Tracing Successful Teachers
Thanks to new educational software invented at the UW College of Education and a research project headed by Prof. Reed Stevens, novice teachers at Newport Heights Elementary are beginning to wonder if teachers can be in two places at once.
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UW Bothell Professor Carole Kubota (Ph.D. '85) has earned a 2005 UW Distinguished Teacher Award. Her creativity in the classroom has helped shape science education in Washington state.
2005 Distinguished Alumnus Award winner George Sugai (Ph.D. '80) assigned a little summer reading to 2005 graduates of the College of Education: Alice in Wonderland.
Prof. Emeritus Norma Dimmitt (M.A.'63) died of heart failure on May 18, and former Lake Stevens School District superintendent Donald Oates (M.A. '51) died on August 5, 2005. Both made lasting contributions to education in the Puget Sound region.
At its fourth annual auction, the College's Experimental Education Unit honored nine special education pioneers, and raised $500,000.
In the first of a new regional lecture series, Prof. Taylor will discuss what American educators working to close the achievement gap in our country can learn from their South African counterparts' work to create a new educational system in their country.
UW College of Education Professor James A. Banks received the UCLA Medal on June 18, 2005. The UCLA Medal is highest honor awarded by the University of California, Los Angeles.