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Alumni Dalya Perez (PhD '20, MEd '15) and Gage Gorsky (PhD '19), along with doctoral candidate Tory Brundage, recently completed a groundbreaking study highlighting the experiences of Jewish people of color designed to enable the Jewish community to implement more change for racial equity and inclusion. "Beyond the Count: Perspectives and Lived Experiences of Jews of Color" captures unprecedented findings and is the largest and most comprehensive study of Jewish people of color in the United States to date. The movement fighting racism within the Jewish community is heralding the study as a watershed moment and the study has already been featured through several outlets, including the Jewish Telegraphic Agency and The Jerusalem Post.

Ann O’Doherty, director of the UW Danforth Educational Leadership Program, discusses why the program offers a leadership performance guarantee for its graduates, which includes partnering Danforth principals with a coach during their first year.

Professor of Education Policy, Organizations and Leadership and director of the District Leadership Design Lab (DL2) Meredith Honig is featured in the AASA, The School Superintendents Association’s new podcast series Principal Supervision and Leadership Development, which features best practices in principal supervision and highlights the importance of principal support and coaching. Her episode is titled “Principals as Co-Authors of Their Own Learning” and she talks about advancing educational equity and how principal supervisors can help principals lead their own learning. The episode is moderated by Leadership for Learning (L4L) cohort 2 alumnus Dr. Eric Nelson.

A recent study from researchers at UW College of Education highlighting the fact that children with learning disabilities may also be prone to anxiety is cited, with lead author Virginia Berninger quoted.

Professors Ken Zeichner and John Bransford are among university-based scholars in the U.S. recognized as doing the most to influence educational policy and practice.

Sylvia Bagley, director of teacher leadership, proposes using the phrase “teacher-leaders" to linguistically and conceptually position them as simultaneously leaders and teachers.

Professor Joe Lott and his work creating the Brotherhood Initiative to support the success of male students of color at the University of Washington are featured.

David Friedle (MEd '16), a recent graduate of the UW College of Education’s Danforth Educational Leadership Program, is co-producer of “Thunderstorm in My Brain,” a new film exploring suicide and how to prevent it.

Thomas Halverson, director of the UW's Master in Education Policy program, discusses this year's "Education + Society" film series. 

Professor Joy Williamson-Lott explored the history of public education in the United States, and its ongoing struggles with inequality and injustice, in a public talk that is available in its entirety.