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New Partnership Opens National Conversation on Youth and Science of Learning and Development
Associate Dean and professor Kevin Crowley works with other members of Pitt Education at the meeting.
The University of Pittsburgh School of Education and the Forum for Youth Investment partnered to host a meeting this past November for nearly 100 representatives from local organizations, national groups such as the Urban League, the Weikart Center for Youth Program Quality,...
Alumnus Receives Sheth International Award for Founding Uganda School
At the small school run by Silver Francis Oonyu in rural Opucet, Uganda, the sound of bells jingling accompany the shouts and laughter of children playing spirited games of soccer in the dirt field.
The bells are attached to the ball and help the students, who are blind, to find the ball. Sighted helpers run beside the students to help guide them. The activity is fun. It’s also...
Grants Office Update: December 2019
Principal Investigator: Rachel Robertson Department: Instruction and Learning Project Title: The LEND Center at the University of Pittsburgh Agency Name: US Department of Health & Human Services Award Dates: 7/1/19 – 6/30/20 Amount: $15,182
The LEND (Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and Related Disabilities) Center at the University of Pittsburgh is a leadership...
Student Teacher Receives Dick Thornburgh Disability Service Award
As a young boy, Timothy Grebeck, who is autistic, was picked on by his classmates.
“I used to get bullied because my peers saw that I was different, but they didn’t know why,” recalls Grebeck.
Grebeck could have gotten angry with them. He could have become withdrawn. Instead, he did what comes naturally to him. He began to educate his classmates on what it means to be...
Student Team Earns Top 10 Finish at Sports Medicine Conference
Get your buzzer ready for a Jeopardy question about the University of Pittsburgh School of Education.
These students finished in the top 10 of the Mid-Atlantic American College of Sports Medicine Conference (MARC-ASCM) College Knowledge Bowl.
If you answered, “Who are Pitt Education Health and Physical Activity Students,” then you are correct.
This November,...
Alumna Safiyyah Scott Awarded Prestigious Fulbright Scholar Award
Eight years ago, before she was an alumna of Pitt Education, Safiyyah Scott was living in Saudi Arabia to teach English. A random act of kindness that happened there changed her life and inspired her to become a Fulbright Scholar.
Due to a mix-up with a housing stipend for her family, Scott suddenly found herself without a place to stay. Luckily, Scott connected with a woman named...
Grants Office Update: November 2019
Principal Investigator: Tessa McCarthy Department: Instruction and Learning Project Title: Project Certified Rehabilitation counselors and Educators Supporting Transition Success (CRESTS) Agency Name: U.S. Department of Education Award Dates: 9/1/20 – 8/31/25 Amount: $1,180,874
Books for Change Seeks to Start Conversations on Equity
Children’s picture books often say a lot, even when they don’t use many words.
The Office of Child Development (OCD) at the University of Pittsburgh School of Education recognizes that there is profound meaning packed into the silly, fun, and colorful pages—life lessons for children and parents alike.
The OCD is in the midst of its second-annual book drive, Books for...
Five Questions with Alumna Yidan Wang of the World Bank Group
Yidan Wang is a senior education specialist with the World Bank Group. She serves on the Board of Visitors of the Pitt School of Education and is an alumna of the School of Education at the University of Pittsburgh.
To commemorate the 2019 United Nations Day on October 24, 2019, Pitt Education caught up with Wang for a brief interview. The interview has been slightly edited...
EdD Student Named to Pittsburgh 40 Under 40 List
The Pittsburgh 40 Under 40 Award, presented by Pittsburgh magazine and PUMP, recognizes “outstanding individuals under the age of 40 whose creativity, vision and passion enrich the Pittsburgh region.” And Lauren Wallace is just that.
Wallace, a 29-year-old proud Pittsburgher, is in the final year of the EdD program at the Pitt School of Education, where she specializes in...
CPED Operations Manager Carolyn Keller Named to Pittsburgh 30 Under 30 List
Carolyn Keller, the operations manager of the Carnegie Project on the Education Doctorate (CPED), a nonprofit organization housed in the School of Education at the University of Pittsburgh, was selected for the 2019 Pittsburgh 30 Under 30 list.
The award, offered by the Pittsburgh Business Times and Leadership Pittsburgh Inc., recognizes residents who “exemplify the creativity...
Grants Office Update: October 2019
Principal Investigator: Tracy Larson Department: Office of Child Development Project Title: Healthy CHILD/Various Sites Agency Name: Pittsburgh Public Schools Award Dates: 7/1/19 – 8/31/20 Amount: $296,706
The HealthyCHILD team will apply the “lessons learned” from the Mellon-funded and evidence-based HealthyInfantsmodel of tiered supports and the 5 innovations focusing on caregiver...
Grant Supports Leadership Development of Superintendents
Pictured: Jerry Longo (right) poses with Bill Isler (left), a Forum for Western Pennsylvania School Superintendents participant, as Isler accepts the Forum’s Voice of Advocacy Award.
Pitt School of Education faculty member Jerry Longo has received $120,000 in grant funding to provide continued support for the leadership development programs he coordinates for superintendents and...
New Online STEAM Education Certificate Added
Current and emerging education professionals can now re-imagine teaching through a new online program at the University of Pittsburgh’s School of Education.
The Pitt School of Education launched its Certificate Program in STEAM Education in fall 2019.
Professor Ross Selected to Extended Diversity Experience
For Pitt School of Education faculty member Sharon E. Ross, equity and justice are more than just a pair of buzzwords - they are personal and professional passions. She was recently selected for the 2019-2020 Extended Diversity Experience at the University of Pittsburgh.
Professor Garcia Elected to the ASHE Board
Pitt School of Education faculty member Gina Garcia has been elected to the board of directors of the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE), a prestigious appointment that puts her at the forefront of her field.
With over 2,000 members, the ASHE is a national organization for scholarship in higher education administration. Garcia’s appointment will run from 2019-2021....
Prof. Maureen Porter Receives Outstanding International Educator Award
For nearly 30 years, University of Pittsburgh School of Education faculty member Maureen Porter has been an anthropologist of education. She is driven to create research–practice partnerships for students, faculty, and the community in culturally responsive contexts around the world.
In recognition of her...
Grants Office Update: August/September 2019
Principal Investigator: Shannon Wanless Department: Office of Child Development Project Title: Early Head Start Agency Name: Allegheny County Award Dates: 9/30/19 – 9/29/20 Amount: $4,319,152
Family Foundations Early Head Start (EHS)provides early, continuous, intensive, and comprehensive child development and family support services to low-income families with children from birth to...
Decoding the Benefits of Exercise at the Molecular Level
Science has proven that exercise is good for human health. But exactly why this is true—a full understanding of the biological processes that produce the health benefits—is not well understood.
And even less understood is knowledge about which forms of exercise are the most beneficial to a specific person...
Environmental Social Justice Summer Program Connects Math Education to Real-World
While their friends were enjoying summer days at the pool, a small group of local middle school students were testing samples of the pool water—and other water sources from the environment, like tap water and bottled water—for bacteria and lead.
The cohort of 12 students who attend Pittsburgh Public Schools University Prep Middle School and/or reside in the Hill District participated...
Two Students Receive Chancellor's Staff Award for Excellence
Two Pitt School of Education students were recently awarded the Chancellor’s Award for Staff — an honor that recognizes the highest level of achievement by University of Pittsburgh employees.
Lauren Wallace, who is in her second year of the Doctor of Education (EdD) program, works as the director of undergraduate recruitment for the university’s Office of Admissions and...
Pitt Education New Home Base for Prestigious International Society
Throughout the 1950s and 60s, governments in lower-income countries regularly sent their top students to universities in the United States to study how to build up their public education systems back home.
The University of Pittsburgh School of Education was at the forefront of these international development initiatives.
Prominent leaders at the ministry of education...
Pitt Center for Urban Education to House Preeminent Journal Educational Researcher
The Center for Urban Education at the University of Pittsburgh School of Education has been selected as the new home institution of the influential research education journal Educational Researcher.
The Center for Urban Education will house the journal from 2019 - 2022. It is customary for the assignments to rotate every three years between the top schools of education....
Dismantling the School-to-Prison Pipeline Conference Brings Together Over 500 Educators
In too many public schools across the country, the educational system functions more like a pipeline to prison than it does a bridge to opportunity.
This grim phenomenon was the focus of the 2019 Summer Educator Forum that was held in July by the Center for Urban Education at the University of Pittsburgh School of Education.