Accomplishments: College of Education
Travis A. Olson (Teaching and Learning) co-authored "Conceptualizing Curricular Reasoning:A Framework for Examining Mathematics Teachers’ Curricular Decisions" in the journal Investigations in Mathematics Learning.
The article presents research based on a recent National Science Foundation grant for which Olson served as the…
Iesha Jackson (Teaching and Learning) published an article titled "Not Suspended but Not Protected: Challenging School Discipline Reform in the Name of Restorative Justice for Young Adult Black Girls." This article is part of a special issue of the Northwest Journal of Teacher Education on anti-Blackness in education.
Danica G. Hays (Education) co-authored with University of Florida colleagues an article entitled, "Whiteness Scholarship in the Counseling Profession: A 35-Year Content Analysis" in The Professional Counselor journal.
Hays and colleagues conducted a content analysis of counseling scholarship related to whiteness for articles published in national…
Patrice Leverett (Counselor Education, School Psychology, and Human Services) was selected by the Society for the Study of School Psychology as a 2022 Early-Career Scholar for the 2022 School Psychology Research Collaboration Conference. The competitive Scholars Fellowship Program facilitates collaboration and scholarship that…
Heather Dahl and Wendy Hoskins (Counselor Education, School Psychology and Human Services) presented at the Annual European Branch of the American Counseling Association Conference held Sept. 24-25.
The first presentation (along with presenter and UNLV alumna Alyse Anekstein) was "Transforming sandtray supervision: COVID response…
Sunny Gittens (Student Life), Jenna-Weglarz-Ward (Education) and Claire Tredwell (UNLV/CSUN Preschool) were awarded a $460K Child Care Access Means Parents in School grant from the Department of Education.
These funds for child care access are vital as they will enable UNLV to provide stipends to low-income students with young children…
Jacob D. Skousen (Educational Psychology and Higher Education) presented at the Bridging Equity Into Action Summitt on Sept. 25. The invited presentation was titled "'Why Not Me?' Minoritized Communities, Leadership Development, and the Equity-Focused School Leader." The presentation abstract:
Minoritized populations have long been the…
Travis A. Olson (Teaching and Learning) authored the president's column in the September 2021 issue of Intersection Points: The Newsletter of the Research Council on Mathematics Learning. The Research Council on Mathematics Learning seeks to stimulate, generate, coordinate, and disseminate research efforts…
Alain Bengochea (Education) co-authored an article titled "Building on ELA Vocabulary Instruction to Develop Language Resources" in the The Reading Teacher.
This content analysis provides a snapshot of fourth grade English language arts vocabulary instruction before and after implementation of college and career readiness standards…
Jenna Weglarz-Ward, Cyndy Anang, and Melissa Beck Yarczower, (all Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education) resented this week at the Division for Early Childhood's 37th Annual International Conference on Young Children with Disabilities & Their Families. Sessions included Supporting Families of Children with Disabilities in Urban…
Federick Ngo (Educational Psychology and Higher Education) and doctoral candidate Juanita Hinojosa, published a new article titled "Supporting Undocumented Community College Students" in New Directions for Community Colleges.
The article discusses policies that can be enacted at the federal, state, and local levels to increase…
Kenneth Varner and PG Schrader (both Teaching & Learning) along with their colleagues Jennifer Markides, David Gerlach, and Siniša Opić published "Global Challenges to Teacher Education and a Glocally Sustaining Pedagogical Framework" in the journal Global Education Review.