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Professor Jim Mazza is interviewed about his livestream series that focuses on sharing coping strategies and emotion regulation skills to aid parents in dealing with the COVID-19 crisis.

Samuel Odom, one of the ���ߺ���'s Distinguished Alumni awardees, recently won the Gesell Prize, an international award that includes 10,000 euros, a medal forged in silver, and a legacy alongside the international leaders in child development research.

Robin DiAngelo, an affiliate associate professor of education and author of the best-selling book "White Fragility," discusses race in America.

Professor will speak at the National Press Club on Oct. 16 for the release of a new guide that will support principals in creating school conditions that support early learners’ needs.

Due to the pandemic, school districts have been forced to find new creative ways to engage families who have been left out of decision making.  Jessica Rigby, assistant professor at the ���ߺ��� and her team interviewed 13 leaders from 7 Puget Sound school districts to hear about solutions that were productive, anti-racist and high quality.  The  interviewed Rigby and others about this trend in the way school districts work.

College-going rates for low-income and first-generation high school students in Seattle area schools are rising thanks to the efforts of the , which is partnering with the ���ߺ��� to improve college access.

Faculty members David Knight and Meredith Honig were quoted in an article recently published in The Seattle Times about how schools have responded to Gov. Inslee's school reopening order. While nearly all school districts in Washington state have complied with Gov. Inslee's order to reopen schools, some students are getting much more in-person time than others. Knight, an assistant professor of education finance and policy, commented on the variety in schedules and responses to Inslee's order and highlighted that the imbalance is concerning. Honig, director of the District Leadership Design Lab and professor of education policy, organizations and leadership, emphasized the need for data that includes race and class when studying in-personal learning as well as measures that can speak to the quality of the time spent in the classroom.

���ߺ��� professor comments on her recent study that found children who wrote cursive performed better on spelling and composing tasks.

Associate professor of Educational Foundations, Leadership and Policy Ann Ishimaru was featured in an article by The Seattle Times titled “How a tumultuous school year for Seattle students sparked a movement to demand change.” In the article, Ann discusses how young people have long organized for change and there has been an upsurge in student activism since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. While students have been making their voices heard about COVID safety, they’ve also been a part of (and even started) other national movements in schools.

Professor discusses how dogs can be of benefit to children in school classrooms and her scholarship on animal-assisted interventions for children of trauma.