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Roza's Beyond Teacher Reassignments brief reviewed; her Seniority-Based Layoffs brief cited in NCTQ report on seniority and layoffs.

Two guides of free online resources curated by UW College of Education faculty to support families with young children during a period of school and child-care program closures are highlighted.

Former Assistant Secretary of Education and Education Policy Analyst Diane Ravitch spoke to a packed Kane Hall on Thursday night to discuss her newest book, “Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America’s Public Schools.” During the talk, Ravitch primarily explored the failures of charter/virtual schools and of reforms such as Race to the Top and No Child Left Behind. The visit was sponsored by the UW College of Education and hosted by Director of Teacher Education Kenneth Zeichner.

Sierra Campbell, an Education, Communities and Organizations major, has received a prestigious Udall Scholarship that will support her goal to work with communities in addressing the holistic health and wellbeing of Native American youth.

It’s an odd thought. Why would anyone make their work more difficult than it already is? Yet we know that difficulty can pay unexpected dividends. The work of Professor Virginia Berninger is cited.

Professor David Knight writes that most K-12 federal funding supports the nation's most vulnerable students, making potential cuts for school districts that don't resume daily in-person instruction especially harmful.

Early education and K-12 leaders from across the country participated in a conference hosted by UW's National P-3 Institute to brainstorm ideas for better linking early childhood learning with the K-12 education system.

UW College of Education faculty, Soojin Oh Park and Nail Hassairi, conducted a study that proposes a new analytic approach to unlocking the potential of legislative data to inform future policymaking in the early care and education frontier. Very few studies in the field of early childhood consider how policymaking occurs at state and federal levels and under what conditions state legislators achieve success in committees, on the floor, and at the enactment stage of the legislative process. The authors’ findings may help guide targeted advocacy efforts by assigning thing policy priorities to more senior legislators (or not intensely involving senior legislators with legislation that may be relatively easy to pass), identifying which policy priorities to push for in times or large/small majorities in the legislative bodies, or may be useful for early childhood researchers and organizations engaging in state legislative action.

Professor Virginia Berninger comments on her research into the educational and cognitive benefits of learning to write by hand.

Katie Headrick Taylor, associate professor in Learning Sciences and Human Development, wrote about the importance of movement for students' learning outcomes in an op-ed in The Conversation. Dr. Headrick Taylor argues that current models of remote education are inefficient for learning, teaching and productivity. She points out that sitting in front of a computer screen subdues or detaches people from many of the sense-making abilities of our bodies and cites research from embodied cognition ― the study of the body's role in thinking ― that shows that the body must first be interacting with the world to activate and open up the mind for learning. Whether students remain online or return to in-person classrooms this year, Dr. Headrick Taylor believes both models of school can better incorporate the body to support learning and provides tips for how educators can encourage and sustain an active classroom culture.