— Tiffany Benner, administrative support assistant in Advising and Certification won an IT Collaboration Award. Benner is part of a group working to get the academic exception/course sub procedures for the College of Education and other colleges moved from paper to a web-based portal called the Course Substitution Request System (CSRS).
— The Centre Daily Times recently published an article by SeriaShia Chatters, assistant professor of counselor education, in their Focus on Research column. The article, which originally appeared in The Conversation, discusses bias-based bullying in K-12 schools and the roles teachers play in allowing bullying behaviors to continue.
— Erica Frankenberg, associate professor of education and demography and co-director of the Center for Education and Civil Rights at Penn State, recently participated in a congressional briefing on diversity to present her research on school integration. She later spoke about the briefing in an interview with Diverse Issues in Education.
— Erica Frankenberg, associate professor of education and demography and co-director of the Center for Education and Civil Rights at Penn State, co-edited a special issue of the Peabody Journal of Education: latest articles on Taylor & Francis Online with Alison Tyler, an Educational Theory and Policy student. Frankenberg and Tyler also authored or co-authored the following articles in the issue: "Diversifying High Schools in Racially Changing Suburban Districts: Expanding Opportunity, Creating Barriers?" (Frankenberg, Jennifer B. Ayscue & Tyler); “'Really Just Lip Service:' Talking About Diversity in Suburban Schools" (Tyler); and "Race and Place: How Suburban Schools Respond to Increasing Racial Diversity" (Tyler, Frankenberg & Ayscue).
— Liliana Garces, associate professor of higher education and co-director of the Center for Education and Civil Rights at Penn State, recently spoke as an affirmative action expert with a number of media outlets following the Supreme Court decision in Fisher v. University of Texas. Outlets she spoke with include the San Francisco Chronicle, Diverse Issues in Education, Univision, Philly.com and EducationDIVE. She also wrote an editorial on the ruling for The Conversation, which also was republished by StateCollege.com.
— Following the terrorist attack on June 12 in Orlando, Florida, Richard Hazler, professor of counselor education, spoke with the Tribune Democrat about how to talk to children about violence.
— Beverly Lindsay, professor and senior scientist of higher education and comparative and international education, presented an invited University of Wyoming address, "Doctoral STEM Programs in England." The presentation was attended by the vice provost for Graduate Studies, vice dean and department/program chairs for the College of Arts and Sciences, Environmental Science and Agricultural Sciences, and executive assistants in the Office of the President, along with graduate students from various colleges.
— Andy Markelz, doctoral candidate in special education, recently published two research studies. "Effects of Teacher Praise on Attending Behaviors and Academic Achievement of Students with Emotional and Behavioral Disabilities" was published in the Journal of Special Education Apprenticeship and "Review of Transforming Teacher Education: Reconfiguring the Academic Work " was published in Education Review.
— Dana Mitra, professor of educational theory and policy, will represent the University as co-host for an international seminar on “Amplifying Student Voice and Partnership,” which will be held July 6-8 at the University of Vermont (UVM). Other co-hosts for the first U.S.-based international seminar on this topic are Vermont’s UP for Learning organization and the University of Vermont. For more information about the seminar, visit http://bit.ly/29sPr2E. Mitra also is among those chosen for the inaugural cohort of Students at the Center Distinguished Fellows by Jobs for the Future’s Students at the Center initiative. The fellows are a diverse group of nine leaders in policy, practice and research from around New England, each selected for their vision, contributions and impact in the student-centered learning movement in the region.
— A manuscript reviewing “The Impact of Peer Tutoring on Higher Order Learning” by Stephanie Morano, doctoral candidate in special education, has been accepted by Preventing School Failure. Her review highlights the mixed results of peer tutoring as an intervention targeting higher-order learning objectives for middle and high school students with disabilities.
— P. Karen Murphy, professor of educational psychology and Harry and Marion Eberly Faculty Fellow, has been appointed editor of Review of Educational Research (RER) for the 2017–2019 volume years. She will begin to receive manuscripts on July 1 and will become editor of record in January 2017. She succeeds Frank Worrell, University of California, Berkeley, who will complete his four-year term of service in 2016.
— Nate Turcotte, a second-year doctoral student in Learning, Design, and Technology, has published “Teaching Bad Apples: A Fun Way to Tackle Difficult Teaching Situations” in the latest issue of TechTrends.
— Carla Zembal-Saul was the featured presenter for "Giving Priority to Evidence in K-5 STEM Education," a workshop offered through the Pennsylvania School Study Council. The workshop, held on June 20, addressed features of meaningful STEM learning for K-5 with an emphasis on scientific and engineering practices; introduced Claims-Evidence-Reasoning (CER) as a framework for constructing scientific explanations and models; and provided opportunities to view and discuss STEM teaching in elementary grades.
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