Gevirtz School News
April 25, 2017
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Dr. Andrew Maul of UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School will present two papers at the 2017 conference of the National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME) in San Antonio, TX on April 29. The papers are “Quantitative Attributes,... -
Levi Miller, a current master’s student in the Teacher Education Program at UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School, was named a Knowles Science Teaching Foundation Fellow for 2017. The KSTF Teaching Fellowships, a five-year program, supports,... -
Emerita professor Dr. Rebecca Zwick has published a new book Who Gets In? Strategies for Fair and Effective College Admissions (Harvard University Press, 2017), which examines the widely debated current state of college admissions...
April 21, 2017
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American Educational Research Association 2017 Annual Meeting April 27 – May 1, 2017, San Antonio, TX Participants from The Gevirtz School & UCSB Thursday, April 27 2:15 pm – 3:45 pm Jacob Kirksey Micaela Morgan “Literacy,... -
Eighty-six 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 50 events, panels, poster presentations, and workshops at the...
April 20, 2017
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J. Manuel Casas of UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School will be one of the featured speakers as part of the live webinar “Supporting the Mental Health of Undocumented and Immigrant Students: What Clinicians Need to Know” on Monday, April 24...
April 18, 2017
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Miya Barnett of UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School has been awarded a K01 Mentored Research Scientist Development Award from the National Institute of Health (NIH). The four-year award for $600,067 is for the project Lay Health Worker...
April 17, 2017
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Melissa Rapp, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Education at the Gevirtz School graduate students will compete in the semi-final round of the 2017 UC Santa Barbara’s Graduate Student Grad Slam on Monday, April 17, 11 am - 12 pm in...
April 14, 2017
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The Teacher Education Program at UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School will hold its Second Annual School Maker Faire on Thursday, April 20 from 4:30 – 7 pm at the Education Building on the UCSB campus in classrooms and the McEnroe Reading...
April 13, 2017
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Findings Come as More School Districts Consider Cutting or Restricting Bus Services Kindergarten students who take the school bus have fewer absent days over the school year and are less likely to be chronically absent than children who...
April 11, 2017
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The Department of Counseling, Clinical, and School Psychology at UC Santa Barbara will present Pete Flores III, Director of Student Services of Santa Maria Joint Union High School District, giving the talk “Why the Hell Are White People So... -
The Carsey-Wolf Center at UC Santa Barbara will present a screening of the film In Utero on Thursday, April 27 at 7 pm in the Pollock Theater. After the screening, director Kathleen Man Gyllenhaal and producer Stephen Gyllenhaal...
April 7, 2017
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The 2016-17 Hearst Scholars (l-r): Nathan Donnelly [not a Hearst Scholar], Katilin Swift, Courtney Vaccaro, Miranda Ayad, Kathryn Mendenhall, Kristen Sharpe [not a Hearst Scholar], Michelle Duan
The Gevirtz School at UC Santa Barbara has named its 2016-17 Hearst Scholars, five students working on their teaching credentials in mathematics and science. The 2016-17 Hearst Scholars are: Miranda Ayad Michelle Duan Kathryn Mendenhall...
April 4, 2017
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A roomful of English teachers at the Hyatt Regency Santa Clara is abuzz trying to puzzle out “Hygge.” Six credential candidates from the Teacher Education Program’s single subject credential for English track are leading the session, under... -
There might not be a more loaded two-word phrase in education than “teacher evaluations.” Everyone wants to establish what it means to be a good teacher, but establishing an objective means to that end is a bitter battle. Welcome to that...
April 3, 2017
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Harding students work on a light play project during the 2016 visit
The Harding University Partnership School, which since January 2010 has been partnered with UC Santa Barbara and in particular UCSB’s Gevirtz School, will bring the school’s fourth, fifth, and sixth grade students and teachers – and many... -
Four Gevirtz School graduate students will take part in the School’s internal Grad Slam on March 30 and five students will participate in the 2017 UC Santa Barbara’s Graduate Student Showcase Grad Slam that runs from April 10-21. For both...
March 28, 2017
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Richard Durán of UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School was a member of the committee that conducted the study and wrote the report titled Promoting the Educational Success of Children and Youth Learning English: Promising Futures for the... -
The School kicks off its new Getting Digital with the Dean series with the video "What's a Gevirtz?" -
Tine Sloan addresses the 2016-7 cohort at their first meeting in July 2016
TSA. Most people, seeing that acronym, think Transportation Security Administration. But in the world of education those three letters hold a particularly ominous meaning, as they stand for Teacher Shortage Area. The US Department of...
March 22, 2017
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Jacob Kirksey of UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School has been awarded a 2017 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) Fellowship based on his demonstrated potential to contribute to strengthening the...
March 21, 2017
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The 2016-17 CalTeach Physical Sciences and Engineering (CTPSE) Noyce Scholars (l-r): Levi Miller, Sierra Gordon, Zachary Lotze, Raymond Tsang, Thomas Riparetti-Brown
The Gevirtz School at UC Santa Barbara has named its 2016-17 CalTeach Physical Sciences and Engineering (CTPSE) Noyce Scholars, five students working on their teaching credentials in science (physics). The funding for the Noyce Scholars... -
The Special School District of St. Louis County presented UMSL Associate Professor April Regester (at left) with its Special Ambassador Award on March 8. She’s pictured here with her husband, Mark Regester (in back), and nominators Michelle Levi Perez (center) and Debra Fiasco. (Photo courtesy of April Regester)
Alumna April Regester of UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School received the 2017 Special Ambassador Award from the St. Louis Special School District (SSD) as thanks for seven years of innovative and inclusive work on behalf of students,...
March 16, 2017
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In its just published 2018 list of the top graduate school of education in the country, U.S. News & World Reports ranked UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School number 52. The graduate school ranks number 37 among public... -
Faculty and graduate students from UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz Graduate School of Education, along with their colleagues at the Writing Program, will take part in 21 events, panels, and workshops at the 2017 Conference on College...