{"id":39770,"date":"2020-03-02T10:44:29","date_gmt":"2020-03-02T16:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/?p=39770"},"modified":"2020-03-02T10:45:37","modified_gmt":"2020-03-02T16:45:37","slug":"bemidji-state-professional-education-professors-present-on-diversity-at-national-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/2020\/03\/02\/bemidji-state-professional-education-professors-present-on-diversity-at-national-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Professional Education Professors Present on Diversity at National Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Delana Smith and Dr. Miriam White, assistant professors of professional education, presented at the Critical Questions in Education conference held Feb. 17-19 in Seattle, Washington.<\/p>\n<p>The professors, who are also members of Bemidji State&rsquo;s professional education diversity committee, titled their presentation &ldquo;Preparing Teachers for Diversity&rdquo; and discussed practice-based teaching and how to integrate conversations about equity and diversity in the classroom.<\/p>\n<p>The comittee, co-chaired by Smith and Dr. Camille Brandt, assistant professor of professional education, encourages Bemidji State&rsquo;s Department of Professional Education to incorporate diversity into curriculum.<\/p>\n<p>The conference welcomed educators from across the country to discuss questions that arise in education and attendees also learned best practices to publish peer-reviewed articles or books.<\/p>\n<h5>Contact<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Dr. Delana Smith, assistant professor of professional education; (218) 755-3772, <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">delana.smith@bemidjistate.edu<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Dr. Miriam White, assistant professor of professional education; (218) 755-3744, <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">miriam.white@bemidjistate.edu<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>Links<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/academics\/professional-education\/\">Department of Professional Education<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24884 alignright img-fluid\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/06\/MN-State-logo-100x175-e1539967051802.jpg\" alt=\"MN State logo\" width=\"78\" height=\"143\" data-bp=\"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/06\/MN-State-logo-100x175-e1539967051802.jpg\">Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ<\/b>, located amid the lakes and forests of northern Minnesota, occupies a wooded campus along the shore of Lake Bemidji. Enrolling around 5,000 students, Bemidji State offers 70 undergraduate areas of study and eight graduate degrees encompassing arts, sciences and select pre-professional programs. At Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ, we educate people to lead inspired lives. Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ&rsquo;s Shared Fundamental Values include civic engagement and leadership, international and multicultural understanding, belief in the power of liberal arts, and environmental stewardship. Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ is a Minnesota State university. For more, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fbemidjistate.edu%2F&amp;data=02%7C01%7CRachel.Munson%40bemidjistate.edu%7C4824869067974001596808d7b61703c7%7C5011c7c60ab446ab9ef4fae74a921a7f%7C0%7C0%7C637178082268442482&amp;sdata=iWmjnsLGZ%2BrRQyd3TlFT15vfN990PQDrK0MW1xILDZ0%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">bemidjistate.edu<i title=\"External link\" class=\"bsu-icon bsu-icon-external-link small ms-1\"><\/i><\/a> or find us at BemidjiState on your favorite social media networks.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p class=\"smaller\" style=\"text-align: right\">2020-B-164<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Delana Smith and Dr. Miriam White, assistant professors of professional education, presented at the Critical Questions in Education conference held Feb. 17-19 in Seattle, Washington.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39771,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3,977,872,9,681,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics","category-faculty-news","category-homepage","category-news","category-news-updates","category-top-story"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39770"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39773,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39770\/revisions\/39773"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}