June 2022 Newsletter
Congratulations to our 2022 Graduates
We were delighted to celebrate
commencement in person with students and families on June 8 at
the Mondavi Center for the Arts. “We’re proud of each and every
one of you,” Dean Lauren Lindstrom said in her address to
students, “and we’re grateful that you have joined us on our path
to change the world through the promise of education.”
View an album of our commencement photos and a recording of the livestream of the event.
Jennifer Higgs Awarded 2022 NAEd Postdoc Fellowship
Prof. Jennifer Higgs was named a
2022 National Academy of Education (NAEd)/Spencer Postdoctoral
Fellow and will join a prestigious 25-scholar fellow class. The
award includes funding to pursue her research project “Computing
Education for the People: Broadening Participation through
Sociotechnical Awareness in Secondary English Language Arts and
Civics Classrooms.”
Teacher Education Leadership Updates
Prof. Alexis
Patterson Williams has been appointed to serve as chair-elect
for teacher education. She’ll begin her term as program chair in
July 2023 and will work closely with program faculty and interim
co-chairs until then.
Prof. Margarita Jimenez-Silva will complete her appointment as chair of teacher education effective June 30, 2022. Profs. Cindy Passmore and Cary Trexler will serve as interim co-chairs of teacher education for the 2022-23 academic year.
Heidi Ballard Keynote Speaker at International Citizen Science Conference
On April 25, 2022, Prof. Heidi
Ballard gave the opening keynote address at the Engaging Citizen
Science Conference at Aarhus University in Denmark, where she
presented her talk “Engagement and Learning Through Community and
Citizen Science: Why, How and the Evidence of Outcomes.”
In the address, Prof. Ballard positions the strengths in and opportunities of citizen science within the multiple pandemics of COVID-19, misinformation and social injustice.
Watch a video of Prof. Ballard’s talk online.
CAP-Ed Meet with Bavarian State Parliament
The Center for Applied Policy in
Education (CAP-Ed) hosted a delegation of members of Bavarian
State Parliament from Germany last month. They met to discuss
CAP-Ed’s Superintendents Collaborative Network and education
reform in California, and to lay the groundwork for potential
future partnerships and research. Chancellor Gary May also joined
the discussion.
Learn more about the Superintendents Network.
University of Johannesburg Visitors
Prof. Maximus Sefotho and Prof.
Anthony Brown of the University of Johannesburg visited Dean
Lauren Lindstrom and the School of Education last month. During
their visit, they met with colleagues in the School of Education,
Global Affairs and the MIND Institute in preparation for opening
their new research center and lab school for children with
neurodevelopmental learning needs.
Faculty News
Orlando Carreón Receives Two Awards
Dr. Orlando Carreón has received a
Chancellor’s Award for Diversity and Community. He was recognized
in particular for his social justice and decolonial framework for
teacher education.
Learn more about the award and other awardees.
Dr. Carreón was also awarded the Education Graduate Student Association (EdGSA) Award at our 2022 commencement ceremony.
Kevin Gee Recognized by APASA
Prof. Kevin Gee received the
2022 Outstanding Faculty Award from the UC Davis chapter of the
Asian Pacific American Systemwide Alliance (APASA).
Each year, APASA pays recognition to staff and faculty members for their contributions to their communities on campus.
Along with serving as a member of faculty at the School, Prof. Gee is a research affiliate at the Center for Poverty & Inequality Research.
Events
COVID-19’s Impact on Education Webinar Available
How has COVID-19 changed K-12
education? School of Education experts Prof. Margarita
Jimenez-Silva, Dean Lauren Lindstrom and Director of Research and
Partnerships/ Executive Director of REEd Carlas McCauley met for
an hour-long virtual discussion last month to share insights and
research on new developments in educational policy and teacher
education, among other topics.
Watch the webinar recording online now.
CANDEL Alum Presents on Retention of Black Students
On June 1, 2022, Ebony Lewis, EdD
’21, presented “Why Black Students Say No to UC Davis,” for the
UC Davis Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, sharing key
findings and recommendations from her 2021 study that explored
why African American first year students admitted to the
University of California Davis declined their offer of admission.
Dr. Lewis is the UC Davis Director of DEI Special Projects.
Graduate Group in Education Monday Seminar Series
Our Spring 2022 Graduate Group in
Education research seminar series came to a close last month.
Recent seminars available to watch online include:
- Prof. Maximus Sefotho, “The Philosophy of Botho/Ubunto in Research”
- Prof. Darnel Degand, “Advanced Illustration Ability Not Required: Undergraduate Students’ Experiences with Comics Essays in an Education”
Show Off with School of Education Gear
Looking for a way to show off your
School of Education pride? You’ll find shirts of all styles, as
well as mugs, hats and more with the School of Education logo at
the
online UC Davis Store. Proceeds from all store sales benefit
UC Davis Athletics.
Publications
Prof. Steven Athanases and PhD candidates Sergio L. Sanchez, Julia G. Houk and Ofir Cahalan co-authored “Drama Integration Across Subjects, Grades, and Learners: Insights from New Teachers as Inquiring Reflective Practitioners,” published in Arts Education Policy Review.
PhD students María Belen Buttiler and Ciara Thomas Murphy and Prof. Yuuko Uchikoshi co-authored the conference paper “Cognitive and Linguistic Factors in Reading Comprehension: Monolingual and Bilingual Children,” presented at AERA 2022.
Prof. Kevin Gee co-authored “109 Flavored Tobacco Sales Restrictions and E-cigarette Use Among High School Students in California,” published in the Journal of Clinical and Translational Science.
Prof. Danny C. Martinez co-authored the article “Learning in Dialogue with Latinx Children of Immigrants: Reflections on the Co-emergence of Collaborative Linguistic Inquiry and Critical Pedagogical Praxis” in SAGE Journals.
Prof. Heather Rose authored the article “School District Revenue and Student Poverty in California: A Decade through the Great Recession and School Finance Reform,” published in the Journal of Education Finance.
Prof. Alexis Patterson Williams co-authored “Utilizing Theory to Elucidate the Work of Creating Equity for Transformation Within the Science Classroom” in the journal Science Education.
