Source
LA School Report
Professor Min Sun's research exploring the retention of black teachers is noted as one of 11 discoveries that changed the way people think about education in 2018.
Source
KUOW
What makes a good teacher? Experience? Well, that's one answer. KUOW's Phyllis Fletcher kicks off a series looking into what makes a good teacher. Associate Professor Marge Plecki shares her insight.
Source
The Seattle Times
Olivia Gruver, a senior early childhood and family studies major, is eyeing the 2019 world championships and 2020 Summer Olympics after her record-setting vault.
Source
AERA
The American Educational Researchers Association (AERA) Bilingual Special Interest Group Dissertation Award Committee awarded Dafney Blanca Dabach the 2011 Bilingual SIG Dissertation Award. Rebecca Blum Martínez, Professor of Language, Literacy and Sociocultural Studies at the University of New Mexico, wrote, “The committee was very impressed with the careful, thorough and extensive data that was collected, your analyses and the chosen topic which is of such importance to the field, and to the students who receive these types of instruction.”
Source
Vox
Professor James Mazza comments on the need for schools to focus more on mental wellness and providing young people with skills to deal with the emotion disregulation they’ll experience during adolescence.
Source
SeattlePI
Kelly Aramaki, the principal Seattle's John Stanford International School in Seattle, won the $25,000 Milken Educator Award for Washington. The award, called the Oscars of Teaching by Teacher magazine, exists to attract and reward outstanding K-12 teachers and education leaders. More than 50 teachers and educational professionals receive the award every year.
Source
Education Week
Tim Schlosser '15, a principal at Tyee High School in SeaTac, and Ann O'Doherty, director of the UW's Danforth Educational Leadership Program, discuss how much content knowledge in all content areas principals need to support teacher growth.
Source
Carnegie Foundation
Alum David M. Irby is vice dean for education and a professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine. He directs the undergraduate, graduate and continuing medical education programs of the School of Medicine and heads the Office of Medical Education. Irby and his co-author recently published, Educating Physicians: A Call for Reform of Medical School and Residency.
Source
The Conversation
Professor Niral Shah challenges false narratives that Asian people are innately good at math in a commentary piece that offers suggestions for how educators can disrupt those narratives.
Source
Catalyst Ohio
Marguerite Roza quoted in Catalyst Ohio on the long-term effects of stimulus monies.