School of Education

Phone: (626) 815-6000, Ext. 5529
Fax: (626) 815-5416
Email: iyeesakamoto@apu.edu

Ivy Yee-Sakamoto, Ph.D., is a faculty member in the teacher education department. Her primary interests are the preparation of teachers for linguistically and culturally diverse student populations, and social studies education. Her research focuses on teacher preparation, and in particular on the attitudes and perspectives of preservice teachers toward diversity. Her latest collaborative research explored the effect of partnerships and service learning on preservice teachers’ development of positive attitudes toward cultural pluralism, as well as their motivation to acquire best practices to serve diverse student populations. She is the Cross-Cultural, Language and Academic Development (C.L.A.D.) Certificate program coordinator and the director of the Ryan Multiple-Subject Credential Program. In addition, she serves as a member of the Graduate Studies Council, the Curriculum Review Committee, the APU School-University Partnership Council, and the University Diversity Training Team. Yee-Sakamoto has consulted for local schools and coached and trained schools in the process of reform as an associate of the Center for Accelerated Schools at California State University, Los Angeles.

Ph.D. - Curriculum and the Study of Schooling, University of California, Los Angeles
M.A. - Special Education, University of San Francisco
Clear California Multiple Subject Teaching Credential (Life), University of California Berkeley
B.A. – Psychology, University of California Berkeley

Publications
Flores, P. and Yee-Sakamoto, I. (April 2004) Multicultural Learning in Service Learning. To be presented at the annual meeting of the American Education Research Association. San Diego, California

Yee-Sakamoto, I, Orosco, C., and O’Sullivan, S. (March 2004) People in Exile: Refugees, Slaves, and Internees. To be presented at the annual conference for the California Council for the Social Studies, Burbank, California.

Flores, P. and Yee-Sakamoto, I. (Nov. 2003) The Effects of Service Learning on Preservice Teachers: Preparing for Diverse Student Populations. Presented at the International Conference on Civic Education, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Yee-Sakamoto, I., and Orosco, C. (March, 2002) Beatniks and Poetry: Heritage and Legacy Paper presented at the annual conference for the California Council for the Social Studies, Riverside, California.

Domnwachukwu, C. and Yee-Sakamoto, I. (Aug. 2002) A Learner-Centered Collaborative Initiative Toward Student Achievement: A case study of two schools. Paper presented at the summer meeting of the Association of Teacher Educators, Williamsburg, Virginia.

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