Margaret Smith Crocco of the University of Chicago Press recently conducted a comprehensive review of Professor James Banks’ most recent book entitled, “Diversity, Transformative Knowledge and Civic Education: Selected Essays.” The review was published in the Fall 2020 issue of “Schools: Studies in Education,” a journal published by the University of Chicago Press. Banks indicated that this review is not just a review of his book but an informative and insightful description of his 50-year career. Banks is the Kerry and Linda Killinger Endowed Chair in Diversity Studies Emeritus and is the founding director of the Center for Multicultural Education at the University of Washington, which is now the Banks Center for Educational Justice. Read the review.
Comprehensive review of James Banks’ “Diversity, Transformative Knowledge and Civic Education: Selected Essays"
Gaming Has Benefits and Perils – Parents Can Help Kids by Playing With Them
Katie Headrick Taylor, an education researcher and professor of digital literacy, studies the education benefits and perils of digital gaming. These range from providing opportunities for collaborative problem-solving to displaying content that perpetuates racism and sexism. Headrick Taylor provides an analysis about gaming benefits and perils.
UW College of Education Professors Make Edu-Scholar Public Influence Rankings
Two UW College of Education professors – Ken Zeichner and Django Paris – are included in the 2021 RHSU Edu-Scholar Public Influence Rankings. These rankings rate the university-based scholars in the United States who did the most this past year to shape educational practice and policy. Simply being included in this list of 200 scholars is an accomplishment, given the 20,000 or more who might qualify. The list includes the top finishers from last year, augmented by “at-large” nominees chosen by the 28-member Selection Committee.
First Book in Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies Series Published
Teacher’s College Press announced that the series titled Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies Series and edited by Django Paris, associate professor and director of the Banks Center for Educational Justice at the UW College of Education, has published the first book in the series: Protecting the Promise: Indigenous Education Between Mothers and their Children. This book is co-storied by Timothy San Pedro, Michael Munson, Alayna Eagle Shield, Tara Ramos, Kristina Lucero and Faith Price with forward by Megan Bang, associate professor at the UW College of Education. The book features a collection of short stories told in collaboration with five Native families that speak to the everyday aspects of Indigenous educational resurgence rooted in the intergenerational learning that occurs between mothers and their children.
Jennie Warmouth, PhD ‘2017 Teaches Second-Graders Empathy Through a Conservation Project Based on Her Travels to the Arctic
Jennie Warmouth, a 2017 PhD graduate of the College of Education, recently had the trip of a lifetime when she headed to the Arctic to study polar bear. Warmouth’s PhD is in educational psychology and she specializes in human-animal interactions related to learning empathy. She is a recent recipient of the National Geographic Grosvenor Teaching Fellow which is how she was able to travel to the Arctic.
When she’s not trying to locate elusive polar bears, Warmouth is a second-grade teacher at Lynnwood’s Spruce Elementary, part of the Edmonds School District in Washington state. During the evenings, you can often find Warmouth teaching in the Teacher Education Program at Seattle Pacific University. On top of all of this, Warmouth has continued to do research and recently the National Geographic Society highlighted her work with her students on a conservation project dealing with the impact of plastics on Arctic animals.
Meredith Honig Featured in the Wallace Foundation’s Wallace Blog
The Wallace Blog features an “Ask the Experts” question about principal supervisors and how they can best support principals now. Meredith Honig, professor at the UW College of Education, is one of the experts featured. The Blog article includes a link to a webinar in the Education Leadership for a Digital World series that also features Honig. The series is hosted by Digital Promise with support from Wallace.
Funding Education Should Be a Biden Administration Priority
Assistant Professor, David Knight, provides an opinion editorial to The Hill about making education funding a priority.
Education Funding Must be a Priority for Biden Administration
David S. Knight, assistant professor of education, finance and policy at the UW College of Education, co-wrote an Op-Ed piece focused on prioritizing education funding. “The Biden administration must make public education its top domestic priority because Covid has exacerbated pre-existing social and educational inequities and, if left unaddressed, will lead to serious harm to our children - our nation’s greatest asset."
New Story Collections Reconsider History and Upend Tradition
Siamek Vossoughi’s new short story collection titled “A Sense of the Whole, Short Story Collection” received a book review. Vossoughi worked last year as an artist-in-residence in the UW College of Education. He currently works as an instructor and grader for the Brotherhood-Initiative.
Indigenous Relationality is the Heartbeat of Indigenous Existence during Covid-19
Emma Elliott-Groves’ paper titled “Indigenous Relationality is the Heartbeat of Indigenous Existence during COVID-19" was published in a Special Issue of the Journal of Indigenous Social Development, titled Vol 9 No. 3(2020): Indigenous Communities and COVID-10: Impact and Implications. Elliott-Groves is an assistant professor at the UW College of Education. The oc-authors include: Drs. Dawn Hardison-Stevens (Program Manager, Native Education Certificate Program and Teacher Education Program, College of Ed) and Jessica Ullrich (University of Alaska Anchorage (UW School of Social Work PhD alum).