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March 5, 2021
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UC Santa Barbara’s Teacher Education Program (TEP) has received a record number of applicants—270—for the upcoming 2021-22 academic year. The program has averaged 145 submitted applications across the last five years, though last year TEP...
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.... -
Emily Edelman is a doctoral student in School Psychology working under Dr. Matthew Quirk. She received her B.A. in Psychology with a Health and Development emphasis and an Education minor from Stanford University in 2017. After Stanford,...
February 25, 2021
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Melissa Morgan, CCSP Director of Clinical Training
Eight graduate students from the Department of Counseling, Clinical, and School Psychology (CCSP) at UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School have earned prestigious 2021-2022 internships across the country to complete their work for a Ph.D. Each...
February 24, 2021
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UC Santa Barbara Gevirtz School Teacher Education Program (TEP) alumna Kirsten Turner (SST/M.Ed., ’15) recently won the Middle School Teacher Golden Apple award in the Vista Unified School District. The award earns her the title “2021...
February 22, 2021
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Daniel del Cid is a second year School Psychology graduate student researcher under the supervision of Dr. Jill Sharkey. His research explores educational policies and practices that can enhance and support the experiences of Latinx...
February 19, 2021
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Andrés Consoli (M.A., Counseling Psychology, ’91; Ph.D., Counseling Psychology, ’94), an associate professor in the Department of Counseling, Clinical & School Psychology at UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School, recently became an...
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... -
On February 10th, Natalia Jaramillo presented a workshop entitled “Let’s Talk about Posttraumatic Growth” at the UCSB Resilience Summit, a 24-week program put on by the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences offering a certificate... -
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... -
Jason Fly, one of the graduate student clinicians of the Healing Center
The murder of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, among many others, and the activism of #BLM this past summer led Carrie Towbes to look for a place to take action, as she wondered what philanthropy could do locally. Towbes turned to Healing... -
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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It’s the summer of 2016, and Michael Perez (M.Ed., SST/Science, ’15) is on Santa Rosa, one of the Channel Islands, assisting with research on vegetation and soil erosion. For the second year in a row, he has received a STEM Teacher and... -
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 9, 2021
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Jacquelyn Chin is a doctoral student in Counseling Psychology working under Dr. Tania Israel. She worked in the African American Studies department at the University of Maryland, College Park in the Black Child and Family Lab. Her research...
February 8, 2021
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Shannon Rivard was selected by fellow staff members for the 2021 Gevirtz Graduate School of Education Staff Citation of Excellence Award on Feb. 5. As Department Administrator for the Department of Counseling, Clinical, and School...
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 25, 2021
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Meghan Evans is a doctoral student in the Department of Counseling, Clinical, and School Psychology studying Clinical Psychology working with Dr. Maryam Kia-Keating as her advisor. She has worked as a senior lab manager and post-...
January 22, 2021
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A 2017 meeting of the Community Engagement Team (previously named Service Provider Network); Jill Sharkey is third from left in top row
In a recent statement the members of the South Coast Youth Safety Partnership (SCYSP) wrote, “We are devastated by the recent tragic loss of youth in our community from violence. We represent an ongoing collaborative effort across youth-...
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 19, 2021
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Tania Israel from UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School was the guest on the most popular episode of the American Psychological Association’s (APA) “Speaking of Psychology” podcast in 2020. Israel’s episode, “How to have meaningful dialogues...