December 2020 Newsletter
Kevin Gee: Strategies for Preparing for the Second Half of the School Year and Beyond
The School of Education and
PowerSchool, Inc. co-sponsored a discussion featuring Prof. Kevin Gee on promoting
digital learning, community engagement and equity for the
remainder of the school year and beyond. Dr. Gee and co-presenter
Kellie Ady of PowerSchool discussed how to support student and
educator well-being as well as educational outcomes; engage
parents, students and the larger community with technology; and
promote equity for students, teachers and families. The event was
hosted and moderated by Education Week. Register here to receive an
immediate viewing link via email.
Graduate Group in Education Brown Bag Series
The Graduate Group in Education’s
long-running Brown Bag Series went virtual this fall, opening up
the events to a wider audience. All five speaker presentations
are available online
here or can be selected individually below.
Dr. Michael Singh, Department of Chicana/o
Studies
Subverting the Neoliberal
Role Model: Examining the Performance of “Positive” Latino
Manhood in Schools
Dr. Darnel Degand, School of Education
Golden Legacies vs.
Trivializing Tropes: Africans, Toussaint L’Ouverture, & Comic
Books
Dr. Ga Young Chung, Department of Asian American
Studies
Destabilizing the
“Undocumented Korean Box”: Race, Education, and Undocumented
Korean Immigrant Activism for Liberation
Dr. Megan Welsh, School of Education
Average is Overrated: What
Factors Affect Means and Variation in Performance?
Dr. Alexis Patterson Williams, School of
Education
Sustaining Disciplinary
Literacy in Science: A Transformative, Just Model for Teaching
the Language of Science
Michal Kurlaender: Race and Class Inequities in Higher Education
Prof. Michal Kurlaender
was a panelist in a discussion hosted by the UC Davis Center for
Poverty and Inequality on Race and Class Inequalities in Higher
Education. Presenters covered cutting-edge research on important
issues related to race, ethnicity and economic inequality in
higher education, including the college admissions process,
affirmative action policies and college persistence. Watch the
panel discussion here.
Wheelhouse: Diversity in Community College Faculty and Leadership
Achieving a diverse faculty that
comes close to matching the diversity of the students they teach
is a major goal of California’s public universities. But the
faculty-student diversity gap remains unacceptably large,
including at California’s community colleges. This in-depth
discussion sponsored by Wheelhouse:
The Center for Community College Leadership and Research in
partnership with EdSource examined what California’s community
colleges are doing to increase the diversity of their faculty and
leadership, why it matters and what more needs to be done.
View the webinar here.
Lauren Lindstrom: Career Transitions for Youth with Disabilities
This fall, Dean Lauren Lindstrom
presented a three-part international webinar series hosted by the
University of Johannesburg’s Department of Educational Psychology
and Division for Internationalisation. Dr. Lindstrom presented on
Career Transition and the World of Work for Youth with
Disabilities: An Inclusive Perspective. Each 1.5-hour webinar is
available online: Session 1, Session 2 and
Session 3.
Peter Mundy and Nicole Sparapani: UC Davis Neurodiversity Summit 2020
Two School of Education researchers
participated in
UC Davis Neurodiversity Summit 2020, presented by the UC
Davis Center for Mind and Brain and the UC Davis MIND Institute.
Prof. Peter Mundy
moderated the Schools and Education Panel, with panelists whose
perspectives included those of a community organizer, parents of
children with autism, people with autism and a special education
teacher. Watch the
video here.
Prof. Nicole
Sparapani presented on teacher-student interactions in
preschool through 3rd grade general and in special education
classrooms that serve students with autism, particularly on the
amount and types of “teacher talk” that teachers use with their
students with autism. Watch the video here.