Jenna Weglarz-Ward (Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education) led a panel discussion at United Way's Early Childhood Education and Literacy Community Conversation along with Melissa Yarczower (Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education); Elisa Cafferata, executive director at Children's Advocacy Alliance; and Denise Sidney,…

Trenton Dawson, Marcedes Butler, and Kenneth Varner (all Teaching and Learning) published “What counts as competent teaching? A systematic narrative synthesis of teacher competencies in K-12 education” in the Teaching & Teacher Education journal.

Trent W. Dawson, Marcedes Butler, and Kenneth J. Fasching-Varner (Education) published "What counts as competent teaching? A systematic narrative synthesis of teacher competencies in K–12 education" in Teaching and Teacher Education, 181, 105684. This review systematically synthesizes the teacher competency literature to examine which competencies…

Gerilyn Slicker (Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education), along with colleagues from University of Oklahoma - Tulsa and The University of Delaware, published "State policy predictors of child care centers’ utilization of subsidies for children from underserved groups" in Children and Youth Services Review.  This study identified…

Dan Wright (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and  Higher Education), along with several international colleagues, published an article in Journal of Affective Disorders on mothers' birth-related PTSD symptoms, based on data from 31 countries. This is part of ongoing multicultural birth-related mental health research . 

Sarah Surrain (Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education), along with colleagues, published the article, “Tuning in to Development: How Home Music Activities Relate to Language and Motor Skills in Toddlers from Monolingual and Multilingual Home Environments” in Infancy.

Brett Gleason, Heather Dahl, and graduate student Taylor Milner (Counselor Education, School Psychology, and Human Services), along with a colleague from Oregon State University - Cascades, published their study, "Bridging Nature and Counselor Education: Utilization and Barriers to EcoWellness" in the Journal of Humanistic Counseling.

The College of Education recently recognized the following faculty and staff for their outstanding contributions: Heather Dahl-Jacinto, Distinguished Associate/Full Professor (Tenure Track)  Sarah Wolff, Distinguished Assistant Faculty-in-Residence   Heather Van Ness, Distinguished Associate/Full Faculty-in-Residence…

S. Kathleen Krach and Shengtian Wu (both Counselor Education, School Psychology, and Human Services), along with Rob Dixon (University of Wisconsin-La Crosse), edited a special issue for the journal School Psychology Training and Pedagogy (SPTP), which is published by Trainers of School Psychologists (TSP). The special issue was on "…

Sage Stafford and Dan Wright (both AQUA; Education) published "Rank-Poisson Transformation for Use with Count Data in Poisson Regression" in Applied Math. Count data are common in the educational, medical, social, and physical sciences. We examined different transformations and approaches when the data were not distributed Poisson.

Alain Bengochea (Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education) has been appointed vice chair of Nevada's newly established English Learner Advisory Council for the 2025-2026 interim, created under legislation passed during the 83rd Nevada Legislative Session. The council is charged with studying and advising on policies related to English…

Hasan Deniz (Teaching and Learning) and Ph.D. student Dilara Kara-Zorluoglu (Teaching and Learning) published with co-authors Ezgi Yesilyurt (Utah State University), Erdogan Kaya (University of Texas at Arlington), Refika Turgut (University of South Carolina Upstate), and Elif Adibelli-Sahin an article titled “Unpacking the sources of computer…