nives wetzel de cediel is Director of Field Placement and Supervision in the Berkeley Teacher Education Program (BTEP) program. She directs field supervision for pre-service teacher education candidates. In addition to her role in the BTEP, nives is a lecturer in the Principal Leadership Institute (PLI). Her work is centered on arts integration and creativity in educational leadership. nives supports PLI students to reinvision their perspectives on equity in leadership through engagement with Theater of the Oppressed and the use of metaphor to reflect on and communicate leadership learning experiences.
nives is a doctoral candidate in the inaugural cohort of the Leaders for Equity and Democracy (LEAD) program. Her research focuses on embodied and arts based learning and development for teacher educators; those who teach, supervise and coach pre-service k12 teachers.
Paired with and informed by her teaching in the PLI and BTEP programs, nives coordinates k12 school and Bay Area community partnerships around building learning communities, antiracist pedagogy and practice, parent and family engagement, visual and performing arts for transformation, and focused recruitment, support, and retention of African American teacher education candidates. nives is a member of an international teacher education advisory group led by the Arctic University of Tromsø, Norway and includes the University of Auckland, New Zealand and UC Berkeley’s School of Education.
Prior to joining the BSE, nives worked as a middle and high school teacher and professional development facilitator for 20 years. She has taught in San Francisco, Berkeley, and Oakland Unified School Districts.
Publications
Tools for Antiracist Leaders
Identity, Race and Racism in the US
Good Teachers Use the N-Word
Wayfinding in Museums
Making Meaning in Museums
Visual Thinking Strategies as Culturally Relevant Practice
History of Resistance and Solidarity
Restorative Justice and the Performing Arts
Transformative Arts
Africa in the Americas: Colonial history in the Americas through the visual and performing arts
The Adultification of African American Girls and Boys
Professional Experience
UC Berkeley – School of Education FACULTY LECTURER and DIRECTOR OF SUPERVISION
June 2012 - Present
Saint Mary’s College High School DANCE and THEATER TEACHER
August 2010 – June 2015
Emery Unified School District ARTS INTEGRATION SPECIALIST and 7th GRADE VISUAL ART TEACHER
July 2006 – June 2010
California College of the Arts, Center for Art and Public Life ART EDUCATION FACULTY FELLOW
October 2005 – June 2007
Bay Area Community Resources PROGRAM DIRECTOR and TEACHER, Force of Change
January 2004 – June 2005
The Volunteer Center of Alameda County PROGRAM DIRECTOR and TEACHER, Force of Change
September 2000 – December 2003
Cal State Hayward, Project SOAR TEACHER
June 2000 - August 2000
Oakland Technical High School, DANCE and CHILD DEVELOPMENT TEACHER
January 2000 – June 2000
Oakland Charter Academy ALGEBRA TEACHER
August 1999 – December 1999
City of Berkeley, Parks and Recreation RECREATION COORDINATOR and ART TEACHER
June 1999 - August 2000
Alameda County Arts Commission ARTIST IN RESIDENCE @ ROSA PARKS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
April 1999 – June 1999
San Francisco Peer Resources Program @ Aptos Middle School PEER RESOURCE COORDINATOR, VISUAL ART and HEALTH TEACHER
December 1996 - June 1999
CAAAC Center for African and African American Culture PROGRAM COORDINATOR/ DANCE and ARTS TEACHER
September 1996 - February 1997
Interests and Professional Affiliations
Teacher education
Teacher professional development
Parent and family engagement
Healing and the arts in k12 classrooms
Arts integration
Equity and inclusion
Equity and antiracist coaching and facilitation
Culturally sustaining pedagogy and practice
Diasporic artforms and culture keeping
Urban agricultural and apiarian education
Community arts collaboration
Teacher of Color Pipeline Partnership, Marin County
American Educational Research Association (AERA)
National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)
