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22 26 EARLY LEARNING EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY BRIDGING THE A JOURNEY TO SAFER GAPS TO INCLUSIVE ROADS LEADS TO EDUCATION: EMBEDDED BETTER EDUCATION INSTRUCTION DEAN’S MESSAGE

They say that time flies when you’re having fun. Well, 30 34 we must be having the time of our lives here at the University STUDENT SUCCESS LEADERSHIP of Florida College of Education as these past 12 months have TURNING THE PAGE IMPROVING OUR simply flown by! ON LITERACY NATION’S SCHOOLS ONE PRINCIPAL AT We continue to gain momentum and we have no A TIME intention of slowing down. This issue of the annual Florida EduGator celebrates our shared experience and our continued growth from our combined efforts. The year has been marked by historic events that Florida EduGator 18 U.S. NEWS RANKINGS 37 RESEARCH FUNDING brought us together and give us pride in our college. Our faculty Published annually by 14th among public colleges of education Up 26 percent are leading the way in developing innovative solutions for the College of Education society’s most pressing educational challenges. Their exceptional P.O. Box 117044, efforts have garnered record-breaking funding to support their Gainesville, FL 32611- 6 STUDENT EXCELLENCE 40 P.K. YONGE 7044 work — $128 million during the past year alone. Our students are preparing to Collaboration in action make a difference In the spring, we celebrated the much-anticipated launch Dean/Publisher Glenn E. Good, Ph.D. of the Norman Hall Rehabilitation project. This long-awaited 42 ALUMNI AWARDS project will transform our learning environment, creating spaces Design & Layout 11 FACULTY ACHIEVEMENTS Building a strong reputation Lianne Guerra Jepson Recognition of the intellectual and opportunities for greater collaboration and greater impact. leadership of our faculty Last fall we launched our Building A Brighter Future Photography 44 MICHAEL SOLICH Larry Edelman campaign. This is our most ambitious fundraising campaign, A lasting legacy Lianne Guerra Jepson 13 COMINGS & GOINGS ever, and at time of printing we were at 80 percent of our $55 Kayla Sharp A fond farewell to retiring faculty million goal. Contributing Writers and a warm welcome to new members 46 IN MEMORIAM Further evidence of our momentum can be found in our Jason Arnold Remembering inspiring EduGators Cathy Attria rankings. The college jumped five spots in the U.S. News & World Alexis Brown 18 NORMAN HALL REHABILITATION Report this year. Among public colleges of education, we are Kevin Coulson Larry Lansford A monumental undertaking 47 GIVING: BY THE NUMBERS now 14th in the nation. No other college of education has made Katelyn Vogt Together we are boundless as much progress in the past eight years! More Online Indeed, these are exciting times, full of challenge and education.ufl.edu/ opportunity — I know we are up to the task. Thank you for being capitalcampaign/stories a part of our EduGator community! ON THE COVER Like the great oak in the Norman Hall Courtyard — growing, With best regards, strong and steady — we branch out beyond expectation. Our story is layered and complex, full of light and life. Vast connection points link our instruction and research to practice, Glenn Good, Ph.D. building a brighter future for everyone.

3 UF CLIMBS FIVE SPOTS TO RANK 14TH AMONG NATION’S PUBLIC EDUCATION COLLEGES UF has invested state “preeminent university” funds The college’s Anita Zucker Center for Excellence College retains No. 1 rank in Florida and in Southeast among public schools in three high-priority research initiatives involving in Early Childhood Studies was instrumental in the College of Education – in early childhood convening UF’s Early Childhood National Summit The College of Education at the University of doctoral student enrollment and two measures related studies, personalized e-learning and big data in 2017, bringing together more than 100 early Florida rode substantial growth in research funding to to the college's thriving funded research activity, which informatics analysis. childhood leaders to create actionable solutions to move up five spots to 24th in the nation in the 2019 U.S. accounted for nearly a third of the total ranking score. the grand challenges facing our most vulnerable News & World Report annual rankings of America’s Best During fiscal 2017-2018, college faculty young children and their families. Education Schools. researchers were awarded more than $128 million in With back-to-back federal grants totaling $46 Among public education colleges, UF was 14th, combined external grant funding, a 26 percent increase million, spanning a decade through 2023, the also a five-place spike over last year. UF continues from the prior record-setting year. College faculty UF CEEDAR Center is expanding efforts to help The world’s best-selling author James Patterson, to stake claim as the top-ranked education college members averaged more than $676,000 each in the at least 30 states strengthen their professional who funded scholarships for 21 UF teachers- in Florida and among public education schools in the total value of grants they generated. standards and methods for preparing teachers and in-training over the past five years, recently Southeast. Florida State, at No. 46, was the state’s only The college also maintained solid marks leaders serving students with disabilities. (CEEDAR contributed $3 million to the College of Education. other college of education to achieve a top 50 national in graduate student admission test scores and in is short for Collaboration for Effective Educator With his gift, the college has launched an ambitious ranking. reputation surveys of peer scholars and education Development, Accountability and Reform.) literacy acceleration initiative – dubbed the James Two UF academic education programs scored administrators across the state and nation. Patterson Literacy Challenge – aimed at doubling top-five rankings in their respective specialty areas: U.S. News recently placed the College of the number of schoolchildren in Florida who can Algebra Nation, a novel, interactive online tutoring Special Education maintained its fifth-place rating from Education’s online graduate program at number one read proficiently. tool created by the college’s Lastinger Center for last year and Counselor Education moved up three spots in the nation in the 2020 rankings. A leader in online Learning, supports math students and teachers in to No. 5 in its category. learning, the college has been ranked first or second every Florida county and in six states. “Our ranking has improved better than three in the country for the past four years – three of those “We appreciate high rankings,” places per year, on average, over the past eight years. years as number one. Dean Good said, “but we measure No other education college has improved more over this “With our advances in research, our steadily Education technology researchers have assembled true success at our College of time span,” said UF College of Education Dean Glenn improving rankings and rehabilitation to historic Norman a Virtual Learning Lab team of interdisciplinary Good. “Our faculty and staff are developing innovative Hall underway, it’s an exciting time to be at the UF experts to explore massive data sets to personalize Education by how well we are solutions for the education and learning challenges at College of Education,” Dean Good said. virtual instruction for future math students and to helping to solve educational the local, national and international levels. Over time, Good cited several notable developments, adapt visual educational technology for visually challenges and strengthen our that momentum can carry over into higher rankings.” outreach and research activity at the college that likely impaired students. The efforts are supported by society.” The college registered sizable improvement in have impacted its rise in the rankings: $10 million over five years from the Institute of three key metrics of the survey – the high quality of Education Sciences. 4 5 OUTSTANDING UNDERGRADUATE AWARDS GRADUATE AWARDS

These awards recognize a student in the Unified Elementary ProTeach program and two students in the 2018 Outstanding Graduate Leadership Award Winner: Unified Early Childhood program for their superior accomplishments. CHARLOTTE BOLCH The Outstanding Graduate Leadership Award is given to an advanced-degree student “These undergraduate students are truly amazing,” said Associate Dean of Research & Faculty who demonstrates a commitment to service and leadership for the college, university and Development Thomasenia Adams. “They have demonstrated exemplary service and leadership, outstanding community. teacher preparation and readiness and superlative scholarship while maintaining exceptionally high GPAs. They have made the College of Education very proud.” Charlotte Bolch’s academic and leadership trajectory signals a bright future ahead. Bolch has served in many leadership capacities, most recently in the role of vice president of the Organization for Graduate Student Advancement and Professional Development (OGAP), 2018 Outstanding Undergraduate for Unified Elementary Education ProTeach: treasurer for both the Florida Society of Social Sciences and the Education College Council, ADRIANNA ESCOBALES and as an executive board member for the Student Alliance of Graduates in Education (SAGE). Adrianna Escobales is driven to impact education and her community and graduated Magna From informal mentoring to more formal activities such as helping to organize the annual Cum Laude. Escobales has been a member of both Kappa Delta Pi and SFEA since fall 2017. Graduate Student Research Day, Bolch has established herself as an invaluable leader here at Her community service has benefitted the Relay for Life at UF, Salvation Army Homework the University of Florida. Club, Salvation Army Community Feedings and Mentor UF. Escobales is passionate about language arts and social studies instruction and specifically, working with English language learners. Her dream job is teaching fifth grade in a dual language school. 2018 Outstanding Graduate Professional Practice Award Winner: EMILIE LENES The Outstanding Graduate Professional Practice Award recognizes a student who demonstrates excellence in professional activities related to educator preparation including pedagogy, best practices, assessment and the translation of research to practice. 2018 Outstanding Undergraduate for Unified Elementary Education ProTeach: Emilie Lenes is an exceptional scholar and a skilled and dedicated professional that is ELLIE CHENOWETH licensed as both a mental health counselor and a marriage and family therapist. Currently, Ellie Chenoweth aspires to teach and give back to the community in every facet of her life, Lenes practices at PACE Center for Girls but has also practiced with the Shands Vista Crisis from spending her summers with kids at Finley Day Camp in Raleigh, , to Stabilization Unit for seven years. Lenes has demonstrated outstanding professional practice starting the first College of Education Dance Marathon team (raising more than $4,000 for in the field of counseling through service to her clients, continuous professional development, the Children’s Miracle Network). Chenoweth is a member of the Golden Key International training of counseling professionals and supervision of counselor education and counseling Honour Society, serves as a College of Education student ambassador and has maintained a psychology students. She has dedicated herself to the study of holistic counselor preparation. 3.9 GPA. Chenoweth is driven to teach in lower elementary grades in a Title 1 school setting and hopes to positively impact her future students’ lives. 2018 Outstanding Graduate Research Award Winner: JIAHUI WANG The Outstanding Graduate Research Award recognizes a graduate student who demonstrates outstanding scholarship and strong evidence of publications, professional presentations and 2018 Outstanding Undergraduate for Unified Early Childhood Education: professional development activities in support of the College of Education’s mission. PAIGE FITZPATRICK Paige Fitzpatrick has known that she wanted to work in the field of early childhood Already acknowledged as an exceptional researcher by her mentors and colleagues, Jiahui education since the 10th grade. This has not only influenced her program of study but also Wang’s work is consistently of the highest caliber. Wang was instrumental in establishing the led to her working at Baby Gator since her freshman year. Fitzpatrick’s primary focus in Neuroscience Applications for Learning Lab (NeurAL Lab) and has represented the university early childhood education is reading instruction and intervention and her dream job is to be and the lab with a fellowship with the Visual Learning Lab at Harvard University. She has a reading coach at a school in Atlanta, . Fitzpatrick is a member of the UF chapter published in top-tier journals, such as Dyslexia and Computers in Human Behavior, regularly, of Sigma Kappa Sorority. Her favorite quote is from the teacher and author, Erin Gruwell, “If and has received 10 awards for her outstanding research and service to the profession and you can change a classroom, you can change a community, and if you can change enough the community for the 2016-2017 year alone. Committed to impacting the effectiveness of communities, you can change the world.” teaching and learning through her research, Wang’s dissertation examines the influence of instructor presence in instructional videos.

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Xiaodan Hu, (Ph.D. ‘17) a recent Doctoral candidate of Curriculum, Gov. Rick Scott appointed John doctoral graduate in Higher Teaching and Teacher Education David Hooker II, a University of Education Administration, received Elizabeth Currin was awarded the Florida doctoral student in Higher the 2018 Council for the Study of Rothman Doctoral Fellowship for Education Administration, to Community Colleges Dissertation her interdisciplinary research as the Higher Education Facilities of the Year Award for her work, part of her dissertation, “Storied Financing Authority of Florida “The Impact of Performance-based Stance: An Oral History of Long- (HEFFA). Funding on Community College Term Teacher Researchers in the Retention and Completion in Age of Accountability.” Christina McGrath Fair, a UF .” doctoral student in Counselor Donielle Geoffrion, a master’s Education, was elected as Mercedes Machado, graduate and education specialist student in division secretary and master’s student in Counseling and Marriage and Family Counseling, student Shaun Anderson was Counselor Education, received was awarded the inaugural elected to serve as the graduate the Association for Multicultural Florida Association for Counselor student representative for Florida INNOVATION THRIVES Counseling and Development Education and Supervision (FACES) Association for Lesbian, Gay, Student Research Grant, to pursue Graduate Student Scholarship Bisexual and Transgender Issues in IN STUDENT-TEACHER a research project at Girls Place in Opportunity. Counseling (FALGBTIC). Gainesville, Florida. ENGAGEMENT Alisa Houseknecht, a doctoral Rachel Henesy, a doctoral student Skye Sewell, a master’s candidate in Counseling and in Counselor Education, received The thirst for knowledge fuels the spirit of innovation. and educational specialist student Counselor Education, was awarded the 2018 Graduate Student Award Innovation can be elusive or it can appear in a flash in adrenalized in Counselor Education, received a Research & Best Practice Grant from the Association of Lesbian, moments. Innovation can be part of a grand plan to enact change the 2018 Outstanding Entry from the Southern Association Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (think “think tank”) and it can surface serendipitously. Innovative Level Student Award from Chi for Counselor Education and Issues in Counseling (ALGBTIC). thinking seems to flourish outside — as in outside the proverbial box, Sigma Iota (CSI), an international Supervision (SACES) for her outside the norm or coloring outside the lines. Australians refer to honor society for the counseling dissertation research. Jonte Myers, a doctoral student unconventional, imaginative thought as thinking outside the square, profession. in Special Education at the perhaps while on a mind-clearing walkabout in the outback, and mind Alayna Calhoun, a UF Unified University of Florida, was awarded the crocodiles. Elementary ProTeach preservice a 2018-2019 Minority Dissertation At the University of Florida College of Education, the innovation student, was recognized as a David Fellowship in Education Research mindset is pervasive and flourishes on both ends of teacher-student Watts Scholar for her dedication from the American Educational engagement. And mind the EduGators. as a student teacher during her Research Association (AERA). time as a distant intern and her passion for students and the art of teaching.

8 9 EDD STUDENTS designed their app based on the Orgel, Wilding and Roy FACULTY CREATE APP FOR most current research for effective unveiled their PD Evaluator in PROFESSIONAL professional learning practices. Both December 2017 in Orlando in free and easy to use, their interactive a presentation at the annual LEARNING “PD Evaluator” platform streamlines conference of Learning Forward, the EVALUATION traditional pencil-and-paper world’s only professional learning OUTSTANDING evaluation by allowing instructors association. While designing a and presenters to instantly receive “This is the true essence professional-development program digital feedback from participants of what we hope for in our Ed.D. EduGators evaluation rubric for a course in about the effectiveness of their program, that students will use the their online doctoral program, three professional learning sessions. literature to create real solutions to High Achievers in 2017-2018 students — Rachel Orgel, Kit Wilding Particularly inspiring is the address educational challenges in and Matthew Roy — found that fact that none of the students had their own contexts and beyond,” said conventional evaluation methods a background in technology. To clinical associate professor Alyson INTERNATIONAL & NATIONAL RECOGNITION were outdated, time-consuming create their app, they had to teach Adams, the students’ instructor. “I and difficult to implement on a large themselves about coding and tech am so proud of them.” PASHA ANTONENKO KARA DAWSON STEPHEN SMITH scale. Rather than resign themselves development. Educational Technology Educational Technology Special Education to imperfect traditional methods, “We never want to stop learning,” Instructional Technology Special Associate Editor Special Education Research the students set out to create a says Orgel. “Learning should be Interest Group Best Paper Award Journal of Research on Technology Special Interest Group Special new solution — a new professional engaging, spur critical thinking and American Educational Research in Education (JRTE) Interest Group Distinguished development program evaluation inspire educators. Our hope is that Association Researcher Award app. our work supports both presenters Research team: Andreas Keil (Co- CYNTHIA GRIFFIN American Educational Research The Curriculum, Teaching and and participants of professional PI, UF Psychology), Kara Dawson, Special Education Association Teacher Education (CTTE) students development in this process.” Carole Beal Editor Journal of Teacher Education and JOHN SUPER UNDERGRAD student Alexandria Harvey, the international conference of the MARY BROWNELL Special Education Counselor Education novice co-investigators followed the Council of Exceptional Children in Special Education President-Elect FUTURE TEACHER- same rigorous research process as Tampa, Florida. They were the only Jeanette Fleischner Career ANA PUIG Florida Association for Lesbian, RESEARCHERS modeled by their research faculty undergraduate research team invited Leadership Award Office of Educational Research Gay, Bisexual and Transgender professors. They secured project to present. Council for Exceptional Children President-Elect Issues in Counseling MAKE THEIR approval from UF’s Institutional “The conference, itself, was a Division of Learning Disabilities Association for Specialists in Group MARK AT Review Board and saw their rich professional learning experience Work JACQUELINE SWANK INTERNATIONAL collaborative study through from for the [teacher] candidates, allowing CHRISTOPHER BUSEY Counselor Education conceptualization to its fruition. them to learn the most current Curriculum, Teaching and Teacher ALBERT RITZHAUPT President-Elect CONFERENCE The six-student group — practices for meeting the needs of Education Educational Technology Association for Assessment & Alyssa Lozano, Nathalie Nascimento, students with disabilities,” Benedict Social Studies Research SIG Editor Research in Counseling Six UF ProTeach students Cy-Anne Small, Monica Lozano, said. “Plus, they came together as a Outstanding Paper Award Journal of Research on Technology received research exposure and Genesis Medinam and England community of future teachers and American Educational Research in Education SHELLEY WARM early experience over several Dubinsky — combined their researchers.” Association Site-based Implementation of months last spring after immersing research findings with their personal Future teacher-researcher SHON SMITH Teacher Education themselves — voluntarily — in their experience reflection for a study Small said the experience inspired NANCY DANA Counselor Education Outstanding Teacher Educator of own collaborative Future Teacher titled: EduGators’ Survival Guide to her to study abroad over the summer Curriculum, Teaching and Teacher Samuel Jackson Award the Year Research Group. Teaching Culturally and Linguistically in China and to research more Education Association for Multicultural Florida Association of Teacher Meeting weekly outside of Diverse and Exceptional Learners. closely the schools she is considering 2018 Duaine C. Lang Distinguished Counseling and Development Educators their Core Teaching Strategies class Their extracurricular to teach in. “I want to be better Mentor Award with Special Education instructor effort culminated with their equipped for my students,” she said, Association of Teacher Educators Amber Benedict and doctoral presentation of findings at the 2018 “so they can be better instructed.” 10 11 COMINGS & GOINGS A FOND FAREWELL OUTSTANDING TO RETIRING FACULTY EduGators DON PEMBERTON: LASTINGER CENTER FOUNDING High Achievers in 2017-2018 DIRECTOR AND LIFETIME ADVOCATE FOR EDUCATION INTERNATIONAL & NATIONAL RECOGNITION ACCESS FOR ALL

Education innovator Don Pemberton has always as a powerful engine of educational innovation under lived and worked by a simple but ironclad creed: “All the dynamic leadership of Phil Poekert and his superb PASHA ANTONENKO MARIA COADY HOLLY LANE children can succeed.” colleagues,” Pemberton said. Educational Technology ESOL/Bilingual Education Special Education It’s a mindset that has served him well as the A quarter century ago, before joining UF, UFRF Professorship Irving and Rose Fien Endowed Instructional Strategy Award founding director of the University of Florida Lastinger Pemberton was a teacher and guidance counselor in University of Florida Research Professorship UF 2018 Online Education Center for Learning since 2002. Pemberton recently Pinellas County and for a decade served as president of Foundation UF College of Education Excellence Awards retired after decades of advocating and innovating for the Pinellas Education Foundation. In 1995, he founded widespread, lasting change in the lives of all children the Take Stock in Children charity, which is still going CHRISTOPHER BUSEY NICK GAGE JUSTIN ORTAGUS through access to high-quality education. strong after guaranteeing college scholarships for more Curriculum, Teaching and Teacher Special Education Institute of Higher Education “Don is retiring and in his wake he leaves than 24,000 children in all 67 Florida counties. Education B.O. Smith Professorship 2018 UF Excellence Award for successful institutions, impactful innovations and hordes In 2015, the National College Access Network B.O. Smith Professorship UF College of Education Assistant Professors of individuals all inspired to continue his vision forward,” honored Pemberton with its prestigious Bob Craves UF College of Education UF Office of the Provost said Philip Poekert (Ph.D. ’08), who succeeds Pemberton Champion of College Access Award for his leadership CAITLIN GALLINGANE as Lastinger Center director after serving since 2013 as in providing the means for poor students to attend and ELAYNE COLÓN Unified Elementary ProTeach JEANNE REPETTO its partnership manager and then as assistant director. succeed in college. Assessment and Accreditation 2018 Undergraduate Teacher of Special Education The center, established in 2002 through a $2 Pemberton and his wife, , relocated 2018 Rosser Education Excellence the Year Emeritus million donation from UF alumni Allen and Delores to this summer to be near family, with their Award UF College of Education University of Florida (B.S.E. ’65) Lastinger, is the College of Education’s first grandchild on the way. Don said he is exploring UF College of Education research and development incubator for advancing opportunities to support the launch of a new company ANGELA KOHNEN VIVIAN GONSALVES teacher and student achievement. to disseminate the Lastinger Center’s early learning MARIA COADY English Language Arts and Special Education At the Lastinger Center, Pemberton oversaw innovations throughout the country and world. ESOL/Bilingual Education Literature Instructional Strategy Award the development, field-testing and scaling of models “If these discussions bear fruit, I would envision 2018 Graduate Service Award 2018 Diane E. Haines Teaching UF 2018 Online Education and innovations that have proven to transform teaching an advisory role for myself, as spending time with my UF Graduate Student Council Excellence Award Excellence Awards and learning. He led the evolution of Algebra Nation, an family and enjoying the beauty of Colorado are my new UF College of Education Project Team: Domenic Durante, online math tutoring resource used by over 500,000 priorities,” he said. Sunshine Moss, Matthew Long students and 20,000 teachers across Florida and five and Lianne Jepson other states. Another breakthrough is Early Learning Florida, an online professional development program for more than 30,000 early learning educators. He also Allen Lastinger was named Citizen of the Year by steered the creation of the Winning Reading Boost UF’s Bob Graham Center for Public Service for work to make Florida a better place to live and school program that transforms struggling students into work, Allen and wife, Delores, are the namesakes fluent readers. for the Lastinger Center for Learning. “The Lastinger Center will continue to thrive 12 13 COMINGS & GOINGS A FOND FAREWELL MEET OUR TO RETIRING FACULTY NEW FACULTY Adding fresh viewpoints and new expertise, the College of Education is delighted to welcome the following new faculty to our EduGator community:

ANITA ZUCKER CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE IN EARLY CHILDHOOD STUDIES DALE CAMPBELL: DARBIANNE K. SHANNON CRYSTAL BISHOP NATIONAL ICON IN HIGHER Assistant Research Scientist Assistant Research Scientist EDUCATION ADMINISTRATION, (Ph.D., Curriculum & Instruction, Univ. (Ph.D., Special Education, Univ. of of Florida) Florida) LONG-TIME UF INSTITUTE Comes to UFCOE from: Post-doctoral Comes to UFCOE from: Post-doctoral DIRECTOR Fellow, Univ. of Florida Fellow, Univ. of Florida Research interests: Translation of Research interests: Professional development teacher coaching; research and policy to practice in early University of Florida professor Dale Campbell, In 2003, his book “The Leadership Gap: Model Strategies system-level policy childhood settings a state and national icon in Higher Education for Leadership Development” earned the Senior Scholar Administration academia, has retired from the Award from the Council for the Study of Community College of Education faculty after more than 35 years Colleges. in community college leadership and workforce In 2014, Campbell and UF IHE alumnus Willis BILINGUAL/ESOL EDUCATION development. Holcombe worked with a blue-ribbon group of alumni, A UF faculty member in HEA since 1994, graduate students and other state and national leaders MARK PACHECO TIMOTHY VETERE Campbell has directed the UF Institute of Higher and stakeholders to launch a sweeping strategic Assistant Professor Clinical Assistant Professor Education for nearly half of the institute’s 50-year planning process. Their goal: to boost the institute’s (Ph.D., Learning, Teaching & Diversity, (Ph.D., Curriculum & Instruction/Second history. More recently, he headed the College of scholarly productivity by connecting IHE research and Vanderbilt Univ.) Language Ed, Penn State Univ.) Comes to UFCOE from: Faculty, Comes to UFCOE from: Instructor, Penn Education’s HEA doctoral program, which is recognized projects with national postsecondary policy interests State Univ. State Univ. nationally as a leader in two-year and four-year and local institutional needs. Research interests: Strategic language Research interests: Role of the postsecondary policy development and administration. Dean Glenn Good called the strategic planning and literacy instruction for English imagination and play in multicultural Campbell has held numerous national leadership effort “an important first step” in re-energizing the learners environments roles, including serving as chair of the National mission and value of the institute. Council of State Directors of Community Colleges and the National Council for Workforce Education. He “We are building upon our past success COUNSELOR EDUCATION also steered the formation of the Futures Assembly with a goal to become the premier consortium of Florida community college leaders and its graduate program in higher education national Bellwether Awards program. administration in the nation,” Good said. HANNAH BARNHILL BAYNE KARIN FIELDS His research agenda included studies “That will be an integral part of Dale Assistant Professor Clinical Assistant Professor (Ph.D., Counselor Education & (Ph.D., Counselor Education, Univ. of on projected shortages of community college Campbell’s legacy.” Supervision, Old Dominion Univ.) Florida) administrators and public policy research on future Comes to UFCOE from: Faculty, Loyola Comes to UFCOE from: LCS Integrative trends and critical issues facing the institutions. More UF HEA faculty member Justin Ortagus Univ. Counseling & Consulting recently, he pursued the development of work profiles succeeds Campbell as IHE director. Research interests: Empathy assessment Research interests: Maternal identity and development; counseling diverse for adoptive mothers; collaboration/ for the next generation of community college faculty populations; spirituality in counseling supervision among mental health and administrators to assist in their selection and professionals; identity formation for development. children in foster care

14 15 KATIE FIELDS SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGY Assistant Professor (Ph.D., Counseling & Counselor Education, Univ. of Florida) CHRISTOPHER ANTHONY Comes to UFCOE from: Adjunct Professor, Assistant Professor Univ. of Florida (Ph.D., School Psychology, Penn State Research interests: Turnaround school Univ.) leadership, mentoring for teacher and Comes to UFCOE from: Faculty, leader development State Univ. Research interests: Socioemotional/ behavioral predictors of achievement; assessment/measurement; family context CURRICULUM, TEACHING & EDUCATION PSYCHOLOGY and student learning​ TEACHER EDUCATION

GAGE RYAN JETER HELENA MAWDESLEY SPECIAL EDUCATION Clinical Assistant Professor Clinical Assistant Professor (Ph.D., Instructional Leadership and (Ph.D., Applied Developmental & Academic Curriculum, Univ. of Oklahoma) Educational Psychology, Boston College) LINDSEY CHAPMAN KRISTI CHEYNEY-COLLANTE Comes to UFCOE from: Curriculum Comes to UFCOE from: Postdoctoral Clinical Assistant Professor Clinical Assistant Professor Specialist, K20 Center at Univ. of Central Affiliate, Univ. of Florida (Ph.D., Special Education, Univ. of Miami) (Ph.D., Special Education/Qualitative Oklahoma Research interests: Early childhood Comes to UFCOE from: Grad. Research Research and Evaluation Methodology, Research interests: Authentic writing education and intervention; families of Asst., Univ. of Florida Univ. of Florida) processes/products; multimodal literacies; young children with disabilities Research interests: Teacher prep and Comes to UFCOE from: Faculty, Santa Fe professional development professional learning to support diverse College student populations; teacher retention; Research interests: Early literacy and high- school culture and working conditions poverty communities; visual ethnography EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY and participant-driven research

DONGHO “DON” KIM MAYA ISRAEL TABATHA DOBSON VIVIAN GONSALVES Assistant Professor Associate Professor Clinical Assistant Professor Assistant Professor (Ph.D., Learning, Designing & Technology, (Ph.D., Special Education, Univ. of ) (Ph.D., Curriculum & Instruction, Univ. of (Ph.D., Special Education, Univ. of Florida) Univ. of Georgia) Comes to UFCOE from: Faculty, Univ. of Florida) Comes to UFCOE from: Visiting Clinical Comes to UFCOE from: Faculty, Northern Illinois at Urbana Champaign Comes to UFCOE from: Lead Consultant, Faculty, Univ. of Florida Illinois Univ. Research interests: Strategies and Ctr. for the Collaborative Classroom Research interests: Teacher prep and Research interests: Learning analytics, supports for academically diverse learners Research interests: Teacher professional development in literacy instruction and human-computer Interaction, adaptive in computational thinking and computer learning; struggling readers; effective interventions; dyslexia assessments and online learning science; Universal Design for Learning literacy practices interventions

BOJAN LAZAREVIC HIGHER EDUCATION ADMINISTRATION STEM EDUCATION Clinical Assistant Professor (Ph.D., Education — Instructional Technology, Univ. of ) LINDSAY BYRON LYNCH JULIE C. BROWN Comes to UFCOE from: Faculty, Mt. Saint Clinical Assistant Professor Associate Professor Mary College (Ed.D., Higher Education Administration, (Ph.D., Science Education, Univ. of Florida) Research interests: Emerging and Web 2.0 Univ. of Florida) Comes to UFCOE from: Faculty, Univ. of technologies; online learning; multimedia Comes to UFCOE from: Administration, , Twin Cities FIND OUT MORE ABOUT OUR NEW FACULTY: production; innovative pedagogy South Florida State College Research interests: Equitable secondary Research interests: Institutional policies, science teaching, undergraduate science https://education.ufl.edu/etc/edugator-insider/ practices and systems that improve education october-2018/new-faculty-fall-2018/ student access and success

16 17 NORMAN REHABILITATION

ABOVE THE NORM The long-awaited rehabilitation to historic Norman Hall is now fully underway. This $29 million project includes infrastructure repairs and upgrades, technology expansions and improvements, configurable classrooms and meeting spaces, increased research space, a café and conference center. This monumental undertaking will make Norman Hall more suitable for preparing the educators and leaders who will address the educational opportunities and challenges of the future. The entire EduGator community eagerly awaits the day when the look and feel of historic Norman Hall is as outwardly inviting as it is behind its well-worn exterior.

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Norman Hall's North entry hallway during the rehabilitation. Original ceiling heights have been restored and wood paneling will be preserved 18 19 NORMAN EMBRACING THE FUTURE REHABILITATION WHILE HONORING THE PAST

SOUTH GATEWAY AND PROFESSIONAL THE HISTORIC HIGH IMPACT ATRIUM DEVELOPMENT CENTER CLASSROOM CLASSROOMS

One of the most anticipated enhancements Located adjacent to original Norman Hall, Originally an ornately-designed library serving The heart of any university building is its to historic Norman Hall, as evidenced by Norman Gym, and the grand oak tree in the PK Yonge’s students, the Historic Classroom classrooms where generations of students comments on social media, is the new Norman courtyard, the eco-friendly newly was replete with classic wooden casework, have opportunities to interact with top-notch south gateway and atrium. Open, inviting constructed Professional Development Center gilding, and intricate plaster ceilings. The educators and talented peers. Classrooms and invigorating – the space, while adorned is an impressive mix of modern conveniences room began serving university students as a should be designed to inspire students and with modern comforts and amenities, will and historic elements consistent with iconic classroom in the 1960s after PK Yonge moved innovative educators while sufficiently flexible simultaneously call back to bygone learning Norman Hall. The sorely needed Center can to a new building just off campus. to meet particular needs of specific courses. environments, honoring our college’s host guest speakers, special class meetings, Many of Norman Hall’s classrooms have not foundations. seminars, receptions and professional This iconic space will be rehabilitated to changed since the building opening in the development events for up to125 educators reflect its original grandeur, with restoration early 1930s. Designed to foster student connection and and guests from Florida and beyond. or reconstruction of the embellishments that collaboration, the atrium and food court will made this grand reading room memorable. While largely located in the same locations be ideal for both lounging and learning. A The Center, located in the old Norman Reflecting the unique nature of this cherished as the original classrooms in order to honor place for students to recharge for classes loading dock, will be fully equipped with the space, the room will be used for occasional the building’s past, new classrooms will have and coursework ahead. Congregations of latest telecommunications and presentation class meetings, select guest speakers, small modern designs that place learning first, EduGators will gather together, creating technologies, a catering kitchen and storage college events, and informal gatherings. allowing instructors the flexibility to rearrange individual and shared memories that will last room to hold tables and chairs to reconfigure furnishings and technologies easily. Nearly all a lifetime. the room from a lecture setting with of the original 1930s classrooms had only two rectangular tables to a small banquet with electrical outlets, but they will be reimagined round tables. Storage facilities also are capable for the students of today that charge laptops, of holding Gator-branded linens and supplies. tablets and phones. New classrooms will include those that are technology-centered, specialty area focused (such as a science lab) and more traditional designs.

20 21 EARLY LEARNING Through our work in the area of Early Learning we are leading the way to a future where every child is prepared to enter school. Focused on young children birth to age five, their families and the contexts that support their health, our faculty, students and research partners are giving children the opportunity to succeed through transdisciplinary collaboration. Early Learning is a key initiative in the university’s quest to be a top five research institution.

BRIDGING THE GAPS TO INCLUSIVE EDUCATION: EMBEDDED INSTRUCTION CALIFORNIA

Building off both past and current research 1. It introduces preschool teachers to embedded supported by the Institute of Education Sciences at the instruction and supports their implementation of University of Florida, Embedded Instruction California embedded instruction in the classroom. (EI CA) is a collaborative project that began in 2015. The purpose of the EI CA project is to scale up and 2. It helps young children with or at risk for sustain a system of professional development to support disabilities to learn skills or behaviors that enable preschool teachers’ use of embedded instruction them to access and participate in a preschool practices by integrating Embedded Instruction for Early curriculum alongside their peers with and without Learning — Tools for Teachers with existing statewide disabilities. early childhood initiatives in California. Partners in this project include the Anita Zucker Center for Excellence in 3. Anita Zucker faculty and project staff learn Early Childhood Studies, the Special Education Division alongside our collaborating partners about how to of the California Department of Education and project effectively scale up and sustain the implementation sites in preschool classrooms located in Los Angeles, of embedded instruction practices and what Santa Clara, Napa, Etiwanda, Pleasanton, Sonoma, additional research is needed to help address Imperial, Mendocino/Ukiah and Chico. The EI CA project practical implementation issues we encounter. aligns with the Anita Zucker Center’s mission to bridge the research-to-practice gap by supporting practitioners to implement effective teaching practices. Embedded instruction is an effective teaching practice. The EI CA project has three major benefits:

22 23 WHAT IS EMBEDDED INSTRUCTION? practices in their classroom and how to use practice- LOOKING TO THE FUTURE Embedded Instruction is a method of based coaching. Practice-based coaching is an The fourth year of the EI CA project has brought instruction that has been shown to be effective evidence-based coaching framework grounded in the exciting new collaborative efforts among the more for teaching young children with disabilities during science of how people learn. During the first year of than 20 site-based coaches, site administrators, the CA everyday activities, routines and transitions in the participation in the project, coaches have 12 coaching Department of Education and members of the Anita preschool classroom rather than in separate settings or sessions for each teacher following the online and face- Zucker Center. The California Department of Education, activities. to-face training on embedded instruction. The coaching Special Education Division, is developing a cadre of Embedded instruction practices are organized sessions include an observation in the classroom and state-based trainers and coaches who can effectively under four primary components: individualized feedback and assistance in implementing implement the embedded instruction and practice- embedded instruction. In addition to these coaching What to Teach based coaching activities. This strategic approach to sessions, teachers participate in quarterly embedded When to Teach building capacity within sites throughout the state of instruction professional learning communities with other How to Teach California will help increase teachers’ access to the teachers at their site and receive ongoing coaching How to Evaluate embedded instruction and will help sustain the use of support based on their individual implementation needs embedded instruction and practice-based coaching Dr. Patricia Snyder, principal investigator for the for up to two years. Recognizing the important role as essential components of the state’s preschool past and current research on embedded instruction at coaches play in supporting teachers’ implementation professional development system. UF, describes the process: of embedded instruction, coaches meet bi-weekly by Sheila Self of the CA Department of Education “In a typical preschool classroom, there are video-conference call with members of the Anita Zucker recently reflected on her experience with the embedded many child-initiated and teacher-led activities taking Center EI CA Project team to refine their knowledge instruction project: place as well as routines such as arrival, snack and and skills related to both embedded instruction and the “Embedded Instruction has been one of the departure. There are also transitions between the practice-based coaching framework. most effective evidenced-based practices I have been activities and routines. All children benefit from learning involved with to date. Not only does it improve child in the context of these activities. Embedded instruction MAKING AN IMPACT outcomes, but also has a meaningful impact on the means rather than providing instruction for a child with According to Dr. McLean, co-principal knowledge and skills of teachers and coaches involved a disability in a separate room or in a separate activity or investigator on the project, the opportunity to in the project. In California, the embedded instruction routine, the teacher embeds instruction in the ongoing collaborate to implement the EI CA project was an project has supported teachers to use DRDP(2015) child activities, routines and transitions in the classroom. important one. “The California Department of Education assessment data to provide targeted embedded learning To do this type of instruction, the teacher has to think and specifically the Special Education Division were opportunities that impact the child’s progress overtime. about what skills the child is learning (what to teach), in interested in using the Desired Results Developmental Practice-based coaching is viewed by all collaborators which activities, routines or transitions it is most logical Profile (DRDP, 2015) assessment, which measures as highly effective. Through continued collaboration and appropriate to teach the skill (when to teach), which children’s learning and developmental outcomes, to with the Anita Zucker Center, practice-based coaching instructional procedures to use (how to teach) and how help teachers identify what skills children need to can be used to support teachers to use a number of to monitor if teaching is implemented as planned and learn and then use embedded instruction to provide evidence-based teaching practices. In California, we if the embedded instruction helps the child learn the effective instruction for young children with disabilities. plan to replicate the use of practice-based coaching to skill (how to evaluate). While it might look effortless They asked members of the Anita Zucker Center to support other research to practice efforts. California’s when done well, embedded instruction requires skillful develop an approach to professional development children have benefited greatly from the collaboration planning and implementation to ensure children with or that would help teachers connect the DRDP(2015), from the Anita Zucker Center, the leadership team of at risk for disabilities learn alongside their peers.” the CA Preschool Learning Foundations, children’s individualized education program (IEP) goals and site administrators, preschool teachers and coaches WHAT IS THE EMBEDDED embedded instruction, given the positive outcomes supporting these efforts.” INSTRUCTION CALIFORNIA PROJECT? from the Anita Zucker Centers’ previous research on To date, the project has impacted over 300 The EI CA Project provides an opportunity to embedded instruction,” McLean said. She continued, target students with disabilities who received services in inclusive preschool classrooms and 148 teachers. support the implementation of embedded instruction “Embedded instruction is effective for teaching young Anita Zucker Center researchers anticipate that these as part of a state-wide initiative. Teachers and coaches children in inclusive environments. It was also seen by numbers will grow during the 2018-19 school year in California are initially provided with 15 to 18 hours the state of California as an important way to encourage to include 86 additional teachers and more than 150 of asynchronous online and face-to-face workshop the inclusion of young children with disabilities in Los Angeles and Garden Grove additional children. training on embedded instruction practices. Coaches programs with their typically developing peers.” receive an additional 24 hours of training on how to classrooms in the EI CA Project Learn More: support teachers to apply the embedded instruction https://ca.embeddedinstruction.net 24 25 EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY In the area of Educational Technology, shared data, transdisciplinary collaboration and implementation of learning analytics are helping our faculty to create the learning environments of the future. By integrating innovative technologies with learning sciences, we are enhancing learning experiences and outcomes for students around the world. These transdisciplinary collaborations help our faculty remove barriers and create the learning environments of the future. Our faculty and students are going beyond the limits of technology to reach boundless potential.

A JOURNEY TO SAFER ROADS LEADS TO BETTER EDUCATION

“There’s nothing more heart wrenching than was also searching for a better way to engage teen to pick up the paper on a Sunday morning and you drivers and influence their driving decisions. In 1999, read about a fatal car crash that’s involved one of your the institute reached out to Jones to create a science personal students or the students at your school,” said education film that could be implemented in high school Griff Jones, Ph.D, emeritus faculty at the University of science classrooms across the nation. Their shared Florida College of Education and former K-12 educator. hope was to connect with students through education, With a 20-year career as a K-12 science teacher, Jones focusing on the excitement of science rather than the knows all too well the tragedy of losing students to car fear of accidents. accidents. In 2000, IIHS-HLDI and Jones partnered to Speeding, texting, distracted driving and missing release “Understanding Car Crashes: It’s Basic Physics,” seatbelts play significant roles in the leading cause of an instructional video designed and hosted by Jones. death among 13 to 19-year-olds: car crashes. Among The film explores the role scientific concepts, such teens, nearly eight die every day in car accidents. This as Newton’s law of motion, play in the real world is a tragedy ever present in daily life, but a tragedy that of cars and car crashes. It aimed to increase young can be preventable. Jones knew something must be driver understanding of key science topics to provide done to better reach young drivers everywhere. the background needed to make responsible driving As fate would have it, the Insurance Institute for decisions on the road. “The basic premise is you can’t Highway Safety Highway Loss Data Institute (IIHS-HLDI) argue with the laws of physics,” Jones said. 26 27 Students using the online and printed resources available through IIHS-HLDI in the Classroom

The educational video gained momentum importance of making smart driving decisions well “The ETC team is equipped to build and deliver highly reaching K-12 science classrooms across the nation before they actually take the road. It features the impactful instructional tools and technologies that change and led to the production of a sequel in 2008, original science education films repackaged to include “Understanding Car Crashes: When Physics Meets three viewing options, 11 hands-on activities and a the landscape of what it means to be an online learner.” Biology,” which explores the effects of a car accident on collection of additional interactive resources ranging the human body. But the IIHS-HLDI and Jones did not from crash-science demonstrations to teen driving ETC led the instructional design, front-end Even in higher education, IIHS-HLDI in the end their journey to safer roads there. safety tips. The curriculum was designed by Jones to website design, back-end website development, Classroom has made a direct impact. More than 100 In 2017, the IIHS-HLDI and Jones began support the diverse learning styles of today’s students videography and photography to launch IIHS-HLDI in online courses in the College of Education have been collaborating with the University of Florida College of and provide the connecting link between the real world the Classroom as its own learning management system. updated to include tools and practices found successful Education Department of E-Learning, Technology and and science, technology, engineering and mathematics. “It’s heavily informed by what we know works with in the design and testing of the site. Courses are now Communications (ETC) on a project that would innovate All activities align with the Next Generation Science students and teachers,” said Jason Arnold, director of produced with high quality analytics software to track science education and enthrall the new generation Standards (NGSS), which are a research-based ETC. The site’s architecture was built using the latest engagement. Lectures include embedded formative of learners. Merging lanes of expertise in pedagogy, framework for high-quality K-12 science education research in learning theory as it applies to online spaces assessment to informally measure comprehension web-based learning and crash science, IIHS-HLDI in the practices. NGSS have been implemented in classrooms with much of it coming directly in house from the work and effectiveness of delivery. Videos are recorded and Classroom was launched in June 2018. across the nation and are guided by three proven of College of Education faculty and doctoral students. edited using quick b-roll cuts found to captivate viewers IIHS-HLDI in the Classroom is a free, online dimensions of science learning: crosscutting concepts, “It’s amazing to watch what they are producing,” Arnold longer. Tom Dana, College of Education associate dean science education resource that acts as an interactive disciplinary core ideas and science and engineering said. for academic affairs, said “The ETC team is equipped toolbox expanding upon the scientific concepts practices. But the creation of IIHS-HLDI in the Classroom to build and deliver highly impactful instructional tools presented in the original “Understanding Car Crashes” IIHS-HLDI in the Classroom offers science has advanced more than driver safety education and technologies that change the landscape of what it hit films. The platform is designed to effectively excite, teachers expanded access to resources created practices. Its production has delivered enhancements means to be an online learner.” Although the purpose inform and inspire grades 5-12 students and their specifically to foster their learning. Included are in the quality of learning in and beyond the classroom. of IIHS-HLDI in the Classroom was to encourage safer science teachers. Inertia, momentum, energy and comprehensive lessons plans and instructional guides Youth across the nation have a free, online platform driving through education, its reach has traveled further. impulse are ingeniously explored through avenues such providing the background needed to successfully filled with interactive science activities that may inspire as paper car crashes, cracked eggs and stretched Silly learn and teach each topic. As grades 5-12 science a love for science they never realized. Science educators Putty providing students firsthand opportunities to educators teach a wide range of subjects with differing have access to innovative research-based lessons witness science in action. “Our greatest challenge is to levels of ability, the platform offers the tools needed to designed to cultivate their learning and provide a Learn more make science real to everyone out there,” Jones said. effectively integrate the curriculum into their dynamic foundation they can easily expand upon when teaching education.ufl.edu/capitalcampaign The site seeks to ingrain in students the classroom structures. in their own classrooms. /stories/education-technology/ 28 29 STUDENT SUCCESS Everyone deserves the opportunity to achieve. Student Success is not a one-size-fits- all initiative. And like so many of our programs, the impacts of this initiative are felt far beyond the classroom. Our faculty are implementing varied strategies actively removing barriers and building bridges for the success of every student. In areas of literacy, special education, counseling and even social justice, we are lighting the way toward a more inclusive and brighter future.

TURNING THE PAGE ON LITERACY

From our earliest of years, books have opened the doors to adventure. Each line, each page, awakens our imaginations and fuels our curiosity for more. Reading enables one to explore the vast possibilities of life, past life and even impossible life, and then shape the future defined by those discoveries. Reading magnifies our world, but not all have the opportunity to experience its power. In the state of Florida, fewer than 40 percent of children can read at a proficient level by the fourth grade — a benchmark year in predicting a child’s potential for lifelong success. Students struggling to read at this age are much more likely to continue to struggle during their academic careers and throughout their lives.

30 31 Through a collaborative partnership at the University of Florida, using evidence- The James Patterson based methods, Literacy Challenge stakeholders expects to double are working to double the the number of literacy rates in schoolchildren in the state current participating schools who achieve passing reading scores within two years of participation in the project.

The University of Florida Literacy Initiative But this does not have to be the case. Every innovative application component that allows teachers (UFLI) and James Patterson Foundation have begun an child is capable of reading proficiently with the right to upload their instructional materials and videos to be ambitious mission to end the literacy crisis plaguing the support. The James Patterson Literacy Challenge is reviewed by a literacy coach. All content is aligned with state by doubling the number of Florida schoolchildren taking an entirely different approach to improving state standards for teachers and students. proficient in reading: the James Patterson Literacy literacy outcomes by focusing on transforming the The James Patterson Literacy Challenge expects Challenge. literacy culture that shapes these schools. Failure to double the number of schoolchildren in current The James Patterson Literacy Challenge provides can no longer be an acceptable option when a child’s participating schools who achieve passing reading school leaders and educators from under-performing lifelong success is on the line. Partnering school districts scores within two years of participation in the project. schools empowering professional development tools, participating in the James Patterson Literacy Challenge The project is also working to provide all Florida schools opportunities and experiences to build their capacity receive the support to implement better practices in access to the online professional development resources to effectively address the diverse, dynamic literacy their classrooms, the knowledge to identify their unique by the completion of the first year and expand efforts to needs of their students. In February 2018, author and literacy challenges and the tools necessary to sustain other school districts by the second. philanthropist James Patterson announced a $3 million success far past their completion of the project. School Key partners in the project include the Lastinger donation to the UF College of Education to launch the districts receive a UF-trained master teacher that Center, P.K. Yonge Developmental Research School, the project, which has now begun serving five schools leads individualized coaching and ongoing professional Florida Center for Reading Research, the Foundation in two Florida school districts, Alachua County and development activities designed to fit the needs of each for Excellence in Education, the National Center on Broward County. selected school. UF faculty researchers and doctoral Improving Literacy, the Regional Educational Laboratory The leading challenges underperforming schools students collaborate with schools to review their current Southeast and the Center for the Collaborative face in improving their literacy outcomes are rooted in literacy practices and design plans to address their Classroom. unpreparedness. If students enter the classroom already specific challenges. Master teachers also host a Summer Through the robust network of partners coming grade levels behind in reading, it is unlikely they will ever Reading Academy at each school providing educators together to build brighter futures, the James Patterson be able to meet the literacy standards expected of their comprehensive sessions that focus on the fundamental Literacy Challenge will champion a tomorrow where current grade level. Although educators strive to bridge aspects of literacy development specific to each grade every Florida child knows the joys of reading and has the these gaps, they often do not possess the knowledge or level. Furthermore, participating districts have access to potential for lifelong success. resources needed to serve a large classroom of students online professional development resources. each reading at a different skill level with varying Developed by the UF College of Education’s challenges. For these reasons, failure in the classroom Lastinger Center for Learning, the comprehensive historically has been anticipated and even accepted. online platform offers 40 models of content related to Learn more While some students are expected to excel, others are foundations, assessment, instruction and intervention education.ufl.edu/capitalcampaign expected to lag behind. in key areas of literacy. The platform also features an /stories/student-success/ 32 33 LEADERSHIP With Leadership and education policy, our endeavors reach far beyond the classroom. There are many challenges both known and unknown ahead, and we must be vigilant. We are working to ensure our students and faculty are prepared to administer and implement complex policy at the school, district, state and national levels. Our college is conducting research that explores the nuances of education policy and producing leaders who are willing, able and eager to transform education.

IMPROVING OUR NATION’S SCHOOLS ONE PRINCIPAL AT A TIME

Leading a school is demanding work and more than 40 years of research identifies effective school leadership as a dynamic force for appreciable and significant impact on student learning. No longer solely the manager of the school, principals simultaneously fill the roles of instructional leader, learner, mentor, culture-builder, advocate, supervisor and politician. Nowhere are these roles more important than when leading an underperforming school. Fundamental school improvement does not happen without bold leadership — ‘turnaround’ principals must drive transformative shifts in school culture and instructional practice. To do so necessitates the fostering of teacher leadership and collaboration among faculty and staff. In order to do this work, school turnaround principals must have the skills to identify the academic needs, school conditions and instructional practices requiring improvement. Preparation, then, must address the myriad of skills and knowledge requisite to be an effective school leader.

34 35 In 2017, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) labeled approximately 10 percent of our nation’s schools as failing. That is, some design, implement and lead a team of fellow 3.5 million school children failed to make significant educators in a change initiative in their school; progress on their state assessments. Annually, the Florida Department of Education (FDOE) identifies the analyze their school’s academic achievement data RESEARCH 300 lowest performing elementary schools. In each of and determine a content area or grade level in these environments, our country is failing at providing need of improvement, then design and calendar a quality educational experience for students. It is a professional learning plan with progress FUNDING incumbent upon us as a nation and as an institution monitoring of students for the affected faculty training the next generation of leaders to uphold our and staff with a discussion of the ways their voice Our efforts to transform education and strengthen society are made possible through obligation and responsibility to help children fulfill and choice will be solicited and valued; our faculty’s intellectual leadership and progressive research agenda. This year our their diverse potentials, to live a productive life and to research funding increased by 26 percent, to a record-breaking $128 million. become good citizens. The ability to turnaround low analyze the effectiveness of their school’s performing and failing schools is critical to the health communications plan incorporating methods and well-being of our society. This does not happen to include all stakeholders and strategies for without quality school leaders. improvement; Public Impact, a nonprofit organization learn, observe and apply active listening committed to devising and advancing visionary but FUNDING HIGHLIGHTS TOTAL RESEARCH FUNDING practical ideas to improve K-12 education, proposes techniques and methods for engaging in hard 2017-2018 in millions competencies school leaders need for turnaround conversations; success. Among and embedded within these are the abilities and qualities of sound data collection, analysis learn, practice and engage in recognizing and $120M and progress monitoring; action planning; developing, observing quality instruction and engage in 136 communicating and implementing a positive vision; collaborative coaching conversations with Research awards with fostering and developing leadership in others; teachers; $128.5M total value conceptual thinking; and persistence and resilience. $100M In the Master of Education program in educational respond to numerous real school scenarios leadership, we provide multiple opportunities for related to building a positive school culture and students to learn about, engage in and apply these climate and the development of a school vision 26% skills and corresponding content knowledge in order and mission to drive all decision-making; and $80M Increase in total to become a successful school leader. How do we do award value this? With deliberate, specialized and planful activities consciously reflect upon and develop their for participant engagement related to turnaround personal philosophies related to schooling. $60M leadership. Each of the 12 courses in the program addresses Throughout, program participants are $676K some or many of the core competencies ensuring introduced to and hear from former and current program participants complete their course of study Average award successful turnaround principals. The Department of $40M with multiple experiences relevant and responsive to per faculty Educational Leadership in the College of Education the educational needs of today’s children. This program at the University of Florida strives to be responsive to is aimed at the working professional and the majority the needs of today’s schools. Using research and best of our program participants are current classroom $20M practices to inform the content of our courses, we are teachers. Program participants are consistently asked to working hard to prepare school leaders with the skills $28M draw upon their professional positions and workplaces and knowledge to lead the kind of schools our children Research in responding to course assignments and activities. deserve. expenditures $0M Examples include the following: Learn more education.ufl.edu/capitalcampaign/stories/leadership/ 36 37 RESEARCH RESEARCH

ENDOWED PROFESSORS’ STUDIES WILL AID DISADVANTAGED STUDENTS

Students from black ethnic and racial also among the most difficult to help. Students cannot Colombia — with substantial black minority populations. backgrounds and learners with serious behavioral or learn if they are not engaged and paying attention to Then, he will examine how the implications of the emotional disorders stand to benefit from new studies instruction. Colombia-Nicaragua experiences are relevant to the supported by the dual appointments of two rising pursuit of ethnic education and multicultural policy University of Florida education faculty researchers “I believe the first step to increase access reforms in the United States. to a shared endowed professorship at the College of to classroom instruction and reduce “We know much about the battle in the United Education. suspensions for students with emotional- States to humanize black people in our schools’ The college has announced the selection of behavioral issues is through universal curricula and instruction, but our collective memory of Special Education assistant professor Nicholas Gage and implementation of high-quality, evidence- how similar efforts have played out across the Americas Christopher Busey, an assistant professor of curriculum, based classroom management.” is insufficient,” Busey said. teaching and teacher education, to occupy the He describes the framework for his study prestigious B.O. Smith Research Professor positions. The Researchers have identified a number of as “hemispheric” — involving two of our Western two-year endowed professorship supports new, cutting- classroom and behavior management strategies, but Hemisphere neighbors to the south. Nicaragua and edge research of promising education faculty who are Gage says the studies have yet to determine which Colombia both share some multicultural similarities and preparing for promotion to associate or full professor. methods are the most effective. Supported by the Smith issues with the United States, with the battle for black The professorship’s namesake is a former UF research professorship, Gage will explore massive sets of educational humanity playing out across the Americas Nicholas Gage, assistant professor of special education education faculty member in a department now known archived education data from several states to compare for more than a century. as the School of Teaching and Learning. Appointments student achievement while learning under unproven Busey said his project will entail extensive to the post each carries the potential for $10,000 or experimental strategies with the effectiveness of a fieldwork in public schools throughout predominantly annually in research and travel funding, for a total award widely used, evidence-based classroom and behavior black regions of Colombia and Nicaragua, documenting package worth $20,000 each. management system known as “Schoolwide Positive the curricular and instructional strategies employed by Gage’s study promises to help students whose Behavior Interventions and Supports” (SWPBIS). teachers as they address black history and citizenship. behavioral or emotional disorders are detrimental to Gage said he expects his study findings will With roots in anthropology, Afro-Latin American studies their academic performance. support his ultimate aim to design and scale-up a multi- and education, Busey said his interdisciplinary research He said students with or at risk for emotional- tiered professional development model to advance project should yield insights into how educators behavioral disorders — or EBD, for short — can display a teachers’ classroom management strategies that best perceive the development and teaching of ethnic wide array of behavioral problems including classroom support students’ behavioral and academic needs. education globally. disruption, bullying and violent conduct, along with In Busey’s study, he is taking an international depression, anxiety and victimizations by bullies. look at how activism for black ethnic education has “My purpose is to look deeper into the “Students with emotional-behavioral been infused into the larger aims to drive political and multiple levels of realizing black ethnic disorders pose myriad challenges to teachers, school multicultural policy reforms. education in Colombia and Nicaragua and administrators, families and communities,” Gage said. Specifically, Busey will trace how black ethnic its significance for the continued fight for “My research and professional experiences have taught education influenced reforms during the 1980s and ethnic education in the U.S.” me that these student desperately need help but are Christopher Busey, assistant professor of curriculum, 1990s in two Latin American countries — Nicaragua and teaching and teacher education

38 39 A student from P.K. Yonge holds up a replica fossil P.K. YONGE megalodon tooth created through iDigFossils, one of the innovative partnerships between the school and the UF College of Education UF COLLEGE OF EDUCATION/P.K. YONGE: WORKING TOGETHER TO TRANSFORM EDUCATION A rendering of Phase II of P.K. Yonge’s campus revitalization project shows the secondary building for grades 6-12 P.K. Yonge Developmental Research School and curriculums. Lynda Hayes, director of P.K. Yonge, the University of Florida College of Education have long- said these collaborations foster a deeper knowledge P.K. YONGE CAMPUS standing, interconnected histories rooted in shaping and insight that will vastly improve the field of K-12 REVITALIZATION the future of education. Their methods complementary. education. Their visions synchronous. When collaborating to College faculty and P.K. Yonge teachers ignite change, their results are profound. Although P.K. have been presenting their discoveries at national Learning happens everywhere — in the was constructed finalizing Phase I. With the support of Yonge and the college have always been bonded in conferences hosted by organizations such as the hushed hallways between classrooms, coves of the University of Florida, UF Provost, Dean of the UF their efforts, that bond has only been strengthened by American Education Research Association (AERA), libraries and the inviting spaces found everywhere in College of Education and generous donations of P.K. growing a culture of teacher inquiry. Florida Educational Research Association (FERA), between. But it’s time for traditional learning spaces Yonge alumni, the commencement of Phase II is almost Nancy Dana, UF professor of teaching and National Science Teacher Association (NSTA), National to be redefined. Fueled by a vision to create dynamic here. learning, has helped to foster teacher inquiry at P.K. Association for Research in Science Teaching (NARST) learning communities that cultivate learning, P.K. The secondary building, for grades 6-12, is Yonge since its introduction to the K-12 school in 2004. and National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE). Yonge Developmental Research School began a five- designed with students in mind to cultivate curiosity, Teacher inquiry focuses on discovering new methods to Furthermore, teacher inquiry has transcended phase revitalization effort to create a campus capable enhance problem solving and support collaboration improve learning outcomes and learning experiences for into practices used at the College of Education to of supporting the needs of today’s and tomorrow’s among students and teachers. Spanning three stories, students. The needs of students are dynamic and ever expand student experiences. As part of the new online students. In April 2019, that vision enters Phase II. it will house seven Learning Neighborhoods each changing, so research in education practices cannot secondary teaching preparation certificate program, P.K. Yonge was established in 1934 with a complete with a state-of-the-art distance learning become stagnant. Seeking innovations to foster more local students interested in teaching 6-12 science, mission to lead schools into the future of education lab, seminar space, classrooms and several dynamic enriching practices is essential to supporting today’s math, social studies or English can complete their through designing, testing and disseminating common area spaces for small group meetings and generation of learners, prepare for tomorrow’s learners 10-week practicums at P.K. Yonge and be mentored innovations in the field. Its aging walls have stood tall individual work. The Learning Neighborhood consists of and keep educators always thinking critically about their by highly-effective educators in their interested in its current location since the 1950s. But in 2007, a learning community made up of four to six teachers teaching. fields, said Elizabeth , professor of social the Department of Education surveyed the P.K. Yonge that support students and their academic development. Through the growing support for teacher studies education. Students interested in pursuing campus and found that its campus would require an Each aspect of the building’s design, down to the inquiry, many partnerships with College of Education their master’s of education (M.A.E.) can continue on entire rebuild. hallways, was created to foster enriching learning faculty and researchers have developed. Associate at P.K. Yonge for an additional semester and complete P.K. Yonge could have kept to a traditional experiences. No space is missing a purpose. professor of science education, Rose Pringle, has a classroom inquiry project alongside a P.K. Yonge model. Instead, school leadership chose to challenge Key contributors to the state-of-the-art nurtured an inquiry-based approach to K-12 science educator. “Since P.K. Yonge is an amazing example of convention and create an entirely new design plan secondary building include Fielding Nair International, education at P.K. Yonge. Kara Dawson, professor of a school whose faculty are committed to classroom fueled by a vision to redefine the landscape of learning architect SchenkelShultz, contractor Parrish-McCall, educational technology, has grown the integration of inquiry, our M.A.E. students will benefit immensely from and the spaces in which students and teachers come P.K. Yonge alumna and interior designer Jennifer Ramski technology on the campus. Dawson and Dana have this experience and learn from exemplary teachers,” together to learn. Fielding Nair International, school from Ramski & Company and former P.K. Yonge director collaborated to design and test technology’s impact Washington said. architects and change agents for education, designed Fran Vandiver for her original vision for the campus. on addressing the individual learning needs of middle As the relationship between P.K. Yonge and the a cutting-edge campus complete with pioneering With the building groundbreaking date in sight, school students. Associate professor of Educational College of Education remains steadfast, their discoveries buildings for elementary, middle and high school as P.K. Yonge is thrilled to take its school one step further Technology, Pavlo “Pasha” Antonenko, has introduced will lead to brighter futures in education. well as a new library, cafeteria and gym fit for the 21st into the future of education. 3D printing into science, engineering and mathematics century of education. In 2012, the elementary building 40 41 OUTSTANDING YOUNG ALUMNI DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI AWARD

Christopher Mullin Lauren L. May Gerardo González

GERARDO GONZÁLEZ MAKING A DIFFERENCE THRIVES FROM THE POWER NOW AND FOR YEARS OF EDUCATION TO COME FROM 11-YEAR-OLD CUBAN REFUGEE TO UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA STUDENT, TO COLLEGE

DEAN, TO COLLEGE OF EDUCATION DISTINGUISHED Two EduGator alumni are among a select group education policy experts and leaders promoting ALUMNI HONOR of 21st century graduates of the University of Florida to equity and access in higher education for underserved receive the 2018 Outstanding Young Alumni awards. students. South African anti-apartheid revolutionary Christopher Mullin (B.A.E. ‘99, Ph.D. ‘08 in higher Mullin says his UF experience has significantly the School of Education at University, where Nelson Mandela once famously said, “Education is the education administration) and Lauren L. May (B.A.E. impacted his career advancement and success: “As a he served for 15 years. In 2012, Hispanic Business most powerful weapon we can use to change the world.” ‘08 and M.Ed. ’09) were chosen as UF alumni who have student in the higher education program, I was exposed magazine named him one of the 50 most influential No one knows that better than Gerardo graduated within the past 10 years whose professional to the expectations and traits of high-quality research Hispanics in the United States. González — a UF Triple Gator, former education dean achievements are making a significant impact on their while also engaging with leading practitioners across González and his wife, Marjorie, established a and a 2018 UF Distinguished Alumnus Award winner. industry at the state, national or international level. the country. This dual focus is what made my UF fellowship at the UF College of Education in 2016 to That’s the highest honor a graduate can achieve. Christopher Mullin has become an established experience unique and positioned me to be successful.” support graduate students who are pursuing research González used education to first change his own name around Florida for his contributions as a higher As the former principal at St. Pius V Catholic into the role of freedom of speech, academic freedom or life and then change the world around him. education innovator. Starting in 2013, he served for a School in Jacksonville, Florida, Lauren May’s leadership student rights in higher education.These days, Gerardo He was born in Cuba and immigrated to Miami, Florida, year-and-a-half as assistant vice chancellor for policy was reflected in outstanding student academic success and Marjorie frequently spend time at their condo in at age 11 with his penniless, working-class family. None and research with the State University System’s Board and increased enrollment. Then, in fall 2017, May opened Crescent Beach, Florida, where he has been writing his of them could understand English. González would be of Governors, where he led the development of the the state-of-the-art Arlington Community Academy memoirs. the last person to predict he would gradually overcome performance funding model. He was executive vice offering VPK-through-fifth grade education and serving his humble beginnings to earn three degrees from UF, chancellor of the Florida College System from 2015 to the downtown Jacksonville area. “My story shows that in the United go on to a distinguished career in higher education at UF 2017 where he oversaw academic and student affairs, “I hope to continue assisting my students States, as in other democratic countries, and beyond, and rank among America’s most influential research and analytics, and financial policy for 28 and families and helping other private school leaders education is still the great equalizer,” he Hispanics. institutions. create schools of excellence in Florida by working with says. “It is the solution to the greatest González came to the University of Florida in During his tenure with the state’s higher Step Up for Students and other funding partners as a 1972, where he would earn three degrees (bachelor’s and most intractable problems facing education agencies, U.S. News & World Report ranked community leader,” May said. in psychology, master’s in counselor education and a the world today, tomorrow and in the Florida’s higher education system as best in the nation May also helps raise funds for the Boys and Girls Ph.D. in counseling and student personnel services) and foreseeable future.” for its affordability and high quality of its programs. Club, leads the Professional Development School for establish one of the nation’s first campus-based alcohol Mullin previously worked at the Illinois Education the University of North Florida and is involved with the awareness and abuse prevention organizations. Research Council and as program director for policy UF College of Education’s new EduGator Young Alumni In the ensuing years, González was tapped for analysis at the American Association of Community Committee. a series of prominent roles at the College of Education, Colleges (AACC). May and Mullin are young EduGators who are including chair of the counselor education department, He currently directs Strong Start to Finish, truly making a difference in our world for the Gator associate dean for administration and finance, and, For a video and a fuller account of González’s story, visit an emerging, nonprofit national network of higher Good — now and for many years to come. finally, interim dean. In 2000, he became dean of https://education.ufl.edu/alumni/gerardo-gonzalez 42 43 TRAGEDY STRUCK the citizenship award that Ida S. Baker High School established in his memory in May 2018. “It was On July 6, 2006, Solich died in a boating an honor to stand in front of the graduating class accident. Family, friends, professors and students and speak of Mike and who he was,” Meyer said. alike were left in a state of shock. Solich had a But the magnitude of Solich’s impact truly became profound effect on the lives of so many, and those clear when Kayleigh Pollitt presented the 2018 who felt that impact knew something must be done scholarship to its latest recipient. to share it with the world. Pollitt is a first-grade teacher in Hillsborough P.K. Yonge planted and dedicated a tree County. But in 2006, she was an eighth grader at surrounded by a small garden outside Bourn’s P.K. Yonge in Bourn’s classroom. “I always kind of classroom, where Solich spent his practicum. hung on to his memory,” she said. Pollitt reached The eighth-grade students he taught launched out to Cathy Solich and shared with her thoughts a website to share photos and memories. Ida S. and memories she held close about Solich. “He Baker High School created a citizenship award in his took the time to show his students what our hard honor. “It was just unbelievable,” said Cathy Solich, work meant to him,” she said. “As an educator now, Solich’s mother. I’ve taken that lead as well in doing the same.” At the UF College of Education, a When it came time to present the 2018 scholarship was established to embody Solich’s love scholarship and the Solich family was unable to for education and to help others fulfill their dreams attend, Cathy Solich knew who to call. “When she of becoming social studies educators. The college said yes, the tears came to my eyes,” she said. set aside the initial funding and a former ProTeach Pollitt was humbled by the invitation. “Especially student and friend of Solich, anonymously donated being an educator, it was truly an honor to present to match the funds. Friends and family contributed another generation of students the opportunity,” to solidify the award. she said.

ESTABLISHING TRADITION PASSING THE TORCH The first Michael John Solich ProTeach Christina Aulino, the latest recipient, now scholarship was given in 2008. “We wanted to teaches senior-level high school social studies MICHAEL SOLICH: recognize somebody who really stood out in terms in Lake County, truly carrying on Solich’s legacy. of just the sheer love and enjoyment of teaching,” “Michael was so good at what he did and they A LASTING LEGACY said Elizabeth Washington, social studies education wanted to have individuals continue off of that,” professor and one of three tasked to select the first she said. Aulino shared she felt immensely grateful There are very few professions that shape the future quite recipient. to have the college and the community’s support like an educator. Whether one provided the guiding hands that Around the anniversary of Solich’s passing, behind her pursuit in the field. “It just reminds outlined a path to success or served as an anchor in times of family and friends came together to celebrate him you that there are generous people that believe hardship, nearly all of us can name a teacher who left a lasting and hosted a barbecue fundraiser to support and teachers can change lives,” she said. mark on our lives. An impact that transcended beyond the hours continue to sustain the scholarship. Hundreds Solich’s impact will continue to carry on “He just spent in the classroom. For Michael Solich, his impact has gathered to remember Solich. This became a through those who had the pleasure of knowing transcended beyond life. tradition. Although the scholarship was endowed him and seek to inspire others through their actions had a spark Solich was a star student in the University of Florida in 2015 and there is no longer a need to fundraise, and their service. Solich will always be remembered ProTeach Social Studies Program in 2006. He was weeks away friends still ask to gather each year. “Now they’re for his spirit, his kindness and his service to others. connecting from graduating and had just completed a 10-week internship coming back with their kids,” Cathy Solich said. “You don’t realize how people are watching you teaching eighth grade social studies at P.K. Yonge Developmental and what kind of influence you are making in their Research School. “He just had a spark connecting with the kids,” with the PAST MEETS PRESENT lives,” said Cathy Solich. said John Bourn, social studies instructor and Solich’s supervisor k i d s .” at P.K. Yonge. Solich was on the cusp of his next chapter and had It is clear the significant influence Solich already accepted a social studies position at Ida S. Baker High made on those in his world. And most remarkable, School, in his hometown of Cape Coral, Florida. “Everything was the goodness of Solich continues to live on in the progressing like the script that he had in his head,” Bourn said. hearts of those he touched over 12 years later. Childhood friend of Solich, Megan Meyer, presented

44 45 GIVING IN MEMORIAM BY THE NUMBERS REMEMBERING INSPIRING EDUGATORS NEWLY FUNDED SCHOLARSHIPS & ENDOWMENTS

DELLA ROSENBERG (M.Ed. ’50), $10.8M 5.5 percent 53 percent a College of Education student-scholarship donor, Total gifts Highest class participation - Class of 1978 of donors - college alumni died March 14, 2017 in Starke, Florida. Her passing came less than a month after celebrating her 100th birthday. A lifelong educator, Rosenberg began her 14 new funds 141 scholarships 91 percent career in 1940 and was honored as Teacher of the New endowed and Awarded (totaling $447,000) COE annual gifts - Gifts below Century at Bradford High School during the school’s non-endowed funds $250 (totaling $99,129) 100th anniversary celebration in 2000. Active in her community, Rosenberg touched the lives of countless students and families. Now, the Della Rosenberg ProTeach Scholarship will support graduate students in the college’s ProTeach programs for generations to DID YOU KNOW: alumni giving impacts the college’s rankings come. Larry and Vicki Costopoulos Kubiak Research Moreno Baby Gator Pilot Study Fellowship Established by: Dr. Peggy Roanne Moreno Established by: Dr. Larry C. Kubiak and Mrs. Vicki JAMIE FRESHOUR TURNER (B.A.E. ’07, M.A.E. ’09), Clara Zion Gillman Fellowship Costopoulous Kubiak was following her dreams that she’d had since age Established by: Mrs. Clara Z. Gillman and Mr. three when, in 2009, she began her teaching career Education Station & Preschool Annual Scholarship Stephen B. Gillman after earning degrees at UF in elementary and special Established by: Krista Frey and Kristin D. Birdsey Education Strategic Endowment education. Thus, is with heartfelt sorrow that we share Klapp the loss of Turner on Nov. 4, 2017. She was 32. While Established by: Supporters of College of Education at UF, Turner was a member of the Gator synchronized Polston Family Annual Scholarship Professor Mark Alan Koorland Scholarship swimming team. After graduating with honors, Established by: Ms. Janice Polston Established by: Dr. Mark A. Koorland and Dr. Vivian her first teaching job was at Newberry Elementary Michael William Christopher Haney Annual Fueyo School, where she taught grades K-2 and was named Scholarship the school’s 2010-11 Teacher of the Year. She more Institute of Higher Education Endowment Established by: Dr. Michael L. Haney recently taught and facilitated exceptional student Established by: Dr. Barbara Keener education at Hapeville Elementary School in Georgia. Houde Dyal Endowed Scholarship Drs. Beverly Tucker and Glenn Tucker Endowed Turner’s survivors include her husband, Craig, and Established by: Mrs. Debra Dyal and Mr. James Dyal daughter, Olivia. Education Scholarship Established by: Dr. Glenn Tucker 46 47 FinalCoverJan2018.pdf 1 1/8/19 11:15 AM

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