Click above to see the 2011 College of Education Convocation Video
WHAT STUDENTS ARE SAYING
News & EVENTS
Free Film Screenings and Discussions
Not in Our Town: Class Actions
Students Stand Up to Hate and Bullying
The Utah Museum of Contemporary Art
20 So. West Temple
Wed. Feb 8, 7 p.m.
KUED, the Inclusion Center and the Community of Caring invite you to a free screening of the new PBS film followed by a provocative dialogue on bullying in schools. Overview of the climate in Utah by David parker, ED.D. Associate Director of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Center for Community of Caring.
also being screened...
Educational Leadership and Policy with the Urban Institute for Teacher Education is hosting a screening of:
American Teacher
February 9th, 2012
6:30-8:00 (Film Viewing) 8:00-9:00 (Panel Discussion)
University of Utah Film and Media Arts Building AuditoriumFilm Description: Weaving interviews of policy experts and startling facts with the lives and careers of four teachers, the film, American Teacher, tells the collective story by and about those closest to the issues in our educational system—the 3.2 million teachers who spend every day in classrooms across the country.
The Office of Faculty Research Support is pleased to announce the recipients of the COE Faculty Research Grant Awards for Fall semester, 2011.
Faculty Member |
Project Title |
Matt Jameson |
The Impact of the Modality Effect on Computer Supported Learning by Students with Severe Disabilities |
University of Utah Teacher Education Program Accorded National Accreditation
The University of Utah Teacher Education Program has formally received national accreditation through the Teacher Education Accreditation Council (TEAC).
This is the first time in the history of the College of Education that the UofU has sought and received national recognition for the rigor and quality of its teacher education program which is designed and implemented through the Urban Institute for Teacher Education and the Department of Special Education in partnership with the four departments in the College of Education, six U colleges, the Utah System of Higher Education, the Utah State Office of Education, and school districts throughout Utah. Read More...
SPECIAL ISSUE AND LEAD ARTICLE BY ELP FACULTY FOCUSES ON POSTRACIALISM IN EDUCATION
DURING THE AGE OF OBAMA
Congratulations to Professor Enrique Alemán, Andrea Rorrer, Laurence Parker, and ELP doctoral candidate, Tim Salazar. They are the editors of a special Issue in the Peabody Journal of Education and authors of the lead article, “Introduction to Postracialism in U.S. Public School and Higher Education Settings: The Politics of Education in the Age of Obama. To view the authors’ lead article for this special issue, click here. The full citation for the article is:
Alemán, E., Jr., Salazar, T.,Rorrer, A., & Parker, L. (2011). Introduction to postracialism in U.S. public school and higher education settings: The politics of education in the age of Obama. Peabody Journal of Education, 86(5), 479-487.
The Center for Advancement of Technology in Education (CATE) has been awarded a contract with the Utah System of Higher Education (USHE).
The project involves evaluation of UtahFutures, a web-based career education application for students, parents, teachers, school counselors, job seekers and other stake holders. The project is one of the state initiatives to improve the information flow between education and economic development. The Governor has released an executive order establishing a new UtahFutures steering committee which oversees the future development of the UtahFutures website by improving both the usability as well as its ability to meet the needs of its users. Read More...
Dolores Delgado Bernal Receives YWCA Award for Outstanding Achievement
Six extraordinary local women who have achieved excellence in their fields and empowered other women along the way will be honored with awards at the YWCA’s 23rd Annual LeaderLuncheon at the Grand America Hotel on Friday, September 23, 2011.
The College of Education is proud to announce that Dolores Delgado Bernal will be among this year’s honorees for outstanding achievement in the field of education. Read More...
Matt Nelson, College Alum and Graduate Student, Named Murray District Teacher of the Year
Matt Nelson, an alumnus of the U’s Special Education Department and graduate student in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy, has been named the 2011-2012 Murray City School District Teacher of the Year. Matt received his Bachelor of Science Degree and teaching license in severe disabilities from the Department of Special Education in 2005, and is currently in the final year of his Masters Degree program with Administrative Licensure in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy.
Last fall, the Utah State Office of Education released a request for grant proposals of up to $50,000 for schools that could demonstrate the use of technology in innovative ways. Matt was team leader on a grant proposal from the Murray District that would create a video podcast library of effective teacher instruction and make it available on-line for parents to access and on iPods for students to preview/review at school. The district proposal was funded so Matt and his team are in the process of making teacher-specific videos available to the Parkside community in order to create trust and transparency regarding classroom instruction. Only seven grants were awarded state-wide.
Please join us in congratulating Matt Nelson, the 2011-2012 Murray City School District teacher of the year.
Dr. ROBERT D. HILL NAMED
AMERICAN COUNCIL ON EDUCATION FELLOW
Washington, D.C. (August 5, 2011)—Molly Corbett Broad, president of the American Council on Education (ACE), announced today that Robert D. Hill, PhD has been named an ACE Fellow for academic year 2011-12. Dr. Hill will spend an academic within the Rutgers University system in New Jersey under the mentorship of Chancellor Steven Diner who has headed Rutgers University-Newark since July 2002. Read More...
Congratulations Dr. Hill!
U Alumnus Lori Kopasz
Named SL District Special Educator of the Year
The College of Education is pleased to announce that Lori Kopasz, who completed her master’s degree and teaching licensure program in Severe Disabilities in the Department of Special Education, and subsequently received the department’s Alumnus of the Year Award, is the recipient of the Salt Lake City School District Special Education Teacher of the Year Award! Lori has continued to be closely involved with the U as an adjunct instructor and a cooperating teacher at Highland High.
To see the Salt Lake Tribune article on Lori, go to: http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/52320740-78/district-vandenakker-kopasz-teacher.html.csp.
University of Utah Reading Clinic "Getting Ready" Program
Our own University of Utah Reading Clinic’s summer program, “Getting Ready for 1st Grade,” offered in conjunction with the FCS and the College of Education has been featured in an article produced by KSL Radio.
Click on the link below to see the article. The kids involved in this exciting summer program are from Salt Lake City and Granite schools.
http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=16463742
Enjoy the article and congratulations to Kathleen Brown at the UURC, Cheryl Wright in FCS and Coordinator of Early Childhood Teaching Licensure Program, the UURC Staff, our teacher candidates, and the students involved in this important initiative.
Mary Burbank Selected as UNP 2011-2012 Community Scholar-in-Residence
Mary Burbank, Director of the Urban Institute for Teacher Education and Associate Clinical Professor in the College of Education, has been selected by Interim University President Lorris Betz to serve as the University Neighborhood Partners 2011-2012 Community Scholar-in-Residence. Mary’s appointment to this prestigious position is indicative of her commitment to community-engaged scholarship and recognizes her important contributions in this area over the past several years. Mary will be recognized at a University event in the fall and her picture will be placed on the wall in the Olpin Union with those of past University Community Scholars-in-Residence (including Dolores Delgado Bernal, 2007-2008 UNP Scholar-in-Residence).
During the next year, Mary’s scholarly activities will focus on deepening the work of the University, the College of Education, and the UITE to recruit and retain future educators from underrepresented backgrounds and to more fully understand how the culturally varied roles of teachers and families can be strengthened within the teacher education program. For the past year, Mary has been the driving force in Project FIRST which has developed successful pathways to teacher education for underrepresented students.
Historic Groundbreaking Ceremony
On June 14th, university and community leaders, donors, alumni, friends, members of the College of Education Advancement Board, and university faculty and staff gathered on the south lawn of Milton Bennion Hall to celebrate the groundbreaking for the new Beverley Taylor Sorenson Arts and Education Complex. This is the first groundbreaking for a College of Education building in more than 60 years. Read More...
Positive Psychology Online
The Technology Assisted Curriculum Center (TACC) awarded $20,000 to the Department of Educational Psychology as funding to complete the online Applied Positive Psychology Undergraduate Certificate Program. Four recipients each received $5,000 to design one of the final online elective courses: J. Goodman Farr, Online Program Coordinator, Enhancing Midlife Satisfaction; Trish Henrie, Adjunct Professor, Changing Addictive Thinking; Paul Gore, Associate Professor, Positive Psychology of Work & Career; and Daniel Olympia, Associate Professor, Changing Children’s Behavior with Positive Methods.
Click here for more info about positive psych courses
Elementary Education Graduate, Angela Bradbury, Participates in Congressional/White House Briefings
Angela Bradbury, an elementary undergraduate student in the College of Education’s Urban Institute for Teacher Education and 2011 graduate from the University of Utah, was selected by the American Association of Colleges of Teachers of Education to participate in House and Senate Congressional Briefings as well as a White House briefing in Washington, D.C. on May 9th and 10th. The briefings focused on preparing teacher candidates to work with all students in their classrooms, including students with disabilities. Angela was the only teacher education candidate in the nation selected to participate in the briefings and was accompanied by her grandfather, Ronald Nelson (former school administrator in Utah’s Tintic School District). Read More...
The American Educational Research Association has announced that Dr. Donna Deyhle has been selected as an Associate Editor for the prestigious American Educational Research Journal’s (AERJ) Section on Social and Institutional Analysis. Professor Deyhle joins the new editor, Kenneth Howe from University of Colorado, Boulder, and a team of four other associate editors. AERJ is one of the field’s most prestigious journals, and as stated by the AERA Publications Committee, the section on Social and Institutional Analysis is “key to achieving AERA’s mission.”
Congratulations to Donna Deyhle!
Programs Make Big Gains in U.S. News Grad School Rankings
March 15, 2011—Graduate level programs at the University of Utah are heading in the right direction, according to the 2012 edition of America's Best Grad Schools published by U.S. News & World Report.
The College of Education made the biggest jump in the rankings this year, moving up 25 spots to number 66 in the nation. “The college has undertaken several exciting initiatives this past year to expand faculty research opportunities,” says Michael L. Hardman, dean of the College of Education. “We are building on the quality of our programs, creating access, equity and diversity in the student experience and we are very pleased to learn these accomplishments are being recognized through these rankings.”
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