Gevirtz School News
March 1, 2022
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Counted separately for each of their appearances, 114 faculty members and graduate students from UC Santa Barbara, the overwhelming majority from or affiliated with the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education, will take part in 51 events,...
February 28, 2022
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NASA vision of climate change: the earth in 2100
Department of Education adds Climate Sciences and Climate Change optional interdisciplinary emphasisThe Department of Education at the Gevirtz School has added the Climate Sciences and Climate Change interdisciplinary emphasis as an option for its doctoral students. The addition of this option reflects a growing need for research and...
February 25, 2022
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Lindita Djokovic, a doctoral student in the Clinical Psychology emphasis, studies mental disparities among underserved communities (i.e., ethnic minorities), identifying culturally sensitive trauma interventions, and psychosocial responses... -
Sheila Modir (Counseling, Clinical, and School Psychology, Ph.D., ’17), alumna of UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School—along with Jeff Kashou, LMFT and illustrator Monica Mikai —has written The Proudest Color (Workman Publishing,...
February 23, 2022
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Michael Furlong of UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School—along with Kelly-Ann Allen of Monash University, Australia, Dianne Vella-Brodrick of University of Melbourne, Australia, and Shannon Suldo of the University of South Florida—has co-...
February 22, 2022
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Isabel López, proud first-generation college student, daughter to immigrant parents, and doctoral student in Counseling Psychology, studies how factors such as acculturation, mental health knowledge, and barriers to care all influence help... -
Joey Graham is currently pursuing a Single Subject Teaching Credential in History and Social Sciences and a Master’s of Education in the Teacher Education Program. She graduated from UC Santa Cruz in June of 2020 with a Bachelor of Arts in...
February 16, 2022
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Emily Ferguson, a doctoral candidate in UC Santa Barbara’s Department of Counseling, Clinical & School Psychology, has been awarded a 2022 Fahs-Beck Doctoral Dissertation Grant. This grant is funded by the Fahs-Beck Fund for Research... -
Heidi Zetzer, Director of the Carol Ackerman Positive Psychology Clinic in the Department of Counseling, Clinical & School Psychology, will give the Zoom lecture “The Psychology of Flourishing” on Tuesday, February 2 from 12 – 1:30 pm...
February 14, 2022
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One week, multiple subject candidates in our Teacher Education Program are at Campus Point, gathering objects they find, drawing Venn diagrams in the sand. The next week, the same students are on the Ackerman fourth floor patio of the... -
Tim Dewar from the Gevirtz School’s Department of Education will be a member of the faculty panel “Teaching the UCSB Reads Book, Exhalation: Stories by Ted Chiang” on Wednesday, February 16 from 12 noon – 1 pm. Those interested...
February 8, 2022
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Somer Levine, a second-year doctoral student in the Department of Education, was awarded the 2022 James D. and Carol N. Dixon Fellowship. This fellowship supports MA or Ph.D. students with a focus on reading studies and/or the broader...
February 7, 2022
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Pa Vue (Education, MA,'11) currently is pursuing a Ph.D. in the Critical Studies of Race, Class, and Gender at the Graduate School of Education at UC Berkeley. Vue documents her doctorate journey in detail within her informative and women-... -
UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School has named Charlene Macharia the recipient of the 2022 Delaine A. Eastin Fellowship. This fellowship is given to a graduate student pursuing an MA or Ph.D. in the Department of Education who is the first in...
February 3, 2022
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The Gevirtz School’s Department of Education will hold the webinar “A Conversation with Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Leadership” on Tuesday, February 15 from 12 noon – 1:30 pm. Those interested can register for the event online...
February 2, 2022
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The 2021-22 Community Fellows: Betsabe Lopez Morales (top left), Yesenia Munoz (top right), Esmeralda Reyes (bottom left), and Jessica Zamora Sanchez (bottom right)
Four UC Santa Barbara Teacher Education Program students—Betsabe Lopez Morales, Yesenia Munoz, Esmeralda Reyes, and Jessica Zamora Sanchez—are the current PEAC Community Fellows. They are the third cohort of an innovative program that...
January 31, 2022
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Richard Durán of UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School has been elected to the prestigious National Academy of Education (NAEd). As an honorific society, the Academy consists of U.S. members and international associates—fewer than 300...
January 27, 2022
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The Gevirtz Graduate School of Education is excited to announce that it will hold its third annual Research Symposium on Friday, May 20th from 9 am to 2 pm, and on Saturday, May 21st from 10 am to 2 pm in the Education Building classrooms...
January 25, 2022
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Margarita Rodriguez is a first-year Ph.D. student in the Dept of Education studying with Dr. Amy Kyratzis. Rodriguez completed both her undergraduate and MA degrees at UC Irvine, where she discovered her passion for language acquisition...
January 24, 2022
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Gevirtz School alumnus John Cano has been named University-Community Links (UC Links) Associate Director. UC Links is a collaborative network of university and community partners, working closely together to sustain after-school programs...
January 11, 2022
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Daniela Sarmiento Hernandez is a doctoral student in Clinical Psychology working under Dr. Kia-Keating. She received her B.S. in Psychobiology from UCLA in 2020, where she conducted research on the interaction between sociocultural...
January 10, 2022
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Gevirtz School alumna Judith Freeman Garey has published Theater, Drama, and Reading: Transforming the Rehearsal Process into a Reading Process (NCTE 2021). In the same way that theater artists engage in a rehearsal process to...
January 4, 2022
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Gevirtz School alumnus Levi C. Maaia has been appointed by the Santa Barbara City Council to serve on the Santa Barbara Airport Commission through 2025. Maaia expects that this will be a busy time for the Commission, with the upcoming... -
Isaiah Jones is a first-generation "Blackxican" (Black and Mexican) student pursuing his doctoral degree in the Department of Counseling, Clinical, and School Psychology under Dr. Alison Cerezo. As an undergraduate, Jones participated in a...
January 3, 2022
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Tina McEnroe and Chancellor Henry Yang in the McEnroe Reading and Language Arts Clinic at a Maker Faire in 2016
For over 15 years the Gevirtz School has been chronicling the ever-growing accomplishments of Tina McEnroe, M.A., L.H.D. (h.c.). She was our featured alumna (she earned that M.A. from the GGSE Department of Education) in our very first...