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Professor John Levin retires

Professor John Levin, who joined the Graduate School of Education as endowed chair and professor in 2006, will be retiring

Undergraduate student becomes the teacher with R’Courses

This past year Stephanie Zeng ’22 designed and taught a one-unit course, "Healthy Living as a College Student," to her peers

Assistant Professor Wesley Sims receives funding from the Society for the Study of School Psychology

Sims submitted the proposal "Continued Validation of the Direct Behavior Rating-Classroom Management: A Mini Multi-Trait Multi-Method (MTMM) Study” to the Early Career Research Awards Program

Dr. Raquel Rall on UCR’s Blue, Gold & BLACK (BGB) podcast

UCR’s Blue, Gold & BLACK (BGB) podcast brings students, campus leaders, and community partners together to explore the intersection of being Black and being a UCR Highlander. Listen as Dr. Rall shares her educational journey

GSOE honors local teachers for national Teacher Appreciation Week

Jennifer Covington and Eleanor Holm, third-grade teachers at Seneca Elementary, and Ritta Aros, a math teacher at Slover Mountain High School, receive the inaugural Alumni Excellence in Education Awards
By Julie Porter |

Teacher education program hosts job preparation month

Several students were offered positions at the month’s Teacher Job Fair and Mock Interview, sponsored by SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union
By Julie Porter |

AASCU names Interim Dean to its 2021 Millennium Leadership Initiative

Louie Rodríguez among 32 senior-level professionals in higher education selected for the American Association of State Colleges and Universities' 2021 class

School psychology doctoral student awarded scholarship

Nina Mandracchia received the 2021 Trainers of School Psychologists Graduate Student Scholarship
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GSOE ranked among the best education schools by U.S. News & World Report

GSOE ranks No. 55, jumping 24 spots from the previous year

GSOE launches alumni excellence awards

Nominate an outstanding GSOE alumni teacher, currently on faculty at a K-12 school, who has shown a strong commitment to teaching and learning during the pandemic by April 9, 2021

New article explores how school leaders can help to revitalize democracy in their schools

Professor Joe Kahne co-authors "Leading for Democracy: A Vital Agenda for Public School Principals" in Respond & Reimagine: Teaching New Realities
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Event: Talking Race: Advancing Racial Literacy Across the K-20 Education Pipeline

Register for our upcoming "GSOE in the Community" webinar being held on Wednesday, March 31 at 3pm

Raquel M. Rall appointed to ASHE Council on Ethnic Participation Executive Board

Dr. Rall will serve as the CEP Awards Chair, where she will be involved in overseeing the awards process as well as the research awards committee

RSVP: Reading “Racial Grammar”: Latinx Students’ Racial Literacy Development to Name and Resist Racism

Join us on March 18 for our next Equity & Social Justice Research Series, featuring doctoral candidate Arturo Nevárez.

Article examines the role professional development plays in supporting Black women educators

Doctoral candidate Tanisha Lisle-Johnson and Dr. Rita Kohli published “Critical Black women educators: Resisting the racial and ideological marginality of K–12 teaching through critical professional development” in Theory Into Practice.

Child abuse doesn't belong in science

Austin Johnson, assistant professor and director of the School Psychology program, wrote an op-ed about the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis (JABA)'s refusal to retract abuse of a four-year-old.
By Austin Johnson |

Doctoral student receives grant from school psychology association

Anacary Ramirez has been awarded a grant from the Society for the Study of School Psychology for her dissertation on the use of teleconferencing technology with Spanish-speaking parents.

Cultivating spaces of community, healing, and resilience through K-12 Ethnic Studies

Register for this upcoming workshop, presented by UCR Teacher Education Program's Ethnic Studies Speaker Series and the Institute for Teachers of Color, Thursday, Feb. 18.
Day of Giving

GSOE round-up

Congratulations to Arturo Nevárez, a doctoral candidate in the Education, Society and Culture program. Nevárez received a two-year fellowship from the Branch Alliance for Educator Diversity along with a $5000 stipend. In this fellowship, he will collaborate as a co-researcher on a project with a BranchED scholar on transformative scholarship related to diversifying the teaching...

"Examining the Relations Between Spatial Skills, Spatial Anxiety, and K‐12 Teacher Practice"

Dr. Kinnari Atit and doctoral student Kelsey Rocha recently published new research in Mind, Brain, and Education journal.
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