Navigating and Negotiating an Etho-Education, Millsaps College
Students will critically examine the role of power, race, gender, and conceptions of the subject have in shaping K-12 education in the United States.  Drawing on field experiences in K-12 school settings, students will utilize ethnographic practices to explore two complicated questions influencing the educative experience: What does it mean to become educated? And for whom?  

Inquiry within STEM Education​
Students will closely examine content and educational practices in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education. Informed by the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) along with state and local curricular requirements students will acquire foundational skills for designing and implementing STEM lessons that impact K-6 student learning and development.

Field Research in Reading
A model for field-based classroom research and RTI intervention in the schools that fosters the development of teacher candidates as scholars, leaders, and researchers. The course involves an informal reading inventory approach to teaching reading, and utilizing pre- and post-testing procedures with the monitoring of student progress.

Introduction to Women's & Gender Studies
This course is an interdisciplinary introduction to the field of women’s and gender studies; to the questions raised by the study of women’s experiences; to the intellectual debates surrounding the issue of gender; and to the role of these fields in the various liberal arts disciplines.

Performance Based Assessment​
A study of the concepts and statistical methods used in the assessment of content area reading, including the construction and use of classroom assessment instruments, standardized tests of intelligence and reading performance, RTI practices, and the use of statistics in the assessment of student learning and data analysis for informed decision making. 

Ventures: Where have all the teachers gone?
​Every single day K-12 teachers make invaluable contributions to society under immense pressure to prepare the next generation. While many schools currently employ highly qualified and passionate teachers, the U.S. public education system always needs more! This course will explore teachers’ decision to enter, stay, and/or leave the profession from a variety of perspectives. Throughout the semester students will glean diverse insights into the challenges and motivations contextualizing the role of K-12 teachers.  Upon examining how history, school culture, and socio-economic systems shaped K-12 teaching, students will develop a justifiable solution to increase teacher recruitment and retention in public schools.