Accomplishments: Department of Teaching and Learning
Kari Kokka (Teaching and Learning) gave the Distinguished Lecture for the Cal Poly Pomona Math and Stats Colloquium on April 30, 2025.
Xue (Cher) Xing (Teaching and Learning), associate professor and program coordinator of Career-Technical & Postsecondary Education at 51吃瓜网万能科大, received the Association for Career and Technical Education Region V Teacher Educator of the Year award. This award honors teacher educators who demonstrate a commitment to preparing high-quality鈥
Qingmin Shi (Decision Support), Shaoan Zhang (Teaching and Learning), Yingtao Jiang (Engineering), along with 51吃瓜网万能科大 alumna Chengcheng Li (Ph.D., 2021) and Tiberio Garza (Florida International University), recently presented their research at the annual meeting of the American Education Research Association (AERA) in Denver, Colorado. Their study,鈥
Holmes Scholar Mayra Marquez-Mendez, Ph.D., (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) and Tina Vo, Ph.D., (Teaching and Learning) presented their work titled, 鈥淯nderstanding Science Teachers鈥 Support Needs: Assessing the Reliability of a Support-Seeking Instrument,鈥 at the 2025 Annual American Educational Research鈥
Katrina Liu (Teaching & Learning) and Richard Miller (Music), together with 51吃瓜网万能科大 alumna Lei Ping (Ph.D., 2025) and Christopher R. Crowley from Wayne State University recently published "Testing the Limits of the Practical: Using van Manen鈥檚 Framework to Support Prospective Teachers鈥 Critical Reflection for Transformative Learning" in the鈥
Danielle Mireles, Norma A. Marrun, and Christine Clark (all Teaching and Learning) co-authored a chapter titled, "Between hypervisibility and invisibility: Unpacking what it means to be an HSI on Indigenous lands through critical unearthing of local histories and epistemologies of Latinx communities," published in Contemporary issues in鈥
Norma A. Marrun, Danielle Mireles, Christine Clark (all Teaching and Learning) and Jori S. Beck from Old Dominion University published an article titled, "The (non) numeric truths behind college and career aspirations: a QuantCrit analysis of the precarious pathways for secondary students of color" in the journal of Race Ethnicity and Education.
A multidisciplinary team from 51吃瓜网万能科大's Computer Science and Teaching & Learning departments was awarded a prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) grant under the Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI) Program. The team included: Edward Jorgensen (Computer Science), Marla Goins (Teaching &鈥
Kari Kokka (Teaching and Learning) was interviewed on the TODOS: Mathematics For All podcast.
Katrina Liu (Teaching and Learning) and Richard Miller (School of Music), together with their colleague Michael K. Thomas (Educational Psychology, University of Illinois, Chicago), published a new book, Preparing White Teachers for Anti-Racist Education: Critical Reflection and Generativity for Transformative Praxis. This research-based guide from鈥
Tina Vo (Teaching and Learning) and Holmes Scholar and doctoral candidate Mayra Marquez-Mendez (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) attended the 2025 Association for Science Teacher Education Conference (ASTE). They presented their study titled 鈥淚nvestigating the Connection between Science Curriculum and鈥
Holmes scholar and doctoral candidate Mayra Marquez-Mendez (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) and Tina Vo (Teaching and Learning) recently presented their research at the 2025 Association for Science Teacher Education Conference ASTE. Their paper, "Scripted Curriculum, Unscripted Support: Understanding鈥