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Post-Record

A UW College of Education study exploring teacher retention and mobility in Washington state is referenced.

 

 

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Martinez Foundation

On June 15th, Holli and Edgar Martinez were honored at the University of Washington College of Education’s graduation ceremony as winners of its Distinguished Service Award.

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ParentMap

Professor Holly Schindler's research is finding better ways to support dads in strengthening their parenting skills.

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Seattle Times

Seven school districts in King County, which banded together three years ago to raise the number of students who graduate from college, have won a four-year, $40 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education to help them achieve that goal. The UW Dream Project, which serves all seven school districts by partnering nearly 600 undergraduate mentors with 1,800 high school students at 16 schools, was named as one of the community partners that will receive funding from the grant over the next four years.

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The Columbian

The Bezos family has gifted the University of Washington College of Education with $3 million to create an endowment for early-learning research.

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WBEZ

As kids, we usually learn about nature from a decidedly human point of view. The world exists in relation to us. The conventional wisdom has been that this is a universal way the mind develops its awareness of the natural world. But an eclectic group of researchers are challenging that. The team is made up of psychologists from Northwestern University, and researchers from the Menominee Reservation and the American Indian Center of Chicago. They started looking carefully at the way Native and non-Native children come to learn about nature. They found some distinctive differences. Megan Bang's research is prominently featured. 

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UW News

The College of Education is one of the initial funders of Othello-UW Commons, a multifunctional partnership space in the heart of Southeast Seattle’s Othello neighborhood that will be used for community-informed teaching, learning, service and research.

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Seattle Times
University of Washington head football coach Steve Sarkisian and his wife, Stephanie, have made a gift of $100,000 to establish the Steve and Stephanie Sarkisian Endowed Fellowship in Education in the UW College of Education. The endowment will provide financial assistance to graduate students in the College of Education who aspire to teach in Washington state public schools.
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NGSNavigators

Enrique Suárez, a post-doctoral scholar with the UW's Institute for Science + Math Education, discusses how teachers can support emerging multilingual students during science instruction in elementary classrooms.

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ACT Theater
PhD student Nitya Venkateswaran will be in the play, Mother in Another Language, this weekend at ACT Theater downtown. Tickets are only $12 for students. Directed by David Hsieh and Agastya Kohli Pratidhwani, Mother in Another Language is a multicultural comedy that explores the challenges faced by two people from different backgrounds who find themselves in love with each other. When Tarak, a Bengali expatriate, and Karen, an American, decide to get married, they know they're in for some cultural difficulties. But when Tarak buys them a brownstone and asks permission to move his mother into the basement apartment, Karen knows she's getting more than she bargained for. Things get even more interesting when Karen’s mother shows up and brings her own splash of cultural diversity to the mix! Mother in Another Language stars Angela DiMarco, Robert Pillitteri, Meenakshi Rishi, Bikas Saha, Walayn Sharples and Nitya Venkateswaran.