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Feature Videos
Recent Videos from the College of Education
One Page At A Time: Documenting Children's Literacy in Seattle
This 38-minute documentary, produced by Myra Aquino in 2009, showcases through interviews and footage from programs and events the importance of children's literacy, and how it is undertaken across different organizations in Seattle.
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College Student Awarded MAP Scholarship
Irene Monica Sanchez has been named a 2009 Multicultural Alumni Partnership (MAP) Scholar. You can learn more about Sanchez, the Ricardo Aguirre scholar,
in this feature from her first year as a College of Education.
Learn more about Sanchez and the other MAP scholars.»
National Network for Educational Renewal 2009
Those Who Dared: Five Visionaries Who Changed American Education
Deborah Meier, John Goodlad, James Comer, Henry Levin, Ted Sizer
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2009 Graduation: Keynote Speaker Ed Taylor
The 2009 College of Education Keynote Speech was delivered by Vice-Provost and Dean of Undergraduate Affairs Ed Taylor.
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Cap Peck: Assessing the State of Teacher Ed
Cap Peck is stepping down after six years as Director of the College's Teacher Education Program. Here he discusses for one last time "the State of TEP."
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2009 College of Education Research Conference
Research provides educators with the knowledge and tools needed to advance learning, and the UW College of Education is a leading research university focused on developing educational solutions for real-world problems.
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Danforth Program 20th Reunion
The keynote was delivered by Ed Taylor, (EDLPS) former Danforth faculty member and current Dean and Vice Provost for Undergraduate Academic Affairs. Taylor spoke on the leader’s role in creating a social justice agenda and honored the program’s commitment to equity and excellence.
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Center for Multicultural Education Booktalk: The Latino Education Crisis & The Color of Success
Patricia Gándara and Frances Contreras(The Latino Education Crisis) and Gilberto Conchas (The Color of Success), three academic authors address issues surrounding Latinos and education in the United States.
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John Goodlad
The Horace Mann League: Outstanding Friend of Public Education Award 2009 has gone to the College of Education's John Goodlad
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Ackerley Inquiry Project
Through the Ackerley Partner School Network, the UW College of Education and the Ginger & Barry Ackerley Family Foundation are focused on strengthening partnerships and increasing collaboration with 23 high needs schools.
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2008 College of Education Fall Lecture: Philip Bell
Philip Bell delivered the College of Education's Fall Lecture, titled Pathways to Excellence and Equity in Science, Math and Engineering Learning, on Oct. 28, 2008.
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Center for Multicultural Education Booktalk: Joy Williamson
Radicalizing the Ebony Tower: Black Colleges and the Black Freedom Struggle in Mississippi
Joy Williamson discusses her new book, a path-breaking examination of Black colleges in Mississippi during the Civil Rights and Black Power Movements.
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Popular Culture and the Arts in Africa: Shaheen Ariefdien
Shaheen Ariefdie speaks on "Cape Flats Up-Rocking: On Race, Resistance and Rap in South Africa." This talk was part of the UW Simpson Center's Popular Culture and the Arts in Africa series.
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The Evolution And Practice Of Social Justice In An Elementary Teacher Education Program: March 21 TNE Colloquium
Join Manka Varghese and Jennifer Stone as they discuss their investigations of how pre-service elementary teachers’ develop understandings and address issues of social justice in teaching.
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Connecting to the Environment: The Joys of an Early Childhood Outdoor Classroom
Research shows that today’s children spend most of their time indoors. Outdoor recess, environmental education, and art classes have disappeared as part of the standard curriculum in many school districts. The ECO classroom project gets students outside to interact with nature’s bounty.
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Teaching the Levees: The West Coast Launch of a Curriculum Guide about Teaching about Hurricane Katrina and its Aftermath
This special event marked the West Coast launch of a Curriculum Guide focused on teaching about Hurricane Katrina and its meaning for America. The curriculum takes Spike Lee’s When the Levees Broke as impetus, touchstone, and text for democratic dialogues in schools, colleges, and community organizations.
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Ellen Brantlinger: Dividing Classes: How the Middle Class Negotiates and Rationalizes School Advantage
Ellen Brantlinger Brantlinger’s book is receiving acclaim as a “take-no-prisoners ethnography” according to the Chronicle of Higher Education. Dividing Classes: How the Middle Class Negotiates and Rationalizes School Advantage combines observation and interviews in an analysis of how social class structure affects educational success.
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Joe Feagin: Backstage and Frontstage Racism
Has the level of racist thought, commentary, and action declined as much as public opinion surveys indicate? Or has much racist thought, commentary, and action becomeconcentrated in the “social backstage,” with less performed in the “social frontstage” because of pressures to be socially correct (“colorblind”) there?
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1st Annual Northwest Conference on Teaching for Social Justice:
Rethinking our Classrooms Organizing for Better Schools
Using stories and examples from her 30 years as an inner city classroom teacher in Portland, Ore., Keynote Speaker Linda Christensen will explore how she engages students in a critical study about the power of language.
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A Remarkable Accomplishment: Creating Futures at the UW College of Education
As part of a University-wide campaign, Campaign UW: Creating Futures, the College of Education set a goal to raise $23 million. Through the generosity of College of Education alumni, friends, faculty, and staff, we exceeded that goal by 50%.
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Building the Leadership Capacity Necessary to Eliminate the Achievement Gap
Dr. Lindamichellebaron, a former New York City public school teacher, is currently an Assistant Professor in the Teacher Education Department at York College (CUNY) in New York City. As an author and poet, Lindamichellebaron’s books include: The Sun Is On (listed as a recommended book for New York State middle schools), Rhythm & Dues, For the Love of Life and Anthony Ant and Grady Grasshopper.
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2008 Distinguished Graduate Award Winner Christine Gregoire
Dean Wasley also awarded the prestigious Distinguished Graduate Award to College of Education alumni Governor Christine Gregoire. “Governor Gregoire’s lifelong service to this state and her commitment to education have made us so proud to claim her as an alumnus. Indeed, her contributions to improving education will set a new standard for future recipients.”
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2008 College of Education Keynote Address, Alan Glenn
The Keynote address was delivered by professor and Dean Emeritus Allen Glenn. A leader in the field of teacher education, Glenn is retiring from the College of Education after a long, illustrious career as an educator, administrator, and leader.
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2008 College of Education Commencement, Opening Remarks
A beaming Dean Pat Wasley, delivered the welcome address, stating, “We are pat wasley in regaliacounting on you to change the system; we believe that you will invest your newly honed intellect, passion, and expertise in creating a better education system.
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Program Profile : Experimental Education Unit 2008
The Experimental Education Unit (EEU) is a comprehensive early childhood play video graphicprogram 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.
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Seeds of Compassion: Conversation with Lama Tenzin Dhonden
As part of the Seeds of Compassion gathering, His Holiness the Dalai Lama's personal emissary for Peace, the Venerable Lama Tenzin Dhoden sat down for tea with UW students to discuss matters relating to compassion and how it can be learned and taught.
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College of Education 2008 Research Conference
The UW College of Education is a leading research university focused on developing educational solutions for real-world problems. These videos from the January, 2008, College of Education Research Conference feature faculty presentations on their most recent research activities.
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Rafe Esquith Alumni Event: Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire
One of the most respected author/educators in America (and the only school teacher ever to win the president's National Medal of Arts), Rafe Esquith has spent the last 25 years changing lives in Room 56. Here he discusses his newest book, Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire.
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Seeds of Compassion: College of Education Students Weigh in on Compassion
In anticipation of the Seeds of Compassion Gathering, and of the visit by His Holiness the Dalai Lama to Seattle, we asked fifteen College of Education graduate students these two fundamental questions about compassion.
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Teachers for a New Era Research Colloquia Series
The Teachers for a New Era Research Colloquia Series convenes regularly to promote the current work of TNE researchers.
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College of Education Student Julie Kang
Doctoral student Julie Kang is one of six University of Washington recipients of the Multicultural Alumni Partnership award
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Center for Multicultural Education 24th Symposium Lecture: Citizenship, Multiculturalism, and Minority Education in Britain
Center for Multicultural Education 24th Symposium Lecture:
Citizenship, Multiculturalism and Minority Education in Britain: a Question of Civil Rights or Human Rights?
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Madeleine Grumet: Teaching and the Politics of the Possible
COE Lecture: Teaching and the Politics of the Possible
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Northwest Mathematics Conference Keynote: Why do Businesses Support Efforts to Improve the Teaching and Learning of Mathematics?
The 46th Annual Northwest Mathematics Conference Keynote: "Why do businesses support efforts to improve the teaching and learning of mathematics?"
October 11, 2007
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Conference on Early Learning at UW: From Research into Action
The Conference on Early Learning at the UW: From Research into Action
September 25, 2007
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Gloria Ladson-Billings at the Center for Educational Leadership: Pushing Past the Achievement Gap
Center for Educational Leadership: Summer Leadership Institute VI: Pushing Past the Achievement Gap
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J.R. Hayes: Temporal Patterns in Text Production
J. R. Hayes, co-author of the most influential model of the cognitive processes in writing, delivers the COE Lecture: Temporal Patterns in Text Production.
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