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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...
March 29, 2018
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Counted separately for each of their appearances, 111 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 57 events,... -
American Educational Research Association 2018 Annual Meeting April 13 – April 17, 2018, New York, NY Participants from The Gevirtz School and UC Santa Barbara Friday, April 13 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm Mandy McLean Jasmine McBeath Tyler...
March 28, 2018
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Anuroopa Kalbag, alumna of UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School, was recognized by the Rotary Club of Santa Barbara for her outstanding work and significant contributions to public education. Kalbag, a math teacher at Dos Pueblos High School... -
Jeffrey Milem, dean and professor at UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School, is the featured speaker for the Dean’s Diversity Lecture Series at Vanderbilt’s Peabody College of education and human development. Milem’s lecture, “Education,...
March 26, 2018
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The Santa Barbara ACEs research team, Maryam Kia-Keating on the left
Maryam Kia-Keating, an Associate Professor of clinical psychology in UC Santa Barbara’s Department of Counseling, Clinical, and School Psychology, was contacted in the summer 2016 to collaborate in an innovative initiative focused on...
March 20, 2018
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The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) have chosen Miya Barnett, an assistant professor in the Department of Counseling, Clinical and School Psychology at UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz... -
Congratulations to all Department of Counseling, Clinical and School Psychology doctoral candidates who were matched with internships for next year! We spoke to Erin Engstrom, 4th year doctoral student in CCSP, about what her plans are for...
March 19, 2018
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Jin Sook Lee, a professor in the Department of Education at UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School, along with Mary Bucholtz, a UCSB Professor in Linguistics and Gevirtz School affiliated faculty member, have edited the just released ...
March 14, 2018
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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, will begin the new...
March 13, 2018
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Jane Huson, alumna of UC Santa Barbara’s Teacher Education Program, has been chosen a 2017-18 Irvine Unified School District (IUSD) Teacher of Promise. This annual honor goes to first- or second-year instructors who go above and beyond... -
Heather Macias is a doctoral student in the Department of Education with research interests in multilingual literacy, literacy education, and sociocultural learning theory under Dr. Richard Duran. Prior to starting her Ph.D., Heather...
March 8, 2018
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Danielle Harlow of UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School will be part of a team led by computer scientists at the University of Chicago that will enable practical-scale quantum computing. This project, called EPiQC, is a multi-disciplinary...
March 6, 2018
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Michael Gottfried of UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School has been chosen an Outstanding Reviewer for 2017 by the American Educational Research Association (AERA) and Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis (EEPA). The...
March 5, 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 “Socialization in Schools and the Community for Children with Autism...
March 2, 2018
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Faculty and students from UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School took major roles in 15 events at the annual conference of the National Association of School Psychologists (NASP) in Chicago, IL from February 13-16. The National Association of...
March 1, 2018
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Growing coalition of national education organizations sign on to eight-point violence prevention plan Drs. Shane Jimerson and Michael Furlong of UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School are two of the authors to develop the recently released “...
February 27, 2018
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Jacob Kirksey from UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School has recently been awarded a grant from the NSF’s Graduate Research Opportunities Worldwide (GROW) program. This grant was only open to active awardees of the Graduate Research Fellowship...
February 23, 2018
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UC Santa Barbara Gevirtz School doctoral student Mercedes Fernández Oromendia has recently accepted a postdoctoral fellowship at UCLA-TIES for Families. UCLA-TIES for Families is an interdisciplinary program that serves to optimize the...
February 21, 2018
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Dr. Jean Schultz, the French language program director at UC Santa Barbara, will give the talk “Implementing an Ecological Interdisciplinary Approach to Language Teaching: Biological Topics in French” on Tuesday, February 27 at 4 pm in ED...
February 20, 2018
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As a doctoral candidate in the Department of Education, Tiange Wang aims to support students’ bilingual and bi-literacy development through her research at a Chinese-English Dual Language Immersion (DLI) program. Although she is currently...
February 16, 2018
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Alan Vu during his first trip to Spain [photo courtesy UCSB Department of History]
UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School laments the passing of Alan Vu, who was to enter the Department of Education as a master’s student this fall. Vu grew up in San Jose, CA where he attended St. Francis High School. He graduated from UC...
February 13, 2018
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These past few months have seen many tragedies within the Santa Barbara community. Some of our UC Santa Barbara students have been faced with trauma in the wake of these disasters, and the Hosford Counseling and Psychological Services... -
Interested in becoming a special education teacher? Check out our interview with current Teacher Education Program student, Tom Stephens. He shares what experiences inspired him to teach and explains how both low and high tech assistive...