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College of Education in the News
Cerebral palsy student to graduate with UW doctorate
King 5.com
February 9, 2007
This year the University of Washington will confer degrees on more than 10,000 students. One of those students receiving an advanced degree from the psychology department is Kristin Rytter, a remarkable woman with a remarkable achievement. Rytter’s professors call her brilliant and funny. The world calls her disabled - severely disabled - by cerebral palsy. And after nearly two decades of work at the UW, she’s happy if you called her "doctor." More»
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Education Professor Frances Contreras among NW Asian Weekly’s rising stars
University Week
January 18, 2007
Frances Contreras, UW assistant professor of Education Leadership and Policy Studies, will be among those honored by the newspaper Northwest Asian Weekly in its Women of Color Empowered luncheon series. Contreras was chosen because of the effect she has had in increasing the visibility of the Latino community on the UW campus and for helping to recruit Latinas and female Hispanic students. More»
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A Cultural Approach to Education: Dana Arviso
Campaign UW Newsletter
Fall 2006
Dana Arviso faced a daunting task. Just out of college, she was asked to design a new curriculum for the young children she was teaching on the Bishop Paiute reservation in California. Having grown up on reservations in California and Arizona, Arviso was familiar with the challenges facing Native American students when it came to literacy. She knew that the culture’s rich tradition of oral history did not always translate to strong literacy skills in a traditional school environment. More»
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55-mile swim around Lake Washington takes 37 hours
Seattle Times
August 28, 2006
For most people, a weekend swim means spending an hour or two splashing about in the lake. For Tyler Patterson, it meant swimming for 37 hours, at times chasing a glow stick through milfoil in the dead of night. The swim was a fundraiser for the Experimental Educational Unit, a school at the University of Washington for young children with disabilities. More»
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Educational treatments for autism
KUOW Broadcast
August 8, 2006
Professor Ilene Schwartz was a featured guest on KUOW’s Weekday program. Schwartz joined host Steve Scher in a conversation about autism. More»
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Banks book wins stellar reviews
University Week
July 20, 2006
Education Professor James Banks spent the past school year as a Spencer Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, where he also finished a new book that was published to excellent reviews.
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To what are we pledging our allegiance?
Seattle PI
Op-ed by Walter Parker
July 4, 2006
On each Fourth of July at the Seattle Center Flag Pavilion, hundreds of immigrants become United States citizens. It happens with an oath and a pledge. The Oath of Allegiance is recited first. This is when the citizens-to-be declare that they renounce allegiance to the country from which they came. Then comes the Pledge of Allegiance, in which they promise loyalty to ... . To what?
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Public schools are hotbeds of democracy
Seattle PI
Op-ed by Walter Parker
March 9, 2006
Democracies don’t materialize out of thin air. They are created — and maintained and deepened — by citizens. If citizens are to safeguard civil liberties, elect wise officials, become wise officials themselves, make sense of the news and negotiate public policy with other citizens in an ever more diverse society, "their minds," as Thomas Jefferson said, "need to be improved to a certain degree."
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Class gives credit for solving real-world problems
UWeek
March 2, 2006
Who is responsible for addressing the epic problems of our age? What is society to do about homelessness, poverty, disease, discrimination, addiction, suicide, injustice and other widespread afflictions? . . . Lots of questions, to be sure, but these are the substantial matters being taken up by Eugene Edgar, a professor of special education, and his Winter Quarter honors seminar, "Public Problems: Who is Responsible and How Should They Be Solved?"
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Video Traces: A flexible new medium for instruction
UWeek
January 12, 2006
For educators — and coaches, directors and others without network feeds and instant replays at their fingertips — wouldn’t it be great if there was a program to enable people to capture still or moving images, annotate them by pointing with text or a spoken-word audio commentary and share them?
Reed Stevens, an associate professor of Educational Psychology and part of the leadership of the College of Education’s LIFE Center on the Science of Learning, has created just such a tool. It’s called Video Traces, and it’s a bit like a sports-style Telestrator on steroids, created to ramp up communication and information sharing without increasing technological difficulty or complexity.
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Teaching alone in a flat world
Seattle PI
Richard W. Riley and Patricia A. Wasley, Guest Columnists
December 15, 2005
As parents all over Washington visit their children’s schools to attend holiday concerts and parties, we should consider what else is going on in our schools. Our biggest concern is that too many good teachers who are making such an important difference in the lives of children won’t be back next year.
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A legacy uncovered: Education prof finds ‘treasure trove’ of teachers’ memories
University Week
December 1, 2005
Sometimes a research project evolves to become more than the sum of its parts. Even a small, fairly dry inquiry can bloom with context and meaning and begin unlocking larger truths -- about who we are, or have been, or are becoming. Occasionally.
That’s what appears to be happening with Education Professor Nathalie Gehrke’s research studying cultural factors that can affect k-12 teachers of Japanese heritage. It might mean more work for Gehrke and others in time, but the 27-year teaching and research veteran couldn’t be happier, or more fascinated.
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Doctoral programs to get global look
UWeek
November 10, 2005
The UW has convened a group of international innovators in doctoral education to explore the forces that are driving change around the globe and the forms that innovation is taking.
Experts from 14 countries participated in the first conference, held this September. They plan to create a worldwide network which will explore how local and global forces are causing changes in how doctoral students are educated, and to develop policy recommendations with broad application.
The conference was hosted by the UW’s Center for Innovation and Research in Graduate Education (CIRGE), which is directed by Maresi Nerad, associate graduate dean, whose interest in this subject goes back to her own postsecondary educational experience, which began in Germany and was completed at UC Berkeley.
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Dangerous Behavior
Weekday segment, KUOW
November 7, 2005
Listen to an archived interview on KUOW featuring College of Education Professor James Mazza as part of a guest panel on dangerous behavior.
Dangerous behavior among pre-teens caught the attention of the media when a few middle school students died playing the "choking game." Students were using anything from a jump rope to a karate belt to choke themselves with the intent of getting high. Young adolescences are also experimenting with other highs by using inhalants, drugs, and alcohol. Other dangerous behaviors include sex at a young age and reenactments of treacherous stunts seen on television. What causes this behavior to happen; stress, depression, lack of responsibility, or lack of parent involvement? What can we do as parents and mentors to help these children?
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COE Featured in UW Campaign
October, 2005
A television spot featuring the College of Education is airing on KING 5, KONG 6/16 and the Northwest Cable News network this fall. Radio ads about the program will begin airing on KOMO 1000, a web ad will appear on the UW website later in October, and print ads are scheduled to appear in the Seattle Times on 11/2 and 11/9, as well as the Husky Football program. The College was one of only three schools on campus selected to be featured in this phase of the UW’s Creating Futures promotional campaign.
Read article on UW Creating Futures website, Technology Infusion: UW College of Education Increases Outreach and Updates Teacher Preparation
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WASL: Community’s help crucial, scholars say
Seattle PI
September 1, 2005
There is no silver bullet, it’s not rocket science, but it does take a village to get a classroom of students all the way through their years of study to graduation. "We talk about the achievement gap," said Bill McDiarmid, Boeing professor of teacher-education at the University of Washington. "We ought to be talking about the resource gap."
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No good way to interpret laying off translators
Seattle PI
August 31, 2005
A friendly teacher and maybe a principal or community volunteer have been showing up at families’ front doors actually caring that students connect on that first day of classes. And parents will feel comfortable as well.
Such home visits can be lifelines to immigrant families. To them ominous notices arriving in the mail, rumors about threatened school closures, and the arcane language of enrollment forms can loom like a mystifying muddle.
That’s why Margery Ginsberg, a faculty member in the University of Washington College of Education, was so keen on the visits made this summer by her "advocacy teams" of 24 doctoral students aspiring to be school superintendents.
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Versatile, fun laptop is the Apple of my eye
Seattle PI
August 20, 2005
. . . An iBook is also the right tool for creating photo slide shows on the fly — sort of like this project I heard about: The University of Washington College of Education held a two-day workshop for educators to share teaching and leadership strategies. Someone took photographs during the sessions that captured strategies in action, and then used iPhoto and iMovie to put together a slide show that was presented at the farewell banquet.
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Autistic teens get help honing their social skills
Seattle Times
August 15, 2005
Crouched on the floor of a chaotic classroom, James Farmer encourages a 5-year-old boy with autism to fit pegs onto a puzzle board. The boy cannot speak and has difficulty focusing on the task at hand. "Keep going, that’s good," Farmer says as the boy begins to piece the puzzle together by himself.
Working with autistic kids is difficult. The neurological disorder disrupts connections in the brain that allow people to interact and communicate.
But Farmer, 15, has an unusual qualification for his summer job as an assistant teacher for developmentally disabled children at the University of Washington. He has autism, too, and knows how frustrating it can be, especially in school.
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Microsoft grant to UW, others, will help K12 teachers
University Week
July 21, 2005
Expanding connections and resources for new K12 teachers is at the heart of a two-year, $500,000 grant from Microsoft that the UW will share with three other universities, partnering with public school districts.
The UW will receive about $100,000 over the two-year period through Microsoft’s award to the National Commission on Teaching and America’s Future, the commission announced recently. The money will go to scale up its Teachers Learning in Networked Communities project, which provides online communities that support and offer professional development for teachers from their preparation programs through the certification process.
The project will provide means for facilitated online discussions, individual and group mentoring and a searchable database of education resources. The project has the goals of improving teacher retention and growing greater partnerships within and across schools and communities. The grant adds the UW and three other institutions partnering with school districts to four such pre-existing partnerships. The grants are part of Microsoft’s US Partners in Learning initiative. For more information about the initiative, visit online at www.microsoft.com/education. For more information about the nonprofit National Commission on Teaching and America’s Learning, visit www.nctaf.org.
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Teacher turnover an issue
Seattle Times
March 30, 2005
Schools with high poverty levels and low standardized-test scores lost more teachers, on average, than other schools in the Edmonds School District, according to a statewide study on teacher retention. Edmonds was among 20 school districts in Washington whose personnel records were examined for the study, sponsored by the nonprofit Center for Strengthening the Teaching Profession and conducted by University of Washington researchers.
The findings suggest that what was once a big-city-school problem — high teacher turnover — is also an issue in districts such as Edmonds, which has seen an increase in the number of poor and non-English-speaking students over the past decade.
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Teacher training paid off, UW research says
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
March 8, 2005
For Claudia Allan, the special training she received in her first year as a teacher was an "incredible experience." For the more experienced Victoria Romero, the training was "one of those really defining moments" of her teaching career.
But the program that Allan and Romero participated in nearly 20 years ago wasn’t really about them: It was designed to measure the worth of certain elementary-school teaching strategies in steering students away from the pitfalls of adolescence and toward success in school and on the job. According to a report published this year by University of Washington researchers, it worked.
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Banks bridges education, equality
Seattle Times
March 3, 2005
Schools cannot close the achievement gap between white and minority students without addressing prejudice and cultural differences as part of reform efforts, the head of the University of Washington’s Center for Multicultural Education says. "Putting people in small schools is not sufficient. You have to get in there and transform relationships," said James Banks, who, over the past 40 years, has written or edited 20 books and more than 100 articles on race and education.
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Inside the autism treatment maze
MSNBC
February 23, 2005
As part of a week at NBC focusing on autism, there was an article featuring the Experimental Education Unit, with COE Professor Ilene Schwartz doing a voiceover for an audio slide show segment.
Read the complete article» (To see the audio slide show segment featuring the EEU, click on "audio slide show", then click on "ABA therapy.")
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Why Do Teachers Quit?
Weekday segment, KUOW
December 20, 2004
Listen to an archived interview on KUOW, entitled "Why do Teachers Quit?" Guests included Bill McDiarmid from Teachers for a New Era; Sandra Coan, a former teacher who taught Kindergarten for two years and team-taught 5th grade for a year at Van Asselt Elementary; and Elizabeth Sinclair, a 4th and 5th grade teacher at AE2 for 14 years.
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Prep School
Columns
December, 2004
Sure, the dropout rate among high school students is troubling. But an equally frightening statistic is the number of young teachers who leave the profession every year. The national dropout rate among teachers is nearly 50 percent over five years. If that pattern continues, half of the teachers who entered the profession this September will leave before they finish their fifth year in the classroom.
But at the University of Washington, a new partnership between the College of Education and the College of Arts and Sciences is working to reverse this trend. Armed with a $5 million grant from the Carnegie Foundation, the two colleges have opened the Washington Center for Teaching and Learning.
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10 voices from afar singing a new song
Seattle Times
Sunday, September 12, 2004
Molo Care, a program started by Ed Taylor from the University of Washington College of Education, brought South Africa to Seattle in the form of this award-winning high-school choir, to let people see — and hear — firsthand what their support can do. School costs dollars their families seldom have. Their communities are shantytowns. Their options are few. It seems all they can do is sing and dream — and two days in the studio last week with Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder allowed them both.
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Taught to be principals: new principals join students returning to school
Seattle Times
Wednesday, September 08, 2004
Today, as 47,000 Seattle Public Schools students begin the 2004-05 school year, Veronica Gallardo and 28 other newly appointed principals will be starting afresh as well. Many have been groomed from within, either as assistant principals or like Gallardo as principal interns through the University of Washington’s Danforth Educational Leadership Program.
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