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Congratulations to Dr. Betina Hsieh who was nominated to join the California Council of Teacher Education (CCTE) Board of Directors! CCTE is the largest and most comprehensive forum for educator preparation in the state.

CED alumna, Leigh Kokenes (School Psychology ‘05) was just named School Psychologist of the Year by National Association of School Psychologists (NASP). Kokenes is a School Psychologist in North Carolina where she has worked in the Wake County Public School System since 2006.

Professor Trini Lewis, Dual Language Development (DLD) Master’s Degree Coordinator presented with two DLD graduate candidates, Dorinda Peterson and Ashley Harrell at the California Association for Bilingual Education on March 21, 2019. The presentation, Improving Dual Language Learners Linguistic Repertoire:  Lessons from Conducting Classroo

Drs. Alejandra Priede Schubert and Betina Hsieh will lead a presentation at the upcoming annual American Educational Research Association (AERA) conference in Toronto, Canada. Their presentation, “Where Do We Teach?

Educational Leadership alum, Michael McClellan, was recently appointed as Dean, Instructional Support, Guided Pathways, Kinesiology, Nutrition and Athletics at Chaffey College in Rancho Cucamonga, California. A graduate of Cohort IV, Dr.

In January, the Educational Leadership Department held its 9th Annual Educational Leadership Symposium.

I was awarded a sabbatical this fall to work with school librarian educators at the University of Borås in Sweden. This university, which is located about an hour east of Gothenburg, offers the most extensive school librarian preparation in the country. I wanted to explore the school librarianship situation in Sweden first hand.

Dr. Jessica Pandya, Department Chair, Liberal Studies has received the University Achievement Award from Academic Affairs for Outstanding Faculty Impact Accomplishment in Research, Scholarly and Creative Activity.

College of Education graduate student, Jennifer Montepeque Diaz has won first place in Education at the 31st Annual CSULB Student Research Competition.

CED faculty, Dr. Jolan Smith, has been awarded the Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award for her work “Lessons Learned: Collaboration with School Psychologists within a Juvenile Detention Setting” conducted while a student.

CED doctoral student Angela Rodriguez has been accepted as a Clark Scholar as part of the David L. Clark National Graduate Student Research Seminar in Educational Administration and Policy being held during the American Educational Research Association (AERA) annual meeting this spring.

Dr. Kristin Powers recently served as a scientific reviewer for the U.S. Department of Education on the Institute of Education Sciences’ Research Networks Focused on Critical Problems of Policy and Practice in Special Education grant review panel.