In the News

Source
Corporate University Xchange

The UW LIFE Team and Boeing won the Innovation Award for Measurement at the 13th annual Corporate University Xchange Awards for Excellence and Innovation.

Source
IU Bloomington

Chad Lochmiller (PhD '10), whose research explores how leaders invest fiscal resources and develop human resources to support equitable teaching and learning has won the 2018 Jack A. Culbertson Award presented by the University Council for Educational Administration.

Source
KirklandPatch

Dr. Thomas Lovitt of Kirkland finished the arrangements to create a music scholarship at the University of Kansas to honor his late wife of 58 years in what he feels was the nick of time.

Just days later, last fall, the 81-year-old UW College of Education professor emeritus was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.

“I still don’t know how much longer I have to hang around,” he said earlier this week, exactly one year after the death of his wife, Polly Owen Lovitt. “It’s been tough this year, and I think a lot of times, why am I living? My whole purpose since her death is to honor her.”

Source
Future Hindsight

Gail Joseph, Bezos Family Foundation Distinguished Professor in Early Learning, discusses the importance of high-quality early learning programs, the costs to society of not investing in this space, and the necessity of a well-educated early learning workforce.

Source
Inside Higher Ed
The National Consortium of Early College Programs, which informally met for the first time in New York in the fall, will invite collaboration, model best practices, and provide clarity of the traditional mission and purpose of early college. Nancy Hertzog is quoted.
Source
Fakequity

Erin Okuno, executive director of the Southeast Seattle Education Coalition and keynote speaker at the College of Education's 2019 commencement ceremony, shares her remarks.

Source
UWeek
For two UW College of Education researchers, a huge new federal Head Start grant means the creation of a new center and years of hard work ahead — but most of all, it means helping America’s youngest learners prepare for and succeed in school. The UW will take the lead among seven institutions in a new five-year, $40 million national Head Start grant. The money will be used to create the new National Center on Quality Teaching and Learning, based at the UW. The center’s five-year mission, starting January 2011, will be to discover and share best practices in teaching and learning for Head Start teachers and others.
Source
The Daily

Professor Joy Williamson-Lott comments on her plans to engage students in decision-making, how her background as a historian or education will impact her leadership and more.

Source
West Seattle Herald
Ben Ostrom has been appointed principal at Highland Park Elementary School, effective July 1, 2010. Ostrom is an alum of the Danforth Educational Leadership Program at the University of Washington.
Source
The Conversation

Julie McCleery, research associate and lecturer, writes about barriers that stand in the way of children and teens being more active as well as opportunities for greater equity in access to youth physical activity.