December 2018
THE COLLEGE INSIDER
NEWS ABOUT FACULTY, STAFF, AND STUDENTS
OF THE UA COLLEGE OF EDUCATION
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We’re excited to welcome the newest academic advisor to the Student Services team,
Frances Vega Montaño
, who comes from the Arizona Online department where she worked as an enrollment counselor for online undergraduate degrees for almost two years. Prior to her role as enrollment counselor, Montaño worked as a testing specialist in the recruitment department of a language interpretation company, where she also worked as a Spanish/English interpreter for three years. Montaño is a native Tucsonan and an alumna of the College of Humanities. After working with students on the recruitment end, Frances is looking forward to continuing her work with students in academic advising, through not only the admissions stage but all the way to graduation!
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Submit your talk for TEDxUofA spring 2019!
TEDxUofA
has selected
Aberration
as the theme for their upcoming event in spring 2019. Aberration is defined as a departure from what is normal, usual, or expected. Faculty and staff of the College of Education have been invited to apply to speak at the event. Submit your application
here
.* Email
tedxuniversityofarizona@gmail.com
with any questions.
*Please note they are still accepting late applications.
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Luis Moll wins 2018 Spindler Award
Congratulations to Teaching, Learning, and Sociocultural Studies Professor Emeritus
Luis Moll
for winning the 2018 George and Louise Spindler Award. The Spindler Award is a highly prestigious award granted to scholars and practitioners whose achievements in educational anthropology have significantly advanced the quality of the design or delivery of educational services. This is the third year in a row that one of our faculty has received this award! TLS Professor Emeritus
Norma Gonzalez
was the awardee in 2017, and TLS Professor
Perry Gilmore
in 2016. Amazing! In addition, former LRC Professor
Teresa McCarty
received the award in 2010.
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Jaclyn Wolf awarded student travel
scholarship from NLPA
Disability & Psychoeducational Studies doctoral student
Jaclyn Wolf
was awarded a student travel scholarship from the
National Latinx Psychological Association
. The scholarship allowed her to not only attend, but present research at their bi-annual conference in San Diego this past October. Congratulations, Jaclyn!
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Literacy, Learning, and Leadership Fall 2018 Internship Poster Session
As many students know, internships are a great way to gain career experience prior to graduation. These opportunities offer students the chance to broaden their professional network and practice the skills and knowledge they gain from curriculum in the classroom. Getting started with the internship selection and application process, however, can be a daunting task for some, especially those who are brand new to the workforce.
Every semester, Teaching, Learning, and Sociocultural Studies Associate Professor
Crystal Soltero
hosts a Literacy, Learning, and Leadership Internship Poster Session to offer College of Education students the chance to have their internship questions answered by fellow students who are current interns. At this semester’s Internship Poster Session there were LLL interns from a wide range of community organizations, including Higher Ground, Coca Cola, and even the college’s very own Worlds of Words.
While the LLL Internship Poster Session is a great chance to learn more about internship opportunities in the Tucson community, it also provides the interns themselves with valuable practice time to work on their professional social skills. What better way to practice your elevator speech than in a room full of supportive, fellow College of Education students who are in the same boat as you?
To learn more about available internship opportunities, visit
coe.arizona.edu/LLL/internships
and be sure to check out the next LLL Internship Poster Session in the spring!
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Supporting children on the US-Mexican border through music, art, and pop-up tennis
On December 9, Assistant Professors of Practice
Matt Ostermeyer
and
Brandon Harris
will be traveling to the border in Nogales with students from their TLS 355 class for a binational tennis and art festival hosted by
Border Youth Tennis Exchange
. BYTE is a bi-national initiative that seeks to enhance the lives of children and young adults on the US-Mexican border through tennis, education, and cross-border exchange. The festival will feature music, art installations, and pop-up tennis on both sides of the border wall. Ostermeyer and Harris will be bringing books, arts, and crafts from
Worlds of Words
and will be spreading awareness about the new
Recreation and Sport in Communities, Parks, and Schools minor
. To learn more about the event,
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Eat at Chipotle this Saturday, 12/1, to support the College of Education
The
Chipotle
located at 905 East University Blvd. #149 will be donating 33% of proceeds made on
Saturday, December 1 from 4:00 – 8:00 p.m.
to the
College of Education Student Council
. Be sure to tell the cashier you’re supporting the College of Education so your purchase counts! Don’t hold back
on adding guacamole this time –
it’s for a good cause!
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Two College of Education faculty members selected for
first class of HSI fellows
In April, the University of Arizona was designated as a
Hispanic-Serving Institution
by the U.S. Department of Education. To further the university’s efforts as a newly designated HSI, the university has selected ten faculty and staff members for a new fellowship that will be dedicated to expanding the university’s capacity to serve Hispanic students. Among the ten fellows are College of Education Associate Professor
Nolan Cabrera
and Assistant Professor of Practice
Vanessa Perry
.
The fellows have been split into three groups and will work on different projects: design of culturally relevant pedagogies and practices, creation of a communications plan about the UA's HSI efforts and impact, and development of a plan to engage and serve students at the UA. The fellows will begin in spring 2019 and will finish at the end of the semester.
To learn more about the new HSI fellowship, visit
UA@Work
.
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Indigenous Thinkers is back!
Indigenous students from the College of Education are reinstating
Indigenous Thinkers
, an organization dedicated to all Indigenous graduate students at the College of Education. To learn more about the organization and upcoming events, add yourself to the listserv at
indigenous_thinkers@list.arizona.edu
and like them on
Facebook
.
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Dean’s Undergraduate
Advisory Board
College of Education undergraduate students have established a Dean’s Undergraduate Advisory Board to represent and advocate for all undergraduates in the college. The board will be comprised of student representatives across all College of Education undergraduate programs. Student representatives will meet monthly with Dean
Bruce Johnson
to provide input and receive updates about the college. Faculty and staff are encouraged to recommend this great leadership opportunity to undergraduates and undergraduates are strongly encouraged to apply! Submit your application
here
by
December 14, 2018.
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Sara Tolbert to join faculty at the
University of Canterbury
Teaching, Learning, and Sociocultural Studies Associate Professor
Sara Tolbert
is taking a one-year leave from the University of Arizona to work at the
University of Canterbury
in Christchurch, New Zealand. She will continue pursuing her interests in bicultural and Indigenous science education and will explore potential collaborations between the UA College of Education and the teacher education programs at Canterbury. During the last seven years at the College of Education, her work on bicultural and Indigenous science education and her promotion of equity and social justice throughout the college have brought her recognition as an outstanding scholar, teacher, mentor, and colleague.
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Faculty and Student Presentations
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Desiree Vega presents at International Conference on Urban Education in Nassau, Bahamas
Assistant Professor
Desiree Vega
co-presented a paper,
African American girls and college and career readiness,
with
Ball State University
Associate Professor of Educational Psychology and School Counseling
Renae Mayes
at the International Conference on Urban Education in Nassau, Bahamas.
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Desiree Vega and doctoral students present
at National Latinx Psychological
Association Conference
Last October Assistant Professor of School Psychology
Desiree Vega
presented with her doctoral students,
Jaclyn N. Wolf
and
Michele Stathatos
, at the National Latinx Psychological Association Conference in San Diego. Together, Vega and Wolf presented a symposium titled
The provision of psychological services in school settings to ELL and Latina/o students: Training needs to implementation of best practices
. In addition, Vega, Wolf, and Stathatos presented their poster
An examination of bilingual school psychology
training programs
.
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Academic engagement in Latinx adolescents and the need for school safety and support
Disability & Psychoeducational Studies doctoral student
Jaclyn Wolf
attended the California Association of School Psychologists conference in San Diego in early November to present her research,
Neighborhood risk and unsafe schools in relation to Latinx adolescents' academic engagement: Social cohesion and school respect as protective factors.
Her poster demonstrated the purpose of the study and her findings, which indicate neighborhood and school risk, and protective factors are important to Latinx adolescents’ academic engagement. Furthermore, her research supports the need for educators to create partnerships between parents, social agencies, and schools, as well as the need for implementation of school-wide Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports programs to ensure students feel safe and supported at school.
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Sheri Bauman visits Australia for NSW
Anti-bullying Strategy Conference
Earlier this month, Disability & Psychoeducational Studies Professor
Sheri Bauman
was invited to speak
in Australia
at the NSW Anti-bullying Strategy 2018 Conference. She traveled to Sydney, Wagga Wagga, and Ballina to share her research on bullying, cyberbullying, social networking sites, peer victimization, and teacher responses to bullying with both parents and students.
Her two presentations were 1)
Managing modern twilight zones: Responding to cyber behaviors
and 2)
Meet in the middle: Supportive group processes to reduce bullying behavior.
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Strategies for supporting students with visual impairments when teaching math graphics
Research Professor
L. Penny Rosenblum
’s
article
Teachers of Students with Visual Impairments Share Experiences and Advice for Supporting Students in Understanding Graphics
, was recently published in the
Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness
. In the article, Rosenblum describes the challenges students with visual impairments face when locating information in math graphics and she outlines strategies that have been implemented to assist teachers in supporting these learners. Read the full article
here
. This research is part of the work of the
AnimalWatch-VI: Graphics Literacy
project awarded to The University of Arizona.
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Pygmalion in the Classroom
: 50 years later
In honor of the 50th anniversary of the controversial publication
Pygmalion in the Classroom
, the journal
Educational Research and Evaluation
published a special issue. Professor Emeritus
Thomas Good
and Educational Psychology doctoral student
Natasha Sterzinger
and former Educational Psychology doctoral student and current Utah State Assistant Professor
Alyson Lavigne
have prepared an invited paper entitled
Expectation Effects: Pygmalion and the Initial 20 Years of Research
. Read the full article
here
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Students on the US-Mexico border and the transition between educational systems
Professor Emeritus
Toni Griego-Jones
wrote a chapter for University of Calgary Professor
Yan Guo
’s book
Home-School Relations, International Perspectives
, which was published in
Springer Singapore
this year. Griego-Jones’ chapter,
Parent Involvement in Schools Along the USA-Mexico Border
, reports on findings related to parent involvement in schools along the USA-Mexico border, specifically the neighboring states of Sonora and Arizona. Her research explores how a return migration of Mexican immigrants in Sonora has created a shift from historical patterns of Sonoran students enrolling in Arizona’s schools to an increase of students from Arizona schools in Sonoran schools. Through her findings, she demonstrates the need to attend to parents as well as students who are transitioning from one country’s educational system to another.
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Desiree Vega describes the factors that influence access to gifted education among African-American and Latino males
Assistant Professor
Desiree Vega
co-wrote an article titled
Access to gifted education among African American and Latino males
with
Ohio State University
Vice Provost for Diversity and Inclusion and Chief Diversity Officer
James Moore
. The article defines the factors and roadblocks that frequently influence access to gifted education programming among African American and Latino males. Visit the
Emerald Insight website
to read the full article.
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Reframing engineering education around
an ethos of empathy and care
Teaching, Learning, and Sociocultural Studies Associate Professor
Kristin Gunckel
’s
paper
The imperative to move toward a dimension of care in engineering education
was published earlier this year in the
Journal of Research in Science Teaching
. In her article, she analyzes how engineering is portrayed in the
Framework for K-12 Science Education
and the
Next Generation Science Standards
as a way to solve the world’s greatest problems. She considers how this notion of engineering might ignore issues of justice and the full socio-political context. Read the full article
here
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How learning progressions can support
teacher learning
The
Journal of Research in Science Teaching
published
Learning progressions as tools for supporting teacher content knowledge and pedagogical content knowledge about water in environmental systems
by Associate Professor
Kristin Gunckel
.
The article explores how learning progression-based curriculum can support teacher learning, and examines how the common use of traditional school science discourse may limit the potential for both student and teacher progress toward model‐based reasoning.
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Bullying, gun carrying, and suicidality
in Latinx youth
This year, Disability & Psychoeducational Studies Professor
Sheri Bauman
’s article,
Examining suicidality, bullying, and gun carrying among Latina/o youth over 10 years
, was published in the
American Journal of Orthopsychiatry
. Her research analyzes findings about bullying, gun carrying, and suicidality in Latino boys and Latina girls and considers intersections of race and gender when developing antibullying and suicide prevention strategies in Latinx youth over
10 years.
Predicting college outcomes for students in the College Assistance Migrant Program
Professor
Sheri Bauman
wrote an article with Westminster College Assistant Professor Julian Mendez. Together they examined factors associated with college outcomes in migrant Latinx college students enrolled in the College Assistance Migrant Program. The article,
From migrant farmworkers to first generation Latina/o students: Factors predicting college outcomes for students participating in the College Assistance Migrant Program,
was published in
The Review of Higher Education
by Johns Hopkins University Press in early October. The full article can be found
here
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New issues from Worlds of Words online journals
Worlds of Words
has three refereed online journals, all of which are recognized by the
Library of Congress
with ISSNs. The three journals are peer-reviewed, free, and open-access. This fall, an issue of each was published:
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WOW Stories
contains blind, peer-reviewed vignettes written by classroom educators about children’s experiences reading and responding to literature. The current issue,
Enhancing Experiences with Global Picturebooks by Learning the Language of Art
, explores a literacy community’s commitment to teaching students about global literature and art as language. Through these teachings, these K-3 teachers have found that bringing global literature and art into the classroom broadens their students’ understanding of culture and creativity.
WOW Libros
is a journal of critical reviews on children’s and adolescent literature originally published in Spanish. The current and inaugural issue,
Ejemplar Inaugural: Leyendo Entre Palabras
, was not only published in the College of Education, all reviewers of this issue are current College of Education students. Even more, the editor of this issue,
Andrea Garcia
, is a graduate of the College of Education.
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Spotlight on
Stellar Students!
Joseph Sturm
, a literacy, learning, and leadership student, is in his third year here at the College of Education. He came to the university from Vail, Arizona knowing he was going to pursue a path towards a career in education. When he was in high school, he spent a lot of time volunteering at the elementary school where his mother teaches art. It was during this time that he realized he wanted to follow in his mom’s footsteps towards a career of teaching.
He entered university initially pursing a degree in Elementary Education, but soon after getting involved with organizations on campus and at the College of Education, he decided he wanted to pursue a career of teaching in a university setting. During his freshman year, he began working at the
UA Office of Admissions
, which required him to visit local high schools and exposed him to the world of educational inequality. It became apparent to him that different schools offer different resources, and thus, different opportunities. “The first high school I visited was very different than the high school I attended. The difference between resources available to students was shocking, which I would have never known had I never visited that high school,” he says.
The inequity he witnessed through these first-hand experiences has sparked an interest in pursuing a master’s degree in educational policy. Until then, Sturm is keeping busy pursuing two majors (he’s also pursuing a Bachelor of Arts in Creative Writing) and two minors.
On top of his schoolwork and job as a student recruiter at the Office of Admissions, where he still works, some of his extracurricular activities include an internship with
Ben’s Bells
, serving as chair of the
College of Education Ambassadors
, and working with the peer mentors club.
He also works with the College of Education events board to produce events like Hounds N’ Hoagies, which just took place for its third semester this past week. He and other members of the events board created Hounds N’ Hoagies as a way to offer students a chance to cuddle with therapy dogs from
Pet Partners of Southern Arizona
as a stress-relieving break from studying for finals.
Throughout his college career, he has found support through the encouragement and availability of his advisors, College of Education faculty, and fellow UA students. He recognizes the gift of accessible resources and the value in having mentors that inspire and believe in him, which is what he plans on sharing with his students in the future when he has a classroom of his own.
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Students with therapy dog at Hounds N' Hoagies
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