Gevirtz School News
Filter News
June 20, 2017
-
The GSAE Officers for 2017-2018, clockwise from top left: Noreen Balos, Jenny Sperling, Alexis Spina, Yirong Lu
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...
June 14, 2017
-
The 2017 Graduate Division Commencement Ceremony at UC Santa Barbara, to be held Sunday, June 18 at 4 pm on the Commencement Green, will have a distinct Gevirtz Graduate School of Education flavor. The guest speaker at the event will be...
May 31, 2017
-
Keri Bradford and Aaron Jones, Ph.D. students in the Department of Education at the Gevirtz School, were both named as 2107 Margaret T. Getman Service to Student Award winners. In honor of the former UCSB Dean of Student Residents,... -
Drew Edelman, a Master’s Degree candidate in the Department of Education at the Gevirtz School, was named one of two Golden Eagle Ring winners by UC Santa Barbara Athletics at the 30th Annual Golden Eagle Awards Banquet held at Fess Parker...
May 30, 2017
-
Joshua Kuntzman, who is about to graduate from the Gevirtz School’s Department of Education with his Ph.D., has been chosen to be the 2017 Graduate Division Commencement Student Speaker. The event will take place on Sunday, June 18, 4-6 pm...
May 25, 2017
-
FOG awardees Danielle Harlow, Laura Romo, and Diana Arya
Three of the four UC Santa Barbara 2017 Faculty Outreach Grants have been awarded to faculty members from the Gevirtz School’s Department of Education, for a total of over $33,500. UCSB’s Faculty Outreach Grants (FOG) Program supports...
May 23, 2017
-
Alexis Spina with her advisor Dr. Sarah Roberts
Alexis Deidre Spina of UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School was a top three winner at the in-progress research gala of Division D – Measurement & Research Methodology at the American Educational Research Association’s recent annual... -
Gevirtz School alumni Bryan and Lysandra Cook, who currently are professors at the University of Hawai’i, Mānoa College of Education (COE), were awarded the Kirk Award by the Council for Exceptional Children’s Division for Learning...
May 16, 2017
-
Researchers Mike Furlong, Erin Dowdy and Karen Nylund-Gibson from UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School are collaborating with researchers from Mexico and Oregon on a project called, “Cross-Validation of the Social Emotional Health Survey-...
May 12, 2017
-
Following the 4th-6th graders from the Harding University Partnership School visiting UC Santa Barbara on May 8, they sent this thank you for what they experienced. -
Lois Capps, Joyce Dudley and Nicolasa Sandoval, alumnae of the Department of Education at the Gevirtz School, will be featured on the UC Santa Barbara Alumni Association panel “Exceptional Women, Exceptional Gauchos” on Saturday, May 20 at...
May 11, 2017
-
Levi Maaia, a Ph.D. candidate at UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School, has been named to the Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) U.S. Education Committee. the ARISS program provides learning opportunities to astronauts...
May 9, 2017
-
Gevirtz School Dean Jeff Milem at the first "fast & Curious" event
Free public event on May 23 at 7 pm at Santa Barbara Public Library The second edition of the lecture series, “Fast & Curious: ED Talks from UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School,” will take place on Tuesday, May 23 at 7 pm at the Faulkner...
May 8, 2017
-
Brooks Bowden, Assistant Professor of Methods and Policy, Department of Educational Leadership, Policy and Human Development, at North Carolina State University will give the next “Policy Goes to School” lecture titled, “Simplifying Cost...
May 3, 2017
-
Dr. Tracy Gershwin Mueller, an alumna of UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz Graduate School of Education, has been selected as the recipient of the 2017 Sears Helgoth Distinguished Teaching Award. Mueller is a Professor of Special Education at the...
May 2, 2017
-
UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz Graduate School of Education, the Department of Education, and the Chicano Studies Institute present Dr. Oscar Jimenez-Castellanos, Associate Professor of Education Policy and Evaluation at Mary Lou Fulton...
April 25, 2017
-
Dr. Andrew Maul of UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School will present two papers at the 2017 conference of the National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME) in San Antonio, TX on April 29. The papers are “Quantitative Attributes,... -
Emerita professor Dr. Rebecca Zwick has published a new book Who Gets In? Strategies for Fair and Effective College Admissions (Harvard University Press, 2017), which examines the widely debated current state of college admissions...
April 21, 2017
-
American Educational Research Association 2017 Annual Meeting April 27 – May 1, 2017, San Antonio, TX Participants from The Gevirtz School & UCSB Thursday, April 27 2:15 pm – 3:45 pm Jacob Kirksey Micaela Morgan “Literacy,... -
Eighty-six 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 50 events, panels, poster presentations, and workshops at the...
April 17, 2017
-
Melissa Rapp, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Education at the Gevirtz School graduate students will compete in the semi-final round of the 2017 UC Santa Barbara’s Graduate Student Grad Slam on Monday, April 17, 11 am - 12 pm in...
April 14, 2017
-
The Teacher Education Program at UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School will hold its Second Annual School Maker Faire on Thursday, April 20 from 4:30 – 7 pm at the Education Building on the UCSB campus in classrooms and the McEnroe Reading...
April 13, 2017
-
Findings Come as More School Districts Consider Cutting or Restricting Bus Services Kindergarten students who take the school bus have fewer absent days over the school year and are less likely to be chronically absent than children who...
April 4, 2017
-
A roomful of English teachers at the Hyatt Regency Santa Clara is abuzz trying to puzzle out “Hygge.” Six credential candidates from the Teacher Education Program’s single subject credential for English track are leading the session, under...
April 3, 2017
-
Harding students work on a light play project during the 2016 visit
The Harding University Partnership School, which since January 2010 has been partnered with UC Santa Barbara and in particular UCSB’s Gevirtz School, will bring the school’s fourth, fifth, and sixth grade students and teachers – and many...