The Multiple Subject Credential Program prepares students to teach kindergarten through eighth grade in multi-subject classrooms. Educators for Liberation, Justice, and Joy Program emphasizes teaching practice and racial and gender justice for educational equity and access. The program is designed around praxis as the core endeavor of teaching and teacher education, embracing critical reflection and practice to disrupt dominant ideologies and inequities. We utilize a cognitive apprenticeship model that combines coaching and inquiry and that situates teacher learning in the school classroom. The program relies on lesson study cohorts that are interdisciplinary and cross-grade level for close analysis of teaching practice. We believe that multiple subject teachers attend to the positive development of the whole child by successfully integrating the aims of authority with caring, and the aims of academic rigor with playfulness and mindful joy.cognitive apprenticeship model that combines coaching and inquiry and that situates teacher learning in the school classroom. 

Distinctive Features

• Praxis as the core element: We situate the work of preparing teachers in reflective action that transforms pedagogy, curricula, schools, and society. The program’s experiences, structures, products, and requirements combine practice and theory explicitly and purposefully.
• Coaching as cognitive apprenticeship: We rely on experienced and knowledgeable coaches to apprentice teachers into the complexities and joys of teaching.
• Inquiry stance development: Because teaching and learning are defined by complex social contexts, we instill in teachers an inquiry stance toward practice. The program prepares students with the knowledge, skills, and dispositions necessary to base their teaching on what and how students learn.
• Lesson study cohort-based program: The program year begins at its earnest in early summer, engaging students in community building exercises while completing coursework in a summer school context. Coach-led cohorts are multidisciplinary and across grade levels.
• Access and flexibility: The program recognizes the resources and needs of each student and aims to collaborate to achieve their respective professional goals. Individual pathways are possible for students who are teaching full time, part time, or in a student teaching arrangement. 

While the multiple subject credential program prepares students to teach in any self-contained K–8 classroom, it is recommended for those interested in teaching grades K–6. This work generally leads up to a master of arts in education with an emphasis on a teaching degree.