June 2017 HAPPENINGS It was a day of pride and celebration for the 171 students receiving graduate degrees from the Warner School. The graduating class gathered with family, friends, faculty, and staff on Saturday, May 20, to make their walk across stage in recognition of marking their educational milestones. Read more about commencement here . More pictures of commencement can be found here . The counseling department held its annual symposium in May to celebrate graduating students’ academic and professional achievements. The event included a display of posters representing capstone projects and a public expression of thanks to partnership sites and supervisors. Site supervisors were recognized as Supervision Fellows and Dedicated Fellows for their continuous dedication to the training of new counselors and commitment to excellence in the provision of clinical supervision. Master’s Thesis Awards were also presented to students in recognition of their outstanding academic efforts and achievements. Recipients of the Master's Thesis Awards were: Abigail Cantello ‘17W (MS), Michael Harris ‘17W (MS), Meghan Kraeger ‘17W (MS), Alia Souissi ‘17W (MS), and Kate Umbarger ‘17W (MS). Read more about the symposium here . More pictures of the event can be found here .
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June 2017
HAPPENINGS
It was a day of pride and celebration for the 171 students receiving graduate degrees from the Warner School. The graduating class gathered with family,friends, faculty, and staff on Saturday, May 20, to make their walk across stage in recognition of marking their educational milestones. Read more aboutcommencement here. More pictures of commencement can be found here.
The counseling department held its annual symposium in May to celebrate graduating students’ academic and professional achievements. The eventincluded a display of posters representing capstone projects and a public expression of thanks to partnership sites and supervisors. Site supervisors wererecognized as Supervision Fellows and Dedicated Fellows for their continuous dedication to the training of new counselors and commitment to excellencein the provision of clinical supervision. Master’s Thesis Awards were also presented to students in recognition of their outstanding academic efforts andachievements. Recipients of the Master's Thesis Awards were: Abigail Cantello ‘17W (MS), Michael Harris ‘17W (MS), Meghan Kraeger ‘17W (MS), AliaSouissi ‘17W (MS), and Kate Umbarger ‘17W (MS). Read more about the symposium here. More pictures of the event can be found here.
Fourteen counseling students were inducted into the local chapter of Chi Sigma Iota, the international honor society in counseling, at an inductionceremony in May. The invited membership is based on academic excellence, professional integrity, leadership potential, and commitment to both serviceand advocacy within the counseling field. The guest speaker was alumnus Robert Rice ‘99W (MS), ‘09W (PhD), an associate professor and director ofclinical internships of the mental health counseling program at St. John Fisher College. More pictures of the event can be found here.
In May, the East High School Advanced Band premiered the electroacoustic piece of music that they wrote. Entitled "Electronic Rebellion," the piece waspremiered at the East High School Spring Concert, part of the East High School Arts Department Showcase. Rebecca Fox, band director for East UpperSchool, created an innovative, student-centered learning environment at East this school year, where students worked with Seattle-based composer AlexShapiro to compose a musical piece for the first time ever. In addition to helping students understand band composition, this experience has helped themto remain engaged and active in band and to develop a deeper connection to music.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Horizons at Warner to Host EventHorizons at Warner is hosting a Happy Hour with Rochester’s Historically Renowned on June 16, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Proceeds will benefit Horizons atWarner, a summer enrichment program for Rochester students to experience authentic learning experiences in a non-traditional setting. Horizons atWarner is made possible through the generous support of the Greater Rochester community. To learn more and to purchase tickets for the event, clickhere.
NEWS
Honoring Native American Voices: Warner Grad's Award-Winning Dissertation Details Paths to Success forUnderstudied PopulationNizhoni Chow-Garcia ‘16W (PhD), associate director of inclusive excellence at California State University, Monterey Bay, recently won two majordissertation awards for her 270-page work that addresses the often disconnected pathways available to Native Americans wanting to pursue careers inscience, technology, engineering and math. Read more.
The Chronicle of Higher Education: "How a University Helped Save a Failing High School"Before the University of Rochester stepped in, East High School was destined to close. In one year there were more than 3,000 suspensions, and a quarterof the students had gotten into fights. “What I saw was more of a police state,” says East High School’s superintendent, Shaun Nelms. Read more.
Lammers Receives University’s Excellence in Teaching AwardThe University recognized Jayne Lammers, assistant professor in teaching and curriculum, as the 2017 recipient of the G. Graydon ’58 and Jane W. CurtisAward for Excellence in Teaching by a Nontenured Member of the Faculty. Lammers was honored with the award for her excellence in teaching at theCommencement Ceremony in May. Read more and watch video.
New Sociology of Education Book Co-Edited by Warner School ProfessorNancy Ares, associate professor, is the lead editor of a new book on the changing landscape of educational reform and land-use policies, revealing how
social, political, and historical dimensions of space, especially racial/ethnic and other markers of difference, shape schooling, communities, people, andculture. Read more.
Sisters Overcome Poverty, Prejudice to Become First-Generation GraduatesIn third grade something happened that changed Yasmin Elgoharry ’17W (MS). Chronically strapped for money, her primary school in Alexandria, Egypt,frequently called upon its pupils to buy chalk and other classroom supplies. But Yasmin’s parents were poor, too. At one point, there was no money for anotebook, which meant the then eight-year-old missed jotting down homework assignments. When it came time for the teacher to check on her progress,Yasmin simply stood there empty handed. Read more.
FACULTY/STUDENT NOTES
Linnenberg Presents at Cooperstown SymposiumDaniel Linnenberg, assistant professor, along with Virginia Skinner-Linnenberg, professor of English at Nazareth College, presented the paper “'Baseball isNinety Percent Mental and the Other Half is Physical': Mental Health Issues Within Baseball" at the 29th Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball andAmerican Culture at the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y. in June. The Cooperstown Symposium is sponsored by the State University ofNew York College at Oneonta and the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. Scholars from across the United States and Canada present on awide variety of topics concerning literature, education, psychology, religious studies, history, music theory, film studies, architecture, legal studies andhuman development and its relationship to baseball and culture. The Cooperstown Symposium is widely regarded as the preeminent academic baseballconference, and this year marks their sixth time presenting at the symposium.
Ares Presents on Newly-Published BookNancy Ares, associate professor, co-presented a panel discussion on the topic of her book, Deterritorialization/Reterritorialization: Critical Geography ofEducational Reform (Sense Publishers, 2017) at the American Association of Geographers' Annual Meeting in Boston, Mass. in April.Deterritorializing/Reterritorializing shows how (critical) social scientists are translating geographical concepts of scale and place into studies of educationaland community reform. The authors presented chapters that highlight work that reveals hidden inequities of race, class, ability, sexuality, and gender(among others) as well as inequities and underlying assumptions buried within often-used concepts, such as community, identity, place, and space. Learnmore about the book here.
Gopaul Publishes Book ChapterBryan Gopaul, assistant professor, published the book chapter "Illuminating the Spaces Between the Checkpoints of Doctoral Study" in S. Zavattaro & S.Orr. (Eds.), Reflections on Academic Lives: Identities, Struggles, and Triumphs in Graduate School and Beyond (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017). The bookbrings together reflections from 70 academics who share their lived experiences in graduate school and beyond. Learn more about the book here.
Meuwissen Publishes Journal ArticleKevin Meuwissen, assistant professor, published the article "'Happy Professional Development at an Unhappy Time': Learning to Teach for HistoricalThinking in a High-Pressure Accountability Context," in Theory and Research in Social Education , vol. 45, 2017, issue 2. In the article, Meuwissenaddresses how two teachers attempted to adapt and enact PD-supported, inquiry-centered history teaching that conflicted with high-stakes state- anddistrict-level accountability pressures. Ultimately, PD that supports such history teaching must deliberately and transparently reconcile school-contextualconstraints that challenge its effectiveness on practice. Read more.
Meuwissen and Lammers Publish Book ChapterKevin Meuwissen and Jayne Lammers, assistant professor, published the book chapter "Advancing High-Leverage Practices in the H umanities: AnInterdisciplinary Methods Model" in S. G. Grant, K. Swan, & J. Lee (Eds.), Teaching Social Studies: A Methods Book for Methods Teachers (Information AgePublishing, 2017). The book chapter describes the co-authors' efforts to build an interdisciplinary humanities methods course around ambitious, high-leverage practices that are common to both social studies and English language arts teachers. In that course, Meuwissen and Lammers designed cycles oflearning to engage in ambitious practices that involve shared introduction to, rehearsal of, enactment of, and analysis of practices among teachingcandidates and instructors. Read more.
Meuwissen and Choppin Contribute Book ChapterKevin Meuwissen and Jeff Choppin, associate professor and chair of teaching and curriculum, published the book chapter "Representing Teaching withinHigh-Stakes Teacher Performance Assessments" in M. Peters, B. Cowie, & I. Menter (Eds.), A Companion to Research in Teacher Education (Springer,2017). The book chapter is based on their Spencer Foundation-funded research on edTPA implementation in New York and Washington States during itsfirst two years as an initial certification test, from 2013 through 2016. The chapter describes various ways in which teaching candidates represented theirteaching practices in their edTPA portfolios, on account of the assessment's consequences as a high-stakes test. Read more.
Lammers and Astuti Publish Journal ArticleJayne Lammers and Puji Astuti '16W (PhD) published the article "Individual Accountability in Cooperative Learning: More Opportunities to Produce SpokenEnglish" in Indonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics , vol 7, issue 1. This qualitative case study explores the important role that individual accountability incooperative learning (CL) plays in giving English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners in Indonesia the opportunity to use the target language of English.While individual accountability is a principle of and one of the activities in CL, it is currently under studied, thus little is known about how it enhances EFLlearning. This study aims to address this gap by conducting a constructivist grounded theory analysis on participant observation, in-depth interview, anddocument analysis data drawn from two secondary school EFL teachers, 77 students in the observed classrooms, and four focal students. Read the article.
Lynch Presents at ConferenceMartin Lynch, associate professor, presented the paper " Well-Being and Happiness: Identifying ‘Basic Psychological Needs’ within a Local Culture" at theGlobal Conference on Education and Research in Sarasota, Fla. in May.
Warner Faculty and Students Participate in Annual Meeting of AERAMany Warner faculty and students presented at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) 2017 Annual Meeting in San Antonio, Texas in
April. The theme of this year’s meeting was "Knowledge to Action: Achieveing the Promise of Equal Educational Opportunity."
Jeff Choppin, associate professor and chair of teaching and curriculum, chaired the session "Studying the Alignment Among the Common Core StateStandards for Mathematics, Teachers' Perceptions, Lesson Design, and the Enacted Curriculum;” presented “Research on Digital Curricula and e-Textbooks in Mathematics Education: The State of the Field;” and presented, along with Demeke Gesesse Yeneayhu ‘15W (PhD), “Updating Perspectiveson Lesson Structure in U.S. Classrooms” and “The Mediating Role of the Designated Curriculum in the Enacted Common Core State Standards forMathematics.”
Joanne Larson, Michael W. Scandling Professor of Education; Karen DeAngelis, associate professor, chair of educational leadership and associate dean foracademic programs; and Shaun Nelms, superintendent of East and associate professor, presented “Distributed Leadership Outcomes: Climate,Empowerment, and Transformation.”
Larson also was a participant in the Division G Early Career Mentoring Seminar; presented “What We Don’t Say Out Loud: Opportunities and Challenges ofParticipatory Ethnography in Urban Schools;” “Collaborating for Equity: Comprehensive School Reform in an Innovative University/School Partnership;”and “Promoting Learning, Literacy, and Access Within Contemporary Schooling and Society.” Additionally, she presented “Learning From Each Other:Justice Work with Ninth-Grade Urban English Students” along with East representatives Christopher Bethmann, James Fitta, and Eugene Domiano.
Ed Brockenbrough, associate professor, chaired the session “Dystopian Futures, Black Queer Sex, and Racial Rememory: New Critical Perspectives onEducation through Film” and presented “Dildos, Enemas, and Good Friends: Teaching Black Queer Sex(ualities) in Pariah and the Skinny” and “’Be a GoodBottom’: Networked Technologies as Sexual Pedagogical Sites for Young Black Queer Males.” Additionally, he was a participant in the AmericanEducational Research Journal Editorial Board Meeting.
DeAngelis and doctoral student Christine Isselhard presented “The Spatial Geography of Principal Labor Markets in Texas.”
Jayne Lammers, assistant professor, chaired the session “Serious Writing: Preteen to Adolescent Writing Attitudes and Processes” and presented “AConnected Learning Case Study of an Adolescent’s Writing Across Contexts.”
Martha Joanne Hoff ‘14W (PhD) presented “' I Don’t Conversate With Those I Don’t Know’: The Role of Trust in Online Engagement.”
Kara Finnigan, associate professor, presented “Expanding Civic Capacity: Race, Space, and the Politics of School Integration” and “Striving in Common:Bolder Approaches to Educational Failure and Inequality in the 21st Century.” Additionally, she was a discussant for “School Choice and Segregation:Evidence on Equity, Achievement, and Diversity.”
David Hursh, professor, presented “Corporate Education Reform and the Undermining of Equality” and ”Contested Social Imaginaries: Uncovering theEconomic and Educational Roots of Inequality,” and chaired “Educational Commons in Theory and Practice.”
Nancy Ares, associate professor, participated as an officer in the Cultural Historical Research SIG Business Meeting, themed “Building Bridges AcrossMethodologies: A Creative Conversation Between Colleagues.”
Tricia Shalka, assistant professor, presented “The Implications of Asking: An Autoethnographic Exploration of Researching College Student Trauma.”
Doctoral student Amy Flack presented “Advanced Leadership in an Integrated Children’s Service Environment: How Academic Poster Presentations HaveFacilitated Developments in Multiagency Teamwork and Professional Learning Dissemination.”
Doctoral student Linh Dang presented “Preparing Preservice Teachers to Teach Mathematics and Science to English Language Learners” and chaired thesession “An Examination of School Policies in Practice.”
Kevin Meuwissen, assistant professor, presented “When Professional Development in History Intersects with Teacher Accountability: What EnablesChanges in Practice?” and chaired the session “Frameworks and Assessments: Effects on Social Studies.”
Doctoral student Kim Garrison presented “Teacher Perspectives on Effective Teaching Conditions Across Traditional Public and Charter Schools” andchaired the session “Beyond Subject Knowledge Acquisition: Two Distinct Approaches Toward Student Well-Being and 21st-Century Competencies.”
Joyce Duckles, assistant professor, presented “’Everybody Stumbles… but I’ve Got a Firm Grip’: Alternative Spaces Reframing.”
Bryan Gopaul, assistant professor, was a discussant for “Understanding the Experiences and Socialization of Teaching Assistants.”
Other AERA NewsThe book Teaching, Affirming and Recognizing Trans and Gender Creative Youth: A Queer Literacy Framework was awarded the AERA , Division K(Teaching and Teacher Education) Exemplary Research Award. Doctoral student Kathryn Cloonan contributed a chapter, "Using Queer Pedagogy andTheory to Teach Shakespeare's Twelfth Night," in the book.
Jayne Lammers was elected as the communications chair of the Writing and Literacies Special Interest Group (SIG) of AERA. Her two-year term began atthe conclusion of the 2017 Annual Meeting.
Kara Finnigan has been appointed program chair for Division L for the AERA 2018 Annual Meeting.
