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Did you Know?

Check out these fun facts about the most recent incoming class of College of Education students. What is the most common name? How many countries are represented? What is the most common birth month? Read more >>

Danforth And L4L Updates

Learn about student awards and Danforth events. Read more >>

Alum Profile: Meet Terryl Ross

Director of Community and Diversity for Oregon State University, Terryl Ross is an alum with a professional and personal history dedicated to diversity and inclusion. He has been a: college student body president, DJ, head football coach, documentary filmmaker, small business owner, Army intelligence officer, consultant, and leader in local and national political campaigns. Read more >>

Inspired by a Pair of Exceptional Educators, 22 Donors Come Together for One Shared Cause

The first Helen and Dick Olsen scholarship was given out this past year, awarded to a College of Education student who aspires to be a future teacher. Yet what makes this scholarship truly unique is that it was provided by twenty-two different individuals. Read more >>

Bridging Contemporary Science and Youth Culture

The UW Institute for Science and Mathematics Education in collaboration with the UW Department of Genome Sciences has been awarded a National Science Foundation ITEST award to develop and study curriculum units focused on the use of a genome sciences database. Read more >>

Office of Research Support: Archive of All Grant-Opportunity Announcements

The College has launched a web-based archive of all grant-opportunity announcements. Users can sort by posting date, sponsor, deadline, and title of grant program.  Go to Office of Research Support and click on “Grant Listings”.

Current Student Spotlight: Sarah Kavanagh

A singer and a teacher, Sarah Kavanagh is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the area of Curriculum and Instruction. Read more >>

Center for Innovation and Research in Graduate Education

CIRGE’s national “PhD – Ten Years Later survey”  findings were cited in Louis Menand’s (Pulitzer Prize author, and Harvard professor) new book, The PhD Problem: On the professionalization of faculty life doctoral training, and the academy’s self-renewal. Read more about recent happenings at CIRGE >>

Current Student Spotlight: Aaron Modica

Meet a grad student whose work in education and academic background drew him to the Educational Leadership and Policy Studies program. Seattle's snowboarding community didn't hurt either.
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Report from National Network for Educational Renewal

The conference was held October 14-17, 2009 in Bellevue, WA.  Over 400 people attended, including many school district superintendents and other college of education deans and faculty.  See highlights including video and photos captured at this year's NNER Conference. Congratulations to Dean Wasley, Eugene Edgar (conference co-chair) as well as other COE staff, faculty and students who presented and volunteered there to help make this conference a success.

Video: National Network for Educational Renewal 2009 Annual Conference Keynote Panel

For decades, practically every major initiative in American education (from top-down standards to the testing movement) has moved decision-making farther away from the school. Throughout their careers, Deborah Meier, John Goodlad, James Comer, Ted Sizer, and Henry Levin have been at the forefront of the fight against this trend, working to give our schools back the ability to educate students in the broadest and richest traditions of activity, inquiry, and problem solving. Now these visionary educators have joined together to share their personal stories of the challenges and triumphs they faced in the classroom, and their ideas of what education can and should be for every student. Watch the video >>

Video: College Student Awarded MAP Scholarship

Irene Monica Sanchez has been named a 2009 Multicultural Alumni Partnership (MAP) Scholar. The Ricardo Aguirre scholarship is named for a prominent figure in the Seattle Latino community. You can learn more about Sanchez, the Ricardo Aguirre scholar, in this feature from her first year as a College of Education student in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies.  Or watch a compelling video about Sanchez and her fellow scholars. Watch now >>

Shout Out from the OMRR!

New digs, new staff, and more updates. Read on for OMRR updates >>

Multicultural Notes

The Center for Multicultural Education’s first enewsletter is now online.  Read about the launch of the International Companion to Multicultural Education, Gloria Ladson-Billing’s Summer Visit, an interview with Geneva Gay, and more >>.

One Page At A Time: Documenting Children's Literacy in Seattle

Using interviews and primary footage, this documentary focuses on the importance of children’s literacy and how it is undertaken across different organizations in Seattle. A research project for the Zesbaugh Scholarship program, this 38-minute film was produced by Myra Aquino. Lean more >>