Elementary Education News

We are pleased to welcome Cat Maiorca, new Assistant Professor, Elementary STEM, in the Department of Elementary Education. Prior to joining us, she taught in the Elementary Education department at California State University Long Beach, and was a professor of Mathematics Education at Oklahoma State University. She received her M.A. in 2011 from Sierra Nevada College, and her Ph.D. in 2016 from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Her research interests include model-eliciting activities, equity in integrated STEM education, effective STEM teaching and learning practices for every student, integrated STEM education in formal and informal settings, preservice teachers, and students’ dispositions toward integrated STEM. Read more

It is with great pleasure that we announce that Dr. Amy Hanreddy (Special Education) and Dr. Alex Hollett (Elementary Education) each as recipient of the 2024 Blenda Wilson Diversity in Education Award! This year’s pool of nominees for the Blenda J. Wilson Diversity in Education Award were all outstanding, representing a wide variety of accomplishments in scholarship, teaching, and service. It is clear that faculty and staff in our College are committed to diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice. Read more

Dr. Cynthia Desrochers (Elementary Education, professor emerita) has co-authored and co-edited two new volumes published as part of her co-edited series, Transforming Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, Information Age Publishing. Read more

This past summer, as part of a Ballmer grant, 51 LAUSD primary grade teachers successfully earned a CSUN Reading & Literacy Certificate by taking 3 summer courses in the Elementary Education Department. The intense summer program included tutoring of 35 elementary school students from the community through the L.A. Times Literacy Center, one of the centers in the Teaching, Learning, and Counseling Consortium. Forty-two teachers will continue this fall and earn their CTC Reading & Literacy Added Authorization. We expect over 100 teachers to participate in the program next summer. Read more