Devery Rodgers
Dr. Devery J. Rodgers is an equity leader, serving as an Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership at California State University, °µÍøÊÓƵ. Before joining higher education, Dr. Rodgers enjoyed an illustrious career of more than 20 years as a central office administrator, school site leader, and teacher in California’s PK12 public schools. As a doctoral, master’s, and baccalaureate alumna of the University of Southern California, CSU Dominguez Hills, and the University of California-Los Angeles, respectively, she’s spent the bulk of her career leading school districts’ education technology initiatives across a variety of sociocultural contexts. These professional and personal experiences have shaped Dr. Rodgers’ scholarly interests and commitment to creating/sustaining equity pathways for marginalized students through organizational leadership.
Doctor of Education: Education Leadership
University of Southern California
Dissertation:
Master of Arts: Education - Curriculum & Instruction
California State University, Dominguez Hills
Bachelor of Arts: English and African-American Studies
University of California, Los Angeles
- #TechEquity
- Leadership in Education Technology
- Education Technology in PK12
Please see results of research in the publications and presentations below.
Glass, S., Rodgers, D.J. & Slater, C. (2024). Generativity and Nigrescence: The identity of a Black school principal pursuing social justice. Educational Management Administration and Leadership,
Caballeros, J. & Rodgers, D.J. (2024, March 11). Post-pandemic edtech preparedness: A comparative analysis of public school districts’ education technology plans, EdCal, Association of California School Administrators, .
Rodgers, B. & Rodgers, D.J. (2023, April). Educating Black boys: The need for Black male mentorship. Kappan, 104(7),
Rodgers, D. (2022, May/June). Taking social media by storm: Principals are using online platforms in innovative new ways to connect with the school community. Principal. National Association of Elementary School Principals, 28-32.
Rodgers, D. & Brito, A. (2022). Online and hybrid student engagement: A duoethnography with edtech. In Perez, A & Orakci, S. (Eds.), Pedagogy, Presence, and Motivation in Online Education, 96-122. IGI Global.
Rodgers, D. (2021, December 7). How to manage an engaging virtual STEM program. Edutopia. George Lucas Educational Foundation.
Rodgers, D. (2021). An ethnographic case study of pandemic pedagogy: K12 teachers’ choices for student learning. In A. Bozkurt (Ed.), Handbook of Research on Emerging Pedagogies for the Future of Education, 145-168. Pennsylvania: IGI Global.
Rodgers, D. (2020, September 11). Using technology to connect with parents. Edutopia, George Lucas Educational Foundation.
Rodgers, D.J. & Parker, D. (2024, June 25). Racial relevancy and scratch coding: Providing student opportunity for DEI connections [Paper presentation], (ISTE), Denver, CO.
Rodgers, D.J., (2024, Apr 12). Coded bias: The impact of an awareness intervention on coders and computer science educators [Paper presentation], (AERA), Philadelphia, PN.
Glass, S., Rodgers, D. & Slater, C. (2022, Nov 19). Generativity, equity, social justice, and the school principal [Paper presentation], University Council of Education Administrators, Seattle, WA, 139.
Rodgers, D. & Brito, A. (2022, June 26). Digital leadership for online and hybrid student engagement: A duoethnography with EdTech [Paper Presentation], International Society for Technology in Education, New Orleans, LA.
Rodgers, D. (2022, April 26). STEMgagement with computer science: A K12 pandemic case study [Paper presentation], American Education Research Association, San Diego, CA.
Rodgers, D.J. (2023, October 19). Decolonizing STEM+C: Informal community organizations impacting the computer science pipeline with Black female talent [Poster presentation], Association for Educational Communications & Technology (AECT) Convention, Orlando, FL, USA.
Perez, H., Grothe, S., Nguyen, J., Allaf, R., Pringle, J., Mohan, N., Rodgers, D. & Montegary, M. (2023, September 22). Regulating image diversity with machine learning [Poster presentation], °µÍøÊÓƵCollege of Natural Sciences and Mathematics Symposium.
Rodgers, D. (2022, Nov 17-19). The confluence of education technology leadership: EdTech/IT leadership dynamics and its effects on districtwide instructional technology implementation [Poster presentation], University Council of Education Administrators, Seattle, WA, 32.
Dr. Rodgers and her graduate research assistant, Melanie Gerner, presented "Decolonizing STEM+C: Informal Community Organizations Impacting the Computer Science Pipeline with Black Female Talent" at Cal State °µÍøÊÓƵ's President's Commission on the Status of Women. Melanie subsequently went on to win 2nd place at the university-wide Grad SLAM.
Another of Dr. Rodgers' graduate research assistants, Jaclyn Caballero, presented "Post-pandemic edtech preparedness: A comparative analysis of public school districts’ education technology plans" at Cal State °µÍøÊÓƵ's Research Competition. Jaclyn also subsequently went on to win 2nd place at the university-wide Grad SLAM.
Dr. Rodgers led a data science team in exploring Image Diversity on Websites. This team explored how machine learning might create algorithmic fairness. They presented their findings in at the Math/Science Symposium.
Charter faculty co-advisor of the Black/Pan-African Graduate Student Association
Recipient of the President's/Provost's EDI grant to explore the experiences of the College of Education's Black graduate students
