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This fall, we will initiate the SJAWP New Teacher Network to offer a collaborative and supportive “home” for first and second-year teachers, including alumni of San José State’s English Credential program.
We are initiating the New Teacher Network this fall with a small group of SJSU alumni who are recent MAT graduates. We hope to extend this network to include future MAT graduates, and any new teachers who seek a foundation of collegiality and support that those in our public schools deserve and need.
About the
Instructors
Bronwyn LaMay
Bronwyn has been a teacher, instructional coach, and administrator for over 20 years in the Bay Area. She has taught middle and high school in Oakland, Hayward, East Side Union, East Palo Alto, and Santa Clara. She has her PhD from Stanford in English and Literacy Curriculum, her MA from Mills College in Educational Leadership, and her BA in English from UCLA. A few years ago, she published what began as a literacy curriculum that she co-created with her students; it revolved around their self-narratives on the topic of love. The book, Personal Narrative, Revised: Writing Love and Agency in the High School Classroom, was awarded NCTE’s David H. Russell Award for Distinguished Research in the Teaching of English for 2017. Bronwyn currently lectures in the Departments of English and Teacher Education at San José State, and has worked with the Writing Project as a teacher consultant and participant for many years prior to becoming a director.
Scott Jarvie
Scott is an assistant professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at San Jose State, where he teaches courses in English Education for graduate students pursuing a teaching credential. A former director of the San Jose Area Writing Project, Scott joined the faculty at SJSU after receiving his Ph.D. in Curriculum, Instruction, and Teacher Education at Michigan State University, where he helped with the Red Cedar Writing Project. He is the author of Affect, Learning, and Teacher Education: Getting Stuck in Social Justice, written with Erica Colmenares. Prior to graduate study, Scott taught high school literature and creative writing courses in the Rio Grande Valley and in the city of Chicago.