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November 30, 2020
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Alison Cerezo from UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School is moderating the forum “Coming Together Around the Emotional Wellbeing of Lesbian, Bisexual, and Queer Women of Color” sponsored by The Los Angeles County Lesbian, Bisexual, and Queer...
November 17, 2020
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The Teacher Education Program (TEP) at UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School has appointed Victoria “Tory” Harvey as its Associate Director. The Associate Director is responsible for administering ongoing activity associated within the Teacher... -
Professor Melissa Morgan of the Gevirtz School has been appointed Vice Chair of UC Santa Barbara’s Academic Senate, with a special portfolio for advancing diversity and equity. Professor Morgan also chairs the Senate’s Committee on...
November 9, 2020
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A research team from UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School gave the presentation “Resilience in the Latinx Community: Working Collaboratively for Social Justice and Equity” as part of the 2020 National Latinx Psychology Association (NLPA)...
November 5, 2020
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The Department of Counseling, Clinical, and School Psychology (CCSP) at the UC Santa Barbara Gevirtz School will be holding a Research Festival on Thursday, November 12 from 8:25 am to 12:20 pm via Zoom. The festival is free and open to... -
Diana Arya from UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School is one of the featured panelists for the webinar “Work/Life Harmony: Mental Health in the Academy” on Monday, November 9, 12 – 1 pm PST. Co-hosted by the American Educational Research...
November 2, 2020
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The 55 UCSB graduate students—including fourteen from the Gevirtz School—who received summer mini-grants through the Multidisciplinary Research on COVID-19 and its Impacts (MRCI) program will take part in a Collaborative Symposium on... -
What is it like to be a student teacher during a global pandemic? We caught up with one of this year’s TEP candidates, Julianna Lopez, who is pursuing an Education Specialist Credential with a focus on Mild/Moderate Support Needs, to learn...
October 29, 2020
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In her new book, Gevirtz School Professor Tania Israel challenges her readers to engage in respectful dialogue across the political divide--a much needed call to conversation. A few months shy of the 2020 election, Tania Israel, a...
October 28, 2020
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Michael Furlong, Natalia Jaramillo, Maryam Kia-Keating, and Rebeca Mireles-Rios of the Gevirtz School will be four of the presenters for the UC Santa Barbara Resilience Summit and Certificate Program. The summit features a dozen lectures... -
A Zoom screen from Betsy Brenner's ED205 class
While classes at UC Santa Barbara have been conducted remotely since March, that’s still not much time to develop the best new ways to teach. Each instructor has to figure things out for themselves depending upon everything from their... -
(photo credit Juan Carlo, VC Star)
It seemed more than fitting that the conversation at the heart of this story about Rio School District Superintendent John Puglisi (Education, Ph.D., ’01) took place while he was driving. For Puglisi seems like someone always in motion,...
October 27, 2020
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Alumna Peggy Lamb (M.Ed.,’87) has never hesitated to give back to the Gevirtz School. She served as long-term chair of the Dean’s Ambassadors Circle during Deans Jules Zimmer's and Jane Close Conoley’s tenures as a resource of ideas and...
October 22, 2020
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Natalie Larez, a second year student in the Department of Counseling, Clinical and School Psychology (CCSP), is one of just 60 graduate students nationally named to the prestigious Health Policy Research Scholars 2020 cohort. Health Policy... -
In light of recent protests against police violence directed at Black communities and the persistence of systemic racism, the Graduate Division and multiple deans at UC Santa Barbara have launched an initiative designed to enhance the...
October 21, 2020
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UC Santa Barbara Gevirtz School alumna April Regester, associate professor of special education, and her co-principal investigators at University of Missouri-Saint Louis (UMSL) have received $2.1 million in federal funding from a five-year...
October 19, 2020
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Jeffrey Milem, Professor and Jules Zimmer Dean’s Chair at UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School, will be the featured guest on KCSB-FM’s new public affairs show “Schooled Radio” on Tuesday, October 20 from 10 – 10:30 am. Dean Milem will... -
Department of Education Associate Professor Diana J. Arya, Ph.D., discusses what we know and still are learning about how individuals develop reading skills. She shares insights on forthcoming changes to school-based literacy assessments...
October 15, 2020
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Rebeca Mireles-Rios of UC Santa Barbara's Gevirtz School is the co-director--with Lisa Park, professor and chair of Asian American studies--of the new ÉXITO program. Known in full as Educational eXcellence and Inclusion Training...
October 14, 2020
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Liz Holohan, Development Assistant at UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School, was a recipient of a 2019-20 Dilling Yang Scholarship and therefore among those honored in the 2019-20 UCSB Staff Awards. With the scholarship, Holohan was able to... -
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 13, 2020
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Tania Israel from UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School will be one of the speakers for “Aspen Ideas: Show Up,” a digital forum on civic engagement produced by the Aspen Ideas Festival team of the Aspen Institute. The free, two-night offering...
October 12, 2020
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CCSP Class of 2020 Commencement Ceremony
Twenty-eight doctoral candidates from UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz Graduate School of Education took part in graduation ceremonies in the academic year 2019-20. Listed below are the new CCSP and ED Ph.D.s and their dissertation titles....
October 8, 2020
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Michelle Grue, alumna of UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School, has been hired as an Assistant Teaching Professor with a join appointment in UCSB’s College of Creative Studies and Writing Program. Grue joined UC Santa Barbara in 2015 as a...
October 7, 2020
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Natalie Larez of UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School has been named to the prestigious Health Policy Research Scholars 2020 cohort. Health Policy Research Scholars—a program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation—is led by Johns Hopkins...