Gevirtz School News
May 27, 2021
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The 2021 Gevirtz Fellows (l-r): Trinity Suriano, Janine Coutright, Haley Leifheit (not pictured: Mackenzie Griffin)
Janine Courtright, Mackenzie Griffin, Haley Leifheit, and Trinity Suriano are the 2021 Gevirtz Fellows. The Gevirtz Fellowships are awarded from an endowed fund dedicated to supporting GGSE programs, activities, and students who have... -
Lili Talkin is the recipient of the 2021 Martha Aldridge Promise Award. Talkin is pursuing a Multiple Subject Teaching Credential and a master’s degree in education in the Teacher Education Program. Martha Aldridge was a UCSB staff member... -
Hillary Voigt has been awarded the 2021 Peggy Fredericksen Memorial Fellowship. This fellowship fund was created to honor and sustain the memory of Peggy Fredericksen, who received her B.A. in Elementary Education from UCSB in 1951 and...
May 26, 2021
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The South Coast Writing Project (SCWriP) invites teachers of all grade levels who are interested in designing digital writing projects for their students this fall to a Zoom conference on Friday, June 25, 9 am – 3 pm. This year’s theme is...
May 25, 2021
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UC Santa Barbara’s Department of Counseling, Clinical, and School Psychology will hold a 2021 Virtual Commencement Ceremony on Friday, June 11, from 11 am – 12:30 pm via Zoom. This webinar will be one way for the department to celebrate...
May 24, 2021
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The 2021 John Dewey Fellows: Ruqayyah (Rue) Mansour (top) and Jazzmyn Ward (bottom)
Ruqayyah (Rue) Mansour and Jazzmyn Ward of UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School have been named the Recipients of the 2021 John Dewey Fellowship. Generously supported by donors including the Cushman Family Foundation, this fellowship... -
Emily Ferguson is the recipient of the 2021 Thomas G. Haring Memorial Fellowship. Ferguson is a doctoral student in the clinical psychology emphasis of the Department of Counseling, Clinical, and School Psychology. Her research interests...
May 19, 2021
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Carolyn Sattin-Bajaj of UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School has authored one of the chapters in the new book Parenting in the Pandemic: The Collision of School, Work, and Life at Home (Information Age Publishing 2021), edited by...
May 18, 2021
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The 2020-21 Alumni Fellows (clockwise starting at top left): Alexis Spina, Krista Lucas, Kendall Stevens, Jose Tapia, and Ruqayyah Mansour
Ruqayyah Mansour was named the recipient of the 2021 Alumni Fellowship in Education–Award for Excellence in Community Service; Krista Lucas was named the recipient of the 2021 Alumni Fellowship in Education–Award for Excellence in Research...
May 17, 2021
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UC Santa Barbara Gevirtz School alumna Jessica Violetti (M.Ed. 2013) won the 2021 Santa Barbara County SELPA Star award for Elementary Special Education. The SELPA Star is the highest honor that a teacher can receive from the organization... -
Jon Goodwin of UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School has received a 2021 40 Under 40 Award from Dillard University. The award is intended to honor and acknowledge the accomplishments of Dillard University’s young professional alumni who...
May 13, 2021
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Samantha Cole and Nadia Ratkowski of the Teacher Education Program, a Villa Award-nominated office
UC Santa Barbara Gevirtz School Associate Professor Karen Nylund-Gibson and Assistant Professor Sarah Roberts have been nominated for 2021 Margaret T. Getman Service to Students Awards. In addition, the Teacher Education Program has been... -
Free Zoom event on May 26 at 5:30 pm The next edition of the lecture series, “Fast & Curious: ED Talks from UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School,” will take place virtually on Wednesday, May 26 at 5:30 pm. The Zoom event, which is free...
May 12, 2021
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Danielle Harlow from UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School will feature the work of three of her National Science Foundation (NSF) grants as part of the 2021 STEM for All Video Showcase. The 2021 NSF STEM for All Video Showcase: Learning from...
May 11, 2021
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A screencap of the video CCSP put together about being a grad student in Santa Barbara
This COVID year led to numerous questions about what the application, selection, and matriculation process would be for Gevirtz School graduate students hoping to start their programs in 2021. Would people even want to apply to a graduate... -
Dr. Miriam Thompson, Director of the Mind and Behavior Assessment Clinic
Let’s face it, the word “assessment” can feel a bit chilling. Who doesn’t want to be assessed as doing well? But, of course, assessment isn’t just a good-bad, yes-no thing. And getting beyond such binary thinking is at the heart of the... -
Miranda Vasquez didn’t think she’d ever step into a K-12 classroom again after graduating high school. “I’d never really felt like school was a place for where I fit in,” she explains, “I experienced racism, sexism, and homophobia from... -
The second annual GGSE Research Symposium, which takes place virtually this Friday and Saturday (May 14 - 15) from 9 am to 1 pm, will showcase current student and faculty research and highlight opportunities for collaboration across...
May 10, 2021
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The Gevirtz School (GGSE) is partnering with UC Santa Barbara’s Early Academic Outreach Program (EAOP) Office to offer a session in their “The Future Me Series.” These sessions introduce high schoolers to various careers and the many paths... -
Jordan Smith is a student from Long Beach, California who is pursuing a Master’s in Education and Single Subject Teaching Credential in History in TEP. A recent 2020 graduate from UCSB with a B.A. in History and Minor in Education, Jordan...
May 4, 2021
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UC Santa Barbara’s Department of Education and the Center for Black Studies Research will present Dr. Joaquin Noguera giving the virtual talk “Race, Culture, Education and the Limits and Possibilities of Schooling,” on Thursday, May 20 at... -
Alumna April Regester (Education, Ph.D.,’09, ESC and M.Ed.) and her co-principal investigators at the University of Missouri-Saint Louis (UMSL) recently received $2.1 million in federal funding from a five-year Department of Education...
May 3, 2021
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Michael Furlong, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of the Gevirtz School at UC Santa Barbara – along with Kelly-Ann Allen of Monash University, Australia – has guest edited the most recent issue of Australian Journal of Psychology... -
Richard and Gale Morrison with Melissa Janson
Melissa Janson has been named the recipient of the Department of Counseling, Clinical, and School Psychology (CCSP) Alumni Fellowship, the James Hong Memorial Fellowship, and the Gale and Richard Morrison Fellowship. Generously funded by... -
The 2020-21 Dorman Commons Fellows (l-r): Destiny Hoerberg, Donald McNish, and Darby McIllroy
Destiny Hoerberg, Darby C. McIllroy, and Donald McNish were awarded 2020-2021 Dorman Commons Fellowships. This fund was established by Dorman L. Commons, who spent eight years on the State Board of Education and three years as the Chairman...