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At first, Si Kou planned to go into business, but after her mother died, she searched for a path that would hold more meaning for her. That's when she found UW's Early Childhood and Family Studies (ECFS) program.

Kou now works at The Children's Center at Burke Gilman Gardens (TCC) as its program manager. She started at TCC as an ECFS intern while earning her bachelor's degree in 2008 and has worked there since graduation.

For the 2022-23 academic year, eight doctoral students at the UW College of Education were selected as members of the fifth cohort of Unite:Ed's Community Partner Fellows program.

Today, Google announced it will give $400,000 to the University of Washington (UW) College of Education’s Secondary Teacher Education Program (STEP) Computer Science (CS) Program. The unrestricted gift will grow the new STEP CS program and subsidize the tuition of teacher candidates from groups that are underrepresented in CS – Black+, Latinx+, Native American+, Pacific Islander and/or students with disabilities, and those who identify as women, trans and/or non-binary.

Her arthritic hands sorted the cherries as she spoke about dreams to her daughter, Henedina Tavares. These dreams didn’t involve back-breaking physical work or living paycheck to paycheck. Similar conversations played out with parents and children throughout their community, instilling in these young people a drive to achieve. Yet, when these same students went to high school with the highest aspirations of any students, they were the least likely to access the courses they needed to go to college.