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Department of Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education News

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Current Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education News

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The Eileen McGarry Career Champion of the Year focuses on the 'how' and 'why' of career readiness.

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Joseph Simmons Jr. leads the way as UNLV’s first Black male Ph.D. in special education. 

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The College of Education's National Institute for the Advancement of Education awarded four faculty research grants that will explore potential solutions for retaining Nevada's teachers.

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MGM Resorts International helps UNLV resolve bottlenecks in internships for future practitioners.

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The U.S. Department of Education administrator has built a career in supporting public school students and adults with disabilities.

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The program provides elementary and second-level teachers with tools and strategies to support the learning, content, and language development of students from multi-ethnic communities.

Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education In The News

KTNV-TV: ABC 13

The Lynn Bennett Early Childhood Education Center on the UNLV campus is expanding. They're expected to be completed in the summer with a potential opening in the fall. More children also means more staff, giving more UNLV students an opportunity to work in a field they may want to pursue.

KTNV-TV: ABC 13

CCSD is working with UNLV to fill nearly 200 special education teaching vacancies that existed at the beginning of the school year through a specialized endorsement program. Nevada Collaborative for Autism and STAR Endorsement program has already placed more than 100 additional teachers in autism and STAR classrooms across the district.

KVVU-TV: Fox 5

Clark County School District announced Friday a collaboration with UNLV to address special education staffing. This collaboration has resulted in the placement of more than 70 teachers in special education classrooms around the district. The highlight of the announcement is a new graduate certificate program called the Nevada Collaborative on Autism and STAR endorsement. This program is a partnership involving CCSD’s Student Services Division and the UNLV Department of Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education.

KTNV-TV: ABC 13

Teachers from across the Clark County School District are receiving specialized training at UNLV to better support local students who speak English as a second language through a program designed to help both students and teachers succeed.

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Being kind never gets old and it is the simple things that can make it better for everyone. A preschool is teaching kindness to educate little learners about the harms of bullying. The hope is that they use this practice to build social bonds.

KLAS-TV: 8 News Now

Being kind never gets old and it is the simple things that can make it better for everyone. A preschool is teaching kindness to educate little learners about the harms of bullying. The hope is that they use this practice to build social bonds.

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Recent Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education Accomplishments

Suheyla Sarisahin, Gloria Carcoba Falomir, Alain Bengochea (all Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education), and Tracy Spies (Teacher Education at Wyoming University) presented a paper titled, "Shifting teachers' beliefs and practices to support multilingual learners with disabilities," at the American Educational Research…
Linc Johnson (Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education) presented his research study, "Globalization as a Social Science Problem: Applying the Johnson Ranking of Global Engagement (JRGE) at UNLV," at the National Social Science Association Conference in Las Vegas. This paper re-conceptualizes global engagement as an analytically…
Sarah Surrain (Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education), along with colleagues, published the article, "A Community-Based Participatory Research Approach to Evaluating Perceptions of Bilingualism Among Latino Parents of Autistic Children" in First Language. 
 Alain Bengochea, Gloria Carcoba Falomir, Suheyla Sarisahin, Tracey West, and Xin Zhang (all Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education) published "Toward a translanguaging-as-resource orientation: elementary and secondary teachers’ shifting beliefs and practices in English-medium settings" in the International Journal of Bilingual…
Monica Millard, Du Feng, Rebecca Benfield, Clariana Ramos de Oliveira (all Nursing), and Joseph Morgan (Department of Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education) published an article, "A comparative analysis of the impact of virtual patients versus high-fidelity manikin-based blended simulation on nursing students’ self-evaluation of…
Sarah Surrain (Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education), along with colleagues, published the article, "From Barriers to Bridges: Promoting Multilingual Language Development Through Parent‐Teacher Collaborations in Early Childhood" in The Reading Teacher.