Dr. Kathryn Procope, EdD '23, Executive Director at Howard University Middle School of Mathematics and Science, was a guest lecturer in Dr. Amaarah DeCuir's undergraduate class, “No Child Left Behind...really,” where she presented her research on standardized testing and its impacts on the identities of K-12 students.
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Larissa Gurrola, MEd ’22, is a Grants Manager at the UCLA Center for Community Engagement, where she works to strengthen ties between UCLA faculty and the Los Angeles community.
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Dr. Sung Ryung Lyu and Dr. Ocheze Joseph received funding from the Spencer Foundation Small Research Grants on Education Program for the research project titled “Teaching and Living in Gentrifying Immigrant Communities of Color: Learning from the Lived Experiences of Early Childhood Educators.”
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Dr. Shari Watkins and Dr. Brian McGowan received a $12,500 award from the Spencer Foundation to support the project Establishing a National Data Repository on Blackness and STEM.
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If you missed it, watch the recording of the “Building Power in Education and Health: Meeting Student and Teacher Needs Through Collective Action” panel that SOE hosted last month. In it, experts critically examined the state of school-based and school-linked health initiatives as part of comprehensive approaches to education reform.
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SOE welcomes Jennifer Lynch as the new Director of Development. Having served as Director for Institutional Advancement for The River School, Lynch will fit into the innovative and collaborative spirit of SOE. Â
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Dr. Deepa Srikantaiah presented “The Calculus of Difference: A Differential Approach to Pluralism and Integrative Education in India” at the at the SIGMAA Special Session on Current Directions in the Philosophy of Mathematics, part of the 2026 Joint Mathematics Meetings in Washington, DC.
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Dr. Sherita Flake spoke at the National Council for Teachers of Mathematics annual meeting and exposition, which she attended with four City Teaching Alliance MAT students, in Atlanta, GA. Her session was titled “STEM Includes Me: Fostering Identity and Access in Mathematics Classrooms.”
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Dr. Â Brian McGowan will be serving as Director of Faculty Affairs for the rest of the academic year.
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Dr. Lizzie Worden is now the Interim Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education and Faculty Co-Lead for the Encounters First-Year Program.
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Dr. Tracy Spesia became President of the new DC-affiliate of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE). Her role will be to facilitate a local DC chapter that uplifts the efforts of teacher education.
