Devery Rodgers
Dr. Devery J. Rodgers is an equity leader, serving as an Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership at California State University, Long Beach. 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], ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉú College 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 Long Beach'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 Long Beach'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
