The Connie L. Lurie College of Education is a collegial community of teacher-scholars where opportunity abounds. Together with our community partners we prepare quality professionals who will serve in schools, clinics, and industry. Our commitment to a vision of excellence and equity in education is reflected in the design and implementation of our programs, funded projects, scholarship, and service to students. We are fortunate to have the support of our President, Provost, and colleagues throughout the university and a dedicated alumni association. In fact, we have over 12,000 alumni working in the Bay Area and around the United States and world!
Thank you for visiting our website. I hope to have the opportunity to welcome you to our College, here in the heart of Santa Clara County.
Sincerely,
Susan Meyers, Dean
Mission Statement
The mission of the Connie L. Lurie College of Education at San José State University is to prepare educators who have the knowledge, skills, dispositions and ethics that ensure equity and excellence for students in a culturally diverse, technologically complex, global community.
The policies and practices of the Connie L. Lurie College of Education at San José State University are based on the belief that teaching in a democracy requires and must ensure that:
- Students have access to an excellent and equitable education;
- Educators at every level have knowledge of their subject matter and their students, value and engage in ethical practice and excellent pedagogy, and develop dispositions and habits of the mind that ensure that all students have equitable access to an excellent education;
- Stakeholders be involved in the collegial community engaged in the professional conversation and decision making that delineate standards, assign resources, guide program design, and reward accomplishment in the College
A vision is a destination, but one which defines a journey, not a fixed point on a conceptual map. The Connie L. Lurie College of Education faculty hold that excellence and equity matter - that each is necessary, and neither is sufficient in the absence of the other. Consequently, we are a learning community of practitioner/scholars in continuous development, dialogue and inquiry that enable us to revisit, review and revise our practice in response to changing circumstances and to model and inspire that dialogue for colleagues and students.
Equity speaks initially to access and ultimately to outcomes. As a College we work, and prepare educators to work both at the instructional policy-making levels to ensure that every child has the opportunity to benefit from available educational resources. Our College works toward equity in action, i.e., equity not only by policy, but through process and practice.
Excellence in a democratic society actualizes each student's unique potential as an individual and as a member of a diverse community. Excellence recognizes the respect each of us must show for others as we reach for our own success. Excellence involves knowledge and skills with a commitment to life long curiosity, imagination, and learning.
Equity and excellence rest on accountability. The Connie L. Lurie College of Education looks honestly at its outcomes through collection and analysis of data, reflection on practice, and collegial conversation and governance.
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