Gevirtz School News
October 4, 2022
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The National Center for School Mental Health (NCSMH) has selected Dr. Michael Furlong, Distinguished Professor Emeritus at UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School, as the recipient of the 2022 School Mental Health Research Award. This award is... -
Miriam Thompson and Carolyn Sattin-Bajaj, the Gevirtz School's new graduate diversity officers
This fall the Department of Counseling, Clinical, and School Psychology (CCSP) appointed Assistant Teaching Professor Miriam Thompson and the Department of Education appointed Associate Professor Carolyn Sattin-Bajaj as graduate diversity...
October 3, 2022
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GGSE: What made you want to be a teacher, and why an MST credential? Olivia Nguyen: I want to be the teacher I always needed. I grew up in a predominantly white Massachusetts suburb where there was very...
September 27, 2022
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The 2022-23 officers of the Graduate Students Association in Education (GSAE): (l-r) Dee Dee Hong, Jing Su, Liliana Garcia, Caitlin Ng
The Graduate Students Association in Education (GSAE) – the official students’ association that exists to promote and represent the interests of students in the Gevirtz School’s Department of Education to the UC Santa Barbara campus... -
GGSE: What made you want to be a teacher, and why an SST credential? Jillian Danninger: I discovered my interest in teaching when I interned at a small aquarium. Each day I would do exhibit presentations...
September 21, 2022
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Alumna Kathy Fox of UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School has co-edited, with Laura Szech, the Handbook of Research on Family Literacy Practices and Home-School Connections (IGI Global 2022). In addition, Fox, professor in the...
September 19, 2022
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GGSE: What made you want to be a teacher, and why an ESC credential? Rota: I decided I wanted to be a teacher when I was tutoring a student who was really frustrated with a task. After helping him figure... -
PI Alison Cerezo and staff members Paris DaSilva and Eric Cortez for the California Department of Public Health’s LBTQ Health Equity Initiative
Alison Cerezo of UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School is the PI and Lead Strategy Evaluator for the California Department of Public Health’s (CDPH) LBTQ Health Equity Initiative. This directive prioritizes LBTQ+ women and nonbinary...
September 12, 2022
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GGSE: What made you want to be a teacher? Aldrich: I want to be a teacher because I want to ensure that students are being holistically supported. I believe that teaching is one of the most direct ways to...
September 8, 2022
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Alumna April Regester of UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School has received the 2022 Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Service from the University of Missouri-St. Louis (UMSL). This Award recognizes and honors outstanding academic,...
September 7, 2022
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Elsy Mora and Kendall Stevens, 2022 SBCEO Distinguished New Educators
UC Santa Barbara’s Teacher Education Program alumni Elsy Mora and Kendall Stevens will be two of the honorees at the ninth annual Salute to Teachers gala in November at the Music Academy of the West. Mora and Stevens have been named 2022...
September 6, 2022
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Alexandria Muller (she/they) is a fourth year Ph.D. candidate studying STEM Education under Dr. Danielle Harlow. She received her B.S. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the University of Arizona prior to coming to UCSB to earn her M...
September 2, 2022
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Daniela Sarmiento of UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School won the National Partnership to End Interpersonal Violence Across the Lifespan (NPEIV) 2022 Founders Award for her research “Ethno-racial Trauma and Mindfulness Approaches for Latinx...
September 1, 2022
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Alumnus Theodore Burnes of UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School has co-edited—with Dr. Michelle D. Vaughan, Associate Professor, School of Professional Psychology, Wright State University—the recently published The Handbook of Consensual... -
Alumni Alma Boutin-Martinez and Lorna Gonzalez of UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School co-authored—with Dr. Joseph Hoey, Vice Provost for Academic Services at National University—the chapter “Evaluation and Assessment Models in Online...
August 31, 2022
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Professor Shane Jimerson of UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School was presented the Senior Scientist in School Psychology Award from Division 16 of the American Psychological Association (APA) at the APA’s 2022 annual convention. Each year the...
August 30, 2022
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Chris Chien is a Teacher Education Program candidate for the 2022-23 school year. He received his B.A. in Geography from UC Santa Barbara in 2017 and began a career in cartography upon graduation. After four years in the mapping industry,...
August 29, 2022
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Alumnus Levi Maaia of UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School directed Pathways to Invention, the winner of the best documentary feature award at the August 2022 Los Angeles Independent Film Festival. Maaia also won the award for best...
August 26, 2022
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Ye Yuan of UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School was awarded one of the School’s 2022 Graduate Student Research Mini Grants. Yuan’s research examined how and why teachers adopt translanguaging pedagogy—purposefully using both languages in...
August 22, 2022
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Alexia Vance grew up locally in Goleta before matriculating to the University of San Diego, where she received her BA in political science with accompanying minors in history and changemaking. As a changemaker, Vance believes that society... -
A moment from the 2021 Department of Education orientation
The Department of Education at UC Santa Barbara's Gevirtz School will kick off the new academic year with its 2022 New Student Orientation on Wednesday, September 21 from 3-5:30 pm in ED 1217. All newly admitted students are encouraged to... -
A moment at the 2021 CCSP orientation
The Department of Counseling, Clinical and School Psychology at UC Santa Barbara's Gevirtz School will kick off the new academic year with its 2022 New Student Orientation on Monday, September 19 from 9 am - 1 pm in ED 2017. All newly...
August 17, 2022
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The Society for the Advancement of Psychotherapy (Division 29 of the American Psychological Association) presents a Gab with the Greats virtual event designed for early career psychologists and students in the field of psychology on Friday...
August 15, 2022
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GGSE: What made you want to be a teacher (and please be specific as to the credential you are working on, too)? Adri Trujillo: I have been a part of Grupo de Danza Folklorico Quetzalcoatl since I was 6...
August 11, 2022
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Yessica Green Rosas earns The Donald R. Atkinson Diversity Enhancement Award for 2022-23. The award honors Professor Emeritus Donald R. Atkinson for his 30 years of service to the profession of counseling psychology. During his tenure,...