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May 9, 2018
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Alumna Kelly Keene--a 2018 Santa Barbara County Distinguished New Educator--interviewed on Education Matters by SBCEO Superintendent Susan Salcido (also a GGSE alumna).
May 1, 2018
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Jacob Kirksey, a doctoral student at UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School, has received the Emerging Scholars Award for Excellence in Research and Public Policy. The Emerging Scholars Award recognizes excellence in graduate student research... -
The Gevirtz School at UC Santa Barbara has named its 2017-18 CalTeach Physical Sciences and Engineering (CTPSE) Noyce Scholars, two students working on their teaching credentials in science (physics) in the Teacher Education Program. The... -
The release and signing of the Curie-osity Project’s 4-6th grade authors’ new book, STEMinists: The Lifework of 12 Women Scientists and Engineers (Xóchitl Justice Press), will be on May 7 from 6 pm to 7 pm at Chaucer's Bookstore, 3321... -
To help increase the exposure of the UC Santa Barbara student body to the latest research in a variety of disciplines that concern educational issues, the Gevirtz School, with support from UCSB Associated Students, has begun the new...
April 26, 2018
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Registration is now open for the first Methods University. Housed in the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education, Methods U is a two-day intensive statistical workshop focused on a specific topic. There are four different two-day (June 11-12...
April 25, 2018
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The 2017-18 STELLER Noyce Scholars (l-r): Tiffany Yeh, Isabella Marill, Tomek Buras, Sydni Baker, and Gerardo Duran (not pictured: Evan Mundahl)
The Gevirtz School at UC Santa Barbara has named its 2017-18 STEM Teachers for English Language Learners: Excellence and Retention (STELLER) Noyce Scholars, six students working on their teaching credentials in mathematics and science in...
April 24, 2018
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Department of Education doctoral candidate Justin McClinton has been selected as a fellow by the National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement. Through their research, the fellows explore issues ranging from what the latest data...
April 23, 2018
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The Teacher Education Program at UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School will hold a School Maker Faire on Saturday, April 28 from 11 am – 1 pm at the Education Building on the UCSB campus. Like other Maker Faires, this event will celebrate “... -
The next event in the monthly Autism Seminar & Discussion (ASD) series—sponsored by UC Santa Barbara’s Koegel Autism Center and the Santa Barbara Public Library—is “Promoting Well’Being in Caregivers of Individuals with Autism.” The...
April 20, 2018
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At the Faculty Legislature meeting announcing Academic Senate awards: (from l-r) Lilly Lew (Dept of Education grad student), Diana Chagolla (Dept of Education grad student), Bertin Solis (Dept of Education grad student), Jeremy Edwards (Outstanding TA awardee, Dept of Education grad student), Gevirtz School Dean Jeff Milem, Outstanding Graduate Mentor Award winner Richard Duran (Dept of Education professor), Zoe Welch (Outstanding TA awardee, Department of Ecology Evolution and Marine Biology, she was a student in Duran's ED 210A Advances in the Learning Sciences and Education in fall 2016).
Jeremy Edwards, a doctoral student in the Department of Education at UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School, has received a 2017-18 Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award. Teaching assistants play a vital role in enhancing the teaching mission of...
April 17, 2018
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Harding students, along with the GGSE DEan Jeff Milem and their prinicipal Veronica Binkley, at the touch tanks at the REEF during the 2017 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... -
Richard Durán surprised an a Department of Education meeting with the news he was named an Outstanding Graduate Mentor
Richard Durán, Professor in the Department of Education at UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School, has received a 2017-18 Outstanding Graduate Mentor Award. Mentoring graduate students is a vital component of UCSB’s mission as a research... -
Kelleher in the Ed Building hallway with one of her favorite literary characters
After graduating from college, Allie Kelleher committed to a year of service with the AmeriCorps program as a Literacy Tutor in a Santa Barbara elementary school. This experience inspired her to pursue her teaching credential in History/...
April 16, 2018
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Dean Jeffrey Milem of UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School will be the invited speaker at the next Chancellor’s Breakfast, to be held Thursday, April 19 from 7:30 am – 9 am at El Paseo Restaurant, 813 Anacapa St., Santa Barbara. Milem will... -
Jacob Kirksey and Jasmine McBeath, doctoral students in the Department of Education at the Gevirtz School will compete in the semi-final round of the 2018 UC Santa Barbara’s Graduate Student Showcase Grad Slam. Kirksey will compete on...
April 12, 2018
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UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School alumnus Martin Connell has been named rector at the Jesuit School of Theology (JST) of Santa Clara University. Fr. Connell will begin his new role this summer. Fr. Connell expressed his excitement about... -
Award winner Sally Delyser (center), with Natalie Holdren, Cal-TASH president (left) and Tara Uliasz, Cal-TASH boardmember; all three are TEP alumnae
UC Santa Barbara Gevirtz School alumna Sally Delyser received the June Downing Outstanding Educator Award at the 2018 Cal-TASH conference in Sacramento in March. Cal-TASH is the California chapter of TASH, the international leader in...
April 11, 2018
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GGSE students have launched a new blog called Grad Tavern as a way for graduate students to showcase their important work to a broader audience. Graduate students perform research that has powerful policy and practice implications. However...
April 10, 2018
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The Pushouts (directed by Katie Galloway) interrogates crucial questions of race, class and power in the education system. This documentary focuses on the work UC Santa Barbara sociologist Victor Rios conducted with a group of...
April 9, 2018
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David Liu & Bryant Hopkins
To help increase the exposure of the UC Santa Barbara student body to the latest research in a variety of disciplines that concern educational issues, the Gevirtz School, with support from UCSB Associated Students, has begun the new...
April 4, 2018
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The second edition of The Dean’s Lecture Series on Education, Diversity and Democracy, presented by UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School, will feature a lecture by Dr. Daniel G. Solorzano—“ Using the Critical Race Tool of Racial...
April 3, 2018
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All UC Santa Barbara alumni or those who are a Gaucho in spirit get to celebrate their pride, share their story, and support the university at giveday.ucsb.edu on Thursday, April 12. And among the many ways one can write UCSB’s next...
April 2, 2018
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The next event in the monthly Autism Seminar & Discussion (ASD) series—sponsored by UC Santa Barbara’s Koegel Autism Center and the Santa Barbara Public Library—is “Improving the IEP Experience.” The event, which is free and open to... -
Faculty and presenters at the 2017 Gevirtz School Grad Slam event
Eight Gevirtz School graduate students will take part in the School’s internal Grad Slam on April 3 and six students will participate in the 2018 UC Santa Barbara’s Graduate Student Showcase Grad Slam that runs from April 9-20. For both...