New! Online Reading Instruction Available in January |
Now you can take two of the core courses in reading instruction online, beginning this January: Language & Literacy (LRC 505) and The Teaching of Reading: Decoding & Comprehension (LRC 507). These graduate courses count toward a graduate degree, a UA Certificate in Reading Instruction, and the Arizona Department of Education Reading Endorsement. Register here or go here for more information.
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 | | Award recipient Stephanie Hall (right) with TLS Assistant Professor of Practice Crystal Soltero |
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Stephanie Hall was awarded the Robert J. Stahl Student Teacher Scholarship Award to support a single pre-service student teacher statewide who plans to enter the field of teaching K-12 social studies. She was honored at the annual conference for Arizona and received a $1,000 scholarship to offset costs associated with the semester of student teaching. It also included a year-long membership in both the Arizona and National Councils for the Social Studies. Stephanie is the first recepient of this award to come from UA.
That's how we like to do it at the College of Education!
Congratulations, Stephanie.
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We Are One
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Arizona is one of just 11 states to be awarded a Safe Supportive Schools contract. Educational Leadership Professor Kris Bosworth has a contract to provide training and technical assistance to more than 50 high schools
with high levels of discipline referrals, suspensions, or expulsions in the southern and central parts of the Arizona. The four-year, $600,000 grant includes similar contracts with NAU and ASU. |
| Save the Date! Erasmus Reception on April 6 |  |
The 2011 Erasmus Circle Reception will be held on Wednesday, April 6, at 5:30 p.m.
More information to come in a future E-News. You also may contact
Jessica Dennis if you have any questions or suggestions.
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Education E-News
December 2010
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 Happy Holidays from Dean Marx!
We are grateful for some remarkable achievements at the College of Education despite another challenging year. We are exploring new ideas about how we organize and provide education for our children. Many of the changes are in reaction to our chaotic economy, but the roots of the current turbulence can be traced to U.S. Secretary of Education Terrel Bell's A Nation at Risk, published nearly 30 years ago. Our faculty, staff, and students are rising to the challenge of these turbulent days. We are enthusiastically engaged with our partners in schools, colleges, and community agencies. For us, outreach, instruction, and research leverage each other to create a seamless agenda for action. We have many fine examples of how we are helping students and families as they strive to achieve their goals in education.
 Happy holidays to you and your friends and family, both near and far!Dean Ronald W. Marx
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A Big Day for Our Friend
Naomi Karp
Longtime friend and supporter Naomi Karp was recognized at last Saturday's commencement with an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from the College of Education.
Karp's work represents all that an institution of higher education should strive for --- service, teaching, and applying knowledge creation to the solution of pressing social problems. She holds two degrees from the UA and began her professional career in the Tucson Unified School District, where she served as special education teacher for 10 years. In the late 1970s, she relocated to Washington D.C., where she continued her career in education. She entered federal service in 1980 and later became director of the National Institute on Early Childhood Development and Education. She provided national leadership and oversaw the funding of virtually every important federal research and policy initiative in early childhood education for nearly a decade.
Since returning to Tucson seven years ago, she has continued to work as a champion for young children and their families in Arizona and throughout the country. She served as a consultant to the early childhood staff in Gov. Janet Napolitano's administration. Today, she works closely with our college to develop more effective programs in early childhood teacher education.
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Program to Aid Students with Intellectual Disabilities
We are the only institution in the state this year to be awarded U.S. Secretary of Education funding under a new program to help students with intellectual disabilities transition into college. Read the story here.
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 Associate Dean and Professor Jeffrey Milem co-authored the report with lawyers from EducationCounsel. It provides higher education officials with materials that can help guide the development of policies designed to advance institutional access and diversity goals. The report grew out of a series of national seminars that focused on access and diversity policy development in the wake of the Michigan Supreme Court cases. Those discussions created a demand for a publication that would provide guidance on access and diversity issues through a review of legal and policy principles and examples of existing "model" institutional policies. Visit the Access and Diversity Collaborative site for more information. |
The UA's Newest Endowed Chair
 We've seen a lot of remarkable changes at the College of Education since the arrival of Dean Marx seven years ago, most notably innovative partnerships and programs. For his dedication, creativity, and talent, Dean Marx is the recipient of newest endowed chair at the UA. Read the story here (page 31) in the UA Foundation Annual Report/Endowment Report.
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Mining at the College of Education?
A new UA-based training center has formed to improve how students and miners are taught the science and art of mine safety. The Western Mining Safety and Health Training Resource Center will operate at the San Xavier Mining Laboratory, just west of the Asarco Mission Mine complex about 20 miles south of Tucson. The program is a collaboration between our Department of Teaching, Learning & Sociocultural Studies, the Department of Mining & Geological Engineering in the College of Engineering, and the Division of Community, Environment, and Policy in the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health. Here's more.
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 First, we want to say congratulations to all our December graduates for a job well done! We also want to tell you about our students who were honored on December 15 at the College of Education Awards Reception. Outstanding Senior: Amy ZenizoOutstanding Student Teacher, Elementary Education: Megan KelloggOutstanding Student Teacher, Secondary Education: Kimberly MullenauxOutstanding Student Teacher, Cross-Categorical in Special Education: Ashley Hernandez
Disability & Psychoeducational Studies
 Kids have been bullying each other for generations, and access to technology has brought it to a new level. Cyberbullying is defined as willful and repeated harm inflicted through the use of computers, cell phones. and other electronic devices. Associate Professor Sheri Bauman has written a book on the topic and has been awarded two grants to develop methods to guide researchers to develop intervention and prevention measures. She recently was interviewed on Arizona Illustrated, along with graduate student Alexandra Robie, who discusses her experience with cyberbullying. Here's the story.
Educational Policy Studies & Practice
Educational Leadership student Tiffany McKee was named as Arizona Assistant Principal of the Year by the Arizona School Administrators. She now will represent Arizona in the National Association of Secondary School Principals/Virco Assistant Principal of the Year Program. (Our very own Nathan McCann was selected as the national recipient last year.) All state APs of the Year go to Washington, D.C., from March 30 - April 2. Here's more about the program. Good luck, Tiffany!
 | Our team with UA President Shelton
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The Center for the Study of Higher Education was recognized for its contributions to campus diversity in this year's Peter W. Likins Inclusive Excellence Awards. Established in 1977, the Center for the Study of Higher Education offers flexible, interdisciplinary, and individualized master's and doctoral degree programs with concentrations in comparative higher education, organization and administration, college access, and student affairs. More than half of the center's students are women, more than 20 percent are students of color, and more than 10 percent are international students. Many are first-generation students. Current projects that reflect the center's commitment to outreach and diversity include Project SOAR, which works with undergraduates as tutors and mentors for local middle-school students with the goal of increasing college access for low-income and underserved populations, and Arizona Assurance and New Start assessments to evaluate university retention and success programs for low-income students.
Associate Dean and Professor Jeffrey Milem and students Manuel Gonzalez Canche and Farah Sutton plus HED graduate Brendan Cantwell were featured in the Chronicle of Higher Education (Graduate Programs Grow Less Diverse Without Racial Preferences, Research Suggests).
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HED doctoral student Natalie Youngbull was elected as a student board member for the National Indian Education Association. Her focus will be to help improve policies and legislation aimed at supporting Native American college and college-bound students. Here's more.
Educational Psychology
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Faculty and students from the College of Education participated in the Arizona Educational Research Organization Conference on November 5. The theme of the 23rd Annual AERO Conference was Education's New 3-Rs: Reforming, Reimagining, Reinventing. Several College of Education faculty and students participated in the symposium, Improving Students' Understanding of Rational Numbers. This research was sponsored in part by the Helios Foundation. Writers of the symposium paper included: EP Professors Tom Good and Darrell Sabers, EP doctoral students Amy Olson and Huaping Sun, TLS Assistant Professor Marcy Wood, recent TLS doctoral graduate Crystal Kalinec, and Roosevelt University Assistant Professor and recent EP graduate Alyson Lavigne.
Teaching, Learning & Sociocultural Studies
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Teaching & Teacher Education Professor Walter Doyle just returned from two months as a visiting scholar at ICLON Graduate School of Teaching at Leiden University in the Netherlands. ICLON is an independent institute within Leiden University (the oldest university in the Netherlands) that researches teacher knowledge and the professional development of teachers, prepares secondary teachers, and provides faculty development for the university. Doyle gave seminars and consulted on faculty and Ph.D. students' research projects.  | |
Doyle took this photo of one of the many boats along the Nieuwe Rijn canal in Leiden.
The houses in the background
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As a follow up, he will co-author an article with one of the research teams on practicality and heuristics in teaching practice. He also was a member of the international review committee to evaluate the Dutch Interuniversity Center for Educational Research (ICO), which is a research school accredited by the Dutch Royal Academy. ICO offers courses for Ph.D. students in educational sciences at nine universities in the Netherlands and admits faculty and students if they meet high standards for publications and research quality.
Language, Reading & Culture doctoral student Lisa Schwartz was selected to receive a 2011 Louise Foucar Marshall Foundation Graduate Fellowship on the "basis of the topic, methodology, and potential contribution" of her dissertation. The amount of the award is $10,788 plus a Graduate Registration Scholarship (in-state tuition) for both spring and fall 2011.
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Here's Something You Don't Think About Every Day: Classic Chinese Poetry Psychological Analysis 
Educational Psychology hosted Visiting Professor Xu, a noted scholar of Confucius Philosophy of Education, councilman of the Chinese Psychology Association, vice president of the Council of Sichuan Psychology Association, and head expert of the Chinese Employee Psychological Health Project. He was named a "National Psychologist" by the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He gave an informal talk at the College of Education on December 14 and helped us to understand these Chinese traditional-culture topics: Confucius Educational Psychology, Zeng Guang Xian Wen's Social and Psychological Meaning, and Classic Chinese Poetry Psychological Analysis. His wife, Mrs. Xu, is a math educator. She also met with some faculty members to discuss the way rational numbers are taught in China.
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Happy Holidays from all of us at the College of Education!
We'll see you in 2011.
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