Website of Dr. Susan Belgrad, Professor of Elementary Education

Contact Professor Belgrad at: susan.belgrad@csun.edu or sbelgrad@icloud.com
CSUN ACADEMIC CALENDAR

Dr. Belgrad has recently retired as s a Professor of Elementary Education. She served for almost twenty years in the Michael D. Eisner College of Education. As leader of the CSUN STEM Innovations Team, Dr. Belgrad engaged in many projects with faculty across four CSUN colleges and community-based  informal science and engineering agencies. Among Dr. Belgrad's  most recent titles are: 
    Project Co-Director, AIMS² FUTURE STEM URM TEACHER
    Coordinator, CSUN Rally in the Valley and STEAM Expo
    Faculty Fellow, CSUN Institute for Sustainability and
    Faculty Associate and Senior Writer for the CSU Chancellor's Office,     Environmental and Climate Change Literacy Project,  ECCLPs.

California ECCLPS 2022
              Achieving Climate Stability report

Promoting Youth Movements for
GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP, CLIMATE JUSTICE
and ENVIRONMENTAL LITERACY
 through Awareness, Knowledge and Activism

JPL and CSUN  K-5 Schools address the environmental crisis
 

Children and Adolescents Can become Environmentally Literate

Why Become a STEM Educator?
U.S. Students Are Not Being Prepared for the STEM Workforce

Graduate and Credential Courses Led by Dr. Belgrad

EED 480 Science and Social Studies Methods

EED 681 Classroom Management and Communication

EED 500 Foundations of Education

EED 601 Curriculum, Instruction and the Reflective Teacher

Workshops and PDs Led by DR. BELGRAD

 

Integrated Discipline PBL Workshop Series

STEM-Integrated PBL - Water on a Penny

WHY STEM Matters! Inspiring MindSet and
Addressing Stereotype Threat in K-8 Schooling

M & M Math and Amazing Egg Drop- Coop Learning Lessons

Leading CA Women Address Gender Equity in STEM

Engineering Design Engaged_learning_workshop_series.htm/

Project-Based Learning Workshop Series
with Dr. Ota Lutz-NASA JPL

How to implement LESSON DESIGN STUDY aligned with FACT and California teachers' professional growth cycle with NGSS


Publications by Susan Belgrad

	Chapter Author--The Handbook provides scholars, professors, graduate students, and other researchers and policy makers in the organizations, agencies, testing companies, and school districts with a comprehensive source of research on all aspects of K-12 classroom assessment.
	Susan is a also lead author of the 3rd ed. of The Portfolio Connection:  Student Work Linked to Standards and offers professional development   workshops on performance assessment and e-portfolios that promote student voice and achievement in the learning process.

Professional Development by Susan Belgrad

What Really IS Project Based Learning?

PBL in the Real World
Before PBL: What Teachers Need to Know about Classroom Community
and Discipline 

Ten Things New Teachers Need for Success in Next
Century Classrooms

The Case for Brain-Based Learning in the K-12 Classroom  

Working WITH Not Doing to Students 

Also led by Dr. Belgrad
 

STEM EQUITY PROMOTES STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT

GREAT TOOLS FOR THE NEXT-CENTURY K-12 CLASSROOM

ENERGIZERS AND SILENT CHEERS FOR THE CLASSROOM

Habits of Mind

the cooperative classroom

Tools of Cooperative Learning

WEB-BASED TOOLS

PLAY AS A MEDIUM FOR LEARNING

PARENTS AS PARTNERS IN EDUCATION

The Craft of the Effective Teacher

Portfolio ASSESSMENT
Creating student portfolios and e-portfolios of authentic assessment

Connecting Student Achievement and Voice through Portfolios

Portfolios and E-Portfolios: Student Reflection, Self-Assessment,
and Goal  Setting

 Portfolios and Student Achievement

What Teachers Make

In Memory of Sonny