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February 27, 2020
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CalTeachTogether Club on their visit to the REEF
The students in the CalTeach program at UC Santa Barbara have formed an official club called CalTeachTogether. CalTeach is a University of California system-wide program to recruit, prepare, and support exceptional K-12 teachers in science...
February 24, 2020
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Katie Tucciarone was selected by fellow staff members for the 2020 Gevirtz Graduate School of Education Staff Citation of Excellence Award on Feb. 18. As credential analyst, Tucciarone serves as the liaison between the state of California...
February 20, 2020
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Christina (Tina) Christie, chair and professor in the Department of Education at UCLA, will give the lecture “Why Evaluation Theory Should be Used to Inform Evaluation Policy” on Wednesday, February 26 from 12 pm – 1 pm in Education 4108....
February 19, 2020
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The Gevirtz Graduate School of Education will hold its first Research Symposium on Friday, April 3 from 9 am to 5 pm in the Education Building and the Intercollegiate Athletics Building. This will be the first of a series of...
February 18, 2020
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This week we caught up with Raheem Jessop, a second year PhD student in the Department of Education with a concentration on Culture and Development. His research looks at college decision-making among African American high school students...
February 14, 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 to the UC Santa Barbara campus on Friday, June 26-Saturday, June 27, 2020. This year’...
February 12, 2020
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The Gevirtz Graduate School of Education will be holding the Teacher Education Research Symposium on Tuesday, February 19 at 2 pm in ED 4205. This symposium—which is free and open to the public—will consist of two lectures discussing... -
The Graduate Students Association in Education (GSAE) is holding a t-shirt design contest open to all UC Santa Barbara undergraduate or graduate students, staff, and faculty. The deadline to submit a t-shirt design is February 21 at 9 pm....
February 10, 2020
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Jon Clark ’82, President of the J.S. Bower Foundation, addresses the crowd
At this year’s annual Fellowship Breakfast, the crowded room of students, faculty, staff, and donors didn’t just get thanked, they got inspiration. “We understand that graduate school takes vision, courage, and heart to complete,”... -
There could seem no better way to cap the UCSB Graduate Division’s 2019 Diversity Matters series last fall than with a presentation featuring the students in Dean Jeffrey Milem’s doctoral seminar in Policy and Leadership entitled Race (In)...
February 6, 2020
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Diana Arya welcomes the crowd to the 2019 Curie-osity Project Showcase (a precursor to Youth Summit 2020)
A book table with authors signing. The walls crowded with poster presentations, as researchers offer their latest findings. A virtual reality station. The center of the room full with round tables, some featuring discussion groups, others...
February 4, 2020
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For this week we caught up with Delwin Carter, a doctoral student in the Department of Education emphasizing in quantitative methods. His advisor is Karen Nylund-Gibson. He received his B.A. in Psychology and M.A. in Experimental...
January 30, 2020
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On January 25th Project CoVitality, featuring the work of UC Santa Barbara faculty Michael J. Furlong, Erin Dowdy, and Karen Nylund-Gibson, presented at the Western Positive Psychology Association (WPPA) on the topics of the CoVitality...
January 27, 2020
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The International Mind, Brain, and Education Society (IMBES) has elected Matthew Shackley as the new Secretary on the Trainee Board for the 2020 year. As secretary, he will be responsible for upholding the mission and goals of the IMBES,...
January 16, 2020
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Dean Jeffrey Milem giving the keynote talk to UCSB's Student Affairs 2019 Professional Development Conference in December
Michael Brown, Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, has appointed Dean and Professor Jeffrey Milem of UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School as a member of the UC Provost’s Advisory Council on Educational Equity for...
January 13, 2020
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The 2019 GGSE Grad Slam participants with Prof. Jin Sook Lee and Dean Jeffrey Milem
UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School will hold its sixth annual in-house Grad Slam on Friday, April 3 from 12 pm – 1:30 pm in Education 1217. Light lunch and refreshments will be provided. This non-competitive event will allow for each... -
UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz Graduate School of Education continues this year’s “Policy Goes to School” lecture series on Tuesday, January 28 from 12 pm - 1 pm in room 4108 Education Building. DeMarcus Jenkins, Assistant Professor of...
January 8, 2020
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Fielding Graduate University will feature a screening of the award-winning documentary The Pushouts (2018, dir. Katie Galloway) and a post film Q&A with Victor Rios and Rebeca Mireles-Rios from the film. This event, which is...
January 7, 2020
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This week we caught up with Ryan Arellano, a third-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Education with interests in diversity and equity in higher education. Her advisor is Yukari Okamoto. She has laso received a BA in psychology at...
December 17, 2019
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GGSE: What do you do for a living separate from your volunteering at Harding University Partnership School?Mairleitner: I am a Firefighter Engineer for Santa Barbara City Fire Department. I am currently...
December 16, 2019
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During 60-plus years of political, social and technological isolation, the people of Cuba have relied on their own inventions to create the necessities for everyday life. A feature-length documentary that has begun production, Making...
December 12, 2019
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Gevirtz School Dean and Professor Jeffrey Milem gave the keynote lecture and led the divisional discussion at UC Santa Barbara’s Student Affairs 2019 Professional Development Conference on December 12 in the Corwin Pavilion. His talk was...
December 11, 2019
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TASH, an international leader in disability advocacy, has presented April Regester, an alumna from UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School, with a 2019 TASH Board of Directors Award. Regester served on the TASH Board of Directors from 2017-19....
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...