The Urban Teacher Project (UTP) is a cohort of residents from MSU’s larger teacher education program who have a passion for social justice and antiracism. UTP students are placed in classrooms throughout Newark and Orange with carefully selected mentor teachers. UTP seminars support all areas of teacher development with a special focus on social and racial justice. The small cohort is provided support and access to many special events and high-quality antiracist critical professional development.
The Critical Urban Education (CUE) is a bi-annual speaker series that hosts national scholars at MSU, providing a forum to develop attendees’ racial and political analysis through a series of lectures and workshops focused on social and cultural issues influencing urban schools and communities. CUE is free and open to the public and the audience includes Montclair State University students and faculty, as well as local young people, educators, and community members.