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April 19, 2019
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Karen Nylund-Gibson receiving her Outstanding Mentor award with UCSB Chancellor Yang(l) and Chair of the AcademicSenate Henning Bohn(r)
Karen Nylund-Gibson, Associate Professor in the Department of Education at UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School, has received a 2018-19 Outstanding Graduate Mentor Award. Mentoring graduate students is a vital component of UCSB’s mission as a... -
Once we heard that UCSB Graduate Division announced Dr. Nicolasa Sandoval as its 2019 commencement keynote speaker, we knew it would be a good time to catch up with this esteemed alumna. Sandoval earned her Ph.D. from the Department of... -
For ten years now, yellow school busses pull onto the UC Santa Barbara campus once a year, bringing much of the Harding University Partnership School’s (HUPS) student to college for the (half-)day. That means the sixth graders who visited... -
Gevirtz School emeritus professor Russell Rumberger will be one of the two speakers for a Migration Policy Institute sponsored webinar entitled "Do All High School Graduates Count? Unintended Consequences of State Accountability Policies...
April 17, 2019
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UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School professor Dorothy Chun is editor in chief (since 2000) of Language Learning & Technology (LLT), a refereed journal for second and foreign language scholars and educators. Since 2007, LLT has...
April 16, 2019
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Harding students visiting UCSB in 2018 with the Kids in Nature program
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... -
This week we caught up with Melissa Gordon Wolf, as we sort of had to--she's headed to the Finals for the 2019 UCSB Grad Slam this Friday, April 19 from 3-4 pm in Corwin Pavilion! Melissa is a doctoral student in the Department of...
April 15, 2019
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The presenters and hosts at the previous Fast & Curious evening in November 2018 (l-r): Jill Sharkey, Sabrina Liu, Chris Ograin, Julie Bianchini, Miya Barnett, Betsy Brenner, Gordon Morrell, Hunter Gehlbach
Free public event on May 6 at 7 pm at Santa Barbara Public Library The next edition of the lecture series, “Fast & Curious: ED Talks from UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School,” will take place on Monday, May 6 at 7 pm at the Faulkner... -
Melissa Gordon Wolf presenting during the GGSE Grad Slam
Melissa Gordon Wolf, doctoral student in the Department of Education at the Gevirtz School, will compete in the semi-final round of the 2019 UC Santa Barbara’s Graduate Student Showcase Grad Slam. Wolf will compete on Monday, April 15, 11...
April 11, 2019
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Dean Milem talks with three new UC Santa Barbara Gevirtz School faculty members for the 2018-19 year: Alison Cerezo, Rachel Lambert, and Karin Lohwasser. -
The McEnroe Reading & Language Arts Clinic at UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School will offer a 4-week summer camp for students entering grades 1-7. The program, running July 8th through August 1st, takes place Mondays-Thursdays, 9:00 am-...
April 10, 2019
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Douglas Baker (’01 Ph.D., Department of Education, UC Santa Barbara) will give the inaugural Gevirtz School Alumni Lecture on Friday, April 26 at 4 pm in McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB on the UCSB campus. Baker’s talk is titled “...
April 3, 2019
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The next Dean’s Lecture on Education, Diversity and Democracy, presented by UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School, will feature a screening of the award-winning documentary The Pushouts (2018, dir. Katie Galloway) and a post film Q...
March 25, 2019
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Counted separately for each of their appearances, 113 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 56 events,... -
American Educational Research Association 2019 Annual Meeting April 5 – April 9, 2019, Toronto, Canada Participants from The Gevirtz School and UC Santa Barbara Friday, April 5 10 am – 5 pm Judith Green Noreen Balos Levi Maaia with...
March 20, 2019
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The Autism Seminar & Discussion (ASD) series – sponsored by UC Santa Barbara’s Koegel Autism Center and the Santa Barbara Public Library – will host its monthly lecture and Q&A on Tuesday, April 2nd from 6:30-8 p.m. The talk, given...
March 19, 2019
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The 2018 GGSE Grad Slam participants
Three Gevirtz School graduate students will take part in the School’s internal Grad Slam on April 2 and three students will participate in the 2019 UC Santa Barbara’s Graduate Student Showcase Grad Slam that runs from April 8-19. For both...
March 18, 2019
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Program Continues Growth through Multiple School District Partnerships and Expanded Grade Offerings The Young Writers Camp – a nonprofit program of the South Coast Writing Project at UCSB – announced plans to once again expand its reach in...
March 13, 2019
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Christopher Salem, one of the two Dorman Commons Fellows for 2018-19
Christopher Salem, a student in the Department of Education, and Kiara-Nabil Cortez, who is working on her multiple subject teaching credential in the Teacher Education Program, were awarded 2018-2019 Dorman Commons Fellowships. This fund...
March 12, 2019
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In its just published 2020 list of the top graduate school of education in the country, U.S. News & World Reports ranked UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School number 53. The graduate school ranks number 38 among public... -
Bertin Solis (l) with a student in the UCSB McNair Scholars Program, a program that supports undergraduate students historically underrepresented in higher education pursue research and Ph.D.s. Solis was part of the program as an undergrad and now serves as a graduate mentor.
This week we caught up with Bertin Solis, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Education at UC Santa Barbara with an emphasis in Culture and Development working with his advisor Professor Richard Duran. Solis earned a BA in Sociology and...
March 7, 2019
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UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz Graduate School of Education continues this year’s “Policy Goes to School” lecture series on Monday, March 18 from 4 pm - 5 pm in room 1201 Education Building. David Blazar, Assistant Professor of Education...
March 5, 2019
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This week we caught up with Gabby Gutierrez-Serrano, who is pursuing a Ph.D. in the Department of Education. Gabby received her B.A. from UC Santa Barbara in Chicana/o Studies with a minor in Education. GGSE: What...
March 4, 2019
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Michael Gottfried, Associate Professor in the Department of Education at the UC Santa Barbara Gevirtz School, has recently published Absent from School: Understanding and Addressing Student Absenteeism (Harvard Education Press... -
Jasmine McBeath, Alumni Fellow for Community Service, Professor Dorothy Chun, Gabby Gutierrez-Serrano, Philip & Helen Green Travel Fellow, and Diana Chagolla, Alumni Fellow for Teaching/Mentoring
Gevirtz Graduate School of Education doctoral students Jasmine McBeath and Diana Chagolla have received awards from the Alumni Fellowship in the Department of Education, in Excellence for Community Service and Excellence for Teaching/...