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California State University, Chico

School of Education

Preparing Educators to Be
Effective, Reflective and Engaged


Effective

The School of Education demonstrates its effectiveness semester after semester by providing a well-qualified teacher and administrator work force for the North State and beyond, as evidenced by the number of teacher hires, size of administrator cohorts, success of program finishers, and amount of external grant dollars secured.

Teacher Hires May 2017
  • Barbera, Thomas, 7th/8th Grade Social Science Teacher, Chico Country Day, Chico, CA
  • Baranzini, Heather, 3rd Grade Teacher, Boulder Creek Elementary, Redding, CA
  • Bick, Julia, Ed Specialist (M/M), Enterprise Elementary School District, Redding, CA
  • Bladorn, Emily, Science Teacher, Red Bluff High, Red Bluff, CA
  • Bonomini, Stephanie, Ag Teacher, Central High Continuation, Morgan Hill, CA
  • Burger, Megan – 1st Grade Teacher, Orchard Ranch Elementary, Roseville, CA (networking)
  • Correll, Miranda, 1st Grade Teacher, Marjorie H. Tobias Elementary, Daly City, CA
  • Enns, Kendall – English Teacher, Willows High, Willows, CA (EdFair)
  • Escobar, Kelsey – Biology Teacher, Antioch High, Antioch, CA (EdFair)
  • Gutierrez, Andrew – 4th Grade Teacher, Williams Elementary, Williams, CA (EdFair)
  • Horne, Jamie – 6th Grade Teacher, CK Price Middle School, Orland, CA
  • McCumber, Justin – Special Ed Teacher, Yuba City Unified, Yuba City, CA (EdFair)
  • McKinley, Megan – 8th Grade English Teacher, Pomolita Middle School, Ukiah, CA (EdJoin)


  • O’Connor (Heston), Michelle - 4th Grade Teacher, Little Chico Creek, Chico, CA
  • Olson, Megan – 2nd Grade Teacher, Fairmont Charter School, Vacaville, CA (EdFair)
  • Roughton, Austin, Science Teacher, Sacramento County, Pollock Pines, CA
  • Ruanto, Allison – Kindergarten/1st Grade Teacher, Dixon Montessori Charter, Dixon, CA (EdJoin)
  • Snow, Teri – English Teacher, Williams Jr./Sr. High, Williams, CA (EdFair)
  • Struble, Max – English Teacher, Pierce High, Arbuckle, CA (EdFair)
  • Summerville, Jean – Art Teacher, Colusa Unified School District, Colusa, CA (EdFair)
  • Ward, Anne – Special Ed Teacher, Bellevue Elementary, Santa Rosa, CA (EdFair)
  • Williams, Megan – 5th Grade Teacher, Browns Valley Elementary, Vacaville, CA (EdFair)
  • Wimer, Allyson, 6th/7th Grade Math Teacher, University Prep School, Redding, CA
  • Young, Hailee – 3rd Grade Teacher, North Monterey Unified, Prunedale, CA
  • Zitrin, Jesse, English Teacher, Deer Valley High, Antioch, CA (EdFair)

Preliminary Administrative Services Credential

The first cohort has completed the newly revised Preliminary Administrative Services Credential Program and a new cohort has started in fall 2017. This program provides the foundations of educational leadership necessary to qualify for a Clear California Administrative Services Credential granted through the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing (CTC).

With the preliminary administrative credential completers can serve as an assistant superintendent, principal, assistant principal, supervisor, coordinator, or other equivalent level administrator in California public schools.

2016 Cohort (Complete)

PASC Cohort One Group Photograph

2017 Cohort (Enrolled)

PASC Cohort Two Group Photograph

Finishers

In fall 2016-Spring 2017, there were 219 initial credential program completers. 99% of initial credential program candidates successfully passed the summative assessment for their program pathway (PACT, edTPA, or CalTPA). Additionally, there were 36 Masters in Education program completers.

Grants

School of Education grants support students, programs, and school partners. Grants serve to pay students stipends, fund innovative program development and opportunities, and provide professional development for credential candidates, faculty, university supervisors, and teachers throughout the north state.

The School of Education is the recipient of active grants with a total award amount of $12,966,680.00. In 2016-2017 the total fiscal year award amount was $3,239.134.00 with an additional $437,251.00 pending.


Reflective

School of Education faculty and students are reflective about their teaching practice and scholarship, as evidenced by scholarly activity that reflects the school's mission and vision of social and eco justice, and the organization's conceptual framework that has been recently revised.

Reflective Articles

Dr. Ann Schulte has recently submitted for review two articles on reflective practice. The Links for each are below:

Conceptual Framework

In spring 2017, the School of Education approved a revised conceptual framework (PDF), focused on the core values of Inclusivity, Democracy, Sustainability, Service, and Inquiry.


Engaged

The School of Education engages with North State educational community by providing professional development opportunities such as: the state-wide Better Together event that showcased Keynote speaker Dr. Jill Biden; offering residency-based credential programs such as the Residency in Secondary Education (RISE) program that incorporate a master's degree program with a full time, yearlong teacher residency leading to California teacher certification in English, Mathematics, Science, or Special Education, staffing areas of high need; and participating actively in state and national professional organizations, such as the Rural Schools Collaborative and the National Network for Educational Renewal.

Better Together

Hundreds of teachers and educators from around Northern California convened at California State University, Chico for a free day of learning Friday, July 28, as the University co-hosted the third annual Better Together: California Teachers Summit(opens in new window).

CSU, Chico is one of three Northern California campuses to co-host the conference, in addition to Humboldt State and Simpson University in Redding. Overall, 35 campuses across the state helped host the Summit (including 20 CSU campuses), which is open to all California PreK-12 teachers, teacher candidates, school administrators, and other educators.

Engaged Completers from the RTR and RiSE Programs

  • Christa Georgeson (RiSE) and Sharon Huggins (RTR) presented at a Rural Schools Collaborative Summit last summer. Summary of the 2016 Engaged Teacher Corps Conference (PDF)
  • Adam Lane (RTR) was voted teacher of the year at his Ukiah middle school in his third year of teaching.
  • Sharon Huggins (RTR) was honored at the high school awards assembly with a speech about her significant contributions to the district and to the community in my very first year of teaching. Sharon is on the LCAP committee, the math curriculum adoption committee, ELAC and DELAC, the SBAC and is the tech coordinator for the school. Sharon facilitates the bilingual Adult Ed program for the school, mentored senior projects, interviewed scholarship applicants, presented awards at the high school, and been given a great deal of sincere positive feedback.S he attributes much of her success to the serendipitous choice of enrolling in the RTR program and to the influence of her instructors in that program.

NNER

National Network for Education Renewal Logo

The School of Education at Chico State is the only California member of the National Network for Educational Renewal (NNER). The organization seeks to "foster school and university partnerships engaged in the simultaneous renewal of schools and the education of those who work in them." Nationwide, the NNER's members include 24 partnership settings, with 44 institutions of higher education and approximately 150 school districts and 700 partner schools.

Student Engagement through Classroom Service

  • Through our early service learning courses, 233 students in the Spring 2016 semester completed 10,485 hours of classroom service.
  • With the national value of volunteer time set at $23.56, these volunteer hours amount to $247,026.
  • Combined for the 2015-16 year, 522 students provided nearly 24,000 service hours at a value of $553,424.