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Ann O’Doherty, director of the UW Danforth Educational Leadership Program, discusses why the program offers a leadership performance guarantee for its graduates, which includes partnering Danforth principals with a coach during their first year.

Professor of Education Policy, Organizations and Leadership and director of the District Leadership Design Lab (DL2) Meredith Honig is featured in the AASA, The School Superintendents Association’s new podcast series Principal Supervision and Leadership Development, which features best practices in principal supervision and highlights the importance of principal support and coaching. Her episode is titled “Principals as Co-Authors of Their Own Learning” and she talks about advancing educational equity and how principal supervisors can help principals lead their own learning. The episode is moderated by Leadership for Learning (L4L) cohort 2 alumnus Dr. Eric Nelson.

A recent study from researchers at UW College of Education highlighting the fact that children with learning disabilities may also be prone to anxiety is cited, with lead author Virginia Berninger quoted.

Professor Ann Ishimaru discussed going from “best” practices to “next” practices in parent-school engagement as a featured speaker during a conference for Washington State teachers, parents and education advocates.

Professor Virginia Berninger comments on the importance of teaching young children to type as well as learn handwriting.

Professor Elizabeth West comments on her new research finding that children from ethnically and culturally diverse families are not well represented in autism research.

Philip Bell, director of the UW College of Education's Institute for Science and Mathematics Education, comments on the importance of equity in STEM education.

The University of Washington College of Education's Knowledge in Action project is cited for its work building teacher capacity for project-based learning.

UW College of Education partnerships with schools and communities in the Road Map Project are helping close achievement gaps in South Seattle and south King County schools.

UW College of Education researchers explore teacher retention and mobility in Washington state in a report that shows the workforce becoming younger and little progress in diversifying the state's teaching workforce.