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March 14, 2022
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Ana Mercado of UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School has been chosen as the 2022 Dr. Sabrina Tuyay Memorial Fellow recipient. This fellowship acknowledges teacher candidates who have shown a commitment to providing thoughtful literacy and...
March 10, 2022
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Amaranta Ramirez earns The Donald R. Atkinson Diversity Enhancement Award for 2021-22. The award honors Professor Emeritus Donald R. Atkinson for his 30 years of service to the profession of counseling psychology. During his tenure,...
March 8, 2022
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Mark Martinez was named the recipient of the 2022 Guerrier “Hope” Fellowship. The “Hope” Fellowship is awarded to a Teacher Education Program credential student who demonstrates the sense of personal courage and hope that Vivian Guerrier...
March 3, 2022
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Sarah Roberts of UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School has been awarded a Faculty Early Career Development Grant of $1.1 million from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The grant will fund the project “Understanding the Routinization of...
March 2, 2022
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2021 Milken Award winner Michelle Iwasaki (center); photo credit Milken Family Foundation
Alumna Michelle Iwasaki of UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School has won a Milken Educator Award and $25,000 to spend however she wishes. Iwasaki is an academic coach at Kalihi Kai Elementary School in Honolulu, Hawaii. At an all-school...
March 1, 2022
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One breakout room from the Virtual Fellowship Breakfast 2022
The speakers at this year’s Virtual Fellowship Breakfast expressed their sincere gratitude to our community of donors and supporters who play a critical role in filling the widening gap in state funding of public education. In his keynote... -
Participants from The Gevirtz School and UC Santa Barbara 2022 American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting San Diego, CA April 21 – April 26, 2022 and the 2022 National Council on Measurement in Education Annual Meeting...
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Counted separately for each of their appearances, 114 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 51 events,...
February 28, 2022
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NASA vision of climate change: the earth in 2100
Department of Education adds Climate Sciences and Climate Change optional interdisciplinary emphasisThe Department of Education at the Gevirtz School has added the Climate Sciences and Climate Change interdisciplinary emphasis as an option for its doctoral students. The addition of this option reflects a growing need for research and...
February 25, 2022
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Lindita Djokovic, a doctoral student in the Clinical Psychology emphasis, studies mental disparities among underserved communities (i.e., ethnic minorities), identifying culturally sensitive trauma interventions, and psychosocial responses... -
Sheila Modir (Counseling, Clinical, and School Psychology, Ph.D., ’17), alumna of UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School—along with Jeff Kashou, LMFT and illustrator Monica Mikai —has written The Proudest Color (Workman Publishing,...
February 23, 2022
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Michael Furlong of UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School—along with Kelly-Ann Allen of Monash University, Australia, Dianne Vella-Brodrick of University of Melbourne, Australia, and Shannon Suldo of the University of South Florida—has co-...
February 22, 2022
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Isabel López, proud first-generation college student, daughter to immigrant parents, and doctoral student in Counseling Psychology, studies how factors such as acculturation, mental health knowledge, and barriers to care all influence help... -
Joey Graham is currently pursuing a Single Subject Teaching Credential in History and Social Sciences and a Master’s of Education in the Teacher Education Program. She graduated from UC Santa Cruz in June of 2020 with a Bachelor of Arts in...
February 16, 2022
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Emily Ferguson, a doctoral candidate in UC Santa Barbara’s Department of Counseling, Clinical & School Psychology, has been awarded a 2022 Fahs-Beck Doctoral Dissertation Grant. This grant is funded by the Fahs-Beck Fund for Research... -
Heidi Zetzer, Director of the Carol Ackerman Positive Psychology Clinic in the Department of Counseling, Clinical & School Psychology, will give the Zoom lecture “The Psychology of Flourishing” on Tuesday, February 2 from 12 – 1:30 pm...
February 14, 2022
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One week, multiple subject candidates in our Teacher Education Program are at Campus Point, gathering objects they find, drawing Venn diagrams in the sand. The next week, the same students are on the Ackerman fourth floor patio of the... -
Tim Dewar from the Gevirtz School’s Department of Education will be a member of the faculty panel “Teaching the UCSB Reads Book, Exhalation: Stories by Ted Chiang” on Wednesday, February 16 from 12 noon – 1 pm. Those interested...
February 8, 2022
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Somer Levine, a second-year doctoral student in the Department of Education, was awarded the 2022 James D. and Carol N. Dixon Fellowship. This fellowship supports MA or Ph.D. students with a focus on reading studies and/or the broader...
February 7, 2022
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Pa Vue (Education, MA,'11) currently is pursuing a Ph.D. in the Critical Studies of Race, Class, and Gender at the Graduate School of Education at UC Berkeley. Vue documents her doctorate journey in detail within her informative and women-... -
UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School has named Charlene Macharia the recipient of the 2022 Delaine A. Eastin Fellowship. This fellowship is given to a graduate student pursuing an MA or Ph.D. in the Department of Education who is the first in...
February 3, 2022
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The Gevirtz School’s Department of Education will hold the webinar “A Conversation with Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Leadership” on Tuesday, February 15 from 12 noon – 1:30 pm. Those interested can register for the event online...
February 2, 2022
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The 2021-22 Community Fellows: Betsabe Lopez Morales (top left), Yesenia Munoz (top right), Esmeralda Reyes (bottom left), and Jessica Zamora Sanchez (bottom right)
Four UC Santa Barbara Teacher Education Program students—Betsabe Lopez Morales, Yesenia Munoz, Esmeralda Reyes, and Jessica Zamora Sanchez—are the current PEAC Community Fellows. They are the third cohort of an innovative program that...
January 31, 2022
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Richard Durán of UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School has been elected to the prestigious National Academy of Education (NAEd). As an honorific society, the Academy consists of U.S. members and international associates—fewer than 300...
January 27, 2022
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The Gevirtz Graduate School of Education is excited to announce that it will hold its third annual Research Symposium on Friday, May 20th from 9 am to 2 pm, and on Saturday, May 21st from 10 am to 2 pm in the Education Building classrooms...