CEHD News Month: November 2012

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CEHD News Month: November 2012

CEED staff present at Division of Early Childhood Conference

November 2, 2012

CEEDPresentersDECCEED’s Christopher Watson, Scott McConnell, Tracy Bradfield, Alisha Wackerle-Hollman, and Naomi Rahn, along with fellow collaborators and co-authors, presented October 28-30 at the Annual International Division of Early Childhood (DEC) Conference held this year in Minneapolis. See the CEED Staff Presentations web page for presentation handouts. Presentations included:

  • Early childhood in Promise Neighborhoods: Northside Achievement Zone’s Early Childhood Action Team. (McConnell, S. R., Seiwert, M., Wackerle-Hollman, A., & Bradfield, T. A.)
  • Measuring a response to intervention model in early childhood: Examining assessments for identification, decision making and progress monitoring. (Wackerle-Hollman, A., Bradfield, T., McConnell, S., & Spencer, T.)
  • Practice effects in a preschool picture naming task. (Rahn, N. L., & McConnell, S. R.)
  • Statewide scale-up of the pyramid for social emotional development: Successes and lessons. (Johnson, L., Watson, C., Bedor, M., & Krick Oborn, K.)
  • Thirty years later: Early childhood special education from MECCA to now. (McConnell, S. R., Strain, P. S., Goldstein, H., Kohler, F., Odom, S. L., & Sainato, D. M.)

FSoS Pauline Boss featured in ABC News coverage

November 1, 2012

BossPDepartment of Family Social Science Professor Emeritus Pauline Boss explains ambiguous loss in relation to the destruction and deaths caused by superstorm Sandy in a feature by ABC News: “Superstorm Sandy Takes Life of Man Who Nearly Died in Stabbing.”
Author of the 2006 book, “Loss, Trauma and Resilience,” Boss provides insight on the grief that individuals may be dealing with during the aftermath of a disaster, and the coping methods to follow.

Kyla Wahlstrom Discusses Instructional Leadership and Teacher Evaluations

November 1, 2012

NasbeKyla Wahlstrom, Director of CAREI, was recently invited to speak at the National Association of State Boards of Education (NASBE) annual conference in Chicago, IL. Wahlstrom participated in a panel discussion on School Leadership, and spoke about how principals have a key role in supporting teacher learning through teacher evaluation. Her comments focused on how principals can strengthen their instructional leadership by using information from teacher evaluations to shape teacher support. The annual NASBE conference brings together members of the nation’s State Boards of Education, where they share and discuss policies that govern all aspects of education at the state level.