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December 2011 > School
In Brief
NEW ORLEANS SCENES: From left, professor David Pearson watches associate professor Cynthia Coburn receive AERA's Early Career Award while her image is beamed on the big screen behind him; session on collaborative design and practice; GSE alumna Maisha Winn, her Cal-clad cub and professor Sarah Freedman reunite at the School of Education reception; Professor Bruce Fuller discussed a review of demand and access to early-childhood education among English-language learners at the Education Writers Association meeting, with National Public Radio's Claudio Sanchez moderating.
GSE's Policy, Organization, Measurement, and Evaluation (POME) area is offering a new MA degree in Policy and Organizations Research. The one-year program focuses on the ideological and empirical underpinnings of contemporary reform issues--from charter schools to community organizing for change, to the steady work required to enrich schools within districts.
A total of 15 teachers from across grade levels and disciplines completed The Bay Area Writing Project (BAWP) 2011 Summer Institute. They examined successful classroom practices in teaching and using writing to help students learn. After completing the Institute, the Fellows became BAWP Teacher Consultants, joining more than 750 other Bay Area teachers who have completed the Institute since its establishment in 1974... After 10 years at San Francisco State, the San Francisco Bay Area office of The California Reading and Literature Project has relocated to UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Education. PLI and DTE alumna Angienette Estonia, and Gwenn Estonina serve as co-directors of the project; GSE Professor David Pearson is Principal Investigator. VIVA ZAPATA! Karen Zapata, a teacher at San Francisco Community School, was one of 15 BAWP Summer Institute Fellows.
Professor David Pearson and doctoral students Nicola McClung and Ja Ran Shin hosted members of the Malawi Institute of Education in October. Funded by the United States Agency for International Development, the Read Malawi projects hopes to increase literacy in Malawi's public schools by infusing more reading materials and teacher professional development into their largely overcrowded and under-resourced schools. An interesting component of the program is that practicing teachers create first language reading materials (local narratives) and infuse them into the curriculum in an effort to maintain heritage language literacy performance beyond the first year or two of schooling. Henri Chilora from the Malawi Institute of Education discussed textbooks and learning materials design at the October symposium.
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