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April 14, 2021
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UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School has named Somer Levine the recipient of the 2021 Delaine A. Eastin Fellowship. This fellowship is given to a graduate student pursuing an MA or Ph.D. in the Department of Education who is the first in her...
April 12, 2021
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Sabiha Sultana is a first-year doctoral student in the Department of Education focusing her research in critical reading assessments under the guidance of Dr. Diana J. Arya and Dr. Andrew Maul. She earned her B.Ed. (Honors) from University...
April 6, 2021
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Counted separately for each of their appearances, 118 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 53 events,... -
Participants from The Gevirtz School and UC Santa Barbara 2021 American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting April 7 – April 12, 2021 (all times PDT) Wednesday April 7 10-11:30 am Jonathan Downey “IRT Measurement...
April 1, 2021
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Jeffrey Milem, Jules Zimmer Dean of UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School, will be a guest lecturer in Harvard University’s Bravely Confronting Racism in Higher Education online course on April 12. The course, presented by the Harvard...
March 19, 2021
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Rachel Lambert, PI, and Rebeca Mireles-Rios, co-PI, of UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School, have been awarded a highly competitive Spencer Foundation Small Grant (2021-2023) for the project “Theorizing Complex Embodiment,” which focuses on...
March 18, 2021
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The California Teacher Education Research and Improvement Network (CTERIN) has recruited a cohort of doctoral students from across the University of California system to join the Educating Teacher Educators (ETE) Fellows Program. Four of...
March 15, 2021
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Liliana Garcia is a doctoral student in the Department of Education interested in STEM Education under the guidance of Julie Bianchini. She earned her B.S in Physics and obtained a single subject teaching credential through CalTeach at UC...
March 9, 2021
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The Gevirtz Graduate School of Education will hold its second annual Research Symposium on Friday, May 14 from 9 am to 2 pm and Saturday, May 15 from 9 am to 12 pm. Due to the COVID-19 epidemic, this conference will be held virtually. This...
March 8, 2021
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Cameron Dexter Torti is a doctoral student in the Department of Education, working with Dr. Sarah Roberts and emphasizing in Teacher Education and Professional Development. After graduating with a B.A. and teaching credential from CSU...
March 1, 2021
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UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School laments the passing of Melvyn I. Semmel, professor in UCSB’s Department of Education from 1978-1994. Dr. Semmel passed on February 25, 2021 at the age of 89. Prof. Semmel, with his wife and colleague Dr....
February 17, 2021
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Carolyn Sattin-Bajaj of UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School will be one of the presenters for an Education Week sponsored webinar, “Examining the Evidence: Supporting Immigrant-Origin Students and English-Learners,” on Friday,...
February 16, 2021
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At the Gevirtz School’s 2021 Virtual Fellowship Breakfast, the Zoom room was filled with warmth and gratitude. The event theme—Celebrating Opportunity and Inclusion—sparked meaningful discussions among the Gevirtz School faculty, staff,... -
Christine Hirst Bernhardt in the cockpit of SOFIA
Christine Hirst Bernhardt, a doctoral student in Education, isn’t kidding with her email signature’s tagline “Have a Stellar Day.” Astronomy is her passion, and at the heart of her desire to learn even more about science education at the... -
John Galisky is a second-year doctoral student in the Department of Education working with Drs. Julie Bianchini and Danielle Harlow. For 25 years he taught at Lompoc High School next to Vandenberg AFB. In 2000, he established the Space,...
February 12, 2021
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Diana Arya and Miya Barnett
Over the last decade, UC Santa Barbara has worked diligently to ameliorate the well-known national “leaky pipeline” that has always impacted diversity in the graduate and postdoctoral populations. As one step, UCSB Graduate Division has... -
Tine Sloan of UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School is a co-editor—with Charles A. Peck, Kristen Cuthrell, Désirée H. Pointer-Mace, and Diana B. Lys—of the new volume Using Data to Improve Teacher Education: Moving Evidence to Action...
February 10, 2021
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An activity at a prior SCWriP Summer Institute
The South Coast Writing Project (SCWriP) announces its 41st Annual Invitational Summer Institute in Composition and Critical Literacy. This premier four-week professional development event will be held July 5th – July 30th, 2021, Monday-...
February 1, 2021
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Dina Naji Arch is a second-year doctoral student in the Department of Education with an emphasis in quantitative methods in the social sciences under the guidance of Dr. Karen Nylund-Gibson. She earned her B.S. in Psychology from UC San... -
Damian Jenkins (Education, Ph.D., ’10) has founded the National Online Virtual Academy (NOVA). NOVA is an online academy currently serving middle-school-aged students with an interactive and community-focused curriculum. The school...
January 21, 2021
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Three UC Santa Barbara Gevirtz School alumni--Stephanie Couch, Audra Skukauskaite, and Rick Bacon--are contributing chapters to Becoming an Educational Ethnographer: The Challenges and Opportunities of Undertaking Research, a new...
January 12, 2021
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TASH, an international leader in disability advocacy founded in 1975, welcomes Natalie Holdren from UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School as a new board member. Holdren is a former TASH board member and past co-president. Dr. Natalie Holdren... -
Valerie Valdez is a doctoral student in the Department of Education, with an emphasis in Teacher Education and Professional Development. Her research interests include teacher educator pedagogy and teacher candidate development, with...
December 22, 2020
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Bradford Fried is a doctoral student in the Department of Education working with Dr. Dorothy Chun and Dr. Jin Sook Lee. His emphases are in applied linguistics and cognitive science where he is researching the relationship between language...
December 11, 2020
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Emeriti deans Norman Boyan (l) and Jules Zimmer (m) with current dean Jeffrey Milem (r) at an emeriti luncheon in March 2018
UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School laments the passing of Norman Boyan, Dean of the School from 1969-1980. Dr. Boyan passed on December 2, 2020 at the age of 98, only 12 days after his wife of 77 years Priscilla passed. Boyan was a...