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Consortium for Policy Research in Education
In a new podcast, Professor Julia Duncheon discusses her research exploring how a teacher's background, academic focus and personal experience can influence their definition of "college readiness."
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King5
How can new technology benefit students and teachers? Steve Kerr talks video game activities.
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The Seattle Times
Tom Halverson, director of the UW Master's in Education Policy program, writes about why high schools need to provide students with a variety of unrestricted, intertwined pathways to a multitude of postsecondary and/or career options.
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PBS
Congratulations to Kareen Borders, teacher at Key Peninsula Middle School in Lakebay and L4L student. Kareen won a PBS Teachers' Innovation Award for inspiring students and transforming classroom learning. Learn about her innovative project here!
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UCEA Review
The design and theory of action behind the University of Washington's Danforth program, winner of the UCEA's 2019 Exemplary Educational Leadership Preparation Award, is discussed.
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Christian Science Monitor
Marguerite Roza is quoted in Christian Science Monitor. If [top administrators] say you have to fire all your librarians, but you happen to have this really great librarian who's doing more for reading instruction than anyone else ... it's not really useful, says Marguerite Roza, a senior scholar at the University of Washington's Center on Reinventing Public Education. The flexibility allows the school to ... maybe even do things better.
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The Seattle Times
UW College of Education doctoral candidate Elba Moise comments on the importance of students having space to show their real selves in during online classes.
Noah Zeichner was given the World Educator award by the World Affairs Council. Zeichner teaches a Global Leadership class in which students study contemporary global problems, then develop lessons for fourth-graders at a nearby elementary school. He also co-founded a local ideas festival called World Water Week, and is a Teachers for Global Classrooms Fellow in a program sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, and a lead teacher for the Global Visionaries program.
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Seattle Foundation
The Haring Center for Inclusive Education's EEU lab school has received a grant from the Seattle Foundation to support its provision of emergency childcare to frontline medical staff during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Washington Principal
Chris Pearson, a Leadership for Learning student, and Keisha Scarlett, a Danforth alumnus, are featured as the state of Washington's 2014 Elementary School Principal of the Year and Middle-level Principal of the Year respectively.