Educational Foundations Student Hub

To ADD or EXPLORE the EdF Major or Secondary Minor, please meet with a COE advisor.

Educational Foundations Major

Secondary Educational Foundations Minor

The Educational Foundations Team

Keri Baker
Student Services, general program questions, course overrides, registration issues
kerib@uoregon.edu or edf@uoregon.edu
Lokey Education Building, Suite 124

Puja Clifford
Field Placement Coordinator, EDST Instructor
pujac@uoregon.edu
Lokey Education Building, Suite 124

Angela Dornbusch 
COE Academic Advisor and EdF Liaison [bio]
adornbus@uoregon.edu
HEDCO Education Building, Suite 130

Dr. Alison Schmitke
Undergraduate Degree Program Director, EDST Faculty [bio]
schmitke@uoregon.edu
Lokey Education Building, Suite 124

 

College of Education Student Academic Services
The Educational Foundations program highly recommends that all EdF majors and minors meet with a COE Advisor at least once per term. In-person and virtual (Zoom) appointments are available as well as drop-in advising. All in person appointments are in Suite 130 in the HEDCO building. Instructions to make an appointment and drop-in advising dates are on the College of Education Student Academic Services website.
https://education.uoregon.edu/student-academic-services

 

UO Aspiring Educators
Our mission as the Aspiring Educators Chapter at University of Oregon is to empower educators and foster their professional and leadership development through a commitment to our core values: educator quality, community engagement, political action, and social justice. Through our commitment to these values and goals, Aspiring Educators strives to create a community of educators who are not only well-equipped for their future roles as educators, but also empowered to drive positive change within the Oregon Education Association and National Education Association along with their Local Chapters. Together, we work towards a brighter future for both educators and the students they serve.
uoaspiringed@uoregon.edu
https://uoregon.campuslabs.com/engage/organization/aspiring-educators    

 

UOTeach (masters and licensure)
UOTeach is the graduate teacher education program in the Department of Education Studies.  This is a 1-year program resulting in a master’s of education (MEd) in Curriculum and Teaching and it fulfills the teaching licensure requirements for the state of Oregon (Elementary K-5 or Secondary 6-12). 
UOTeach Website
uoteach@uoregon.edu

 

Sapsik’ʷałá,
An Ichishkíin/Sahaptin word which translates to “teacher” in English, Sapsik’ʷałá represents the program’s cultural values for self-determination of education for Tribal people. The Sapsik’ʷałá program began in 2002 to address the dire need for American Indian/Alaska Native teachers. Program participants receive grants to assist with educational costs and do service payback by teaching for 2 years in schools with high Native American student populations.
https://education.uoregon.edu/sapsikwala

 

Sapsik’ʷałá’s Grow Your Own (GYO) Future Teachers Program
GYO is a 12-week mentorship program (runs annually March – June) for AI/AN high school and undergraduate students. Building upon the Sapsik’ʷałá Program’s successful teacher education model, and our philosophy that Education Strengthens Tribal Communities, the GYO Program centers intergenerational Indigenous knowledge to achieve college success, cultivate teacher identities, and empower Indigenous high school, undergraduate, and recent graduates to become the next generation’s leaders in education.
https://blogs.uoregon.edu/sapsikwala/grow-your-own-teacher-program/

 

The Educational Foundations programs are committed to providing a critical intersectional lens toward dismantling white supremacy. We engage in teaching, research and service that centers Tribal Sovereignty, Black Lives Matter in schools, Latinx and Asian Desi Pacific Islander identity and exclusion, economic justice, LGBTQ educational rights, immigrant educational rights, language preservation, and access and opportunity for Oregon K-12 students to all be fully included in every classroom.

 

The University of Oregon is located on Kalapuya Ilihi, the traditional indigenous homeland of the Kalapuya people. Following treaties between 1851 and 1855, Kalapuya people were dispossessed of their indigenous homeland by the United States government and forcibly removed to the Coast Reservation in western Oregon. Today, descendants are citizens of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde Community of Oregon and the Confederated Tribes of the Siletz Indians of Oregon, and continue to make important contributions in their communities, at the UO, and across the land we now refer to as Oregon.