Category: News

This school year, the Peninsula School District implemented a new type of learning in K-3 classrooms that helped their students’ reading scores excel during the pandemic.

The University of Oregon created the literacy program, called Enhanced Core Reading Instruction (ECRI), based on 60 years of research, James Cantowine, the district’s director of research and assessment, told The Gateway.

The Graduate Research Forum is a one-day event that celebrates the research, scholarship, and creative expression of graduate students in all of the UO’s graduate colleges and schools. It regularly showcases the work of more than 100 graduate students representing more than 35 disciplines.

COE students won the following awards:

As part of the Just Future Initiative at the University of Oregon, the Student Sustainability Center is excited to launch the Environmental Justice Fellows cohort, in collaboration with Holden Center’s new Emerging Leadership Project. The fellowship awards $1,500 to students dedicated to helping their communities by becoming environmental justice leaders.

Upon completion of the EJ Fellow’s environmental justice project, EJ Fellows will present their work to the campus community via a public presentation on campus. They will also be expected to help recruit the next year’s cohort.

COE student Maya Revell was awarded the Louise “Molly” Westling Distinguished Fellowship.

The Environment Initiative Seed Funding Program, which was established this year to support both research and curricular projects, aims to focus the intellectual energy and work of faculty members, students and community partners on a just and livable future through transdisciplinary research, teaching and experiential learning.

The first round of funding supports one Research Award and five Curriculum Awards.

Curriculum Awards

• “Building Environmental Education Infrastructure at UO” by Sarah Stapleton, assistant professor in the Department of Education Studies of the College of Education and Kathryn Lynch, Environmental Leadership Program instructor, Environmental Studies Program.

Schools can be prime locations for students to find mental health help, but many don’t have the resources to help students with disabilities, who are more likely to experience mental illness.

Researchers at the UO College of Education are working with Springfield Public Schools to change that pattern through a new four-year project called Project SIMPLE. The goal is to create a multitiered system of mental health support that responds to the needs of students with disabilities and can be integrated into schools’ special education departments.

The Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation has announced the recipients of the 2022 Outstanding Research Awards.

The Molalla River School District has hired three new administrators. All three will join the district in July.

You likely know the familiar challenge of keeping your students engaged during writing activities. My colleague Peggy Marconi, an elementary school teacher for 30+ years in rural communities in Oregon, has a love and passion for writing. Peggy especially loves argument writing because it teaches students evidence-based thinking: Students state their claim, provide evidence for that claim, and then summarize. In other words, argument writing asks students to think critically, using evidence. However, her students continued to struggle developing these writing skills, and she was seeking an effective strategy to guide them.

Laura Lee McIntyre, interim dean of the University of Oregon’s College of Education, and Jennifer Pfeifer, professor of Psychology, have been appointed to the faculty of The Ballmer Institute for Children’s Behavioral Health, which was established by a gift from Connie and Steve Ballmer on March 1st, 2022. They discuss the mission of the institute and the impact it will have on schools and the children of Oregon.