Free Zoom event on May 26 at 5:30 pm
The next edition of the lecture series, “Fast & Curious: ED Talks from UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School,” will take place virtually on Wednesday, May 26 at 5:30 pm. The Zoom event, which is free and open to the public, will feature three faculty members, one graduate student, and two staff members working in the Santa Barbara community giving no more than eight-minute talks each about their research or work that is shaping education and applied psychology. The event is held in partnership with the Santa Barbara Public Library.
Here is the Zoom link to attend the event.
This evening will be the eighth in the successful series that began in February 2017. Videos of talks from the other evenings, which have drawn crowds of approximately 75 each, can be seen online.
Presenters and titles for May 26:
Tarek Azzam, Associate Professor, Department of Education, “The Role of Evaluation in Program Improvement”
Lilly Garcia, Director of Outreach, Gevirtz School, “Inside Outreach”
Natalia Jaramillo, doctoral student, Department of Counseling, Clinical and School Psychology, “Growth after Trauma: Understanding the Experiences of Young Adults”
Amber Moran, Assistant Teaching Professor, Department of Education and Teacher Education Program, and GGSE alumna, “Preparing Teachers in Special Education During a Pandemic”
Miriam Thompson, Assistant Teaching Professor, Department of Counseling, Clinical and School Psychology, “Mind Your Behavior: Demystifying Neuropsychological Assessment at the Mind and Behavior Assessment Clinic”
Chryss Yost, Harding University Partnership School Community Resource Center Coordinator and GGSE alumna, “Ripples and Brackets: Creating a School-Site Community Resource Center”
The event is the brainchild of Professor Jeff Milem, who became Dean of the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education (GGSE) in July 2016. “Upon arriving in Santa Barbara I was struck not only by the immensely talented faculty and the breadth and depth of their research, but also by their commitment to the public good and their desire to make that research matter,” Milem explains. “This series is a very direct–and fun–way for faculty, alumni, and eventually our students to share their insights with the local community.”
The Gevirtz Graduate School of Education offers M.A.s, M.Ed.s, and Ph.D.s from the Department of Counseling, Clinical and School Psychology, the Department of Education and the Teacher Education Program, which also prepares students for teaching credentials. The School also offers three minors in Education, Applied Psychology, and Science & Mathematics Education. GGSE is a hub of educational innovation with world-class research produced by distinguished faculty and exceptional graduate students who are doing leading-edge work in research methods, science and mathematics education, literacy education, second language learning, culture and language, educational policy, autism, school safety, positive psychology, resilience and recovery from trauma, and strengths-based interventions with vulnerable populations. . . and this is only a partial list. Learn more about the school at education.ucsb.edu.