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HAPPENINGS

Anand R. Marri became dean of the Warner School on January 1, 2019. He is theformer vice president and head of outreach and education at the Federal Reserve Bankof New York and was a professor of social studies and education at Teachers College,Columbia University. In this introduction, Dean Marri shares his background andthoughts on the strengths of and opportunities for the Warner School, with a focus onequity and excellence. Watch the video.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Warner Offers New Program in Mind/Body Healing andWellnessThe Warner School is offering a new 13-credit advanced certificate in Mind/BodyHealing and Wellness in collaboration with URMC’s Marriage and Family TherapyProgram. The program is available to graduate students and licensed healthcareprofessionals who are interested in learning about mind/body approaches to healingand wellness and integrating these approaches into their practice. Learn more.

CUES to Host Forum on Community Schooling Saturday, May 4, 20199 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.East High School1801 East Main St., Rochester, N.Y.

The Center for Urban Education Success (CUES) at the Warner School will host a forumon the role community schools play in addressing the academic, social, and emotionalneeds of students and families. Attendees will choose among different sessions wherecommunity leaders will discuss developing partnerships with schools and communities.

East High School will highlight its partner agencies that are seeking to expand intoadditional school settings in Rochester. Sessions are designed to encourage dialogueand to share best practices across the region.

Coffee and light refreshments will be provided. For more information or to requestspecial accommodations, please visit here or email cues@warner.rochester.edu.

Swanson Accepts Leadership Position at UNC GreensboroDena Swanson, associate professor of counseling and human development, hasaccepted a leadership position at the UNC Greensboro School of Health and HumanSciences as Professor and Chair of the Department of Human Development and FamilyStudies. She begins her appointment on August 1, 2019. Swanson, an applied behaviorpsychologist, has been involved in many research and community initiatives and is awell-respected leader in promoting equity and mentoring faculty across the University.We thank her for her dedicated service and wish her all the best.

NYS TESOL April Webinar to Feature CurryRegister now for the NYS TESOL Webinar for April! The webinar, titled "AcademicLiteracy/ies for English Learners at the Higher Education Level," will feature Mary JaneCurry, associate professor, from 3-4 p.m. on Tues., April 30.This month's webinar will discuss:

Understanding literacy as a set of social practices, rather than skillsDisciplinary aspects of academic literacy: genre and registerThe role of reading in academic writingStrategies for supporting academic literacy

Register here.

Warner Alumnae Named 2019 RBJ Women of ExcellenceHonoreesCongratulations to Lesli C. Myers-Small ‘92 (BA), ‘93W (MS), superintendent ofBrockport Central School District, and Mary Ellen Burris ‘68W (Mas), senior vicepresident of consumer affairs for Wegmans Food Markets, Inc., on being named2019 Rochester Business Journal (RBJ) Women of Excellence and Circle of Excellencehonorees, respectively. Read more.

NEWS

New Study Lays Out the Benefits of Using Sarcasm inUrban High School Classrooms

Should Higher Education Go Digital?

University of Rochester Reading Program ShowingPromise in RCSD

Teaching in the South Bronx

Literacy Program in RCSD Doubles Literacy Resultsfor Students, According to a Study by Carol St.George

FACULTY/STUDENT NOTES

CUNY Disability Programs Honor MockMartha Mock, professor and director of the Center on Disability and Education atWarner, was honored by The City University of New York (CUNY) for her leadership,vision, and partnership in empowering students with intellectual disabilities through theinclusive higher education movement. The award was presented by Christopher Rosa,vice chancellor for student affairs at CUNY, and Barbara Bookman, university directorof Disability Programs at CUNY, at the 2019 CUNY Neurodiversity Conference in NewYork City in March.

Rubenstein and Saiff Receive School Administrators AwardsBonnie Rubenstein, professor and former director of counseling for the Rochester CitySchool District, and Warner alumna Rebecca Saiff ‘12W (CAS), director of the Growthand Opportunity Through Alternative Learning (GOAL) program at Webster CentralSchools, have been named 2019 Region 11 School Administrators Association of NYS(SAANYS) Award winners!

Rubenstein was recognized as the SAANYS Region 11 Retiree of the Year and Saiff wasrecognized as the SAANYS Region 11 Administrator of the Year (SecondaryLevel). They will be honored along with other 2019 winners during the Region 11awards ceremony on April 25 at Midvale Country Club. Learn more.

Magee Wins Excellence in Volunteer Service AwardDoctoral student Brian Magee, associate director of UR student activities, has receivedthe Excellence in Volunteer Service Award from the Association of College UnionsInternational (ACUI). The award acknowledges individuals annually for their successand loyalty to ACUI during the previous 12 months in a volunteer role.

Finnigan Shares Research Kara Finnigan, professor, was a discussant for the session "Seeking Advice in Schools:Understanding Social Network Ties Among Educators" at the Society for Research inChild Development Annual Conference in Baltimore, Md. in March.

Additionally, she was invited to give a plenary talk at the William T. Grant Foundation'sMarch meeting, "Advancing the Use of Research Evidence in Ways that Benefit Youth"in Washington, D.C. Her talk was titled "Properties of Social Networks that Matter forImproving the Use of Research." She also co-presented a methodology workshop called“An In-the-Weeds Examination of Network Analysis and Research Use: ConfrontingChallenges in the Work.” Her work was featured in the recent William T. Grant reportabout the use of research evidence. Learn more.

Skyer Wins Disability Studies AwardDoctoral student Michael Skyer won the 2018 Irving K. Zola Award for EmergingScholars in Disability Studies from the Society for Disability Studies. The paper that ledto the award was titled "Bodies in Dependence: A Foucauldian Genealogy of theAmericans with Disabilities Acts." Skyer is a senior lecturer at the National TechnicalInstitute for the Deaf, a college of Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). Learn more.

Fredericksen Publishes on Online Learning, Gives Talk on OnlineLearning LeadershipGroundbreaking work in the area of online learning, led by Eric Fredericksen, associatevice president for online learning and associate professor in educational leadership,and other leading experts in online education, is featured on Inside Higher Ed. Theirlatest “Changing Landscape of Online Education” (nicknamed CHLOE 3) report isbased on a survey of online learning administrators that categorizes colleges by onlineintensity and examines issues such as governance, student outcomes, and instructorinteraction. Learn more.

Additionally, Fredericksen gave the talk "What We Know About Online LearningLeadership" at the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) Annual Meeting in Anaheim,Calif. in February. Learn more.

Manaseri Publishes ArticleHolly Manaseri, associate professor and associate director of the K-12 schoolleadership program, coauthored the article "Pono Choices: Lessons for School LeadersFrom the Evaluation of a Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program" in the February 2019issue of the Journal of School Health.

In the article, Manaseri reports on the results of a five year study conducted across 34middle schools in the state of Hawaii with 1783 student participants in pre‐, post‐, and1‐year follow‐up surveys to determine effectiveness of an original, culturally responsivemiddle school health curriculum with high rates of knowledge gains for students andhigh rates of teacher adherence to fidelity making this a model for implementation. Learn more.

Lammers and Han Present at ConferencesJayne Lammers, associate professor, and doctoral student Yu Jung Han presented at theAmerican Association for Applied Linguistics Annual Conference in Atlanta, Ga. inMarch. Lammers co-presented "Looking Back and Thinking Ahead: Charting NewDirections in Online Fanfiction Research," where she and her colleagues looked back onhow their work as English teachers and teacher educators led them to rely onclassroom-based tools for making sense of reviewing and feedback in the onlineenvironments they study, and to argue a need to interrogate, innovate, and explicatethe methods used to study online fanfiction practices.

Han presented "Extramural English: Transcultural and Transmedia Literacy Developmentof ELLs in Online Fan Practices."

Han also presented "Transcultural and Intertextual Meme Analysis/Creation in ELTClassroom" at the TESOL 2019 International Convention & English Language Expo, alsoin Atlanta, Ga. in March.

Curry Presents on Chilean Higher Education, Featured in PodcastMary Jane Curry, associate professor, presented "Chilean Scholars NavigatingNeoliberal Pressures for Multilingual Publishing" in the symposium, "Participating inAcademic Literate Worlds: Conceptions, Experiences, and Tensions of Writing inChilean Higher Education" at the Transnational Writing SIG, Conference on CollegeComposition and Communications, in Pittsburgh, Pa. in March.

Additionally, Curry was a guest on Oregon State University's "Research in Action"Podcast on the subject of multilingual scholars. Listen to the podcast episode.

Rubenstein Co-Presents on Mental Health in AdmissionsBonnie Rubenstein, professor, co-presented “Mental Health in Admissions” as part ofthe New York State Association for College Admission Counseling's (NYSACAC) Spring2019 Professional Development Forum in Rochester in March.

Shalka Publishes Book ChapterTricia Shalka, assistant professor, published the book chapter "Navigating the ComplexSpace of Supporting Student Survivors of Trauma" in P. M. Magolda, M. B. BaxterMagolda, & R. Carducci, (Eds.), Contested Issues in Troubled Times: Student AffairsDialogues on Equity, Civility, and Safety (Stylus, 2019).

Cui Presents at Conference, Selected for Consortium CohortDoctoral student Shasha Cui (above left) co-presented "International Student MentalHealth: Creating Support Networks Across Campus" at the 2019 Student AffairsAdministrators in Higher Education (NASPA) Conference in Las Angeles, Calif. inMarch.

Cui was selected as a 2019 NASPA New Professional and Graduate Student(NPGS) Consortium Cohort Member. Learn more.

EVENTS

April 4, 2019LiDA Colloquium Series - Inclusivity Matters: A Conversation With Digital Learning Designers

April 5, 2019AERA Reception for Warner Community

April 5, 2019Dignity for All Students Act (DASA) Training

April 8, 2019University of Rochester's 10th Annual Diversity Conference: Finding the Courage to Lead

April 10, 2019Wednesday Lunch Hour - Creativity in Counselor Education

April 16, 2019Student Open Sessions with Dean Marri

April 17, 2019Wednesday Lunch Hour - Developing a K-12 Research Collaboration Across ComputerScience, Data Science and Warner

April 18, 2019LiDA Colloquium Series - How Do They Do It? K-12 Teachers′ Stories of Digitally-RichInstruction

May 2, 2019LiDA Colloquium Series - Studying Leadership for Online Teaching and Learning in HigherEducation

May 18, 2019Warner School Commencement

See All Upcoming Events

IN THE NEWS

Joanne Larson on the Use of Sarcasm in the Classroom

Rochester Teachers Care Video Highlights Warner Alumnus Mark Foster ‘13W (MS)

Eric Fredericksen's Work in Online Education Featured in Inside Higher Ed

Carol St. George on Literacy Learning in the Democrat & Chronicle

Kevin Meuwissen on Helping Students to Bridge the Political Divide on WXXI Connections

Anand R. Marri on Financial Education Mandate in MONEY Magazine

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