Thomas M. Philip is a Professor in the Berkeley School of Education, where he also serves as the Faculty Director of the Berkeley Teacher Education Program. He studies how ideology shapes learning and how learning is a site of ideological contestation and becoming. As a learning scientist and teacher educator, he is interested in how teachers make sense of power and hierarchy, and act on their sense of agency as they navigate and ultimately transform classrooms and institutions toward more equitable, just, and democratic practices and outcomes. His scholarship also explores...
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...
I am a learning scientist whose work explores computational literacy, with special focus on how young people learn about scientific computing, its power, and its limitations. Most recently, I have explored how two varieties of scientific computing in particular, visual data analysis tools and agent-based simulation, can be responsibly introduced as epistemic tools within the precollegiate curriculum. Because my research focuses on the ways in which these tools allow youth to explore large-scale systems with significant social impacts (e.g. climate, health patterns, nutrition, pollution), I...
Sarah Warshauer Freedman studies the teaching and learning of written language, as well as ways English is taught in schools. Her research focuses on US schools but also includes cross-national comparisons. Besides studying written language, she is interested in societal divisions that lead to conflict and inequality. She has conducted research on teaching and learning about civics and has studied how adolescents on varied sides of societal divides develop as citizens and civic actors. Her work on societal divides has included research on the role of education in reconstructing societies...
Associate Professor, Learning Sciences & STEM EducationAffiliate Associate Professor, UCB Center for Race & Gender
Research
Dr. Sengupta-Irving’s research explores the sociocultural, disciplinary, and political dimensions of children’s mathematics learning. Broadly, her work asks a deceptively simple question: What, in addition to mathematics, do children learn when they learn mathematics? Dr. Sengupta-Irving works closely with teachers to understand and design pedagogical approaches that promote...
Prior to becoming the Director of the California Reading & Literature Project in 2017, George Ellis worked as a Teacher of Special Programs for the Berkeley School of Education and as the Program Lead for Elementary Education for CRLP at UC Berkeley from 2012-2017. In his role as Director, he oversees CRLP’s annual Teacher Leadership Invitational, collaborates with local school districts to support the implementation of evidence-based reading initiatives, and serves as an educational consultant on projects focused on continuous...
The California Commission on Teacher Credentialing has awarded $1.5 million to three University of California campuses, bolstering the state’s ability to prepare thousands of newly credentialed teachers to serve another quarter-million children statewide.
California lawmakers and the governor aim to extend Universal Pre-kindergarten (UPK) to all 4-year-olds by 2026. But the scarcity of new teachers has slowed implementation, a snag that Governor Gavin Newsom confronts in his new budget, due out this week.
Manny Herrera is the Elementary Faculty Advisor and lecturer for the Berkeley Teacher Education Program (BTEP). He graduated from UC Berkeley's teacher education program in 2007 when it was known as Developmental Teacher Education (DTE). Manny's masters thesis focused on re-envisioning family engagement as he knew family voice was key to teaching to the whole child. By bringing family voice into the classroom space through home visits he disrupted schools' traditional views on family participation. He continued this action research into his actual teaching practice by starting every school...
Dr. Chela Myesha Delgado is the secondary Humanities Faculty Advisor for the Berkeley Teacher Education Program (BTEP). Chela was born and raised in Oakland, Calif., and is a graduate, parent and former teacher of the Oakland Unified School District with 17 years of experience teaching Humanities classes to all high school grades in Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Oakland. As a kid of community organizers and a mixed Black student who witnessed plenty of racial inequity coming up in the era of highly tracked classrooms, Chela became particularly interested in issues of education and...
The Berkeley School of Education’s teacher education program is rising to the challenges of this unprecedented period for public education with a new name and, more importantly, a new vision for teacher preparation.
The program formerly known by a shifting constellation of acronyms—most recently, Berkeley Educators for Equity or BE3—is now the Berkeley Teacher Education Program (BTEP), a program title that the BSE hopes will provide a clear sense of...
