Growing up in Hawai’i, Valerie Sakimura and many of her peers spoke Hawaiian Pidgin, a local dialect often used at home and heard in everyday…
Notice something different? Our updated visual brand identity conveys a new look and feel that more accurately reflects our growing network and…
“True social transformations are measured in decades, not years,” our founder Benjamin Riley wrote in 2017. It’s a maxim that has guided Deans for…
Each new year brings the opportunity to explore fresh perspectives. As you embark into 2022, check out these reading recommendations from our…
While our images may not have the drama of TIME’s top 100 photos, they capture the faces of folks working hard to improve educator preparation.
As Thanksgiving approaches, our team took time to reflect on what we’re feeling grateful for.
We grieve today as we remember Scott Ridley, dean of the school of education at Texas Tech University, who passed away yesterday at the age of…
Each year, nearly 200,000 new teachers graduate from preparation programs in the United States. Many of them report feeling unprepared to teach in…
To paraphrase David Foster Wallace’s modern parable: Two fish are swimming along when they encounter another fish heading in the opposite direction. “How’s the water?” the solo fish says as he swims by. The two fish swim a little further until one turns to the other and says, “What the hell is water?”
The events of this past year have magnified differences in our culture, and produced conflict – but active efforts, including protest, can lead to reform. In many ways, this idea animates all of the activities we undertake at Deans for Impact. We believe in the power of helping existing and future educators practice better pedagogy with all students, so that over time, our work – and the work of so many others – will join together such that the stark racial segregation we witnessed during one school visit will seem an unconscionable aberration, rather than an accepted norm.
