GUEST LECTURES
Experts share strategies on how to create safe and welcoming schools
AI for Innovative Social Work
A lecture by Desmond U. Patton, associate dean for innovation and academic affairs and associate professor of social work and sociology at Columbia University. April 2021
Education and Child Welfare Intersections: Why Race and Culture Matter
A lecture by Tyrone Howard, professor of education at the UCLA School of Education and Information Studies. April 2021
School to Prison Pipeline; Children in Handcuffs
Lectures by Adrian Huerta, assistant professor of education at USC, on “School to Prison Pipeline: Motivations for Opportunities for Gang-Involved Youth” and Laura Abrams, professor of social welfare at UCLA Luskin, on “Children in Handcuffs: Is There a Better Way?” April 2021
Suicide Prevention: Two Perspectives
Lectures by Sean Joe, Benjamin E. Youngdahl Professor of Social Development at Washington University in St. Louis, on “Moving Beyond Race to Equity in the Science of Suicide Prevention” and Jonathan Singer, professor of social work at Loyola University Chicago, on “Cultural Responsiveness and Equity in Suicide Prevention” April 2021
LAUSD Path to Recovery; Trauma-Informed Schools
Lectures by Pia Escudero, executive director of student health and human services at Los Angeles Unified School District, on “LAUSD Path to Recovery: Student Health and Human Services” Marleen Wong, senior vice dean of USC Suzanne Dworak Peck School of Social Work, on “Education Policy and the Importance of Trauma-Informed Schools and School-Based Initiatives.” May 2021
Counterterrorism, Homegrown Violent Extremism and School Violence Prevention
Lecture by Erroll Southers, professor of the practice in national and homeland security at USC Price School of Public Policy. May 2021
Understanding the Complexity of Trauma and Grief After School Violence
Lecture by Melissa Brymer, director of the terrorism and disaster program for the UCLA-Duke National Center for Child Traumatic Stress. May 2021
COVID Moment: Rethinking Policies to Support School and Community Safety
Lecture by Joseph Bishop, director of the UCLA Center for the Transformation of Schools. May 2021
Education for Democracy; Youth Civic Engagement
Lectures by John Rogers, professor at UCLA School of Education and Information Studies, on “Education for Democracy in Contentious Times” and Laura Wray-Lake, associate professor of social welfare at UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, on “Thoughts on Safety and Youth Civic Engagement.” June 2021
Bullying in U.S. Schools; Partnering With Youth to Promote School Safety
Lectures by Sandra Graham, distinguished professor at the UCLA School of Education and Information Studies, on “Some Thoughts About Bullying in U.S. Schools” and Dorothy Espelage, distinguished professor of education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, on “Partnering With Youth to Promote School Safety and Positive School Climate in U.S. High Schools.” October 2021
Schools and Gangs; Impact of Trauma on Vulnerable Youth
Lectures by Jorja Leap, adjunct professor of social welfare at UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, on “The Meeting Place: Schools, Gangs and Community-Based Research” and Robert Anthony Hernandez, senior lecturer at USC Suzanne Dworak Peck School of Social Work, on “The Impact of Trauma on Vulnerable Youth Susceptible to Gang Involvement.” October 2021
Safety and (In)Equitable Schooling
Lecture by Shaun R. Harper, USC Provost Professor of Education and Business. October 2021
Education Equity and COVID-19; Sustaining Trauma-Informed Schools
Lectures by Debra Duardo, Los Angeles County superintendent of schools, on “Ensuring Equity in Education: Before and After COVID-19” and Jane Halladay Goldman, director of service system program at the UCLA-Duke National Center for Child Traumatic Stress, on “The NCTSN Approach to Creating and Sustaining Trauma-Informed Schools.” October 2021
The Science of Learning; Road to Resilience; Developing Safe, Caring and Supportive Schools
Lectures by Mary Helen Immordino-Yang, USC professor of education, psychology and neuroscience, on “The Science of Learning: Why All Learning is Emotional and Social”; Patricia Lester, director of FOCUS Program and UCLA Nathanson Family Resilience Center, on “Road to Resilience: A Whole School Approach to Supporting Student, Parent and Educator Wellbeing”; and Howard Adelman, UCLA professor of psychology and co-director of the School Mental Health Project and National Center for Mental Health in Schools at UCLA, on “Developing Safe, Caring and Supportive Schools” November 2021
Preventing Gun Violence; Communicating About COVID Safety in K-12 Schools
Lectures by Mark Kaplan, professor of social welfare at UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, on “Are We Doing Enough to Prevent Gun Violence?” and Deborah Glik, professor of community health sciences at UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, on “Case Study: Communicating About COVID-19 Safety in K-12 Schools, CA, 2021” November 2021
School Threat Assessment; After Parkland
Lectures by Dewey Cornell, professor of education at University of Virginia, on “School Threat Assessment as Safe, Fair and Equitable Violence Prevention Strategy” and Rebecca Baldrick, public school teacher, activist and parent of students who survived the 2018 Parkland, Florida, school shooting. November 2021
Participatory Action Research and Social Justice; Schools Affected by Secondary Trauma
Lectures by Amy Ritterbusch, assistant professor of social welfare at UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, on “The Dangers and Possibilities of Participatory Action Research for Social Justice Movements in Colombia, Uganda and Beyond” and Stephen P. Hydon, clinical professor of field education and director of Social Work in Schools at USC, on “Support for Schools Affected by Secondary Trauma: The STAT Program.” November 2021
International Perspectives: England, Chile, Israel
Lectures by Peter Smith, emeritus professor of psychology at Goldsmiths, University of London, on “Anti-Bullying Work in England”; Veronica Lopez, professor of psychology at at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso and director of the Center for Research in Inclusive Education in Chile; Mona Khoury-Kassabri, vice president of strategy and diversity at Hebrew University of Jerusalem; and Rami Benbenishty, Hebrew University of Jerusalem on “Staff Victimization of Students in an International Perspective.” December 2021