Fatimah Nadiyyah Salahuddin

Fatimah Nadiyyah Salahuddin is a lecturer and the secondary Humanities Faculty Advisor for the Berkeley Teacher Education Program (BTEP). Fatimah is a Black San Francisco native and Oakland teacher-scholar who brings more than 10 years of teaching experience at all secondary levels. She strongly believes in the liberatory power of Ethnic Studies embedding it into every subject she has taught as a K-12 humanities teacher. As Faculty Advisor her commitment extends to empowering pre-service teachers to incorporate Ethnic Studies into their teaching as well. Before joining BTEP, she taught 10th grade English Language Arts and the 12th grade Senior Project Capstone course, both with an emphasis in Ethnic Studies at Fremont High in East Oakland. Prior to teaching high school, she taught 8th grade American History and 7th grade World History at Roots International Academy. Fatimah has also worked in adult and alternative education as an English tutor at City College of San Francisco and an English instructor at Civicorps Academy, a continuation high school in West Oakland.

In addition to teaching, she is an avid research justice advocate with extensive training in program evaluation and a deep passion for classroom inquiry. Fatimah was a former Senior Fellow, facilitator and coach for Agency by Design Oaklands Teacher Fellowship Program where she designed and led workshops for educators focused on maker-centered learning and was part of the inaugural Teacher Fellowship with Community Responsive Education (CRE). For CRE, she  supported the validation of their Youth Wellness Index survey, and conducted research in her own classroom on cultivating wellness in her practice through collective rest and naps. She is also an alumna of the prestigious Graduate Education Diversity Internship (GEDI) through the American Evaluation Association (AEA), where she helped advance culturally responsive practices in evaluation.

In the Berkeley Teacher Education Program (BTEP), Fatimah lectures the summer course titled, Foundations of Ethnic Studies in the K-12 Classroom. She holds a single-subject credential in English and received her Master of Arts degree in Education (emphasis in Teaching) in 2018 from Mills Graduate School of Education. She also received her Bachelors of Arts degree in Ethnic Studies in 2014 from Mills College.