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Together We Transform Education

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Program Overview

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The Urban Learning Program is an interdisciplinary pathway that prepares future educators to advance just, equitable, and inclusive education. Through a supportive cohort model, students build connections with peers and grow into socially conscious educators ready to serve their communities.

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Program Mission

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The mission of the Urban Learning B.A. program is to foster educator leaders who recognize that social justice issues are embedded in relationships, curriculum, instruction, and assessment, and to empower them to transform those structures to better serve diverse learners. We guide students to examine how discrimination and bias operate in educational environments and encourage them to reflect personally on their own assumptions and expectations. The program emphasizes identifying socially just and equitable practices in education and understanding how local educational work intersects with national and global conditions. Our graduates are committed to designing inclusive and responsive learning environments, advocating for marginalized learners, and advancing the principle that all students deserve access, voice, and a sense of belonging in schools.

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Express your interest in Urban Learning.
Complete the form below!

Urban Leaning Interest Form

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Student Learning Outcomes

  1. Examine how discrimination such as, but not limited to, racism, sexism, ableism, heterosexism, classism manifests in educational settings.
  2. Evaluate approaches and strategies related to the remediation and/or resolution of inequalities and injustices in educational settings with a student advocacy, assets-based orientation. 
  3. Develop and present a plan of action to combat institutional and systemic forces of marginalization and oppression in schools. 
  4. Develop and demonstrate skills needed for ongoing personal and professional reflection to extend student learning and to develop a critically reflective teacher identity with the ability to recognize their assumptions and biases. 
  5. Analyze how social justice issues are always operating, affect everyone, and are manifested in relationships, curriculum, pedagogy, assessment in schools. 
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Urban Learning Program Flyers

For general program information, please see the following Urban Learning Program flyers:

  • Urban Learning Program Flyer (English) - TBA
  • Urban Learning Program Flyer (Spanish)
  • Urban Learning Program Flyer (Chinese) - TBA
  • Urban Learning Program Flyer (Vietnamese) - TBA
  • Urban Learning Program Flyer (Khmer) - TBA
  • Urban Learning Program Flyer (Japanese) - TBA
  • Urban Learning Program Flyer (Korean) - TBA
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