Colette L. Ingraham, Ph.D.
Phone Number: (619) 594-6605
Office: North Ed., Rm. 189
E-mail: ingraham@mail.sdsu.edu
Fax Number: (619) 594-7025
I specialize in multicultural and cross-cultural school consultation, systemic school interventions, and multicultural issues. I am interested in ways to promote the learning and development of all students, through prevention, intervention and consultation. I identify professionally as an educator and as a psychologist, thus my work emphasizes the psychological aspects of education, such as empowerment, motivation, and the multifaceted nature of human development. My research interests include: 1) consultation in culturally diverse schools, 2) systems change and comprehensive service delivery, and 3) developing professional leaders.
My faculty affiliation at SDSU is within the School Psychology Program. In addition, I am on the faculty for the Doctoral Program in Education and School Counseling Program. I teach graduate courses in school consultation, systems assessment and intervention, advanced seminar in school psychology, program development and evaluation, and supervision of trainees in school practica and internships. I am active within professional organizations, having served as Vice President of Membership for the Division of School Psychology of the American Psychological Association, and member of various task forces. I have served as member of the Editorial Advisory Boards for several school psychology journals, consultant to schools, and I hold national certification in both school psychology and counseling.
Three passionate, core values about people and the role of education create the context for my work. I believe: 1) there is potential for schools to have a powerful influence in shaping the future and in providing educational equity and opportunity for all children and youth; 2) human development, in all its multifaceted aspects (e.g., cognitive, emotional, social, physical, moral), is the aim of education; and 3) all children deserve access and opportunity to a quality education that builds upon and values their individual strengths, cultures, gifts and uniquenesses, and, at the same time, opens doors of opportunity and new worlds of knowledge and understanding. Education can support opportunity, power, affirmation, inspiration, and compassion. It can serve to build bridges of understanding where there was ignorance, bias, and hatred. Such is education at its best, and with this vision, we see there is much to do in the schools to fulfill the promise of what education can be. My research, teaching, consultation, and service are rooted in these values.
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