Our Multiple Subject Social Justice Education Framework is guided by these three pillars: identities, ideologies and practices, and action and engagement. Over the course of our program, teacher candidates engage in these ideas throughout our coursework and clinical field experiences.

IDENTITIES
- Identify how bias, prejudice, power, and privileges inform our views of self and others.
IDEOLOGIES AND PRACTICES
- Analyze how institutional practices and ideologies can reinforce or disrupt patterns of oppression and inequity in schools.
ACTION AND ENGAGEMENT
- Engage in teaching and learning opportunities that are culturally sustaining, co-constructed with the community, and seek to disrupt inequities.
Core Texts Used in Coursework
Social Justice Book Circles
The School of Education in partnership with our grants offers book circles for our teacher candidates, local teachers, and staff and faculty of Cal Poly. Below are a few examples of past books offered.

Social Justice Speaker Series
The School of Education is excited to host speakers each quarter on topics related to diversity, equity, and inclusion in education. This series highlights phenomenal guests each year and all School of Education affiliates are invited to attend these events.
Below are the speakers who joined us during the '21-22 academic year.
Dr. Jose Medina focuses his work on meeting the needs of emergent bilingual students through culturally responsive teaching.
www.drjosemedina.com
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Liz Kleinrock (she/her) is an anti-bias and anti-racist educator of both children and adults, and creates curriculum for K-12 students, specializing in designing inquiry-based units of study. In the Spring of 2021, Liz released her first book, Start Here, Start Now: A Guide to Antibias and Antiracist Work in Your School Community.
www.teachandtransform.org
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Dr. Bettina Love is the author of We Want to Do More Than Survive, and advocates for education reform, anti-racism, and abolition.
bettinalove.com
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Annual Social Justice Education Conference
Please join us in Spring 2023 for the 6th annual Central Coast Social Justice Education Conference.
More details to follow... stay tuned!
Below is the flyer from our 2022 conference.
