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June 2, 2020
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Over the past weeks, we have witnessed the senseless and violent deaths of Ahmaud Arbery, who was shot and killed by white supremacists who felt entitled to confront him about being in the neighborhood in Glynn County, Georgia where he was... -
Education and Applied Psychology in a Time of COVID-19 Kelp washes up on our gritty beach shore, while the waves splash against the bluffside rocks . . . . At the bottom is a structure like a root called a ‘holdfast.’ Kelp attaches to...
June 1, 2020
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Jim Gribble will be graduating with a master’s degree from the Department of Education. He is pursuing a Ph.D. with an emphasis in technology at the elementary school level. He will continue as the STEAM coordinator at the Knox School of...
May 27, 2020
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Judith Green, a Distinguished Professor Emeritus in UC Santa Barbara’s Department of Education, will present the live stream seminar “Interactional Ethnography as a logic-of-inquiry: Tracing the levels of analytic scale to understand what...
May 22, 2020
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Danielle Harlow presenting at the November 2017 Fast & Curious talks
UC Santa Barbara Gevirtz School Professor Danielle Harlow and alumni Miles Ashlock and Don Lubach been nominated for 2020 Margaret T. Getman Service to Students Awards. Named in honor of the former UCSB Dean of Student Residents, Margaret...
May 20, 2020
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Series of three webinars begins May 27 with presentation “School @ home: the basics” For decades UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz Graduate School of Education has been a leader in training teachers. Now, its world-class faculty will repurpose...
May 19, 2020
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Deadline for registration for the conference is May 22 “Building Interdisciplinary Community,” the 2020 digital research symposium presented by UC Santa Barbara’s The Gevirtz School, has posted its full program for Friday, May 29 from 9 am...
May 18, 2020
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CalTeachTogether—an official club formed by the students in the CalTeach program at UC Santa Barbara—will present its final spring 2020 biweekly Zoom meeting—“Teaching During COIVD-19: Special Talk by Elementary, HS Calculus, and HS...
May 14, 2020
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Education and Applied Psychology in a Time of COVID-19 Over my lifetime, I have experienced and witnessed the good, the bad, and the ugly of schooling as both a student or an educator. My earliest memories as a student were, unfortunately... -
Jules Zimmer and Marilyn Gevirtz at the Education Building dedication in November 2009 (photo by Nell Campbell)
Anonymous gift establishes Jules Zimmer Dean’s Chair in UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz Graduate School of Education After serving on the faculty for more than 30 years, and spending half that as dean of the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education...
May 11, 2020
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Education and Applied Psychology in a Time of COVID-19 I’ve regained an appreciation for chalk. When I was little, I used to spend hours outside, drawing my own house with chalk and using the dividing lines in the cement to create walls...
May 8, 2020
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Christopher Ozuna, a student in UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School, was awarded a 2020-21 Fulbright Fellowship for research in Denmark. During his ten-month grant, Ozuna will pursue his project, “Understanding Features of Teacher... -
There's a reason the theme song for Golden Girls was "Thank You for Being a Friend"
Education and Applied Psychology in a Time of COVID-19 This past week, we introduced a task in ED 150 for students to interview a teacher. Students could choose any topic(s) from class they found interesting to include in the interview,...
May 6, 2020
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Education and Applied Psychology in a Time of COVID-19 In my last entry, I discussed metaphorical grieving, but over the last two weeks I’ve been grappling with how to teach through actual grief, my own and my students’. I already use a...
May 5, 2020
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Jin Sook Lee, Professor in the Department of Education at UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School, has received a 2019-20 Outstanding Graduate Mentor Award. Mentoring graduate students is a vital component of UCSB’s mission as a research...
May 4, 2020
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Education and Applied Psychology in a Time of COVID-19 My head has been a flurry this past week. Headlines detailing the executive order to keep meat packing sites open, the disproportionate effects of COVID-19 on black and brown...
May 1, 2020
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Education and Applied Psychology in a Time of COVID-19 I have been a long-distance runner since my cross country days of high school. I have a favorite three-mile neighbor loop that I run nearly every day. The first leg of this route is a... -
Richard Morrison, Jacqueline Kemp, and Gale Morrison at the Fellowship Breakfast in January 2020
Gevirtz Graduate School of Education doctoral student Jacqueline Kemp is the 2019-2020 recipient of the Gale and Richard Morrison Fellowship. This fellowship is awarded from an endowed fund to recruit top applicants to the Gevirtz School...
April 30, 2020
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Education and Applied Psychology in a Time of COVID-19 (Week of April 20th) At one of my first PD experiences as a middle school teacher, I recall someone mentioning the analogy that, before you can get to work as a teacher, you need to "...
April 27, 2020
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Education and Applied Psychology in a Time of COVID-19 I imagine we have all read Laura Joffe Numeroff's seminal text, If You Give a Mouse a Cookie. If not, it is a children's book that essentially teaches the lesson "if you give...
April 26, 2020
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Department of Education's Mary Franitza (r) with her sister Robin working on their dance moves
Education and Applied Psychology in a Time of COVID-19 Collaborative efforts to combat boredom or find new ways of passing time together has been a challenge in its own right. Last week it was an effort to make a stop-go LEGO animation...
April 24, 2020
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Education and Applied Psychology in a Time of COVID-19 Do you feel that time is speeding up or slowing down? This is what one undergraduate student asked this week during our live session meeting. After a moment of silent...
April 23, 2020
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Education and Applied Psychology in a Time of COVID-19 Week 5 of quarantine. I have a moment to come up for air, and reflect on what has transpired in the past month. Personally, I am feeling a little more secure in my family’s daily...
April 22, 2020
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Coronavirus macramé
Education and Applied Psychology in a Time of COVID-19 My usual quarterly routine looks a bit different than most of my fellow grad students, even before “the ’Rona.” I live about an hour from campus, a choice almost five years ago when I... -
UC Santa Barbara’s Community Based Literacies (CBL) Programs, headed up by Department of Education Assistant Professor Diana Arya, has released its first newsletter, in English and Spanish, and has announced all its work has gone virtual...