Reimund Serafica, Catherine Dingley (Nursing), and Joseph Morgan (Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education) published an article titled, “Leveraging Simulation to Understand Nursing Student Learning in Technologically Complex Environments,” in Clinical Simulation in Nursing. The publication is based on the…

Zhiling M. Shea (Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education) along with colleagues published an article "Is Use of Literacy-Focused Curricula Associated with Children’s Literacy Gains and Are Associations Moderated by Risk Status, Receipt of Intervention, or Preschool Setting?" in Education Sciences.  Integrating literacy-…

Alain Bengochea (Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education), coordinator Project PUEBLO (Progressive Understandings of Emergent Bilingual Opportunities), was featured in a KTNV article on project, a scholarship-funded master’s program. The news story highlighted the impact of Project PUEBLO alumnus Etiel Zarco, and Bengochea shared…

Katherine Feather, Heather Dahl-Jacinto and student collaborator Carter Causse (Counselor Education, School Psychology, and Human Services), Danica Hays (Dean, College of Education), Heather Baltodano-Van Ness (Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education), and Nicole Atwell (Ohio University) published an article, "'Teachers' response to a…

Members of the Division for Emotional and Behavioral Health, a Special Interest Division of the Council for Exceptional Children, recently elected Heather Baltodano-Van Ness (Early Childhood, Multicultural, and Special Education) into the presidential line of the Executive Committee. She will begin her four-year commitment serving as Vice…

Zhiling M. Shea (Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education) and her co-author at Johns Hopkins University published an article, "Independent book reading and bilingual children’s language and literacy skills" in Reading and Writing.  The current study investigated how independent book reading at home and…

Sharolyn D. Pollard-Durodola  (Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education), Jyoti G. Senthil (University of Bath), and Kara M. Viesca (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) published "Teachers' Shifting Ideologies about Emergent Bilinguals Based on a Professional Learning Experience" in the Journal of Education, Language, and Ideology.

Gerilyn Slicker (Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education) along with her co-author at the University of Delaware published an article, "Subsidy Density in Early Education Centers: Comparing Center and Community Associations Across Two Nationwide Samples," in Early Childhood Research Quarterly. Using two national datasets from 2012 and…

Gerilyn Slicker (Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education), along with colleagues at the University of Delaware and The University of Oklahoma - Tulsa published an article, "Populations Served by Child Care Centers Accepting Subsidies and Linkages with State Subsidy Policies," in Early Education and Development. The study used a…

Jenna Weglarz-Ward (Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education), presented on behalf of Promoting Inclusive Early Childhood Education in Nevada at the annual Office of Special Education Programs Conference in Washington, DC. In collaboration with colleagues from 11 universities, the session entitled "The Inside Scoop: Effective…

Gerilyn Slicker and Melissa Stoffers (both Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education) along with co-authors Jason Hustedt and Cara Kelly published an article, "Enrollment Practices in Early Education Centers: Examining Implementation in the Arkansas State Pre-K Program" in AERA Open. Their mixed methods study is a comprehensive…

Jenna Weglarz-Ward (Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education) provided a keynote presentation at the Work of Fred Rogers Conference June 21 alongside nationwide colleagues Jennifer Waches, Kamila Rankin, Kate Belinsky and Scott Kubelka. Her presentation entitled, "Learning from Fred Rogers about the Inclusion of Young Children…