Category: News

Central School District 13J announced Brian Flannery has accepted the position of Director of Student Growth and Achievement.

Flannery has worked in education since 1999. He comes to the district from Riverdale School District, where he has served as District Director of Multi-Tiered Systems of Support and the high school principal. He is working toward a Doctorate in Educational Leadership from University of Oregon.

Five UO researchers-scholars and two research teams that have made significant impacts on society and on their respective fields will receive 2021 Outstanding Research Awards.

Presented by the Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation, the awards celebrate the achievements of UO faculty members engaged in research and scholarly activity.

Leslie Leve, Ilana Umansky, and David DeGarmo were honored.

In the past, Oregon’s indigenous students couldn’t wear eagle feathers on their graduation caps, mukluks on their feet, or traditional stoles over their graduation gowns without the fear that they would be stopped or have these items confiscated by school administrators. Now, a new law signed by Gov. Kate Brown ensures that Native American students in Oregon can wear culturally significant items at public school events, including graduation ceremonies.

We hear from Leya Descombes, a senior at NAYA Many Nations Academy and Leilani Sabzalian, assistant professor of Indigenous Studies in Education and co-director of the Sapsik’wałá Education Program at the University of Oregon. Both testified in favor of the bill.

Former Ponoka resident Dale Boddy, now retired and living in Red Deer, has just self-published his first book: Profile of an Effective School Superintendent.

The book, which is an ethnography, meaning the scientific research of a person or culture, was a project he began in 1994. It was finally published by Friesen Press in March, 2021.

Dale Boddy is a COE alumnus.

Krista Chronister, professor of counseling psychology in the UO’s College of Education, has been selected as the new vice provost of graduate studies and will head the newly created Division of Graduate Studies.

Provost Patrick Phillips made the announcement in an email to faculty, staff and graduate employees, highlighting Chronister’s teaching, research and service to the University of Oregon. In addition to overseeing the new division, she will and support graduate education across the UO’s schools and colleges.

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The Continuing Educator is a professional development podcast for educators produced by the Professional Learning team at Northwest Evaluation Association (NWEA). Erin Beard, a COE alumna, worked with COE faculty member Heather McClure of the Center for Equity Promotion.

25 Ducks is an award sponsored by the Emerald Media Group, UO Alumni Association and The Duck Store that recognizes outstanding Ducks here at the UO. Student, faculty/staff, and alumni are able to nominate juniors and seniors for this award.

COE 2021 graduates Di Li and Amanda Senglaub were recognized.

In March, Student Experience Research Network (SERN) released a call for applications for our Midcareer Fellows Program, designed to bridge equity-centered research on the structures (i.e., practices, policies, and norms) that shape students’ experience of feeling respected as valued people and thinkers in school with current topics in federal and state policy.

We are pleased to announce that 15 outstanding scholars have been selected to participate in the fellowship. We are excited to learn from and with them as they draw on rigorous research on student experience to develop new evidence-based and equity-centered narratives about policy topics and continue to advance their scholarly work in the academy.

Audrey Lucero, Associate Professor, Language and Literacy Education, was named a SERN fellow.

Thirty University of Oregon students have been named as recipients of the prestigious Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship, shattering the school record for selections in one year and pushing the university to No. 2 in the overall 2021 national rankings.

Sean Gley, junior, Spanish and family and human services, will study Spanish language and culture in Segovia.

David Liebowitz, a 2021 awardee, is an Assistant Professor in the department of Educational Methodology, Policy and Leadership at the University of Oregon.

School principals have long played a central role in managing building operations and supervising school employees. Over the past two decades, however, policy developments have increased expectations that principals also improve school climate, instructional practices, and student outcomes. While mounting evidence highlights that principals do exert substantial influence on these contemporaneous outcomes, there remain important methodological questions about how to best examine principals’ contributions to these near-term outcomes. Critically, even less is known about principals’ effects on longer-term student outcomes. This project will examine how students’ high-school and post-secondary outcomes are influenced by their principals in elementary and middle school. My analysis will draw on over 13 years of statewide data on students and educators in an effort to obtain reliable and unbiased estimates of principal effects on contemporaneous and longer-term outcomes. The findings from my proposal have the potential to inform educational agencies’ decisions regarding investment in school leaders. The project builds on an existing partnership with the Oregon Department of Education to improve statewide human resources management policies for school leaders.