Presentations on Chilean aquaculture, the Columbia River Treaty and comparing Indian and Chinese economies will highlight the spring lecture series from the Center for International Studies at Western Washington University.
The center sponsors lectures and presentations by visiting and resident scholars during the academic year. All presentations are free and open to the public and are at noon on the following Tuesdays in College Hall Room 131 on the WWU campus:
The Verizon Foundation is helping to support the start of a new Community Language and Literacy Center established at West View Elementary School in Burlington by the school in partnership with Western Washington University’s Woodring School of Education.
The Verizon Foundation is providing $15,000 for the center. In addition, Skagit State Bank is providing $500.
Clarice Elizabeth Dechent Wills, 93, passed away peacefully at home on Friday, Feb. 19.
She was a woman of many talents. In 1946, Clarice earned her doctorate from Stanford University in early childhood education and began a long career as an author and educator at universities and colleges around the country, including at Western Washington University.
Joseph E. Trimble (Psychology, WCE) presented an invited address titled "Bear Spends Time in Our Dreams Now: Magical Thinking, Ritual, and Spiritual Considerations in Counseling Theory and Practice" at the 27th Annual Teachers College - Columbia University Winter Roundtable on Cultural Psychology and Education, in February in New York City.
Officials with the Ershig Assistive Technology Resource Center in Woodring College of Education at Western Washington University plan to hold a brown-bag lunch discussion at noon Friday, Feb. 12, to learn about assistive technology and support for diverse learning needs at the university.
The lunch will take place in Miller Hall Room 162. For more information, contact Linda Schleef at linda.schleef@wwu.edu or (360) 650-2783.
LeAnne Robinson (Special Education) presented “Response to Intervention and Written Expression: A Framework for Instructional Decision Making” at the Hawaiian International Conference on Education from Jan. 7 to 10 in Honolulu.
Diane Penland (Teacher Education Outreach Programs, Everett) presented “Working with NetGeners” at the Hawaii International Conference on Education from Jan. 7 to 10 in Honolulu.
Lyubov Larouche (Teacher Education Outreach Programs, Seattle) presented “Russian Philosophical Thought and Interdisciplinary Inquiry” and “Multiculturalism is Passe: Transculture as an Emerging Model for Cultural Development” at the Annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities from Jan. 13 to 17 in Honolulu.
Judith Deiro (Human Services) presented "Families, Schools, & Communities: Developing Capable Young People" with four students at the National Organization for Human Services Conference "People in Contexts: Families, Schools, Communities, and Cultures" from Oct. 22 to 24 in Portland, Ore.
Bill Warner (Woodring College of Education) recently returned from Athens, Greece, where he taught two sections of the Master of Science Project Management capstone course. Each student completed two individual projects and participated in three small team projects. This quarter’s students finish their MSPM courses and work on their thesis during the their final quarter this spring term. Warner also teaches MBA and MSPM courses in Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou, China. Warner teaches MSPM courses at TEI University (CU-TEI Piraeus).
Sheila Fox (Special Education) recently attended the regional National Association of State Boards of Education conference in Las Vegas, where she represented the State Board of Education on a panel discussing Washington’s perspective on a common core of standards for English/Language Arts and mathematics. The other two members of the panel were from Nevada and Montana.
Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski pays tribute to Bill Demmert from the senate floor on Feb. 1.
Demmert, who passed away on Jan. 19 at age 75, retired from his position as professor of education at Western Washington University in 2008. He first came to WWU in 1992.
Of Oglalla Sioux and Tlingit heritage, Demmert received his doctorate in Education from Harvard in 1973. While attending the university, he worked in the U.S. Senate for Senators Ted Kennedy and Walter Mondale on the original Indian Education Act.
A special issue of the Journal of Educational Controversy, called “Art, Social Imagination and Democratic Education” and dedicated to the life and work of Maxine Greene, is now online at http://www.wce.wwu.edu/Resources/CEP/eJournal/v005n001/.
The journal is published by the Woodring College of Education at Western Washington University.
Joseph E. Trimble (Psychology, WCE) recently was selected to serve as a distinguished editorial panelist for behavioral and social science research with the Center for Scientific Review at the National Institutes of Health. Trimble has served on National Institutes of Health scientific research panels for the past 32 years, representing some 14 different centers and offices in NIH.
Evelyn Buckley of Stanwood celebrated her 103rd birthday on Dec. 13.
She was born Dec. 13, 1906, in Outlook in south-central Washington. She now lives at the Warm Beach Retirement Center in Stanwood.
Buckley received her teaching certificate from Bellingham Normal School, her bachelor of arts degree from Western Washington University and her master's degree in education from the University of Washington when she was in her 30s.
As Washington’s public colleges and universities continue to grapple with major budget challenges, the Higher Education Coordinating Board will discuss the outlines for a major new study of higher education financing when the Board meets with its Advisory Council on Friday, Jan.
Retired Western Washington University Education Professor William Demmert passed away quietly on Tuesday morning, Jan. 19, at the age of 75.
He is survived by his wife of 42 years, Nora, and their four children.
Of Oglalla Sioux and Tlingit heritage, Demmert received his doctorate in Education from Harvard in 1973. While attending the university, he worked in the U.S. Senate for Senators Ted Kennedy and Walter Mondale on the original Indian Education Act.
Seattle Public Schools just sent an announcement of several principal changes around the district. One affects West Seattle: Cindy Nash is the new principal of Middle College, an alternative program with three campuses including one at South Seattle Community College (WSB sponsor) on Puget Ridge.
Western Washington University Professor of Secondary Education Ray Wolpow is the lead author of “The Heart of Teaching and Learning: Compassion, Resiliency, and Academic Success,” a just-published resource for helping K-12 teachers reach out and connect with students whose lives are affected by trauma.
Sidney Hammond, 75, of Bellingham, developed an environmental education program for the city's schools, including the Gordon L. Carter Environmental Education Site. Hammond was an elementary school principal in Bellingham and held other posts, retiring in 1992 after nearly 32 years in education.
For his work, he received the Award for Professional Excellence from WWU's Woodring College of Education, and was named an honorary tribal elder by Lummi Nation. He died Nov. 13.
The elementary education professors at Western Washington University wanted to start their own scholarship to support students who want to become elementary school teachers.
When they discussed who the scholarship should be named for, who it should honor, they decided in a snap: Rob Brand.
"He's such a fixture here in elementary ed," said Chris Ohana, chair of the Elementary Education Department at Woodring College of Education. "He has such a passion for kids, and for preparing teachers."
As more information becomes available, the more it is evident that none of us can learn the same way. We all have different learning styles. But some have trouble grasping even the basics of learning.
Many years ago, a student may have been called stupid or slow. But now, the problem is usually diagnosed as a learning disability.
Nathan Broweleit, who for two years was substitute teaching at McFarland Middle School, began this year as the special education resource room specialist for McFarland.
Suzanne Krogh (Elementary Education) was invited to present "Community and Culture: Opportunities and Challenges for Teachers" to students and faculty at Busan (Korea) National University of Education and "Linguistic and Cultural Challenges in an Increasingly Diverse Community" at the International Conference of the Applied Linguistics Association of Korea, in Seoul, Korea, Dec. 4 and 5.
