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NCAA Champion
NCAA Champion Magazine features the Intercollegiate Athletic Program, a "unique master's degree program...designed to populate the leadership pipeline in intercollegiate athletics."
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The Spokesman-Review
The gift from the Bezos Family Foundation will support a new professorship in early learning, financial aid to doctoral students and support promising early learning initiatives.
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Education News Colorado
State Sen. Mike Johnston, D-Denver, is proposing legislation to overhaul Colorado’s nearly 20-year-old school funding system that will include a “trigger” so it won’t go into effect unless voters are willing to fund it. Marguerite Roza is mentioned.
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Education Week
Michelle Zimmerman (MEd '07, PhD '11) answers questions about her new book "Teaching AI: Exploring New Frontiers for Learning," which brings a teacher-centric lens to big questions around the various definitions of artificial intelligence, how AI is upending the workforce, and how to teach about—and with—artificial intelligence.
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King5
Michelle Zimmerman, a seventh and eighth grade teacher at the Amazing Grace Christian School, participated in Microsoft's Innovative Education Forum.
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KUOW
Teachers-in-training from the Seattle Teacher Residency, one of the University of Washington's teacher preparation programs, visit with members of the Black Prisoners Caucus at the Monroe Correctional Complex.
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American Association of School Administrators
Focusing the full attention of the central office on teaching and learning was the topic of a Thought Leader session, sponsored by the Wallace Foundation, on Thursday morning. Panelists shared their own experiences and perspectives about this work in a presentation that was moderated by Richard Laine, director of the foundation’s education programs. The panel consisted of two top leaders of the Seattle Public Schools — Superintendent Maria Goodloe-Johnson and Chief Academic Officer Susan Enfield — and Meredith Honig, associate professor of educational leadership and policy studies at the University of Washington.
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Indian Country Today
Researchers at the UW's Family Leadership Design Collaborative, in a new policy memo, describe how justice-based approaches to family engagement can enable parents and families, particularly from communities of color, to contribute as fellow leaders in transforming schools and educational systems.
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OSPI
Kelly Aramaki, principal at John Stanford International School in Seattle, has won the 2010 Milken Educator Award for Washington. The award includes a $25,000 cash prize.
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Seattle Medium
Terryl Ross (PhD ‘03), assistant dean for diversity, equity and inclusion at the UW College of the Environment, will receive the 2019 UW Multicultural Alumni Partnership Distinguished Alumni Award.