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Seattle Times
Mark Mitsui was named to serve as deputy assistant secretary for community colleges in the U.S. Department of Education. Mark is a ±¬×ߺÚÁÏ alum, 2003. He has been instrumental in working with UW's GO-MAP and the Graduate School in helping to build pathways for graduate students who are interested in teaching at the community college level at North Seattle Community College.
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Stockholm University
Professor Susan Sandall will receive an honorary doctorate from the University of Stockholm for her work developing effective special educational adaptations in inclusive settings.
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Seattle Times
Starting next summer, Seattle will join a dozen other U.S. cities that train some of its teachers similar to the way hospitals teach medical residents, with significant on-the-job learning alongside experienced mentors. Seattle Public Schools and three partners — the ±¬×ߺÚÁÏ, the nonprofit Alliance for Education and the city's teachers union — will recruit 25 people for the new program, which will include university coursework as well as the classroom apprenticeship.
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Idaho Statesman
The Bezos Family Foundation has gifted the ±¬×ߺÚÁÏ with $3 million to endow a new professorship for early learning research.
Seattle Times editorial: Seattle School Board members should vote no on a motion to end a partnership with Teach for America. Teachers trained by the national innovative teaching corps have perform well enough in classrooms to justify continuing, even expanding, their presence here. The efforts of Dean Tom Stritikus are noted.
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UW ±¬×ߺÚÁÏ
The ±¬×ߺÚÁÏ is one of the initial funders of , a multifunctional partnership space in the heart of Southeast Seattle’s Othello neighborhood that will be used for community-informed teaching, learning, service and research.
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Seattle Times
±¬×ߺÚÁÏ head football coach Steve Sarkisian and his wife, Stephanie, have made a gift of $100,000 to establish the Steve and Stephanie Sarkisian Endowed Fellowship in Education in the UW ±¬×ߺÚÁÏ. The endowment will provide financial assistance to graduate students in the ±¬×ߺÚÁÏ who aspire to teach in Washington state public schools.
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NGSNavigators
Enrique Suárez, a post-doctoral scholar with the UW's , discusses how teachers can support emerging multilingual students during science instruction in elementary classrooms.
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ACT Theater
PhD student Nitya Venkateswaran will be in the play, Mother in Another Language, this weekend at ACT Theater downtown. Tickets are only $12 for students. Directed by David Hsieh and Agastya Kohli Pratidhwani, Mother in Another Language is a multicultural comedy that explores the challenges faced by two people from different backgrounds who find themselves in love with each other. When Tarak, a Bengali expatriate, and Karen, an American, decide to get married, they know they're in for some cultural difficulties. But when Tarak buys them a brownstone and asks permission to move his mother into the basement apartment, Karen knows she's getting more than she bargained for. Things get even more interesting when Karen’s mother shows up and brings her own splash of cultural diversity to the mix! Mother in Another Language stars Angela DiMarco, Robert Pillitteri, Meenakshi Rishi, Bikas Saha, Walayn Sharples and Nitya Venkateswaran.
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i24NEWS English
Professor James Banks discusses steps that countries can take to help migrants feel like they belong in their new homes.