December Newsletter: Education Program
The Gottesman Libraries
The Gottesman Libraries Education Program informs students, faculty and staff about the latest thinking in education, in ways that engage members of the community with one another and with a broad range of educational experts. The program also provides understanding of work being done throughout the College.
Read more below about offerings in December.
Workshops
Regularly scheduled instructional offerings include workshops, tours, orientations, and course-specific instruction in coordination with staff and faculty of the College.
Faculty Workshop: Creating Linked Open Data for Scholarly Profiles in Scholia, Friday, 12/2
How can linked open data increase research visibility and accessibility, while allowing researchers more control over how their research is identified, aggregated, and shared? Join us for an informational session on creating visual scholarly profiles in Scholia as a new library service. Creating Linked Open Data for Scholarly Profiles in Scholia will focus on enhancing the discoverability of TC research, highlighting research relationships between TC researchers and among colleagues around the world, and ensuring the published works are properly linked and attributed in Wikidata.
Presenters: Kalli Mathios, Head of Technical Services and Metadata Librarian, and Jackson Healey, Bibliographic Assistant, Columbia University Law Library
Please rsvp with your interest and details by Thursday, December 1st and we'll provide a Zoom link to the session. This is the last offering in the Fall New Research Services for Faculty series.
Where: Online
Academic Integrity, Wednesday, 12/7, 4-5pm
From the library-subscribed journal, to the Wikipedia entry in the public domain, it is important to use with honesty, care, and accuracy the resources and information so readily accessible. Please join us for a conversation on academic integrity, a growing concern in higher, straight down to elementary education, and understand the value in adhering to the honor code in research, education, and scholarship.
Academic Integrity will provide useful tips and guidance on plagiarism, helping you take the steps needed to cite others accurately and also make your work your own. We will describe the meaning and implications of plagiarism; distinction between paraphrasing and citing; and ways to avoid plagiarism, as we draw upon campus resources and other relevant sites.
Please rsvp with your interest via online support by Tuesday, December 6th.
Where: Online
Introduction to Course Resource Lists for Instructors, Thursday, 12/8, 3-4pm
Course Resource Lists (powered by Ex Libris Leganto) is the Gottesman Libraries’ new, permanent course reserves platform and collaborative tool for instructors and librarians to create and fulfill reading lists for degree-seeking students in courses taught each semester at Teachers College, Columbia University. Course Resource Lists are available to instructors of all active, credit-bearing courses and can be found on the left navigation menu of their courses in Canvas.
Please join us for our last Fall session on December 8th held over Zoom, in which we will cover all you need to know to place a library course reserve request or create a Course Resource List yourself. Faculty, course assistants, and professional staff are all welcome to attend.
This workshop is co-sponsored by the Digital Futures Institute. Interested persons may rsvp in advance and Zoom details will be shared.
Where: Online
Make Holiday Cards, Tuesday, 12/13, 12-2pm
Take a break from your studies, and come make beautiful holiday cards for children in local cancer care to inspire joy and love during this festive season. By performing simple acts of kindness, we can learn invaluable lessons of empowerment, inclusion, and working together to give back to our community, especially those in need.
This event is co-sponsored by Bake Back America and the Teachers College Office of Graduate Student Life and Development. Interested persons may rsvp with their details or just stop by.
Where: Rock Garden, 2nd Floor Russell
Managing Your References, Thursday, 12/15, 4-5pm
Managing bibliographic references is key to the research process, especially as you embark on a major, paper, thesis, or dissertation, or even as you organize readings for class. This workshop compares Zotero, "your personal research assistant" -- a citation management tool that allows you to collect, organize, cite, and share research, with Mendeley, an alternative tool for managing citations; and Endnote, a program by the company Clarivate and one of the oldest tools on the market. We will explore the options presented in the LibGuide for Reference Management and offer advice on usage.
You may rsvp via online support no later than Wednesday, December 14th, and we'll follow up with a Zoom link prior to the session.
Where: Online
Talks
The Gottesman Libraries sponsors talks by leaders in education, psychology, and the applied health sciences to recognize and celebrate scholarly work of interest to the Teachers College community.
Book Talk: Handbook of Research on Teachers of Color & Indigenous Teachers, with Conra D. Gist & Travis J. Bristol, Wednesday, 12/7, 4-5pm
Please join Conra D. Gist and Travis J. Bristol for a discussion of their new book, Handbook of Research on Teachers of Color & Indigenous Teachers (American Educational Research Association, 2022).
"Teachers of Color and Indigenous Teachers are underrepresented in public schools across the United States of America, with Black, Indigenous, and People of Color making up roughly 37% of the adult population and 50% of children, but just 19% of the teaching force. Yet research over decades has indicated their positive impact on student learning and social and emotional development, particularly for Students of Color and Indigenous Students. A first of its kind, the Handbook of Research on Teachers of Color and Indigenous Teachers addresses key issues and obstacles to ethnoracial diversity across the life course of teachers’ careers, such as recruitment and retention, professional development, and the role of minority-serving institutions. Including chapters from leading researchers and policy makers, the Handbook is designed to be an important resource to help bridge the gap between scholars, practitioners, and policy makers. In doing so, this research will serve as a launching pad for discussion and change at this critical moment in our country’s history. The volume’s goal is to drive conversations around the issue of ethnoracial teacher diversity and to provide concrete practices for policy makers and practitioners to enable them to make evidence-based decisions for supporting an ethnoracially diverse educator workforce, now and in the future." -- book description
Conra D. Gist is an associate professor of teaching and teacher education at the College of Education, University of Houston. She is the award-winning author of Preparing Teachers of Color to Teach: Culturally Responsive Teacher Education in Theory and Practice (Palgrave, 2014) and editor of Portraits of Anti-Racist Alternative Routes to Teaching in the U.S.: Framing Teacher Development for Community, Justice, and Visionaries (Peter Lang, 2017). Her current projects include guest editing a 10-year retrospective issue of Teacher Education Quarterly on grow-your-own programs. She also serves as lead principal investigator on several research projects. These include a national study on homegrown programs and black teachers funded by a 2016 Spencer/National Academy of Education Postdoctoral Fellowship and a project exploring the teaching and learning experiences of teachers of color funded by a 2015 American Educational Research Association Service Grant. Dr. Gist also has chaired the Diversified Teaching Workforce Topical Action Group for the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education for the last three years.
Travis Bristol, an alumus of Teachers College, Columbia University, is an assistant professor in the Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a former high school English teacher in New York City public schools and teacher educator with the Boston Teacher Residency program. His research is situated at the intersection of policy and practice and is centered on three interrelated strands: district and school-based practices that support teachers of color; national, state and local education policies that enable and constrain the workplace experiences and retention for teachers of color; and the intersection of race and gender in schools. Dr. Bristol's research has appeared in peer-reviewed journals, including Urban Education, the American Educational Research Journal, the Journal of Teacher Education, Urban Review and Education Policy Analysis Archives. Bristol received dissertation fellowships from the National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation, Ford Foundation, and the American Educational Research Association. In 2016 he earned the inaugural teacher diversity research award from the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education.
This event is co-sponsored by CITED (Center for Innovation in Teacher Education and Development. Moderating is Professor Felicia Mensah Moor.
Please rsvp with your interest and details no later than Tuesday, December 6th, and we'll follow up with details.
Where: Online
The vision of Artivism: The Power of Art for Social Transformation is to generate a movement with committed social artivists in response to historic global unrest. Artivism aims to generate community through multi-disciplinary teamwork for a more dignified and meaningful coexistence, however you define these terms. The goal of this initiative is to nurture confidence in taking continuous action from wherever you are by means of reciprocity.
Artivism: AAA3A: Liberating the Domestic, with Blanka Amezkua, Monday, 12/12, 4:30-5:30pm
Blanka Amezkua will share AAA3A and what it means to have an artist run project in the intimacy of an apartment in the South Bronx.
Blanka Amezkua is an artist, cultural promoter, educator, and project creator based in the South Bronx with exhibitions at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Queens Museum, El Museo del Barrio, the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, San Diego Art Institute, and the Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Art Base, Brussels among others. Amezkua’s practice is greatly influenced and informed by folk art and popular culture, and in 2008 she began an artist-run project in her bedroom called the Bronx Blue Bedroom Project (BBBP), which ran from 2008-2010. Between 2010-2016, she lived in Athens, Greece where she initiated FoKiaNou 24/7, now FokiaNou Art Space, in the center of the Hellenic capital. Blanka currently operates AAA3A (Alexander Avenue Apartment 3A) an alternative artist-run project which offers food, dialogue, workshops, and art in her living room. She is an active member of Running for Ayotzinapa 43, an international community of runners based in NYC that promotes dialogue and consciousness concerning human rights violations worldwide. Mentions of her work and projects can be found in various notable national and international publications.
Register here.
Resources: AAA3A website: blankaamezkua.com
Alternative Histories: New York Art Spaces 1960 to 2010 (MIT Press)
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Artivism: The Power of Art Social Transformation, grew out of Illuminations of Social Imagination: Learning From Maxine Greene, (Dio Press, 2019), edited by Teachers College alumni Courtney Weida and Carolina Cambronero-Varela, and Dolapo Adeniji-Neill, of Adelphi University. "The concept for this book is inspired by the late Maxine Greene (2000), who described her enduring philosophical focus and legacy of social imagination as “the capacity to invent visions of what should be and what might be in our deficient society, on the streets where we live, in our schools” (p. 5). The purpose of this volume is to examine and illuminate the roles of community organizers and educators who are changing lives through public art and community arts projects. This research originally emerged from a well-attended 2018 conference presentation and exhibition at Teachers College, Columbia University, engaging with the local and international community of arts education and arts administration."
-- Publisher's Description
Artivism: The Power of Art Social Transformation is jointly sponsored by Adelphi University, Sing for Hope, and the Gottesman Libraries.
Live Music
The Everett Cafe Music Program sponsors performances by TC student and affiliated musicians. Come enjoy a variety of genres and styles! Please contact us if you are interested in playing! We welcome solos, duets, and trios.
Voce Vibranti: Teachers College's Vocal Chamber Ensemble, Tuesday, 12/6, 6:30-7:30pm
Finals are upon us, but there's always a little time to pause and enjoy the wonderful musical talents of the Teachers College community -- especially as the holidays draw near. Join us as we sing spirited music of love and redemption across genres.
Claremont Strings & Ensemble, Tuesday, 12/20, 4-5:30pm
Come celebrate the Winter holidays with some festive music performed by our longest-running professional musical ensemble.
The Claremont Strings and Ensemble features music for classical strings, from the symphonies of Mozart and Haydn, to well known arias from the operas of Puccini and Bizet. You may hear a selection of continental Viennese waltzes and French cabaret. Musicians of The Claremont Strings Ensemble have performed collectively at Weill Hall, Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall and throughout the Northeast, playing a diverse range of symphonic and chamber music, eclectic jazz, and gypsy swing. Wadsworth Strings, emanating from the Washington Heights area, is a division of Claremont Strings, founded by Vivian Penham, a graduate of the Juilliard School and Columbia University.
News Displays
Need to keep current, look to the past, teach a topic? The Everett Cafe features daily postings of news from around the world, and also promotes awareness of historical events from an educational context. Be sure to check the Cafe News postings on the library blog.
Signing of the Commonwealth of Independent States, Thursday, 12/8
Roald Amundsen Reaches the South Pole, Wednesday, 12/14
Winter Solstice, Wednesday, 12/21
Book Displays
Everett Cafe: Indigenous America: Voices and Viewpoints, through Thursday, 12/15
If we wonder often, the gift of knowledge will come.
– Arapaho
Native American Indian Heritage month was officially recognized in 1990 by President of the United States George H. W. Bush, who declared November accordingly as a time to celebrate the rich histories, diverse cultures, and significant contributions of our nation's first people. Now, in a time of growing awareness and response to movements and needs of many marginalized groups, we must wonder at the complex history of our indigenous peoples and how their story requires special attention within the landscape of learning and realities of today.
Indigenous America: Voices and Viewpoints explores wide interpretations of history, religion, politics, psychology, and education, as expressed from numerous perspectives, native and non-native, hopeful of increasing awareness and engagement. In the month of November, a time of Thanksgiving, but also of mourning by indigenous Americans, acknowledgement is due to the researchers, scholars, teachers, and practitioners who address these critical issues and help us remember marginalized populations, which include over 500 federally recognized tribes living in the United States.
Looking at the involvement of Teachers College, we draw attention to contributions of Hazel Hertzberg, Professor of History and Education, whose scholarship focused on the Indigenous people of North America, and whose publications introduced seventh-grade anthropology curriculum for New York students as part of the Anthropology Curriculum Project. Decades earlier, Native American Indian art was incorporated into the practical work of the students of Arthur Wesley Dow, Professor of Fine Arts, while units on Native Americans were infused into the curriculum of the experimental and demonstration schools of Teachers College. Fall 2022 courses include: Indigenous Curriculum & Teaching: Sovereignty and Survivance in Theory and Practice; Multicultural Counseling and Psychology; Organizing Schools for Diversity; Climate Change, Society, and Education; Decolonial Theories in Comparative Education; and Education Across the Americas.
This book display is curated by Jennifer Govan, Library Director and Senior Librarian, and designed by Trisha Barton, Gottesman's Lead Designer.
Tell me and I’ll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I’ll understand.
- "Unknown Tribe"
Everett Cafe: Printmaking Community Resilience, starting Friday, 12/16
Printmaking is a studio and craft-based art form performed both together and individually, bringing individuals into a social learning practice of art-making in a variety of printmaking studios, including those that reside in Macy Hall at Teachers College.
Art-making, such as printmaking, is a means of self and group-directed emotional study that directly influences other processes of learning and psycho-social development and becomes a way of exploring our interior landscapes. Individual and community resilience begins in these interior landscapes as it navigates outwards. The ability for printmaking to be flexible, but process-driven, positions printmaking as a resilient model for community art-making.
Printmaking Community Resilience explores the role of art-making for cognitive and emotional resilience, as well as the art form as a flexible and social art practice. It features work that highlights getting started in the medium, such as Low-Tech Print: Contemporary Hand-Made Printing and Block Print Magic. It also spans conversations with Elliot Eisner and Maxine Greene on the emotional and political position of art-making for cognitive development. The collection is rounded out with books that discuss the role of social practice art-making and social justice.
This book display is curated by Lindsey Frances Jones, 2022 Myers awardee for the Gottesman Libraries commissioned art, I Was Born in Shapes, on display in Offit Gallery until early February 2023. Printmaking Community Resilience is designed by Trisha Barton, Gottesman’s Lead Designer.
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At the Everett News Cafe, you'll find a new book collection every few weeks that relates to current events, education, or learning environments.
Staff Picks: Women in Mathematics
"The 'Women in Mathematics' collection celebrates the achievements and intersectional identities of women mathematicians. As a Mathematics Education student at Teachers College, I see this collection as an opportunity to give space to past and present women in mathematics and to inspire future women in mathematics. Sourced from the Gottesman Libraries and the Mathematics Library, this collection ranges from children's books to a dissertation, physical holdings to ebooks. It is important to note that this collection is limited in the sense that it does not equally represent all identities of women mathematicians. However, I hope that it will spark your interest and inspire you to discover materials beyond this collection."
-- Kate Reselosa, Library Associate
Staff Picks is curated and designed each month by the Gottesman Libraries' staff to highlight resources on educational topics and themes of special interest.
Where: Reading Room, Second Floor
New and Now: Award-Winning Children's Literature
Looking for a new read? Integrating exciting titles into your lesson plans? Building a curriculum for today's young learners? Blast off with the latest and greatest! Books on our "Rocketship" shelves are all award-winning and honoree titles for children's, middle grade, and young adult readers to bring into your orbit.
Where: Reading Room, Second Floor
Featured Databases: Universal Human Rights
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on December 10, 1948. Among the chief architects were Dr. Charles Malik (Lebanon), Alexandre Bogomolov (USSR), Dr. Peng-chun Chang (China), René Cassin (France), Eleanor Roosevelt (US), Charles Dukes (United Kingdom), William Hodgson (Australia), Hernan Santa Cruz (Chile), and John P. Humphrey (Canada). This agreement articulates fundamental rights and freedoms for all persons, including the right to life, liberty, free speech and privacy, social security, health, and education.
In recognition of the development of legally binding international human rights treaties and human rights worldwide, we highlight key research resources in the field. Read more on the Library's news' page.
Exhibits
I Was Made in Shapes, by Lindsey Frances Jones, Friday, 12/2/22 - Friday, 2/3/23
"My series of self-portrait printmaking works is inspired by something I said as a young girl to my mother. I told her that “I see shapes.” Rediscovering that phrase of my childhood during the pandemic, a time of great personal change for me, I found myself finally in pursuit of my own visual style—my shapes---through the process of printmaking.
My journey in printmaking started while alone during the early days of the pandemic and then expanded into the vibrant community of the Teachers College printmaking studio. While in this important studio community, I pursued self-portraits by discovering my shapes across the medium. I found my work serendipitously giving life to certain visual symbols, marks, and themes in this pursuit. One such symbol was the fish, which began hiding and peaking across my work. I saw it as a simple but powerful symbol of both the enduring self and the broader collective intertwined in the process of printmaking.
This process of discovering my own visual language compelled me to expand my work into community practices through printmaking, too. The goal of this extension of my work is to promote the importance of the printmaking medium as instrumental in promoting one’s own search for self with the guidance of the transformative and resilient power of printmaking communities of practice. "
-- Artist Statement
Lindsey Frances Jones is a mixed-media visual artist in New York City. She works across illustration, printmaking, painting, poetry, and collage. She is a graduate student in Art and Art Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. Lindsey is a 2022 awardee of the Gottesman Libraries' commissioned art, funded through the generosity of the Myers Foundations. I Was Made in Shapes was produced in collaboration with Trisha Barton, Gottesman Libraries Lead Designer.
Where: Offit Gallery
When: 12/2/22 - 2/3/23
