coe-staff: COE Weekly Vol 1 #4

Wed Oct 28 13:45:09 PDT 2020

Dear Faculty and Staff,

The first item in this message is probably the most important – helping students navigate the upcoming election. University communications has created an informative website, and TEP, per usual, has created some helpful tips for faculty and GEs teaching courses. Both links are provided below.

Wishing everyone a successful week ahead,

Randy

Updates and Upcoming:

  *   Upcoming Election Materials: Linked are the new teaching and the election materials that TEP has created. https://blogs.uoregon.edu/keepteaching/2020/10/20/teaching-and-the-election/.

I would also like to draw attention a new video feature, The Lost Art of Argument, which draws on the expertise and insights of our faculty - featuring Dr. Lisa Mazzei - staff, and students to examine these critical questions and survey the state of argument in our society and on our campus. That video can be found here. <https://around.uoregon.edu/election2020>

  *   SDS Network Invited Colloquium Series: Please find below the announcement of the next SDS Network Invited Colloquium. This session is entitled, Using a Text-as-Data Approach to Understand Reform Processes: A Deep Exploration of School Improvement Strategies, by Dr. Min Sun, an Associate Professor in Education Policy and the Director of Education Policy Analytics Lab. It will be held on November 20th from 1:30-3pm. Please RSVP if you plan to attend.

  *   APBS Student Network Fall Webinar: A free event for Graduate Students on networking and collaborating across institutions features our own Dr. Rhonda Nese, Assistant Professor in the Department of Special Education and Clinical Sciences. The event will be held on Tuesday, November 10th at 8am (PST) and students will just need to register beforehand at: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_kJykrUKIQreY4e97gJhuIA. Please share the attached flyer with your students.

Reminders:

  *   Open Access Journal Publication Funding: The UO Libraries and the Senate Subcommittee on Open Access is celebrating International Open Access Week 2020 by launching a new pilot program award to help UO researchers publish in open access journals! Any person or group at UO pursuing publication in an open access journal may apply for funds to help pay the journal’s article processing charges. This includes students, faculty, and staff – anyone currently affiliated with UO. The journal must be fully open access (not OA-optional) and the article must be accepted for publication. Applications will be reviewed and funded throughout the 2020-2021 academic year. For more information see: https://library.uoregon.edu/article-processing-charge-award. To apply, visit: https://library.uoregon.edu/apc-application. If you have any questions, feel free to contact Katherine Donaldson (kdonalds at uoregon.edu<mailto:kdonalds at uoregon.edu>) or Miriam Rigby (rigby at uoregon.edu<mailto:rigby at uoregon.edu>).

Accolades:

  *   Congratulations to Emily Tanner-Smith for being awarded the 2020 recipient of the Campbell Collaboration’s Robert Boruch award for distinctive contributions to research that informs public policy (https://campbellcollaboration.org/the-robert-boruch-award.html). She was chosen for the award by the Campbell Technical Advisory Committee because of my leading and influential research in the area of substance abuse prevention, which has broadened knowledge in this critical behavioral health area, as well as influenced public policy beyond academic boundaries. The award was presented to her this morning at the What Works Global Summit conference (https://www.wwgs2020.org/).

  *   We owe gratitude for the service of our colleagues to the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee: James Sinclair (Center for Human Development), Leilani Saez (Behavioral Research and Teaching), Jessica Cronce (Counseling Psychology and Human Services), Jennifer Meyer (Special Education and Clinical Sciences), Julie Heffernan (Education Studies), Carmen Cybula (Special Education and Clinical Sciences), Kent McIntosh (Educational and Community Supports / Special Education and Clinical Sciences), Jerry Rosiek (Education Studies), Lillian Duran (College of Education), Alyssa Warnick (Special Education and Clinical Sciences), Elijah Ruth-Cheff (Center for Equity and Promotion), Julie Alonzo (Educational Methodology, Policy, and Leadership / Behavioral Research and Teaching), Deanna Chappell (Education Studies / Sapsik’ʷałá), Bertranna Muruthi (Counseling Psychology and Human Services), Sung-Woo Cho (College of Education), Jessica Horvath (College of Education), Angel Dorantes (College of Education), Valentino Vasquez (Special Education and Clinical Sciences). Thank you!

  *   Leslie Leve was awarded a new two-year, $4.9 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to expand COVID-19 testing to underserved Latinx communities in six Oregon counties using testing capacity created by the UO’s COVID-19 Monitoring and Assessment Program. Leslie says “This grant will enable us to implement a critical community outreach and testing program to increase the reach, access and uptake of testing in communities with an urgent need.” College of Education professors Stephanie DeAnda, Anne Mauricio, Elizabeth Budd and Ellen McWhirter are also lending their expertise in bicultural and bilingual community outreach and implementation science to help the team design outreach and intervention strategies that are responsive to Latinx community needs and preferences. Read more about their work featured in last weeks Around the O Article Here. <https://around.uoregon.edu/content/new-grant-will-expand-covid-19-testing-latinx-communities?utm_source=ato10-21-20>

  *   Kudos to our Development Team (Kristi Schneider, Celeste Christie, Andrea Olson) for planning and hosting the Fall COE Advisory Committee meeting last Friday. The agenda included a welcome by chair, Derek Jernstedt, a state of the COE address by myself, a development update from Kristi Schneider, an introduction and faculty update by EMPL faculty member Cengiz Zopluoglu, an introduction and laude to our Communications Team (Juls Davis, Emily Barker, Meghan Mortensen, and Renee Mitchell), followed by a social hour. Thank you to all who participated and made this event a success.

  *   Peer to Peer Communication: Recently we sent an email to your mailbox that included several faculty stories. Entitled, “Research Driving Change” this piece was sent to the Deans of the top 270 Colleges of Education in the country and to 25 superintendents in Oregon. This email received a 37% open rate from the Deans and 37% open rate to the Superintendents. For context, open rates above 30% are considered top-tier and average open rates hover between 10-15%. Evidently, there is considerable interest in the work our faculty do. Thank you to our Communications Team for developing this piece.

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Save The Date

SDS Network<https://blogs.uoregon.edu/sdsnetwork/> Invited Colloquium
 Using a Text-as-Data Approach to Understand Reform Processes: A Deep Exploration of School Improvement Strategies
Dr. Min Sun
November 20, 2020
1:30-3:00 p.m. PST

RSVP<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/oregon.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_7Vg1lDiECXZ6Qi9__;!!C5qS4YX3!QlCzpJYHhbiOq5jLSMS46QioSM4iMyjfqajkYAZH63OdsjPx0zSwqLb3OmWd5t4$>

Abstract:  Although program evaluations using rigorous quasi-experimental or experimental designs can inform decisions about whether to continue or terminate a given program, they often have limited ability to reveal the mechanisms by which complex interventions achieve their effects. To illuminate these mechanisms, this paper analyzes novel text data from thousands of school improvement planning and implementation reports from Washington State, deploying computer-assisted techniques to extract measures of school improvement processes. Our analysis identified 15 coherent reform strategies that varied greatly across schools and over time. The prevalence of identified reform strategies was largely consistent with school leaders’ own perceptions of reform priorities via interviews.

Several reform strategy measures were significantly associated with reductions in student chronic absenteeism and improvements in student achievement. We lastly discuss the opportunities and pitfalls of using novel text data to study reform processes.

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Dr. Min Sun is an Associate Professor in Education Policy and the Director of Education Policy Analytics Lab. She specializes in economics of education, educator labor markets and effectiveness, school accountability and improvement, and school finance policies.

Besides utilizing conventional large-scale administrative data on schools, teachers, and students, Dr. Sun uses "big data" analytics (such as machine learning strategies, social network analysis) to analyze novel data (e.g., texts, social relationships, and team professional relationships) in educational policy research. Her work has been published in premier research journals in educational policy, economics and public policy, and has been funded by IES, NSF, Spencer Foundation, among others.

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