coe-staff: The Weekly Vol 1 #7

Wed Nov 18 14:28:31 PST 2020

Dear Faculty and Staff,

We are nearing the finish line for the fall term. As has been the case all year, world-class teaching and learning is occurring, research, scholarship, and creative work is advancing at a rapid pace (see accolades), and children, schools, families, and adults are being served in greater numbers by our educational, clinical, and telehealth services.

I wish to direct your attention to the call for membership in the Network for Equity in Education Policy, and the multiple bullet points devoted to keeping everyone safe and prepared to finish the term successfully.

Regards,

Randy

Updates and Upcoming:

  *   Network for Equity in Education Policy: Bertranna Muruthi, Lillian Durán, and Ilana Umansky are convening the Network for Equity in Education Policy (NEEP). NEEP is a College of Education initiative to increase the University of Oregon and College of Education’s impact on informing and fostering greater equity specifically through educational policy targeting PreK-12 students who belong to underrepresented, marginalized, or  minoritized racial or ethnic groups. Their mission is to 1) use University of Oregon and College of Education’s research to explore and examine policy solutions to pressing problems of educational equity and (2) promote ongoing collaboration and communication with educational decision makers and leaders to support the adoption of effective policies promoting educational equity. Please see their call for membership (in the attached email) and if interested in becoming a core or affiliate member fill out the Qualtrics survey<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/oregon.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_eEe2CIrGyryC03H__;!!C5qS4YX3!VRHxFwrwwbGiFcHaMNToqw2S7uJ7XUHYCfoM-dVgtNC5STRJhKoVTUfX1hBfhOJ_hw$> by December 1, 2020.

  *   Two-week freeze: As you are likely aware, the Governor has issued another two-week freeze to slow the spread of the virus. I know many of you have adopted in-person schedules for the Fall. During the period of this freeze, if you are not teaching an in-person course, please re-assess your need for in-person / on-campus activity and update your schedule with your occupancy coordinators so that we may all do our part for the community.

  *   HEDCO Building access: In keeping with the University’s timeline, starting November 30th, all courses will be delivered remotely until the end of the quarter. Starting Wednesday November 25th, the HEDCO building will again be closed to the public and access will be limited to those with keycard access.

https://around.uoregon.edu/content/check-out-november-break-hours-and-testing-options?utm_source=email&utm_campaign=COVID19email

  *   COVID Resources for Faculty: The UO faculty engagement team and University Communications helped create a COVID-19 Faculty Resources Kit<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/t.e2ma.net/click/s7vvwd/wir20g/wyni7u__;!!C5qS4YX3!Upd_7dXmsoxln4-rJbyeC-D3qhHbCdi6v1hwFLk_abiofDflTCXydRDlSsTXsASz$>, along with some slides that you can use in your classes<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/t.e2ma.net/click/s7vvwd/wir20g/croi7u__;!!C5qS4YX3!Upd_7dXmsoxln4-rJbyeC-D3qhHbCdi6v1hwFLk_abiofDflTCXydRDlSoz__zZ4$> to provide information to students. Both resources offer facts on health and safety tips, where you can go to get testing and medical care, and how to handle situations where someone may have been exposed to COVID-19.

Reminders:

  *   CDS Webinar: Resilience in the Brain and Beyond: Synapse National at the University of Oregon, a student-run advocacy and awareness group created to serve the Eugene/Springfield area’s growing community of brain injury survivors, is excited to announce their November webinar featuring a number of COE faculty/students. “Resilience in the Brain and Beyond” will take place on November 23rd, 2020 at 5:00 PM PST (flyer is attached). Their guest speakers include Dr. Deanna Linville (Couples and Family Therapy) and Aaron Rothbart (Communication Disorders and Sciences doctoral student and speech-language pathologist) along with David Kracke (Oregon Brain Injury Advocate Coordinator at CBIRT) and Ben Luskin (a local community collaborator, who will be speaking from his own experience on behalf of the brain injury community). They will all be bringing their unique expertise from practice, research, education, and lived experience to discuss resilience; both in the brain and while managing a chronic medical condition like brain injury. Please come if interested, or forward to anyone who might benefit! The group's goal is to build brain injury awareness and strengthen community resources, so ALL are welcome! Link to register: https://oregon.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_4THQXaGgaq9MygZ
Accolades:

  *   Good news: New or renewed awards for the Oregon Education Science Laboratory (OESL), Early Childhood CARES (EC CARES), and Oregon Research Schools Network (ORSN) with collaboration from the Center on Human Development (CHD). Congrats to all and see below for more detail!

     *   Scalable Online Professional Development for Expanding Teacher Expertise in Equity and Pedagogy
Oregon Education Science Laboratory (OESL, pronounced “OH-soul”)

Text by Joanne Goode

The Oregon Education Science Laboratory was awarded a new “Computer Science for All” National Science Foundation grant. This 3-year project seeks to engage the Exploring Computer Science (ECS) national teacher community to determine what experienced high school computer science teachers need to continue to grow and stay engaged in the teaching profession. Principal Investigator Joanna Goode and her collaborators will work alongside a core group of experienced ECS teachers to develop a fully online professional development model that can handle the challenges of preparing teachers in physical computing while providing a supportive and community-based context for discussing equity, inclusion, and justice issues. The project will leverage the newly released ECS curriculum unit on electronic textiles (e-textiles),<https://urldefense.com/v3/__http:/www.exploringcs.org/e-textiles__;!!C5qS4YX3!UV4ta-nOPEG6bJG8Q6pwlk-80OhAWw6vIh02T8COpuif_LDXvf8_Vz1hV-ntQ_C_Kw$> which situates computational thinking within designing functional circuitry in hands-on, personalized crafts, to design and develop an e-textiles professional learning program. As a Research Practice Partnership (RPP) collaboration, this project is uniquely situated to address critical goals for CS education: (1) identify needs of experienced computer science teachers for continued learning and engagement with computing; (2) create and pilot an online professional development for physical computing with e-textiles; (3) examine how online facilitation can expand computer science teachers’ pedagogical capacities for addressing in equitable ways students’ CS interests and perspectives; (4) build and scale facilitator capacities within the ECS community; and (5) contribute to knowledge on how professional teacher communities can support pedagogical practices for computer science teachers. This grant is a collaboration between the University of Oregon, the University of Pennsylvania, and the Education Development Center.

     *   Early Intervention/Early Childhood Special Education Services
Early Childhood CARES (EC CARES)
Text by LaWanda Potter

Early Childhood CARES receives state general funds and federal IDEA funds through the Oregon Department of Education (ODE) to provide early intervention and early childhood special education services to children and families of Lane County who qualify for services. This is the 2nd year of a biennial award and includes funding for the Student Success ACT that will allow the program to increase service levels to children and families, with a total grant award amount of $18,028,296. Early Childhood CARES received a grant from ODE for the second year, in the amount of $30,400 to assist in implementing Early Childhood Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports (ECPBIS) in 3 classroom sites. Staff at Early Childhood CARES provide a variety of services including home visits, specialized preschool, consultation and other specialized services such as speech therapy, occupational and physical therapy, autism/behavior services. In addition Early Childhood CARES receives an annual grant award for ecWeb from the Oregon Department of Education to develop and manage the statewide database for EI/ECSE programs. This year it is for $651,755.

     *   Awards for ORSN Partnership with InterMountain Educational Service District (IMESD)

Oregon Research Schools Network (ORSN), including collaboration from Center on Human Development (CHD)

Text by Sol Joye

Building from Dean Randy Kamphaus’ original goal of partnering with educational practitioners in the field to address their own identified problems of practice and gaps in service (emulating the Agricultural Extension model), ORSN is increasing our collaboration with Pendleton area schools in eastern Oregon through a new partnership with the InterMountain Educational Service District (IMESD). This current work focuses on two specific, separate areas of collaboration. The first is working with IMESD to help ESD and district leadership create an ongoing learning community centered around understanding and successfully implementing the Oregon state Equity Lens at different departmental levels. Second is the development, implementation and evaluation of a new outreach effort training Educational Assistants (EAs) through a digital hybrid micro-professional development and micro-coaching system that is quickly growing across IMESDs four counties and nineteen school districts. These training and coaching offerings will help train EAs in a myriad of different topics related to their critically important work with students, many of whom are identified as those who are most at risk of not graduating on time. This specific work includes leadership and collaboration from Dr. Chris Knowles, Research Associate with the Center on Human Development.

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