Resources

Webinars & Podcasts

• Intersectional Disability Studies Speaker Series

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    The Intersectional Disability Studies Strand (IDSS), under the SJSU Lurie College of Education’s Institute for Emancipatory Education (IEE), serves as a community-engaged, culturally sustaining space that centers disability visibility and disability as an intersectional identity. Our strand provides specific resources and support to engage intersectional disability studies and accessibility in education.

• SJSU x REP4 Learner Design Summit

  • “I really, really enjoyed this experience of meeting and connecting with great people. Everybody shared what problems they had faced, and that really opened up my mind to see what we can do and what we need to change.” - JC Jacinto, Learner Design Summit participant

    
    In partnership with the Rapid Education Prototyping (REP4) Alliance, we launched a free Learner Design Summit, which is a leadership development opportunity designed to bring together rising 10th, 11th, and 12th grade students, recent high school graduates, community college students, and SJSU undergraduate students to collaborate and design creative proposals to address existing challenges in the higher education system.

    View the full series here!

• Emancipatory Education Speaker Series

  • Many are looking forward to a time when we can go back to “normal” in education; however, that "normal" wasn't working for too many of our children, youth, families and communities. Watch the recordings of series of conversations with nationally recognized speakers such as Sec. John King, Dr. Gloria Ladson-Billings, and many more who shared their visions for a more equitable and emancipatory education system.

    View the full series here!

• Emancipatory Education Now

  • Emancipatory Education Now is a student-led initiative that was established in Fall 2020 to examine what emancipatory education – the critical evaluation of the systems and structures of oppression that maintain the status quo in our educational institutions – looks like in today’s society and advocates for the expansion of emancipatory education research, policies, and practices.

    View the full series here!

• Future of Learning Summit

  • At our Fall 2019 Summit, attendees and speakers engaged in dialogues about how we learn today and consider how teaching and learning can and should evolve in the years ahead.

    View the full series here!

• Faces of Learning Project

  • This arts-based research initiative elicited student voices to provide insights into learning experiences at SJSU. A group of SJSU undergraduate student researchers met with students in the Fall 2019 and Spring 2020 semesters to get a deeper understanding of their learning experiences and then synthesize and share those experiences with the larger university community.

    View the full series here!

• Classroom and Professional Development Curriculum

  • Professional Learning Community: Ethnic Studies for Multilingual Learners (California Regional Ethnic Studies Collaborative)

Research Briefs and Policy Memos

IEE's First Annual Conference- Presentation Slides on May 3, 2025

AI Literacy for K-12 Teachers and Students with Day of AI

Presenter: Randi Williams (She/Her), Director of Research, Day of AI

• Dr. Randi Williams shared valuable resources from Day of AI, focused on deymstifying AI tools and supporting AI literacy for both educators and students.

• To access the free, virtual Day of AI professional development sessions, sign up here: https://dayofai.org/pd-registration

• Dr. Randi Williams' Fireside Chat presentation slides

Partnering with High Schools to Develop Gender & Sexuality Alliance Curriculum

Presenter: Ellery Carlson (He/ Him), Student Research Assistant/Program Coordinator

The GSARC consortium, composed of researchers from SJSU, NYU, BC, and SDSU, is funded by IES to develop a curriculum for GSA members aimed at promoting positive mental health, hope, and thriving. The SJSU team collaborated with 3 local high school GSAs to collect focus group feedback on the initial curriculum draft. To date, the SJSU team has conducted 12 focus groups across the Bay Area. Key findings highlight a preference for activities that feel distinct from typical schoolwork, concise and precise instructions tailored for high school students, and a strong interest in art-based activities. Next steps involve coordinating across all sites to synthesize feedback themes and revise the curriculum modules accordingly. Following revisions, the team will conduct usability testing to further refine the curriculum.

Fostering Hope and Well Being Presentation PDF

Intersectional Disability Studies Strand

Presenters: Sudha Krishnan Ed.D. (She/Her), Assistant Professor, Special Education and

Saili S. Kulkarni, Ph.D. (She/Her), Associate Professor, Special Education

Intersectional, Anti-Ableist Classroom Opportunities