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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.”
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Catalyst Ohio
Marguerite Roza quoted in Catalyst Ohio on the long-term effects of stimulus monies.
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The Seattle Times
Faculty member Thomas Halverson comments on how Washington school districts are hurrying to get prepared to satisfy the state education department’s recent instructions to begin remote instruction next week.
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Seattle Times
The Seattle Teacher Residency is one of the first programs in the country to include the teachers union as an equal partner, which makes it both a national model and something of a local miracle in a city often roiled by debates about education reform. The collaboration brings together Seattle Public Schools, the UW, the Seattle Education Association and the Alliance for Education, a nonprofit representing local businesses and philanthropies that is providing the startup money.
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Seattle Met
"White Fragility" by Robin DiAnglo, affiliate associate professor of education, is featured in a roundup of books and other content to better understand protests following the killing of George Floyd.