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The Daily Times
Professor Katie Headrick Taylor comments on the "Off the Map" project, in which students are using technology to learn and preserve the history of Maryville, Tenn.
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SeattleTimes
Jeff Clark, middle-school principal and College alum, is is the winner of this year’s Thomas B. Foster Award for outstanding leadership.
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NBC29
William White, a UW doctoral student in special education, recently spoke at a conference exploring opportunities to improve early education programs in central Virginia, with a focus on expanding access to high-quality programs.
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UW News and Information
Nancy Hertzog had one heck of a first day teaching elementary school: one of her students pulled the fire alarm and then vanished -- later he was found hitchhiking by the assistant superintendent -- as fire and police forces descended on the school. It was 1977, in Williamsburg, Va. Hertzog, now the new director of the University of Washington's Robinson Center for Young Scholars, was a new teacher in a public school that had integrated black and white students in the late 1960s, well after the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court decision that ruled against separate schools for black and white children.
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University Council for Educational Administration
The University of Washington’s Danforth Educational Leadership Program has been named the 2019 recipient of the Exemplary Educational Leadership Preparation Program Award, presented by the University Council for Educational Administration.
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West Seattle Blog
Noah Zeichner, alum and Chief Sealth International High School student social studies teacher, and student Molly Freed have been named 2010 Bezos Scholars and will attend an all-expenses-paid conference July 5-11 with international leaders, acclaimed thinkers, policymakers and artists.
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The New York Times
Professor Emerita Virginia Berninger discusses her research, which shows a connection between the linked letters in cursive writing and improved spelling proficiency.
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eduwonk.com
25 percent of the proceeds from the Matthews Estate's Blackboard Syrah go to the Ackerly Foundation, which partners through the University of Washington College of Education to support teacher training at 24 schools.
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KNKX
Professor Kristen Missall comments on how parents can approach academics at home as children go online to learn during the coronavirus outbreak.
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ParentMap
From the 3-year-old who reads at a higher level than his school-age siblings and knows all the state capitols to the introverted, late-blooming artist who struggles in school, being “gifted” may not always look like the stereotype of the precocious geek. What does giftedness really look like and how can parents and teachers of highly capable children best nurture their gifts and social-emotional health? Dr. Nancy Hertzog responds to ParentMap.