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KirklandPatch
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.”
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NGSNavigators
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.
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UW Today
Morva McDonald is the recipient of the Sterling and Gene Munro Public Service Fellowship. The Fellowship is meant to encourage a life-long commitment to public service by providing outstanding undergraduates with the opportunity to explore their potential for service and leadership in the community. Munro Public Service Fellows are selected on the basis of a proposed public service initiative and their commitment to community engagement.
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Fakequity
Erin Okuno, executive director of the Southeast Seattle Education Coalition and keynote speaker at the College of Education's 2019 commencement ceremony, shares her remarks.
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UWeek
For two UW College of Education researchers, a huge new federal Head Start grant means the creation of a new center and years of hard work ahead — but most of all, it means helping America’s youngest learners prepare for and succeed in school. The UW will take the lead among seven institutions in a new five-year, $40 million national Head Start grant. The money will be used to create the new National Center on Quality Teaching and Learning, based at the UW. The center’s five-year mission, starting January 2011, will be to discover and share best practices in teaching and learning for Head Start teachers and others.
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The Daily
Professor Joy Williamson-Lott comments on her plans to engage students in decision-making, how her background as a historian or education will impact her leadership and more.
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West Seattle Herald
Ben Ostrom has been appointed principal at Highland Park Elementary School, effective July 1, 2010. Ostrom is an alum of the Danforth Educational Leadership Program at the University of Washington.
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The Conversation
Julie McCleery, research associate and lecturer, writes about barriers that stand in the way of children and teens being more active as well as opportunities for greater equity in access to youth physical activity.
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charlierose.com
Dr. Patricia Kuhl, LIFE Center PI and Director, joined other experts on the Charlie Rose Brain Series on PBS, in a discussion of the developing brain.
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KQED | Mindshift
A list of resources compiled by faculty member Julie McCleery shares tips for keeping kids of all ages physically active while schools are closed during the coronavirus outbreak.