Jose Lalas

Affiliation

Corona-Norco Unified School District/University of Redlands

Biography

Jose Lalas is currently a Professor of Education at the University of Redlands for 20 years and prior to that was a professor for 14 years at CSU Dominguez Hills. As founding director of the University of Redlands’ Center for Educational Justice and faculty, he has co-authored five published books: A Teaching and Learning Framework for Social Justice (2006), Instructional Adaptation as an Equity Solution for English Learners and Special Needs Students (2007), Who We Are and How We Learn: Educational Engagement and Justice for Diverse Learners (2016), Challenges Associated with Cross-cultural and At-risk Student Engagement (2017) and Minding the Marginalized Students Through Inclusion, Justice, and Hope: Daring to Transform Educational Inequities (2021). His latest peer-reviewed articles have all appeared in Journal of Leadership Equity and Research (JLER), Journal of California Association of Professors of Education Administration (CAPEA), and Journal of Critical Issues in Educational Practice, all published in 2021. Jose Lalas is currently an elected school board member of the Corona-Norco Unified School District and has served this district as member of the Board of Education for about 28 years (from 1990 to 2003; from 2008 to present). Jose Lalas completed his undergraduate at the University of the Philippines, master’s and education specialist degrees in reading/language arts at Seattle Pacific University, and Ph.D. in Reading/Literacy with specialization in dual language education at the University of Washington. He was a former junior high school classroom teacher and reading/language arts specialist in an urban school prior to becoming a university faculty.