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JON ORGAN | In Memoriam
The College of Education community mourns the loss of long-time staff member Jon Organ, 1965-2009
MARTINEZ FELLOWS | Students
The Martinez Foundation has awarded its first fellowships to aspiring teachers of color...
Community
Innovative Programs
In addition to award-winning and nationally recognized faculty, the College of Education has created wide variety of programs that are identifying and providing solutions to the problems faced by our schools. Because of their knowledge, experience and connection with the community, faculty and researchers in the College are uniquely poised to identify areas of learning and education that are critical to the future of education and are not being addressed.
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Center for Learning in Informal and Formal Environments (LIFE)
The purpose of the LIFE Center is to unlock the mysteries and powers of human learning as it occurs in informal and formal settings from infancy to adulthood. One of only four initial institutions to be funded by the National Science Foundation, it is an interdisciplinary collaboration between learning scientists at the University of Washington, Stanford University, SRI International, and other institutions across the country. Since 2004, the LIFE Center has studied how people learn in everyday situations and how that learning can be applied to the more formal classroom setting.Researchers and faculty members are studying how the use of virtual environments such as Second Life can aid in learning by simulating a real-life experience.
The Everyday Science and Technology Group spends countless hours with students from a multi-ethnic, multi-lingual, lower income urban school in Seattle to examine how their day-to-day life experiences can be connected with science and technology learning in the classroom.
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Experimental Education Unit: The Experimental Education Unit (EEU) is a comprehensive early childhood program serving young children from birth through kindergarten. In EEU classrooms, young children diagnosed with autism, Down syndrome, and other disabilities learn alongside their typically developing peers. The EEU was one of the first centers to implement inclusive education and continues to pioneer new practices and methods.
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Teachers for a New Era: The UW is one of 11 universities selected for the Carnegie Corporation’s Teachers for a New Era (TNE) program. Through TNE, the College of Education and the College of Arts and Sciences will work together to create a new model for teacher preparation, and track graduates’ in-classroom success as educators throughout their careers.
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Mathematics Education Project: Through the Mathematics Education Project (MEP) COE faculty and students partner with school districts in Washington to improve K-12 math instruction and learning though in-school professional development with math teachers. The Mathematics Education Project draws on research-based resources to increase educators' knowledge of mathematics and pedagogy to improve student learning. The MEP intends to reach out to other communities in the state and region.
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Center for Multicultural Education: The Center for Multicultural Education focuses on research projects and activities designed to improve practice related to equity issues, inter-group relations, and the achievement of students of color.
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Intercollegiate Athletic Leadership program: Taught by UW faculty from the College of Education and the School of Business, as well as senior leaders in professional and intercollegiate athletics this first-of-its-kind graduate program prepares students to assume various leadership positions within intercollegiate athletics. The curriculum balances the need for developing competencies in financial skills, strategic planning, evaluation, development and leadership. It also advances your knowledge of how athletics is uniquely situated within intercollegiate settings and the positive impact it has on student athletes.
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Experimental Education Unit Summer Camp: The EEU Summer serves elementary, kindergarten and preschool age children afflicted with developmental disabilities such as autism, Asperger syndrome and Down syndrome, which impair learning and social skills. Without high-quality, integrated and intensive educational experiences early in life, these children may not have access to the education they deserve and will always struggle to fully participate in the community. Early childhood development experts agree that children with developmental disabilities need structured, integrated programming year-round. As the only summer program available in the area, the camp fills the gap in treatment that can occur between school years while offering campers a chance to have fun during the summer months. More than 95 percent of the campers face a potential regression in learned skills without expanded programming maintain or improve their skill set as a result of spending time at the camp. And the need for the EEU summer camp has never been greater. Autism rates continue to climb, increasing more that 1000 percent since the camp opened in 1995. During the same timeframe, the camp's enrollment has nearly tripled -- a testament to the demand for our services and our effectiveness in delivering them.
For more information or to support any of the research or programs, contact:
College of Education
University of Washington
Box 353600
Seattle, WA 98195-3600
Phone: 206-543-1035
edudev@u.washington.edu
