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Impatient Optimists

Researchers from the UW College of Education's Equitable Parent-School Collaboration project comment on how to improve family-school relations by recognizing parents’ strengths, accounting for cultural context, and changing policies or practices to remove barriers.

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The Daily

The Education + Society film series, sponsored by the College's master in education policy program, fosters community dialogue about a multitude of contemporary issues surrounding public education.

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The Daily

Sheeba Jacob, project director of the University of Washington's Center for Educational Leadership, presented "How a Bunch of 12-year-olds Schooled Me about Life" at Ignite Education Lab.

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Ready WA

Four UW Dream Project mentors for first-generation and low-income students in King County high schools ashare what they’ve learned in college that they wish they would have known in high school.

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The Hechinger Report

A column co-authored by Marisa Bier, program director for the Seattle Teacher Residency (a partnership between the UW College of Education, Alliance for Education, Seattle Public Schools and Seattle Education Association), argues for the benefits of teacher residency programs.

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New America

The University of Washington's National P-3 Center is mapping and documenting state- and community-level initiatives across the country to improve and align birth-through-3rd grade systems.

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Renton Reporter

Michelle Zimmerman (MEd '07, PhD '11), director of innovative teaching and learning sciences at Renton Prep, helps students harness the power of data in their learning.

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Hechinger Report

Work by Steven Gering (EdD '09), a graduate of the UW's Leadership for Learning program, that contributed to a large increase in the percentage of Spokane Public School students attending college is cited.

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KUOW

Professor Filiberto Barajas-López discusses his work with educators at Chief Sealth International High School to examine students' experiences at the school and how to improve the school community.

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Hechinger Report

Katie (Erickson) Ward (MEd '14) teaches at Hope Academy, an alternative program for ninth- and 10th-graders at Sequim Senior High School that offers an alternative for kids who struggle in standard classrooms.