Let's celebrate our colleagues achievements! Read through the 11 updates from our colleagues below.
Julian Vasquez Heilig, [email protected]:
Julian Vasquez Heilig, Dean of the College of Education at the University of Kentucky, was honored by the California state legislature with the passing of California Assembly Resolution No. 1459, commending him "for his exemplary record of service to the people of the State of California." Learn more about this incredible honor here.
Raymond Pun, [email protected]:
I am excited to have received the "Love for Learning" grant from Phi Kappa Phi, which is supporting my research project on digital inclusion in ethnic communities living in California.
Leslie Ann Locke, [email protected]:
Spring 2020 Fulbright Garcia-Robles Scholar to teach and conduct research in Merida, Mexico!
Suskya Goodall, [email protected]:
Doctoral scholarship and 3 conference presentations
Fiza Mairaj, [email protected]:
Secured PEO peace international scholarship and presented my own research at a conference!
Dr. Summer Pannell, [email protected]:
Texas Lesson Study Review (TXLS) grant to develop an online database of exemplar lesson for Texas P-12 educators and parent. Texas Education Agency - Funded $346,350.00
Martin Reardon, [email protected]:
The completion of a most educational week-long artist-in-residency focused on integrating computational thinking with visual art and music in middle schools in three rural school districts in North Carolina (NSF Grant #1738767). The artist (Nathalie Miebach) invited the students to draw their inspiration from their harrowing experience of Hurricane Florence. The culminating event was a "Big Reveal" for which students gathered in the Student Center at East Carolina University. (See also video here.)
Mark E. Deschaine, [email protected]:
With the 2019-2020 academic year, I began a new position as an Associate Professor of Educational Leadership, Department of Leadership and Counselor Education, School of Education, at the University of Mississippi.
Ann C. Gaudino, [email protected]:
Dr. Ann Gaudino, Ed.D., Associate Professor of Education and Educational Leadership at Millersville University, was recently recognized by the United States Department of Education for The Excellence in Education Journal that she created, founded and has edited since 2011. The U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences contracted with Dr. Gaudino to include all past and all future articles published by the journal in its Education Resource Information Center (ERIC), the largest education database in the world. To date, 41 articles published by Dr. Gaudino’s journal are available on ERIC at: https://eric.ed.gov/?q=source%3A%22Excellence+in+Education+Journal%22
Emily Hodge, [email protected]:
Dr. Emily Hodge (Montclair State University), Dr. Joseph Ferrare (University of Washington Bothell), and Dr. Kara Finnigan (University of Rochester) are organizing a conference on advanced applications of social network analysis (SNA) to education policy. Currently, educational researchers most often use SNA to illuminate interpersonal information flow and advice-seeking between individuals in schools and districts, but SNA is a powerful tool with broad applications for visualizing and predicting many types of policy-relevant relationships between individuals, organizations, and ideas, among others. Further, SNA research is not always relevant to policymakers and other educational stakeholders. To address this need, this conference includes scholars within and outside of education using innovative social network methods, but it also includes a diverse group of policy actors, including state-level policymakers, Congressional staffers and lobbyists, the heads of advocacy organizations, and representatives from activist groups. Dialogue between these two groups allows for better understanding of how SNA can be relevant to policymaking. To build capacity in educational research for novel uses of SNA that are better aligned with the policy actors’ needs, we are creating a dynamic online repository with resources for both researchers and practitioners. To learn more, click here.
Dr. Hermie J. Speckels, [email protected]:
I just ended my tenure as President of Broward Alliance of Caribbean Educators (BACE., Inc, 2018 - 2019). This is a Nonprofit Organization that exists to impact lives through educational opportunities, including granting scholarships to students of Caribbean descent, and outreaching to the broader communities at large. Link: ([email protected]). On Saturday, 27, 2019 July, the Board of County Commissioners of Broward County, Florida designated that day as "DR. HERMIE SPECKELS DAY" in Broward County, Florida, as requested by then Vice Mayor Dale Holness (now Mayor) of Broward County. To highlight a focal point of the Proclamation by Mayor Holness the following was impactful. "Dr. Speckels worked with students and parents beyond school hours to help them understand what parent and child (PAC) connections meant, especially those within Broward's most vulnerable immigrant children and parents who need help navigating the school/education system." Links: New Visionary Learning Center ([email protected]); BrowardCounty ([email protected])
Julian Vasquez Heilig, [email protected]:
Julian Vasquez Heilig, Dean of the College of Education at the University of Kentucky, was honored by the California state legislature with the passing of California Assembly Resolution No. 1459, commending him "for his exemplary record of service to the people of the State of California." Learn more about this incredible honor here.
Raymond Pun, [email protected]:
I am excited to have received the "Love for Learning" grant from Phi Kappa Phi, which is supporting my research project on digital inclusion in ethnic communities living in California.
Leslie Ann Locke, [email protected]:
Spring 2020 Fulbright Garcia-Robles Scholar to teach and conduct research in Merida, Mexico!
Suskya Goodall, [email protected]:
Doctoral scholarship and 3 conference presentations
Fiza Mairaj, [email protected]:
Secured PEO peace international scholarship and presented my own research at a conference!
Dr. Summer Pannell, [email protected]:
Texas Lesson Study Review (TXLS) grant to develop an online database of exemplar lesson for Texas P-12 educators and parent. Texas Education Agency - Funded $346,350.00
Martin Reardon, [email protected]:
The completion of a most educational week-long artist-in-residency focused on integrating computational thinking with visual art and music in middle schools in three rural school districts in North Carolina (NSF Grant #1738767). The artist (Nathalie Miebach) invited the students to draw their inspiration from their harrowing experience of Hurricane Florence. The culminating event was a "Big Reveal" for which students gathered in the Student Center at East Carolina University. (See also video here.)
Mark E. Deschaine, [email protected]:
With the 2019-2020 academic year, I began a new position as an Associate Professor of Educational Leadership, Department of Leadership and Counselor Education, School of Education, at the University of Mississippi.
Ann C. Gaudino, [email protected]:
Dr. Ann Gaudino, Ed.D., Associate Professor of Education and Educational Leadership at Millersville University, was recently recognized by the United States Department of Education for The Excellence in Education Journal that she created, founded and has edited since 2011. The U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences contracted with Dr. Gaudino to include all past and all future articles published by the journal in its Education Resource Information Center (ERIC), the largest education database in the world. To date, 41 articles published by Dr. Gaudino’s journal are available on ERIC at: https://eric.ed.gov/?q=source%3A%22Excellence+in+Education+Journal%22
Emily Hodge, [email protected]:
Dr. Emily Hodge (Montclair State University), Dr. Joseph Ferrare (University of Washington Bothell), and Dr. Kara Finnigan (University of Rochester) are organizing a conference on advanced applications of social network analysis (SNA) to education policy. Currently, educational researchers most often use SNA to illuminate interpersonal information flow and advice-seeking between individuals in schools and districts, but SNA is a powerful tool with broad applications for visualizing and predicting many types of policy-relevant relationships between individuals, organizations, and ideas, among others. Further, SNA research is not always relevant to policymakers and other educational stakeholders. To address this need, this conference includes scholars within and outside of education using innovative social network methods, but it also includes a diverse group of policy actors, including state-level policymakers, Congressional staffers and lobbyists, the heads of advocacy organizations, and representatives from activist groups. Dialogue between these two groups allows for better understanding of how SNA can be relevant to policymaking. To build capacity in educational research for novel uses of SNA that are better aligned with the policy actors’ needs, we are creating a dynamic online repository with resources for both researchers and practitioners. To learn more, click here.
Dr. Hermie J. Speckels, [email protected]:
I just ended my tenure as President of Broward Alliance of Caribbean Educators (BACE., Inc, 2018 - 2019). This is a Nonprofit Organization that exists to impact lives through educational opportunities, including granting scholarships to students of Caribbean descent, and outreaching to the broader communities at large. Link: ([email protected]). On Saturday, 27, 2019 July, the Board of County Commissioners of Broward County, Florida designated that day as "DR. HERMIE SPECKELS DAY" in Broward County, Florida, as requested by then Vice Mayor Dale Holness (now Mayor) of Broward County. To highlight a focal point of the Proclamation by Mayor Holness the following was impactful. "Dr. Speckels worked with students and parents beyond school hours to help them understand what parent and child (PAC) connections meant, especially those within Broward's most vulnerable immigrant children and parents who need help navigating the school/education system." Links: New Visionary Learning Center ([email protected]); BrowardCounty ([email protected])