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July 9, 2019
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Pleasant Valley School District (PVSD) is partnering with the South Coast Writing Project (SCWriP) at University of California, Santa Barbara to put on a summer writing program at Cal Lutheran University (CLU) for students entering grades...
July 1, 2019
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Karen Nylund-Gibson teaching at the 2019 Methods U
The second annual Methods U—housed in the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education—provided multi-day intensive workshops focused on specific methodological topics June 17-19 on the UC Santa Barbara campus. Over 80 graduate students, post-...
June 28, 2019
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Students show off anthologies after reading their published work to an audience of family and friends at the 2018 Rio Young Writers Camp. The 2019 camp is being held at CSUCI for the first time.
Rio School District (RSD) is partnering with the South Coast Writing Project (SCWriP) at UC Santa Barbara to put on a summer writing program at Cal State University Channel Islands (CSUCI) for English Language students entering grades 3-8...
June 27, 2019
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Gevirtz School Ph.D. candidates, Odelia Simon and Jacob Kirksey, have been awarded with Graduate Dissertation Research Awards from the Chicano Studies Institute (CSI) at UC Santa Barbara. These grants help support the dissertation expenses...
June 25, 2019
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Stephanie Arguera of UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School helped to coordinate two mural painting projects at Isla Vista’s St. George Youth Center (SGYC) in Estero Park; the murals had their ribbon cutting ceremony Friday, June 21. As a...
June 19, 2019
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UC Santa Barbara presented Jasmine McBeath Nation of the Gevirtz School with the 2019 Michael D. Young Engaged Scholar Award. The award recognizes the legacy of the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Emeritus Michael D. Young, for his... -
The South Coast Writing Project (SCWriP) invites teachers of all grade-levels who are interested in designing digital writing projects for their students to the UC Santa Barbara campus on Tuesday, June 25-Wednesday, June 26, 2019. The...
June 14, 2019
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Jasmine McBeath will graduate with a Ph.D. from the Department of Education with an emphasis in Learning, Culture, and Technology. During her time at the Gevirtz School, she has been the coordinator for the Curie-osity Project where 4-6th...
June 12, 2019
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John Cano Barrios will be graduating with a M.A. from the Department of Education. Prior to attending UC Santa Barbara, his experiences teaching at Universidad del Norte (Barranquilla) in Colombia helped shape his research interests, which... -
Danielle Harlow, professor in the Department of Education as of July 1st, has been named associate dean for academics and faculty development at UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School. Harlow succeeds Dr. Hunter Gehlbach, who is leaving UC...
June 11, 2019
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Javier Pulgar will be graduating with a Ph.D. from the Department of Education before returning to his home of Concepción, Chile this summer. Prior to attending UC Santa Barbara, he taught Physics there at Universidad del Bio Bio. Much of... -
Raphael Chinchilla, Vice President, GSA Academic Affairs, Delwin Carter, and Jennifer Selvidge, Vice President, GSA Student Affairs
Delwin Carter, a doctoral student in the Department of Education at UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School, has received an honorable mention for the 2018-19 UC Santa Barbara Graduate Student Association Excellence in Teaching Award. Carter...
June 10, 2019
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Frann Wageneck from the Santa Barbara Unified School District with Michael Gottfried at the "Chronic Absenteeism" Thinkers Workshop
Michael Gottfried, associate professor in the Department of Education at UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School, co-hosted a Thinkers Meeting themed “Chronic Absenteeism,” sponsored by Education Commission of the States, on June 3 and 4 in...
June 5, 2019
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A conversation among Dr. Victor Rios, Dr. Rebeca Mireles-Rios, Dr. Jeffrey Milem, and Dr. Charles Hale after a screening of the film "The Pushouts" on April 29, 2019 at UC Santa Barbara's MCC Theater. The screening and talk was the third...
June 4, 2019
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Heather Macias is no stranger to the Gevirtz School news page as she has accomplished much in her time in the Department of Education earning her Ph.D. Most recently we shared the news that she had won a 2018-19 Outstanding Teaching...
May 30, 2019
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Are you an early career faculty member, post-doctoral scholar, or graduate student wanting to further your knowledge on a full range of methodological topics? Maybe you’re looking to gain exposure to innovative analytic techniques and...
May 28, 2019
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Jonathan Downey, a third year doctoral student in the Education Department’s Learning, Culture and Technology program, is interested in online language instruction. He thinks about the possibilities of advancing language learning worldwide... -
“Living in the earth-deposits of our history...” begins poet Adrienne Rich’s homage to scientist and two-time Nobel Prize recipient for her work in radioactivity (one in Physics, one in Chemistry, and the first woman to ever receive a... -
In conjunction with the UCSB's Office of Student Life’s After Dark Forum series, doctoral candidate in the Department of Education, Jacob Kirksey, hosts “Immigration Enforcement and the Effects on Students and Schools,” this ...
May 24, 2019
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“The idea of a straight and narrow path is outdated,” says educator researcher Denise Pope in a recent interview. The multiple (and multiplying) facets, all-inclusivity, dynamism, and integration that is life in the 21st century...
May 22, 2019
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Isla Vista Youth Projects executive director Lori Goodman (center) with LEAP Award honorees Jon Clark (L) and Liz Barnitz (R). (Scott Gibson)
Isla Vista Youth Projects (IVYP) honored two early childhood-education advocates, alumna and Director of Instructional Services at Goleta Union School District, Dr. Liz Barnitz, and James S. Bower Foundation President, Jon Clark, with the...
May 21, 2019
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Faculty, students, and alumni have authored much of the current edition of Technology and Innovation (Vol. 20, No. 3). This issue explores the interdisciplinary topic of “Invention Education,” and seeks to remedy a lack of... -
Lilly Lew, a 5th year doctoral student with a Language and Literacy emphasis in the Department of Education, is preparing for qualifying exams this quarter. Amidst the whirlwind they inevitably bring, she set aside the moment to share with...
May 17, 2019
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Gevirtz School alumna Dr. Nicolasa Sandoval (PhD ’07) will address life-long Gauchos as the 2019 UC Santa Barbara Graduate Division Commencement Keynote speaker on Friday, June 14 at 1:00 pm on the Commencement Green. Dr. Sandoval earned...
May 14, 2019
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The Gevirtz Graduate School of Education is a proud sponsor for the Disquantified Conference: Higher Education in the Age of Metrics this week on Thursday, May 16th-Friday, May 17th in the UCSB Loma Peloma Center. For the full...