Stories About Our Students
Former teachers inspire Santiago and Doran to choose “180 Days in Springfield” and careers teaching
It was Interview Day, the culminating stage in the admissions process for students planning to enter the College of Education’s TEACH 180 Days in Springfield Pathway to teacher licensure. Anthony Santiago of Springfield, a senior at UMass Amherst majoring in biology, and Maurice Doran, also from Springfield and an English major at UMass, had their fingers crossed. They both hoped to impress the interviewers and be selected to do their student teaching at the urban schools of their choice when they entered “180 Days” in the fall as graduate students.
Martalock and Eichhorn to receive grants
Peggy Martalock, an Ed.D. student in the Children, Families and Schools concentration, and Melinda Eichhorn, an Ed.D. student in Educational, Policy and Leadership concentration, international education specialization, were selected to receive 2013 Graduate School Dissertation Research Grants to assist in the progress toward their degrees.
Morshed wins travel award
Mohammad Mahboob Morshed, a doctoral student in the College of Education’s Center for International Education, and a lecturer at the Institute of Educational Development, BRAC University, Bangladesh, was the recipient of a travel award to the national conference of the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES).
Kositsky wins Woollatt award
Nina Kositsky, a doctoral candidate in the language, literacy and culture concentration, received the Lome H. Woollatt Distinguished Paper Award at the 2012 Northeast Educational Research Association’s (NERA) annual conference for "Teachers, technology, and digital natives: Building a reading culture in a secondary school." Her paper considers attributes of a pedagogical framework for promoting an interest in reading along with the development of 21st century literacy skills among high school students.
Pica-Smith and Veloria win Rubovits Award from NEERO
Cinzia Pica-Smith, Child and Family Studies concentration, and Carmen N. Veloria, Language, Literacy and Culture concentration, have won the 2012 Jim Rubovits Best Paper Award from the Board of Directors of the New England Educational Research Organization (NEERO). The award recognizes the best paper presented at the NEERO’s annual conference. The title of Pica-Smith and Veloria’s paper is: “At risk means a minority kid: Deconstructing deficit discourses in the study of risk in education and human services.”
Rose named Upward Bound program director
Tyson Rose (M.Ed. 2011) was selected as the Upward Bound program director, UMass Amherst. Upward Bound is a federally funded TRIO program that serves high school students from low-income families and high school students from families in which neither parent holds a bachelor's degree. The goal of Upward Bound is to increase the rate at which participants complete secondary education and enroll in and graduate from institutions of postsecondary education.
Crandall’s article talks about girls, bullying and middle school hierarchies
Language, literacy and culture concentration student Cara Crandall’s article “Into the Woods” was posted on the Gender and Education Association’s online journal November 18. Crandall is a middle school English language arts teacher and researcher who is interested in the stories adolescents tell about their lives.
Morales will present papers
Daniel Morales, doctoral student, language , literacy and culture concentration, will present the paper “’Education is a Consumer Good’: An Analysis of Neoliberal Ideology in Chilean Education" at the American Association for Applied Linguistics, and the paper "Realizing the Power of Movements through Multicultural Education" at the National Association for Multicultural Education which also awarded Morales one of the Association's scholarships.
Lazdowski’s proposal accepted
COE doctoral student Katie Lazdowski's proposal, "Evaluating the Responsiveness of a Transitional Bilingual Curriculum in the Local Context: Mali, West Africa" was accepted for a paper presentation at American Education Research Association (AERA) annual conference 2013. Lazdowski is in the language, literacy and culture concentration.
Chung-Constant’s article in journal
An article, “Race, Gender, and Religion in the Performance of Self in an ESL Program” by COE doctoral student Tamara Chung-Constant was published in the November issue of Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies.
