In the News

Kristie Kauerz, research assistant professor and director of the UW's National P-3 Center, discusses the important role that leaders play in fostering high-quality pre-K (panel starts at 58-minute mark).

Ken Zeichner, Boeing professor of teacher education, comments on concerns about assessing the quality of preparation programs for teachers and principals.

Professor Jennifer Hoffman comments on the globalization of sports due to technology.

Professor Gail Joseph has received the UW's 2018 David B. Thorud Faculty Leadership Award in honor of her exceptional ability to lead, serve, inspire and collaborate with broad impact.

This EdWeek article offers some great insight to innovative teacher preparation work occurring at universities. Dr. Elham Kazemi and Dr. Morva McDonald are quoted. 

Professor Min Sun's recent study exploring the retention of black teachers and the factors that impact retention is featured.

APS president Douglas Medin called for “diverse perspectives” when he posed the profound, three-word question “Who owns science?” Dr. Megan Bang, assistant professor of educational psychology at the University of Washington College of Education, is quoted. 

Chad Lochmiller (PhD '10), whose research explores how leaders invest fiscal resources and develop human resources to support equitable teaching and learning has won the 2018 Jack A. Culbertson Award presented by the University Council for Educational Administration.

Dr. Thomas Lovitt of Kirkland finished the arrangements to create a music scholarship at the University of Kansas to honor his late wife of 58 years in what he feels was the nick of time.

Just days later, last fall, the 81-year-old UW College of Education professor emeritus was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.

“I still don’t know how much longer I have to hang around,” he said earlier this week, exactly one year after the death of his wife, Polly Owen Lovitt. “It’s been tough this year, and I think a lot of times, why am I living? My whole purpose since her death is to honor her.”

In a recent podcast, doctoral student Michelle Salgado shares her research designing equitable learning environments incorporating Next Generation Science Standards in linguistically diverse kindergarten classrooms.