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GSE alumna shares insight and digital classroom tools
1/4/22
The most memorable lesson from the pandemic about teaching for new social studies teacher Caitlin Orgek, EdM ’20, was the power of digital tools to encourage class participation—online and in-person. Their power to transform the class experience inspired her.
Seventeen research stories from a year of discovery at UB
12/27/21
From documenting inequality in Buffalo to identifying proven oral hygiene tools for happy gums, UB scholars’ work had local and international impact in 2021.
A career unfolds across continents
12/14/21
Before he earned his master’s degree in teaching English as a second language from GSE, Rob Martin, EdM ’01, discovered his vocation and love of the profession three decades ago as a young college graduate, volunteering to teach English at a school in rural Kenya. From there, his career unfolded gradually and unexpectedly as he went on to work with government workers in the mountains of Thailand and university students in a South Korean port city.
Bullying in private schools versus public schools
12/13/21
U.S. News and World Report quotes Amanda Nickerson in a story about the state of bullying in private and public schools.
New book outlines innovative model for training teachers
12/10/21
A new book, co-authored by UB and Buffalo Public Schools researchers and educators, aims to provide a new blueprint for residency programs that train community members to become teachers.
Disparities discovered; Seeking policy change in disability education
12/7/21
Kathleen Reeb-Reascos, a GSE educational culture, policy and society doctoral student with visual impairment, has experience navigating the education system for people with disabilities. She took her curiosity about the supports in schools, crafted a dissertation study—“Constructing the Realities of (Dis)ability: How Institutional Arrangements and School Typologies Undergird the CSE Process”—and won a national award.
Hands-on experience: Reimagining STEM in Nigeria. And beyond.
11/30/21
When Adetola Salau, GSE PhD student and education aide to Nigerian Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, drives through Lagos, she is inspired to persevere. She gets energy for her own sometimes exhausting daily work, as a graduate student and government official, when she sees young people hanging out on the streets with nothing to do.
School safety seminar to focus on dangers of social media, technology
11/3/21
The 17th annual Reboot Safe Schools Initiative Seminar will address the perils of social media and technology that confront youth both in and outside of schools.
UB receives $293,000 to support neurodiverse students in computer science
10/19/21
A $293,000 grant from the National Science Foundation will help a UB team of investigators lead an effort to create more inclusive college classrooms that recognize the neurodiversity of students by building micro-credential training courses for computer science faculty.
Game on: GSE professor develops a pre-K assessment tool into a game kids navigate
10/12/21
To help teachers determine if their pre-kindergarten students are ready for more formal schooling, a UB-led team of researchers will classroom-test a game-like tool that children play as it gauges their ability to pay attention, remember rules and control impulses.