Playful Pioneers

Child and Adolescent Development Alumna, Kalina Chan, ’21 reflects on her time at Lurie College and the role her practicum played in preparing her for future career.

Read about Kalina's Journey

Finding and Creating Freedom in the Classroom and Beyond

Learn about Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership, Veneice Guillory-Lacy, Ph.D. and her experiences that led her to become the Emancipatory School Leadership MA (MELS) Program Coordinator.

Read more at Washington Square: The Magazine

Centers & Institutes

Institute for Emancipatory Education

The IEE facilitates community-engaged research and advances emancipatory pedagogies. Supports redesign of learning from preschool through post-secondary education.

Healthy Development Community Clinic

Our services are developmentally appropriate, equity-minded, evidence-based, and culturally sustaining for each child and family. We focus on children and youth ages 0-17 years and their families. Using a primary prevention model, we use screenings to identify need for evaluations, provide brief services, and targeted referrals to community resources and services. Educational programs are available in individual, family, and group formats both in-person, and via telehealth.

Early Childhood Institute

Recognizing the potential each and every child brings into the world, SJSU's Early Childhood Institute (ECI) seeks to transform the field of early learning and care through impactful research, training and advocacy efforts that promote equitable, high-quality, and inclusive early learning and care settings to benefit all children.

Center for Innovation in Applied Education Policy

Serving At-Promise Youth in K-12 education across California. The IAEP Center is based at San José State University and serves to empower California systems of support providers to better serve at-promise students. The Center is committed to interprofessional and interdisciplinary collaboration centered on closing opportunity gaps.

Institute for Regenerative Futures

The Institute for Regenerative Futures (IRF) is an intergenerational community-based collective of Black and other Indigenous co-conspiratorial educators, elders, healing practitioners, memory workers (researchers) and beloved community. Our collective emerged through timely intersections of community engagement, education, and research that highlight the psychological, emotional, and physiological impacts of anti-blackness and colonization.

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