Guess Who's Coming to School?
Join us as Dr. Michele Dean walks us through the demographics of students throughout the Ventura County public school system and what that means for education and for our work as CASAs. This is the first training in a series exploring diversity, equity, and inclusion in Ventura County.
In 2015, Dr. Michele R. Dean was appointed as the Field Placement Director & Lecturer for the Department of Learning & Teaching, Graduate School of Education for California Lutheran University. Dr. Dean joined the CLU/GSOE faculty after 38 years in Pre K- 12 public education across four Ventura County school districts. As a public school educator, she served as a 20-year bilingual classroom teacher. In addition to serving as a bilingual teacher, she has served as an instructional coach, mentor teacher, middle school assistant principal, district professional development administrator and an elementary dual language program principal. In her final public school district leadership position, Dr. Dean served as the Coordinator for the Ventura County Indian Education Consortium, a federal United States Department of Education Program.
For the last six years as a CLU faculty member and teacher educator, Dr. Dean studies the topics of equity, race, and language as assets in educational leadership. Her latest scholarship, “My Journey in Spanish Language Acquisition and Dual Language Leadership, As an African American Woman” was published in The California Association for Bilingual Education Multilingual Educator in March 2021. http://www.gocabe.org/index/php/communications/multilingual-educator/
Dr. Dean recently was interviewed by the CLU EduCal Future Teacher Network: for their “Teacher Talk” series. You can access the interview at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1EHmOMNd8A
CE Hours: 2
