Bernadette Musetti

Professor of Urban and Environmental Studies

  • Los Angeles CA UNITED STATES

Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts

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Biography

I am a Professor here at LMU, where I have the honor and privilege of also serving as Director the Liberal Studies Program (LBST). I teach undergraduate and graduate courses in the Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts and the School of Education respectively. I thoroughly enjoy teaching, especially the recently developed course “A Better World: Explorations of Place & Purpose”, as well as the LBST Capstone “Education & Global Issues”, which in 2018 and 2019 included immersion abroad in Costa Rica. I also teach a First Year Seminar entitled “Education & the Public Good”. My areas of interest and expertise include ecological literacy, nature-based learning, content area reading and multiple literacies, professional learning in K-12 schools, the effective and equitable education of English Learners, teacher preparation, teacher supervision, sociocultural variables in education, school reform, college pipeline programs, international education, and grant writing. I have worked closely with schools and districts throughout my career and have taught across the K-12 grade span in the U.S. and Mexico.

I came to LMU from Kennesaw State University (KSU), where I was an Associate Professor and the lead co-director of an $8.9 Million federal Teacher Quality Partnership Grant to redesign teacher preparation around Urban Education, using a model of vertically aligned professional development schools. In Georgia I also served as the founding Co-Director of the Center for Latino Achievement and Success in Education (CLASE) at the University of Georgia (UGA). There I worked with teams of educators statewide to raise student achievement. Each year I invited the nation’s top researchers and practitioners to work with these teams—renowned scholars such as Luis Moll and Eugene Garcia. While at UGA and KSU I also served on numerous MA thesis and doctoral dissertation committees, including as dissertation chair. Across my career I have taught over 40 different courses for academic credit across the undergraduate, Master’s and doctoral levels.

Other professional positions I have held include Department Head of the American Language Program at the University of Georgia, Education Programs Specialist at the California Department of Education, and Interim Director of Contract Language Programs in the Center for International Education at UC Davis. I also taught for five years at the Monterey Institute of International Studies.

Education

University of California at Davis

Ph.D.

Curriculum and Instruction/Language and Literacy

Designated Emphasis in Second Language Acquisition

Monterey Institute of International Studies

M.A.

Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)

Mills College

B.A.

History

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Areas of Expertise

Teacher Preparation
English Language Learners & Specially Designed
Instruction
Education Reform
Professional Learning for Schools and Districts
University-School Partnerships
Social-Emotional Learning
MS-HS College Pipeline Programs
International Education

Accomplishments

Interdisciplinary Program Award

LMU Office for Research/Sponsored Projects Interdisciplinary Program Award for work as Co-PI on $1.2 M NOYCE grant to recruit more teachers into STEM fields

7 Revolutions Fellow

New York TImes/Center for Strategic & International Studies/Regents University System Georgia:

Award for Excellence in Mentoring Students

University of Georgia Schneider

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Affiliations

  • AERA: American Education Research Association
  • ASCD: Associate for Supervision and Curriculum Development
  • CCTE: California Council on Teacher Education
  • IRA: International Reading Association
  • TESOL: Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages

Languages

  • English
  • Spanish (conversational)

Courses

Education & the Public Good

FYS 1000

Education & Global Issues

LBST 4900

A Better World: Explorations of Place & Purpose

URBN 3200/EVST 3120

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Articles

In Press. Promoting Visual-Ecological Literacy in Teaching and Learning Through Nature-Based Art

Utilizing Visual Representation Educational Research

Musetti, B., Musetti, E., & Medina, D. (2022). In press. Promoting Visual-Ecological Literacy in
Teaching and Learning Through Nature-Based Art. In H. J. Bessette & C. Sutton-Brown, (Eds.). Utilizing Visual Representation Educational Research, Information Age.

Review of the book Highly Effective Teachers of Vulnerable Students: Practice Transcending Theory by M. Poplin & C. Bermudez

Teachers College Record

Musetti, B. & Rojas, A. (2021). Review of the book Highly Effective Teachers of Vulnerable
Students: Practice Transcending Theory by M. Poplin & C. Bermudez. Teachers College Record.

Ecological literacy in teacher preparation

Journal of Literacy Innovation

Musetti, B. (2019). Ecological literacy in teacher preparation: Urgency, affect & agency. Journal
of Literacy Innovation,4 (1), 16-31.

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