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September 2, 2020
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The recently published Approaches to Lifespan Writing Research: Generating an Actionable Coherence (WAC Clearinghouse / University Press of Colorado, 2020), is co-edited by UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School alumnus Dr. Ryan...
August 20, 2020
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Carolyn Sattin-Bajaj, Associate Professor at UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School, is a co-author—with Adam Strom (Re-Imagining Migration) and Veronica Boix Mansilla (Harvard University)—of the EdResearch for Recovery brief “Supports for...
July 31, 2020
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Alumna Jasmine (McBeath) Nation of UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz Graduate School has been hired as an assistant professor of Liberal Studies, Science Specialist at Cal Poly College of Science and Mathematics. Nation earned her Ph.D. from the...
July 27, 2020
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Emily Evanstein has earned a Graduate Student Association Excellence in Teaching Award for going above and beyond as a teacher at UC Santa Barbara. She was one of the eleven 2019-2020 winners selected from a pool of about 200 nominees....
July 22, 2020
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Desirae Maier, a Gevirtz School alumna and incoming doctoral student, has recently joined the Board of Directors for Alpha Resource Center in Santa Barbara. She was sworn into the position at the last virtual board meeting which took place...
July 15, 2020
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One grant group and their faculty mentor in New York City last year (l-r): Jessica Green Rosas, Dr. Miya Barnett, Corinna Klein, J.C. Gonzalez, and Erika Luis Sanchez
Fourteen students from UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School were awarded $2000 Graduate Student Summer Minigrants for Multidisciplinary Research on COVID-19 and its Impacts (MRCI) from UCSB Graduate Division. The MRCI program supports...
July 10, 2020
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Seven members of the Gevirtz School faculty who have recently heard from the Academic Senate about well-earned promotions. Maryam Kia-Keating, Melisa Morgan Consoli, and Matt Quirk have been promoted to Full Professor; Diana Arya and Ty...
July 8, 2020
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A Young Writers Camp class in 2016
The Young Writers Camp – a nonprofit program of the South Coast Writing Project at UCSB – announced plans to continue camp services this Summer through online offerings. In support of families facing COVID-related challenges, there is no...
July 7, 2020
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Education and Applied Psychology in a Time of COVID-19 One of the many topics up for conversation among U.S. families in recent months is the potential effects sheltering-in-place orders have on the educational progress that children are...
June 26, 2020
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“How can we prepare for unrelenting change and uncertain futures, before it is too late?” David Forman, a former UC Santa Barbara Gevirtz School Ph.D. student, provides answers to timely questions like this one in his recently released...
June 24, 2020
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Jeremy Edwards graduated with a Ph.D. with an emphasis in Culture and Development from the Department of Education. GGSE: What are your research interests, and why are they important to you? Edwards: My work centers on...
June 23, 2020
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Simeng (Karen) Li just graduated with a Ph.D. in Special Education, Disability, and Risk Studies (SPEDR) from the Department of Education. GGSE: What are your research interests, and why are they important to you? Li:...
June 19, 2020
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Caroline “Coco” Miller will be graduating with an M.A. in Education, focusing on Leadership. She hopes to immerse herself in the sports industry, and one day be a coach as well as work in the front office of a professional sports team....
June 18, 2020
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Lilly Lew (r), with her cousin Jamie (l) and brother Albert (c) at Disneyland
Lilly Lew will be graduating with a Ph.D. from the Department of Education at the Gevirtz School. She hopes to one day pursue a tenure-track professorship that allows her to establish university-community partnerships. GGSE: Tell...
June 17, 2020
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Ana Guerrero will be graduating with a Ph.D. from the Department of Education at the Gevirtz School. She hopes to work in student or academic affairs in a two or four-year Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI). GGSE: Tell us about...
June 16, 2020
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The South Coast Writing Project (SCWriP) invites teachers of all grade levels who are interested in designing digital writing projects for their students this fall to a Zoom conference on Friday, June 26, 8:30 am – 3 pm. This year’s theme...
June 15, 2020
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Education and Applied Psychology in a Time of COVID-19 I have a golden retriever aptly named Teddy who needs brushing multiple times a day so that her fur doesn’t become a matted mess of leaves and seeds along with other, interestingly...
June 10, 2020
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Faith Hyun will be graduating with an M.A. from the Department of Education at the Gevirtz School. She will moving back to her home in South Korea, where she has obtained a teaching position at a Christian private school. GGSE:...
June 8, 2020
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Jacob Kirksey will be graduating with a Ph.D. from the Department of Education at the Gevirtz School. He is both a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow and an American Educational Research Association Fellow. In the fall,...
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...