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December 10, 2019
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This week we caught up with Lindsey Mottus, a fourth-year doctoral student in the Department of Education specializing in Culture and Development. Lindsey's research interests lie within Language and Literacy. She attained her Bachelor's...
December 9, 2019
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The National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) has presented Charles Bazerman from UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School, its 2020 CCCC Exemplar Award. The Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) is a constituent...
November 26, 2019
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This week we caught up with Department of Education doctoral student Matthew Shackley. Shackley's advisor is Dr. Julie Bianchini, and he is pursuing emphases in Science Education and Cognitive Science. He received a B.S. in Biological...
November 13, 2019
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UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz Graduate School of Education kicks off this year’s “Policy Goes to School” lecture series on Monday, December 2 from 4 pm - 5 pm in room 1207 Education Building. Anna Bargagliotti, Professor of Mathematics,...
November 8, 2019
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UC Santa Barbara’s Graduate Division, the Graduate Student Association, and the Library will co-sponsor Lunch & Learn featuring Melissa Gordon Wolf, a graduate student at the Gevirtz School, on Friday, November 8 in Library Room 1312,...
November 1, 2019
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Gevirtz School Dean Jeffrey Milem and Dean of Social Sciences Charles Hale hosted the UC Santa Barbara Diversity Champions Lunch at Mosher Alumni Hall on Thursday, Oct. 31. This event, the last in UCSB Graduate Division’s 2019 Diversity...
October 31, 2019
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The Department of Education at UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School presents four engaging, quick talks by graduate students and faculty members on November 12 from 12-1 pm in ED 1203. This event is a free opportunity to hear about the...
October 30, 2019
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At its 2019 Awesome in Autism Awards event on October 24, the Autism Society Ventura County named UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School alumna Sarah Elizabeth Pelangka its Children Service Provider of the Year. Dr. Pelangka is the owner and... -
The 2019-20 GSAE Officers: (front row, l-r) Jing Yu, Meghan Macias, Samantha Harris; (back row, l-r) Matthew Shackley, Konnor McMillen, Stephanie Arguera, John Cano Barrios
The Graduate Students Association in Education (GSAE) – the official students’ association that exists to promote and represent the interests of students in the Gevirtz School’s Department of Education to the UC Santa Barbara campus...
October 23, 2019
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Nicole Merino and Alexis Spina
For this special edition of both our Alumni Spotlight and our Current Student Spotlight, doctoral student Alexis Spina interviewed Nicole Merino (Education, Ph.D., ’09) about her work in improving teacher assessment with edTPA and her...
October 21, 2019
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This week we caught up with Jenny Sperling (she/her), a doctoral candidate in the Department of Education. Her interests include educational policy studies, feminist ethnography, and high school youth. She examines the intersections of... -
In the next five years, California will need to replace at least 11% of its aging mathematics and science teachers due to retirement. Even before that happens, the average class size for high school science in California right now is 27,... -
Richard Durán (right) introduces Arun Rasiah before his lecture "‘Think for Yourself’: Malcolm X and the Politics of Critical Thinking"
The Gevirtz School has appointed Richard Durán, Professor in the Department of Education, Associate Dean for Faculty Equity. System-wide the UC has called for such positions at the college-school-division level to help improve the... -
Jennifer Freeman, a graduate student at UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School, has been was awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) in the spring of 2019. Freeman’s project will...
October 20, 2019
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SCWriP at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art
To call the South Coast Writing Project (SCWriP) just a professional development program is akin to insisting Toni Morrison was a scribbler or José Andrés a cook. For SCWriP also runs a series of Young Writers Camps each summer, works with...
October 18, 2019
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Launch/Re:Launch 2019-20, the annual Gevirtz School publication, recently mailed to alumni, fellow educators and applied psychologists, and friends of the school, is now accessible on-line. It can be found on the Gevirtz School...
October 14, 2019
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Michael Gottfried from UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School is one of three international keynote speakers at the first International Network for School Attendance conference in Oslo, Norway October 16-18, 2019. Gottfried’s talk is titled “...
October 11, 2019
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The American Educational Research Association (AERA) has awarded doctoral student Jacob Kirksey from UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School a dissertation grant of $25,000. One of the most prestigious dissertation fellowships in education, it...
October 9, 2019
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Professor Dorothy Chun from UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School gave one of the keynote talks at the 8th Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education (SLaTE 2019) in Graz, Austria, on September 21, 2019. Her lecture was titled “It...
October 8, 2019
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On Friday, October 4, Sr. Jeffrey Stewart was honored as one of the 2019 UC Santa Barbara Alumni Award recipients. “It is truly a pleasure to honor these individuals who have done so much for UC Santa Barbara,” said George Thurlow,...
October 7, 2019
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Free public event on October 23 at 7 pm at Santa Barbara Public Library The next edition of the lecture series, “Fast & Curious: ED Talks from UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School,” will take place on Wednesday, October 23 at 7 pm at the...
October 4, 2019
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The Gevirtz School’s Department of Education invites its graduate students to a writing workshop with graduate writing specialist Dr. Robby Nadler on Tuesday, October 22 from 12 noon – 12:50 pm in ED 1205. This brief talk will help...
October 3, 2019
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A video produced to accompany research done by Dr. Karin Lohwasser and her colleagues as part of a system of resources in support of teacher candidates and their cooperating/mentoring teachers. This video adds to the article about Dr....
September 30, 2019
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The Autism Seminar & Discussion (ASD) series – sponsored by UC Santa Barbara’s Koegel Autism Center and the Santa Barbara Public Library – will present three informative sessions this fall on October 8, November 12, and December 10....
September 26, 2019
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A video exploring the accomplishments of the Harding University Partnership School (HUPS) that features GGSE Dean Jeffrey Milem and HUPS Principal Veronica Binkley. [A video companion to the 2019-20 issue of Launch.]