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February 15, 2019
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Events to feature Gevirtz School faculty and alumni Drafted by students, faculty and other delegates from across the UC system during a special conference at UC Santa Barbara in April 1969, El Plan was a 155-page manifesto and detailed...
February 8, 2019
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UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School held its 2018-19 Fellowship Breakfast on Wednesday, January 16 at The Club on the UCSB campus. The event was a school-wide celebration and recognition of the students who have received fellowships for the...
February 7, 2019
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The teacher shortage in California has become dire. Just checkout the RAND report “Teacher Shortages in California: Status, Sources, and Potential Solutions” (Darling-Hammond, Sutcher, Carver-Thomas), which claims: “About 90% of principals... -
To say that Department of Education doctoral student Ann Wai-Yee Kwong is a passionate advocate in the fight for inclusive education (and work places) is practically an understatement. Last year she was invited to give two talks at the...
February 6, 2019
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Delaine Eastin and Samantha Harris
Samantha Harris of UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School was named the recipient of the 2019 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... -
Mari Estrada and Carola Oliva-Olson
Mari Estrada and Carola Oliva-Olson awarded awarded a $1.1 million grant for Early Childhood StudiesWe have posted a new alumni spotlight. We had the opportunity to catch up with two of our alumnae, Mari Estrada and Carola Oliva-Olson, both Ph.D.s from the Department of Education. Both faculty at California State University Channel...
January 28, 2019
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The South Coast Writing Project (SCWriP) announces its 40th Annual Invitational Summer Institute in Composition and Critical Literacy. This premier four-week professional development event will be held July 8th - August 2nd, 2019, Monday-...
January 24, 2019
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Gevirtz Graduate School of Education alumnus Bruce Wampold (Ph.D., Education [Counseling Psychology], 1981) is the recipient of the American Psychological Foundation (APF) Gold Medal Award for Life Achievement in the Application of...
January 22, 2019
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The 2018 GGSE Grad Slam participants
UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School will hold its fifth annual in-house Grad Slam on Tuesday, April 2 from 12 pm – 1:30 pm in Education 4219. Light lunch and refreshments will be provided. This non-competitive event will allow for each...
January 17, 2019
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The UC Santa Barbara Multicultural Center (MCC) presents the documentary Tested at the MCC Theater on Wednesday, January 23 at 6 pm. This provocative film explores such issues as access to a high-quality public education,...
January 14, 2019
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Dr. Audra Skukauskaitė, Dr. Liudmila Rupšienė, and Dr. Ingrida Baranauskienė
The Gevirtz Graduate School of Education and Department of Education are hosting a talk titled “Developing Research Capacities in Lithuanian Higher Education: Teaching and learning qualitative and ethnographic research in the context of...
January 10, 2019
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The UC Santa Barbara Multicultural Center—along with Academic Initiatives, Chican@ Studies, and the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education—will host Dr. Gina A. Garcia on Thursday, January 17th at 6 pm in the MCC Theater giving the talk “...
January 8, 2019
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This week we caught up with Diana Chagolla, a doctoral student in the Department of Education specializing in the area of Culture and Development; her advisor is Dr. Laura Romo. Diana obtained her bachelors degree in Sociology from San...
January 2, 2019
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(photo by Matt Perko)
Representatives from the Gevirtz School, along with other faculty and staff from UC Santa Barbara, took part in a UC Hispanic-Serving Institutions Retreat on November 29 in San Diego. The event, hosted by the UC Office of the President,...
December 18, 2018
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This week we caught up with Alexis Deidre Spina, a doctoral student in the Department of Education with an emphasis in Math Education. She received her B.A. in Physics Education from the University of Delaware in 2007, and her M.Ed. in...
December 5, 2018
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Chris Ograin giving a talk at the November 2018 Fast & Curious lectures
The California Commission on Teacher Credentialing (CTC) has approved the UCSB Department of Mathematics to begin offering a Subject Matter Preparation Program (SMPP) in Mathematics. This program is intended for undergraduates seeking...
November 30, 2018
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Visiting scholar and Linguistics professor Jinsook Choi will be giving a talk titled “'No English, Korean Only’: Mapping Two Languages in Interactional Regimes at an English-only University in Korea” for the Applied Linguistics Fall...
November 27, 2018
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Theatre Eclectic is hosting Devising America: Spoon River and Beyond, a play written by Philip Levien, a fellow of The Gevirtz School’s South Coast Writing Project (SCWriP). Theatre Eclectic is the production arm of Urge to Act,...
November 26, 2018
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Michael Gottfried, associate professor in the Department of Education at UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School—along with co-presenter Assistant Professor Ethan Hutt from the University of Maryland—will co-lead the special workshop “Are...
November 16, 2018
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Danielle Harlow, associate professor at the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education, is the co-Principal Investigator on a multi-year grant awarded to MOXI, the Wolf Museum of Exploration and Innovation in Santa Barbara. The $170,000 grant,...
November 14, 2018
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The UC Santa Barbara Multicultural Center, with co-sponsor Gevirtz Graduate School of Education and the Department of Sociology, is hosting a talk titled “Lives Still in Limbo: UnDACAmented and Navigating Uncertain Futures” on Wednesday,...
November 13, 2018
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The Santa Barbara County Education Office will be hosting United for Literacy, a panel for education experts--including Gevirtz School of Education Professor and Vice Chair of the Department of Education Jin Sook Lee--to discuss bilingual...
November 8, 2018
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The audience at the February 2018 Fast & Curious event
The next edition of the lecture series, “Fast & Curious: ED Talks from UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School,” will take place on Thursday, November 29 at 7 pm at the Faulkner Gallery at the Santa Barbara Public Library, 40 E. Anapamu St....
October 31, 2018
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UC Santa Barbara’s Graduate Division, the Graduate Student Association, and the Library will co-sponsor Lunch & Learn featuring Jacob Kirksey, a graduate student at the Gevirtz School, on Friday, November 2 in Library Room 1312, from...
October 24, 2018
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This past spring, the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education School launched a new lecture series, “ExpandED: Broadening the Understanding of Today’s Educational Issues.” It’s similar to a number of on-going series such as the “Policy Goes...