Edward Podsiadlik
College of Education | Curriculum and Instruction
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Edward Podsiadlik
Edward Podsiadlik is a Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, College of Education, Department of Curriculum and Instruction. He is the author of Anecdotes and Afterthoughts: Literature as a Teacher’s Curriculum (2013) and Grieving as a Teacher’s Curriculum: Relevant Prose and Postscripts (2020) and is a 2018 Silver Circle Teaching Award recipient. Podsiadlik teaches in the Urban Elementary Teacher Education Program, and is Program Coordinator (and Director of Graduate Studies) for the Instructional Leadership-Educational Studies Master’s program, and the Critical Pedagogies and Urban Teacher Education (formerly Curriculum Studies) Ph.D. program. His research focus includes examining the following: To what extent are we being and becoming the educators (and individuals) we’ve aspired to be? In what ways does our public work align to our private values and beliefs? How do we as educators prioritize the lived experiences of our students, their families, and their communities?
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Edward Podsiadlik
Licensed to Transform: An Alphabet of Student Teaching Heading link
Licensed to Transform: An Alphabet of Student Teaching
Dio Press Incorporated
A recent cohort of teacher candidates created this student teaching alphabet highlighting their personal, philosophical, and ethical license to transform the lives of others.