SCOPE Brown Bag Seminar
Dorothy Steele is the former Executive Director of the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity at Stanford University. She is an early childhood educator who is interested in public schools, including teaching practices that are effective for diverse classrooms, alternative assessment processes that inform teaching and learning, and strategies that build inclusive communities of learners in schools. Her work with the Stanford Integrated Schools Project was an attempt to look at these various aspects of schooling in a large urban school district.
Becki Cohn-Vargas is currently the director of Not In Our School. She designs curriculum, coaches schools, and produces films and digital media on models for creating safe and inclusive schools, free of bullying and intolerance at a national nonprofit, the Working Group. She also is teaching online courses on bullying prevention for the University of San Diego. Cohn-Vargas worked in educational settings for more than 35 years as a teacher and administrator.