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Leading a new collaborative community

April 16, 2021

The College of Education is leading the development of a new collaborative community, the Tucson Regional Educator Collaborative (TREC), to support professional learning opportunities for the region’s birth through 12th-grade educators. TREC is accomplishing this through leveraging the region’s existing resources and creating new opportunities.

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Pathways keep multiplying

April 16, 2021

We’re looking for future educators in Cochise County!

Our Pathways to Teaching program is growing — and then some! Through the program, school districts invest in community members to become future educators for local schools. Pathways began with a College of Education partnership with Sunnyside School District, and has been so successful...

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Win-win situation

April 16, 2021

Each year, the university's Graduate College recognizes two faculty members from across the university with the Graduate Teaching and Mentoring Award. It just so happens both awardees are from our college this year!

Please send congratulations to Professor ...

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Win-win situation

April 16, 2021

Each year, the university's Graduate College recognizes two faculty members from across the university with the Graduate Teaching and Mentoring Award. It just so happens both awardees are from our college this year!

Please send congratulations to Professor ...

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Department Head and Professor Carl Liaupsin

April 16, 2021

Department Head and Professor Carl Liaupsin was elected to the University of Arizona Heads Up Steering Committee.

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Keynote Speaker Associate Professor Renae D. Mayes

April 16, 2021

Associate Professor Renae D. Mayes was the keynote speaker for two conferences last month: Breakthroughs in Twice-Exceptional Education Conference, focusing on how school counselors can use data to inform antiracist comprehensive school counseling while...

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Associate Professor Michelle Perfect

April 16, 2021

Associate Professor Michelle Perfect spoke to KGUN 9, Tucson’s ABC affiliate, for this story about “coronasomnia,” the inability to sleep due to pandemic stress.

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Assistant Professor of Practice Vanessa Perry

April 16, 2021

Assistant Professor of Practice Vanessa Perry held a one-hour virtual workshop – provided with simultaneous Italian-English interpretation – about fostering self-determination and self-advocacy of transition-age youth with disabilities for the University of Macerata...

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Professor Jenny Lee

April 16, 2021

Professor Jenny Lee is the new vice president-elect of American Educational Research Association's Division J: Postsecondary Education.