October 19, 2023
"Who becomes a teacher when entry requirements are reduced? An analysis of emergency licenses in Massachusetts (with Andrew Bacher-Hicks, Ariel Tichnor-Wagner, and Sidrah Baloch)"
Featuring
Olivia Chi, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development
Topic: The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted teacher candidates’ capacity to complete licensure requirements. In response, many states temporarily reduced professional entry requirements to prevent a pandemic-induced teacher shortage. Using mixed methods, we examine the role of the emergency teaching license in Massachusetts, which provided an opportunity for individuals to enter the public school teacher workforce with only a bachelor’s degree.
Biography:Olivia Chi is an assistant professor at Boston University Wheelock College of Education and Human Development. Her research interests include the economics of education, teacher labor markets, and measures of teacher quality. Her work has been published in peer-reviewed journals such as Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Education Finance and Policy, and Educational Researcher. She completed her Ph.D. in Education with a concentration in Education Policy and Program Evaluation at Harvard University. Olivia holds an Ed.M. in Education Policy and Management from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and an A.B. in Economics and Public Policy from Brown University. Prior to her doctoral studies, she taught elementary grades in New Haven, Connecticut.
November 2, 2022
"Where I Belong": Building Learning Communities through Trust, Authenticity, and Collaboration
Featuring
Lauren Leigh Kelly, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Urban Teacher Education
with special guests
Hector Cruz, Fordham University
Semaj Skillings, University of Connecticut
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March 22, 2023
Combatting Invisibility of Asian American Students: How Schools Can Support their Asian American Students & Their Families
Featuring
Phitsamay Sychitkokhong Uy, Ed.D.
Associate Professor, Leadership in Schooling
University of Massachusetts, Lowell
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Thurs., April 14, 2022
1:00-2:30pm
Transforming Public School Systems to Develop Leaders and Teachers:
The Next Phase of U.S. Education Reform
featuring
Travis J. Bristol
Associate Professor at the University of California, Berkeley’s Graduate School of Education
Event recording now available!
Thurs., Feb. 24, 2022
6:00-7:30pm
“We need to make a change. We need to be the change.”
Exploring Black Brilliance and Creative Problem Solving in Fugitive Homespaces featuring
Assistant Professor in the Department of Educational Psychology at Ball State University
Access the video and transcript of Dr. Mims' archived WebEx talk
Thurs., Mar. 24, 2022
2:00-3:15pm
"Participatory Action Research With & For Undocumented Students:
Creating Spaces for Transformation in Higher Education"
featuring
Assistant Professor of Higher Education Administration at Texas A&M University
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Tuesday, April 5, 2022
3:30-5:00pm
Where is the Justice? Engaged Pedagogies in Schools and Communities featuring
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Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2021
12:00-1:30pm
"School Finance Inequity and the Role of Race:
Where we've been. Where we are at and the Road to Reparations" featuring
Professor in the Graduate School of Education at Rutgers University in New Brunswick
Access the video and transcript of Dr. Baker's archived WebEx talk
Tuesday, May 18, 2021
Book Party: "Moving forward in a time of uncertainty: How strategic planning and teacher evaluation can improve schools" featuring
Isobel Stevenson
Susan Moore Johnson, Discussant
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Friday, April 30, 2021
"The Kids on the Bus:
The Academic Consequences of Diversity-Driven School Reassignments" featuring
Thurston Domina
Professor and Program Coordinator, Human and Organizational Leadership & Development
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Access the video and transcript of Domina's archived WebEx talk.
Thursday, Oct. 29, 2020
"Takeover: Race, Education, and American Democracy" featuring
Domingo Morel
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Rutgers University – Newark
Access the video and transcript of Morel’s archived WebEx talk.
Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2020
"Intersectionality as Method:
Applying Theory to Practice" featuring
Saran Stewart
Associate Professor of Higher Education and Student Affairs
Neag School of Education
Access the video and transcript of Stewart’s archived WebEx talk.
SEPT 25, 2018
'Breaking the Cycle of Poverty Through Dynamic Complementarity: Evidence from Head Start and Public School Spending' led by
Kirabo Jackson
Professor of Human Development and Social Policy
Northwestern Institute for Policy Research
Co-Presented by the UConn Department of Economics
OCT 25, 2018
'Crystallizing Coaching:
A Study of the Institutionalization of Instructional Coaching
in Charter Management Organizations and Public School Districts' featuring
Sarah Woulfin
Associate Professor
Neag School of Education
MAR 25, 2019
"Are We Heading for a Charter
School 'Bubble'?: Lessons from the Subprime Mortgage Crisis" featuring
Preston Green
Professor
Neag School of Education
APR 29, 2019
“The Remarkable Unresponsiveness to Nudging College Students and What We Can Learn from It” featuring
Philip Oreopoulos
Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the University of Toronto
Co-Presented by the UConn Department of Economics
MAR 2, 2020
Insights about the demand for and effects of high school career and technical education by
Brian Jacob
Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Education Policy and Professor of Economics
University of Michigan
Co-sponsored by The Philip E. Austin Chair, the Center for Economic Policy and Analysis, and the Department of Economics
FEB 8, 2018
“Measuring Effective Special Education Instructions
in the Era of Teacher Evaluation Reform” with
Nathan Jones
Assistant Professor of Special Education at Boston University
FEB 13, 2018
“Does Universal Preschool Hit the Target?
Program Access and Preschool Impacts” led by
Liz Cascio
Associate Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College
Co-sponsored by The Department of Public Policy
FEB 26, 2018
"The Direct and Indirect Effects of Closing Urban Schools on Students’ Academic and Behavioral Outcomes: Evidence from Philadelphia" featuring
Matthew Steinberg
Assistant Professor from the University of Pennsylvania
Co-sponsored event with The UConn Department of Economics
MAR 26, 2018
"School District Reform in Newark: Within-and Between-School Changes in Achievement Growth"
featuring
Doug Staiger
Professor in Economics from Dartmouth College
Co-sponsored event with The UConn Department of Economics
APR 19, 2018
"A Third Way: The Politics of School District Takeover and Turnaround in Lawrence, Massachusetts" led by
Beth Schueler
Postdoctoral Research Fellow from Harvard University
SEPT 21, 2017
“The Many Faces of Teacher Policy: How Incentives, Accountability, and Context are Shaping the Profession”
featured speakers:
Ethan Hutt of the University of Maryland
Michael A. Gottfried of the University of California —
Santa Barbara
Brooks Bowden of North Carolina State University
Shaun M. Dougherty of UConn’s Neag School of Education
OCT 10, 2017
Measuring Opportunity in
U.S. Higher Education with
Sarah Turner
Curry School of Education &
Department of Economics
from the University of Virginia
NOV 2, 2017
The Politics of Regional Equity: Mobilizing Civic Capacity to Address Segregation with
Kara S. Finnigan
Educational Policy from the
University of Rochester,
Warner School of Education
FEB 22, 2017
MAR 27, 2017
Susanna Loeb, Barnett Family Professor of Education, Stanford University — “One Step at a Time: The Effects of an Early Literacy Text Messaging Program for Parents of Preschoolers”.
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