Gevirtz School News
November 18, 2022
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Alumna Jacqueline Reid of UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School was appointed as a 2nd District Commissioner for the County of Santa Barbara’s Commission for Women. The Santa Barbara County Commission for Women is dedicated to ensuring the...
November 16, 2022
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Brent Pillsbury, alumnus of the Gevirtz School’s Teacher Education Program, published his first book this year: Screens Down: An Unapologetic Vision of Good Teaching When Technology is a Passenger, Not the Driver. The essay... -
GGSE: What past experiences made you want to become a school psychologist? Maddie Hayden: I grew up in a METCO receiving school district in the Greater Boston area. METCO is the nation’s largest voluntary...
November 8, 2022
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The Department of Counseling, Clinical, and School Psychology (CCSP) at the UC Santa Barbara Gevirtz School will be holding a Research Festival on Monday, November 14 from 8:40 am to 12:05 pm at Mosher Alumni House. The festival is free...
November 7, 2022
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GGSE: You have five years of middle school science teaching experience. What made you want to go back to school and get a Ph.D. in the Department of Education? Kaylee Laub: I decided to go back to school...
November 4, 2022
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The lecture series, “Fast & Curious: ED Talks from UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School,” returns for its first in-person event since Covid, on Wednesday, January 25, 2023 at 7 pm in the Faulkner Gallery of the Santa Barbara Public... -
For Isaiah Jay Jones, a first generation doctoral student in the Department of Counseling, Clinical, and School Psychology (CCSP), joining the team working on the California Department of Public Health’s (CDPH) LBTQ Health Equity... -
Capacity building for education scholars includes a wide range of opportunities to stay up to date on research skills. One such way is to keep up on the ever growing statistical approaches through workshops that tend to follow similar...
November 3, 2022
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Antar Tichavakunda showing his excitement about his new job at UCSB
The pandemic-induced shutdown in March 2020 could have been cataclysmic for academia, as so much of teaching and learning is centered upon being present. (Let’s not even consider the difficulties of doing most research at a distance.) And...
November 2, 2022
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Alumna Erin Beerer of UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School was recognized as Family Educator of the Year, K-8, by the Autism Society of Ventura County at the 2022 Annual Awesome in Autism Awards. Autism Society Ventura County seeks to improve...
November 1, 2022
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Kaela Farrise, doctoral student in the Department of Counseling, Clinical and School Psychology, has been named a 2022 Racial Justice Fellow. Each year the Graduate Division recognizes scholars whose research and teaching interests,... -
“I always wanted to be a teacher,” Shemiyah Holland, new doctoral student in the Department of Counseling, Clinical and School Psychology, explains. After earning her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology at Claflin University, she worked as a... -
GGSE: What made you want to become a professor and a licensed school psychologist? Pauline Serrano: My path to school psychology began early in high school when I sought out a job as a private tutor to...
October 27, 2022
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Alumna Emily Solari of UC Santa Barbara's Gevirtz School was a major contributor, in collaboration with the University of Virginia (UVA) School of Law and Virginia State Delegate Carrie Coyner, to the development and recent passage of the...
October 25, 2022
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The National Association of School Psychologists (NASP) has selected Dr. Deborah Umansky as a recipient of the 2022 NASP Model School Psychology Intern Supervisor award. Umansky is the lead clinical supervisor of the Santa Barbara...
October 24, 2022
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GGSE: What made you want to be a teacher, and why an MST credential? Genezaret Cardoso: Before I entered the Teacher Education Program, I was a teacher for several years at a therapeutic preschool. As a...
October 21, 2022
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Verónica Ramos with Rotary Club member Dan Herlinger, Adelante Principal Javier Bolívar, and Rotary Club member Michael Baker
The Rotary Club of Santa Barbara recognized UC Santa Barbara’s Teacher Education Program alumna Verónica Ramos earlier this month for her outstanding service and dedication as a sixth-grade, Spanish Dual-Immersion teacher at Adelante...
October 18, 2022
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Carolyn Sattin-Bajaj, Associate Professor at UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School, is a co-author—with Jacob Kirksey, Assistant Professor at Texas Tech University and Gevirtz School alumnus—of the Policy Analysis for California Education (... -
The UCLA National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST), the UCLA School of Education and Information Studies, and the Gevirtz School of Education, UC Santa Barbara, are hosting a celebratory event... -
Readers for October 20 event: Shirley Lim (top), Chryss Yost (l) and George Yatchisin (r)
Dr. Chryss Yost and George Yatchisin, staff members at the Gevirtz School, will be featured readers as part of “Writers & Wordsmiths of Santa Barbara: An Open Mic Event with Dr. Shirley Geok-lin Lim” on Thursday, October 20 at 4 pm in... -
GGSE: What made you want to be a teacher, and why an MST credential? Ryann McCollum: I’ve always had a passion for community and known that whatever I end up doing as my life’s work will remain centered...
October 13, 2022
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The Department of Education at UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School will hold a virtual Open House for prospective students on Thursday, October 27 from 10-11 am on Zoom. The event will also feature a Q&A. Participants will learn about...
October 12, 2022
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Dr. Maryam Kia-Keating of UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School has won the 2022 Distinguished Contributions to Psychological Scholarship Award from the American Arab, Middle Eastern, North African Psychological Association (AMENA-Psy). The...
October 10, 2022
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GGSE: What made you want to be a teacher? Cesar Plascencia Zuniga: I am becoming a teacher to be able to give back to my community in the best way I know how. I find satisfaction in teaching at a public...
October 6, 2022
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Dr. Eupha Jeanne Daramola has been named a UC Santa Barbara Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow for 2022-23. Daramola will work in the Gevirtz School’s Department of Education under the mentorship of Dr. Carolyn Sattin-Bajaj. The Chancellor’s...