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September 17, 2019
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The Department of Education's New Student Orientation in 2018
The Department of Education at UC Santa Barbara's Gevirtz School will kick off the new academic year with its 2019 New Student Orientation on Wednesday, September 25 from 2:30-5:00 pm in ED 1215. All newly admitted students are encouraged...
September 16, 2019
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Victor Rios and Rebeca Mireles-Rios at the Q&A after the UCSB campus screening of "The Pushouts" in April 2019
The award-winning documentary The Pushouts (2018, dir. Katie Galloway), which features UC Santa Barbara’s Victor Rios and Rebeca Mireles-Rios, will air on PBS SoCal on Friday, September 20 at 10 pm. The film follows Victor Rios, a...
August 30, 2019
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Over the course of one year, UCSB Early Childhood Care and Education Services (ECCES) and the UCSB Koegel Autism Center will conduct a study aimed to improve the social, behavioral, and/or adaptive skills of twelve students who have been...
August 26, 2019
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Don Lubach giving a Fast & Curious talk in 2017
Dr. Don Lubach, an alumnus of the Gevirtz School’s Department of Education, has been appointed to the position of UC Santa Barbara’s Associate Ombuds. He earned his Ph.D. in 1997 from the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education with a...
August 23, 2019
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Nicole Merino, an alumna of UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School, has been appointed the national director of edTPA at Stanford University. She earned her Ph.D. (2010) in Child and Adolescent Development from the Department of Education at...
August 22, 2019
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Associate Professor Amber Gonzalez, an alumna of UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School, has been given tenure by the Department of Child Development at California State University Sacramento. She earned her M.A. and Ph.D. (2013) in Child and...
August 20, 2019
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Arun Rasiah, Associate Professor and Director of Liberal Studies at Holy Names University in Oakland, will give the free public lecture “‘Think for Yourself”: Malcolm X and the Politics of Critical Thinking” on Thursday, August 29 from 12...
August 16, 2019
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Dr. Jeff Milem, Dean and Professor at UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School of Education, has joined the Board of Directors for the Santa Barbara County Education Office (SBCEO) Partners in Education (Partners). Partners connects businesses...
August 13, 2019
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Twenty-eight doctoral candidates from UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz Graduate School of Education took part in graduation ceremonies in the academic year 2018-19. Listed below are the new CCSP and ED Ph.D.s and their dissertation titles...
August 6, 2019
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Darby Feldwinn of the Departments of Education and Chemistry at UC Santa Barbara is the lead PI for a new, five-year National Science Foundation Noyce Teacher Scholarship grant for $1,134,605. The project, entitled COASTAL: Collaboration...
August 5, 2019
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(l-r) Alan Cain, Danika Morgan, and Julie Bianchini
At UCSB, The Gevirtz School offers Noyce courses and scholarships to students pursuing a teaching credential in math or science. The shorthand reflects services in partnership with The Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program whose mission...
July 30, 2019
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Javier Pulgar and Alexis Spina at PERC 19
Danielle Harlow of UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School was one of the organizers of the 2019 Physics Education Research Conference (PERC) held in Provo, Utah July 24 and 25. The conference, with the theme “Physics Outside of the Classroom:...
July 23, 2019
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Jeffrey Milem, Dean of the Gevirtz School at UC Santa Barbara, has appointed Dr. Richard Durán as the school’s first Faculty Equity Advisor and Associate Dean. The appointment fulfills a mandate from UCSB’s Office of the Executive Vice...
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...