Gevirtz School News
June 8, 2022
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Judith Green, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, has co-authored with Kris Machtmes of Ohio University the foreword to the new book Action Research in STEM and English Language Learning: An Integrated Approach for Developing Teacher... -
Michael Lloydhauser just completed his Ph.D. in the Department of Education. His research interests include equity practices of teacher education and special education teacher preparation, induction and retention. His advisor were Dr.... -
Royce Olarte has earned his MA on his way to a Ph.D. in the Department of Education with an emphasis in Mathematics Education. He is working with Dr. Sarah Roberts and broadly, his research interests are in the intersections of mathematics... -
Chandler Graves has earned his MA in Education, working with Professor Mian Wang. He is a graduate assistant for UCSB Men’s Basketball. He has a BA in Sport Marketing and Management from Indiana University, Bloomington. GGSE:...
June 6, 2022
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Daniel Rios Arroyo, a doctoral student focusing his research on social and educational justice in K-12 through the higher education pipeline, has earned his MA; his advisor is Dr. Richard Duran. Daniel earned his B.A. in Sociology with... -
The California Commission on Teacher Credentialing (CTC) has awarded a $230K teacher capacity grant to the UC Santa Barbara Gevirtz School and the Santa Barbara County Education Office (SBCEO). The UCSB Teacher Education Program (TEP) runs...
June 1, 2022
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The California Association for Bilingual Education (CABE) has selected Sonia Águila-González (TEP, MST, M.Ed., ’98) as its 2022 Teacher of the Year. Águila-González teaches at the Canalino Elementary School in the Carpinteria Unified...
May 31, 2022
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The Gevirtz School is grieving the loss of so many children, youth, and adults to gun violence. We have long advocated for national reforms that would help prevent gun violence in the United States. We have also been a leader in providing... -
Sunghee Choi (center) with her advisors Diana Arya (l) and Andrew Maul (r)
Sunghee Choi has earned her Ph.D. from the Department of Education, where she worked with Dr. Diana Arya and Dr. Andrew Maul. After being away from school for a long time, she received her M.A in education from UCSB. As a mother of a 12-...
May 27, 2022
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The recent mass shootings across the country—and there have been 214 mass shootings in the first five months of 2022—are another painful reminder of failed efforts to stop the kind of gun violence that occurred at Sandy Hook Elementary... -
Anthony Osuna is finishing his Ph.D. in the Clinical Psychology emphasis of CCSP under Dr. Ty Vernon. As an undergraduate at UCLA, he majored in Psychology and minored in Applied Developmental Psychology. He was also a McNair Research...
May 23, 2022
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The 2022 Morrison Fellows: Ryan Arellano (top left), Maggie Chan (top right), Jonathan Downey (bottom left), Hui Zhang (bottom right)
Gevirtz Graduate School of Education Ph.D. students Ryan Arellano, Meiki (Maggie) Chan, Jonathan Downey, and Hui Zhang are the 2021-2022 recipients of the Gale and Richard Morrison Fellowship. Established by Gevirtz School Professor and... -
UC Santa Barbara Gevirtz School alumnus Tyler Renshaw (CCSP, Ph.D., ’12) has co-edited—with Kenneth W. Merrell, Ruth A. Ervin, and Gretchen Gimpel Peacock—School Psychology for the 21st Century: Foundations and Principles, Third...
May 19, 2022
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Elena England of the Teacher Education Program of UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School has been chosen as the 2022 Patty Hopkins-Acos Memorial Fellow. This fellowship supports Teacher Education Program students working toward the Educational...
May 18, 2022
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Estefanía Pihen González (she/her), third year Ph.D. student at the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education, specializes in education for sustainable development (ESD), an educational framework that infuses academic curriculum with positive,...
May 17, 2022
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Tracey Velasquez was selected by the UCSB Santa Barbara Staff Assembly for the 2021-2022 UCSB Staff Citation of Excellence Award. This campus-wide recognition follows her winning the 2022 Gevirtz Graduate School of Education Staff Citation... -
Adanari Zarate, keynote speaker for the 2022 Research Symposium
Although the 2022 iteration of the Gevirtz School Research Symposium, hosted by the Graduate Student Association in Education (GSAE), is officially the third annual, in many ways it feels more like the first. That’s because the COVID-19... -
(photo courtesy Milken Family Foundation)
Michelle Iwasaki—TEP alumna, academic coach, 18-year star educator at Kalihi Kai Elementary School—went about business as usual on Monday, February 28th, socially distancing chairs and lining kids up for just another Kalihi Kai school-wide... -
Maggie Chan, a doctoral candidate who just successfully defended her dissertation in the Department of Counseling, Clinical, and School Psychology at UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School, will give the talk “How School Diversity Relates to...
May 16, 2022
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Bertin Solis, a doctoral student in the Department of Education at UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School, has been chosen to be part of the inaugural cohort of the UC-HSI Research Apprenticeship Program (UC-HSI RAP). UC-HSI RAP supports...
May 12, 2022
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Lois Capps and Jules Zimmer in 1999
The Gevirtz School was deeply saddened by the passing of Jules Zimmer, Dean of the School from 1993-2004. Dr. Zimmer passed on April 9, 2022 at the age of 91. Zimmer was a professor in UCSB’s Department of Education from 1970 until 2004....
May 11, 2022
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Miriam Thompson, Mark Bell, and Rebecca Stahl at the 15th Annual Meeting of Law School Diversity Professionals
Miriam Thompson, Assistant Teaching Professor in the Department of Counseling, Clinical, and School Psychology at UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School, co-led the workshop “To Be a Rock in Troubled Waters: Trauma-informed Teaching, Support,...
May 5, 2022
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Stephanie Arguera, a doctoral student in the Department of Education at UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School, has received a 2021-22 Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award. Teaching assistants play a vital role in enhancing the teaching mission... -
Danielle Whitaker, Continuing Lecturer and Supervisor in UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School, has received a 2021-22 Distinguished Teaching Award. The Distinguished Teaching Awards acknowledge the efforts of Senate faculty members who have...
May 3, 2022
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The 2014 Vivian Guerrier "Hope" Fellowship recipients Alyssa Breeher and Megan Phillips, Amy Caron and Vivian Guerrier’s son Steve Caron, Rachel Mello and Vivian Guerrier’s son Jon Mello, Fellowship recipient Juan Zambrano Gonzalez, Vivian Guerrier’s son Ken Guerrier, Heidi Guerrier and baby Vivian Guerrier
Generosity was the theme on UCSB Give Day 2022, the campus-wide annual digital fundraising event. Going into Give Day with a goal of 20 gifts, generous alumni, staff, faculty and supporters contributed 41 individual donations, raising $36,...