Faculty

Rick Ayers is an associate professor of education and serves as the coordinator of the San Francisco Teacher Residency. He also teaches in the Urban Education and Social Justice cohort in the School of Education at the University of San Francisco. He focuses on curriculum and pedagogy, with particular emphasis on equity, social justice, and decolonial approaches to education. His writing, in blogs as well as publications, is on community-engaged scholarship and community organizing. He is the...

Noah Borrero is a full professor in the Teacher Education Department at USF. He teaches courses in bilingual/bicultural education, teaching for diversity and social justice, critical pedagogy, and action research. Dr. Borrero's scholarship focuses on promoting equity in schools by focusing on students' and teachers' strengths, and in 2011 he received the Distinguished Research award at USF for his research in urban education. He earned his doctorate from Stanford University in 2006 and helped...

Professor Farima Pour-Khorshid is a teacher educator, community organizer, and critical scholar who was born and raised in the Bay Area. After teaching elementary grade levels for over a decade in the Hayward Unified School District, where she also completed her K-12 education, she is now an assistant professor and teacher supervisor at USF. She holds leadership roles in San Francisco’s Teachers 4 Social Justice, the Education for Liberation Network, the Abolitionist Teaching Network, and the...