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June 23, 2017
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Justina Weinbender with Rotary Club of Santa Barbara’s Mike Bieza. (Rotary Club of Santa Barbara)
Alumna Justina (Pursley) Weinbender from UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School has been recognized for her demonstrated excellence and significant contributions to public education by the Santa Barbara Rotary Club. Weinbender has taught...
June 22, 2017
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Danni McConnell and Ashley Morales from UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School Teacher Education Program have been selected as recipients of the William and Charlene Glikbarg Foundation Fellowships for 2016-17. McConnell has just received her... -
Hosford Clinic Director Heidi Zetzer with Margaret Boyer (l) and Haley Meskunas (r)
Margaret Boyer and Haley Meskunas, students at the Gevirtz School at UC Santa Barbara, have been awarded the Ray E. Hosford Awards for Excellence in Clinical Dedication for 2016-17. These awards are for service they performed at the...
June 21, 2017
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Alumna Mikyla Avakian from UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School has received the certificated employee of the year award at the Meiners Oaks School in the Ojai Unified School District. Avakian, who teaches a moderate/severe special day class...
June 20, 2017
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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 16, 2017
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Bethany Hicks, a 2016-17 Haring Memorial Fellowship recipient (not pictured, Daina Tagavi)
Bethany Hicks and Daina Tagavi of UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School have received 2016-17 Thomas G. Haring Memorial Fellowships honoring achievement in special education. Hicks is working on her Education Specialist teaching credential and...
June 14, 2017
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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... -
Hosford Clinic Director Heidi Zetzer with Alyssa Hufana (l) and Elizabeth McGarry (r)
Alyssa Hufana and Elizabeth McGarry, graduate students at the Gevirtz School at UC Santa Barbara, have been awarded 2016-17 Ray E. Hosford Awards for Excellence in Professional Behavior. These awards are for service they performed at the...
June 13, 2017
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Brenda Bilton of the Teacher Education Program of UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School has been chosen as the 2017 Patty Hopkins-Acos Memorial Scholarship recipient. This scholarship benefits an outstanding UCSB graduate student who...
June 12, 2017
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The Central Coast Association of School Psychologists acknowledged UC Santa Barbara Ph.D. candidate Katherine Carnazzo as deserving of meritorious service for her work as a school psychologist intern at the Aliso, Summerland, Rincon, and... -
2017 Tuyay Fellow Megan Reed flanked by Ann Lippincott and Herb Tuyay (not pictured, Maria Darling)
Maria Darling and Megan Reed of UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School have been chosen as the 2017 Dr. Sabrina Tuyay Memorial Fellowship recipients. This fellowship acknowledges teacher candidates who have shown a commitment to providing...
June 9, 2017
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Eleven graduate students from the Department of Counseling, Clinical, and School Psychology (CCSP) at UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School have earned prestigious internships across the country to complete their work for a Ph.D. Each year,... -
The 2017 Special Education Fellows (l-r): Katie Greenberg, Kyle Rehder, Bethany Hicks, Brenda Bilton, and Jenna Dotts (not pictured, Maria Darling)
Brenda Bilton, Maria Darling, Jenna Dotts, Katie Greenberg, Bethany Hicks, and Kyle Rehder of UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School have received 2016-2017 Special Education Fellowships. These fellowships, made possible by Dick and Peggy Lamb...
June 8, 2017
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Ann Lippincott of UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School will give the presentation “Mental Health Matters” as part of Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital’s Psychiatric Grand Rounds Series on Wednesday, June 14 from 12 noon – 1:30 pm in the Burtness...
June 7, 2017
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The 2017 Critelli Fellows surrounded by Ann Lippincott and Ned Emerson (l-r): Emily Bond, Lydia Valdez, Priscilla Leung
Emily Bond, Priscilla Leung, and Lydia Valdez of UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School have received 2016-2017 Marika Ann Critelli Memorial Fellowships for Community Service. This fellowship is designated for Teacher Education Program (TEP)...
June 5, 2017
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(l-r): The 2017 “Hope” Fellows Brenda Bilton and Kyle Rehder with Vivian Guerrier’s son Ken Guerrier, his wife Heidi, and Vivian’s namesake granddaughter (not pictured: Alison Gomon)
Brenda Bilton, Alison Gomon and Kyle Rehder of UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School were named the recipients of the 2017 Guerrier “Hope” Fellowships. The “Hope” Fellowships are awarded to Teacher Education Program credential students who...
June 1, 2017
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The 2017 Dr. J Teaching Fellows with Sue Jamgochian (l-r), Erik Blundell, Danni McConnell, Hratch Melkonian, Erica Cano and Jessica Gala (not pictured: Alison Gomon and Evelín Servín)
The Teacher Education Program at the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education at UC Santa Barbara has named its 2017 Dr. J Student Teacher Fellows: In the Multiple Subject Teaching Credential Track: Erica Cano Jessica Gala Evelín Servín In...
May 31, 2017
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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
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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
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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
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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 18, 2017
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A group of teaching credential candidates from UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School helped take part in an Accessibility Test Day at Santa Barbara’s new MOXI – The Wolf Museum of Exploration + Innovation. The students in UCSB’s Teacher...
May 16, 2017
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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-...