To actualize our vision and mission, we engage with our students in the classroom and in the field to:
• Truly listen to one another and see the world from different perspectives.
• Recognize how race, ethnicity, class, gender, family, and context shape human values and experience.
• Understand the relationship between students’ academic achievement and their emotional well-being.
• Demonstrate dexterity in their use of curriculum theory, pedagogy, and assessment practices.
• Create classroom environments that respect all students and meet the needs of all learners.
• Conduct research with students, educators and school communities to generate new knowledge and strategies that contribute to the field.
• Critically analyse and thoughtfully engage in conversations around current educational policies that impact teaching and learning in classrooms.
• Develop professional dispositions that help them to recognize and utilize the “funds of knowledge” of culturally and linguistically diverse families and communities.
• Teach and lead in a wide range of local, state, regional, national, and international settings.