In the News

Professor Ann Ishimaru shares new ways for schools to engage with parents as co-author of a commentary piece (also published in the Houston Chronicle and The National Interest).

Heather Zimmerman, College alum and faculty member at Penn State, won the National Association for Research in Science Teaching award for the outstanding dissertation of the year in the field of science education. The premier science education research organization, the National Association for Research in Science and Teaching awarded Zimmerman for her research with the LIFE Center.

Guides filled with resources for children in kindergarten and younger as well as for elementary school-aged kids — compiled by UW College of Education faculty — are highlighted.

Anastasia Sanchez, a doctoral student in learning sciences and human development and Seattle Public Schools science curriculum specialist, and 7th grade science teacher Jordyn Frost (MIT '16) discuss their curriculum work in SPS.

Professor Sheila Valencia offers tips to help teachers give more effective textbook reading assignments to middle and high school students.

The groundbreaking analysis of the culture of schools and the reasons for their failures done by the late UW College of Education professor is noted in an obituary.

Juan Zavaleta Berdeja had a question that drove him to graduate school. In answering it, he hopes to effect educational change for students.

An article by UW College of Education doctoral student Christine Tran discusses connections between school gardens, learning and educational equity while offering suggestions for fostering support for school gardens.

Alumnus Dr. Gonzalo Guzmán (MEd '10, PhD '18) contributed to an article highlighting a landmark school desegregation case in southern Colorado in the early twentieth century that was recently published by Rocky Mountain PBS. Dr. Guzmán's research into the efforts of the Maestas family to integrate the white-only Alamosa elementary school from 1912-1914 was largely lost to history. The case ― Francisco Maestas et al v. Superintendent George H. Shone and the Board of Education, which came at the tail end of a long string of attempts to bargain with the school district ― became what experts believe was the first Hispanic desegregation case in the United States in which Hispanics won. Now a team of historians, community members and descendants of the Maestas family are working to ensure more Coloradans know about this important chapter of the state's history through the formation of the Maestas Case Committee. Dr. Guzmán serves as a member of the committee and previously published research about the case in The Journal of Latinos in Education. He currently serves as a visiting assistant professor of educational studies at Colgate University.

Professor James Mazza's work developing a curriculum that helps people learn to deal with stressful emotions and to make effective decisions is cited.