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April 19, 2019
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Karen Nylund-Gibson receiving her Outstanding Mentor award with UCSB Chancellor Yang(l) and Chair of the AcademicSenate Henning Bohn(r)
Karen Nylund-Gibson, Associate Professor in the Department of Education at UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School, has received a 2018-19 Outstanding Graduate Mentor Award. Mentoring graduate students is a vital component of UCSB’s mission as a... -
Once we heard that UCSB Graduate Division announced Dr. Nicolasa Sandoval as its 2019 commencement keynote speaker, we knew it would be a good time to catch up with this esteemed alumna. Sandoval earned her Ph.D. from the Department of... -
For ten years now, yellow school busses pull onto the UC Santa Barbara campus once a year, bringing much of the Harding University Partnership School’s (HUPS) student to college for the (half-)day. That means the sixth graders who visited... -
Gevirtz School emeritus professor Russell Rumberger will be one of the two speakers for a Migration Policy Institute sponsored webinar entitled "Do All High School Graduates Count? Unintended Consequences of State Accountability Policies...
April 17, 2019
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UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School professor Dorothy Chun is editor in chief (since 2000) of Language Learning & Technology (LLT), a refereed journal for second and foreign language scholars and educators. Since 2007, LLT has...
April 16, 2019
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Harding students visiting UCSB in 2018 with the Kids in Nature program
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... -
This week we caught up with Melissa Gordon Wolf, as we sort of had to--she's headed to the Finals for the 2019 UCSB Grad Slam this Friday, April 19 from 3-4 pm in Corwin Pavilion! Melissa is a doctoral student in the Department of...
April 15, 2019
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The presenters and hosts at the previous Fast & Curious evening in November 2018 (l-r): Jill Sharkey, Sabrina Liu, Chris Ograin, Julie Bianchini, Miya Barnett, Betsy Brenner, Gordon Morrell, Hunter Gehlbach
Free public event on May 6 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 Monday, May 6 at 7 pm at the Faulkner... -
Melissa Gordon Wolf presenting during the GGSE Grad Slam
Melissa Gordon Wolf, doctoral student in the Department of Education at the Gevirtz School, will compete in the semi-final round of the 2019 UC Santa Barbara’s Graduate Student Showcase Grad Slam. Wolf will compete on Monday, April 15, 11...
April 11, 2019
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Dean Milem talks with three new UC Santa Barbara Gevirtz School faculty members for the 2018-19 year: Alison Cerezo, Rachel Lambert, and Karin Lohwasser. -
The McEnroe Reading & Language Arts Clinic at UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School will offer a 4-week summer camp for students entering grades 1-7. The program, running July 8th through August 1st, takes place Mondays-Thursdays, 9:00 am-...
April 10, 2019
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Douglas Baker (’01 Ph.D., Department of Education, UC Santa Barbara) will give the inaugural Gevirtz School Alumni Lecture on Friday, April 26 at 4 pm in McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB on the UCSB campus. Baker’s talk is titled “...
April 8, 2019
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Gevirtz Graduate School of Education Professor Shane R. Jimerson is co-author of School Safety and Violence Prevention: Science, Practice, Policy (2018 American Psychological Association) with Matthew J. Mayer. This timely book... -
This week we caught up with Isabelle Fleury, a doctoral student with an emphasis in School Psychology working under Dr. Erin Dowdy. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Rutgers University, New Brunswick in 2016. After...
April 5, 2019
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UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School laments the passing of alumna and beloved local teacher Marcie (Fuller) Kjoller on March 31. Kjoller earned her multiple subject credential from the Teacher Education Program in 1992. She also received her...
April 3, 2019
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The next Dean’s Lecture on Education, Diversity and Democracy, presented by UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School, will feature a screening of the award-winning documentary The Pushouts (2018, dir. Katie Galloway) and a post film Q...
April 2, 2019
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UC Santa Barbara Gevirtz School’s George Yatchisin, Director of Communications, has published the poetry collection The First Night We Thought the World Would End (Brandenburg Press, 2019). The full-length volume, available online...
April 1, 2019
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U.S. Congressman Salud Carbajal, who represents California’s 24th District, has chosen Dr. Tania Israel from UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School as one of the 2019 Congressional Women of the Year. The annual Congressional Women of the Year...
March 27, 2019
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Project RISE (Research and Interventions for Sexual and Gender Minority Empowerment), based at UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School, will host a Virtual Roundtable in honor of Bisexual Health Awareness Month on Thursday, March 28 at 12 Noon...
March 25, 2019
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Counted separately for each of their appearances, 113 faculty 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 56 events,... -
American Educational Research Association 2019 Annual Meeting April 5 – April 9, 2019, Toronto, Canada Participants from The Gevirtz School and UC Santa Barbara Friday, April 5 10 am – 5 pm Judith Green Noreen Balos Levi Maaia with...
March 20, 2019
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The Santa Barbara Unified School District Board of Education (SBUSD) has named Jennifer Foster, alumna of UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz Graduate School of Education, as the next principal of La Colina Junior High School. Foster (then Jennifer... -
The Autism Seminar & Discussion (ASD) series – sponsored by UC Santa Barbara’s Koegel Autism Center and the Santa Barbara Public Library – will host its monthly lecture and Q&A on Tuesday, April 2nd from 6:30-8 p.m. The talk, given...
March 19, 2019
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The 2018 GGSE Grad Slam participants
Three Gevirtz School graduate students will take part in the School’s internal Grad Slam on April 2 and three students will participate in the 2019 UC Santa Barbara’s Graduate Student Showcase Grad Slam that runs from April 8-19. For both...
March 18, 2019
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Program Continues Growth through Multiple School District Partnerships and Expanded Grade Offerings The Young Writers Camp – a nonprofit program of the South Coast Writing Project at UCSB – announced plans to once again expand its reach in...