coe-staff: The Weekly Vol. 4 #18

Wed May 17 22:38:46 PDT 2023

Dear COE community,

Thanks to all who have participated in our climate survey discussions in the COE. We have concluded our college-wide discussions and are now presenting emerging themes in unit-level conversations. Last week Dianna Carrizales-Engelmann and I met with the Department of Special Education and Clinical Sciences. We have upcoming discussions in the departments of Counseling Psychology and Human Services as well as Education Studies. We also have meetings with the Research and Outreach Council (ROC) and staff not affiliated with departments. The conversations we’ve had thus far are encouraging and faculty/staff engagement is high. I will summarize our efforts and key findings at the June 9th COE Faculty/Staff Meeting (1:30 pm).

Tomorrow is UO’s annual day of giving. More details can be found on the Ducks Give<https://ducksgive.uoregon.edu/coe> website and below. Please consider supporting our college initiatives as well as sharing these opportunities with your networks.

Please read on for updates, upcoming events, and accolades. In particular, I wish to draw your attention to the End-of-Year Student Wellbeing Check-In. Take a moment to reach out and check in with your students. While you’re at it, check in with yourself and your colleagues. Ducks care about one another.

Enjoy the sunshine! I look forward to crossing paths with each of you.

Warmly,
Laura Lee

Updates and Upcoming:

  *   Ducks Give: The University of Oregon’s annual day of giving, Ducks Give<https://ducksgive.uoregon.edu/coe>, is this Thursday, May 18! This year, we are highlighting ways that the College of Education is flying forward toward an equitable, educated, and healthy future for children, families, and communities. COE faculty/staff participation has been high in the past and we thank you for considering how you can promote Ducks Give again this year!
     *   Spread the word! Become a Ducks Give Ambassador and invite your network/community to help us reach the goal of 130 donors to unlock $120,000 in challenge gifts. BECOME AN AMBASSADOR<https://ducksgive.uoregon.edu/giving-day/74586/signup>
     *   Social Media! Follow COE social media accounts to repost content or tag your own with #DucksGive. Links to those channels are below and Ducks Give graphics are attached.

 [Twitter] <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001gTHQGJeeVZXeEBD6Ls0sZZJUqnut624iDDm8gfVYmN3JB1MrxkqGm5POu-f7FbLq25zjeiHlbSzGRgzyb-XSrRhmQwF4FDdL6rmhq_pIvpfWAxDJH5uhhDC2UYz0ZhPanjU_OiJtaUDysQAmxzTQJXhvQ7YT3EZf&c=y3NNbIrGtv02yslNsQVETTa6_PpeCd_UhFxBgSefySnUZ24LLrIdtg==&ch=2OqqAZFTtwDQua6GoMxnIXzFjQdNj4-5ni0zEazJMfYOLKSuw6x8LQ==__;!!C5qS4YX3!BrBpUe97Fmh8sLzjsciU3NAI0mPzWNWZB0yO0dSiAbTY_SwDkZ7ZoMeeGBC0QeMuVLMCIMUV8kdTvCl79USt$>   [Instagram] <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001gTHQGJeeVZXeEBD6Ls0sZZJUqnut624iDDm8gfVYmN3JB1MrxkqGm5POu-f7FbLqSXIcT_o-Dejq9uetTR5rRfH_vEe-t6nDHis9gNOyXd718xrDlak2IzSS3W5qG1RLO6rAsESpLA4NjBdvnbr58zCuYEwssR3okm3EGofHpiw=&c=y3NNbIrGtv02yslNsQVETTa6_PpeCd_UhFxBgSefySnUZ24LLrIdtg==&ch=2OqqAZFTtwDQua6GoMxnIXzFjQdNj4-5ni0zEazJMfYOLKSuw6x8LQ==__;!!C5qS4YX3!BrBpUe97Fmh8sLzjsciU3NAI0mPzWNWZB0yO0dSiAbTY_SwDkZ7ZoMeeGBC0QeMuVLMCIMUV8kdTvBxTSbIo$>   [Linkedin] <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001gTHQGJeeVZXeEBD6Ls0sZZJUqnut624iDDm8gfVYmN3JB1MrxkqGm5POu-f7FbLqSvl_B-vlG7DotcF30LxU9MPkyEMuAfmPIqY4Y2wvcYLQ8hoNdEeABOVNF9Xfm7EsjFYuCRQb3fJ-8moLm0AV-Wltnek7x0EqKzj3Ppdv21iCvLdRRuaHlosTV4pKIHMN&c=y3NNbIrGtv02yslNsQVETTa6_PpeCd_UhFxBgSefySnUZ24LLrIdtg==&ch=2OqqAZFTtwDQua6GoMxnIXzFjQdNj4-5ni0zEazJMfYOLKSuw6x8LQ==__;!!C5qS4YX3!BrBpUe97Fmh8sLzjsciU3NAI0mPzWNWZB0yO0dSiAbTY_SwDkZ7ZoMeeGBC0QeMuVLMCIMUV8kdTvINtizOF$>   [Youtube] <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001gTHQGJeeVZXeEBD6Ls0sZZJUqnut624iDDm8gfVYmN3JB1MrxkqGm5POu-f7FbLq-oUT-VwJVa-1aadLlaQHYbPVBwaAeJsAQKj6kgp5Hfxiwyv5a6HXC3855Ztio8fz6IxZEdKMGdzdcqhCl2DrKinLDZ9giQ2k-CZweyH9jag=&c=y3NNbIrGtv02yslNsQVETTa6_PpeCd_UhFxBgSefySnUZ24LLrIdtg==&ch=2OqqAZFTtwDQua6GoMxnIXzFjQdNj4-5ni0zEazJMfYOLKSuw6x8LQ==__;!!C5qS4YX3!BrBpUe97Fmh8sLzjsciU3NAI0mPzWNWZB0yO0dSiAbTY_SwDkZ7ZoMeeGBC0QeMuVLMCIMUV8kdTvK2EaNk-$>

     *   Donate $5 or more to support a challenge gift!

  1.  Yetter & Grenz CDS Challenge: Unlocks once a $1,000 match is met.
  2.  Pat Abeene CPHS Challenge: $1,000 gift unlocks at 25 donors to COE Ducks Give.
  3.  COE Advisory Council Administrative Licensure Program Challenge: Unlocks once $3,000 match is met.
  4.  Marshall COE Scholarship Challenge: $5,000 gift unlocks at 50 donors.
  5.  Gray Sapsik’ʷałá Challenge: $10,000 gift unlocks at 75 donors.
  6.  McCormack Teacher Preparation Scholarship Challenge: $100,000 is unlocked when we reach our overall goal of 130 donors!

Can’t join on Thursday? No problem, the Ducks Give website will be live on Wednesday, May 17th at noon.

  *   Youth Movement: Youth Movement, a field day for Native middle school youth from throughout Oregon, will be occurring from 9:00am – 3:30pm on May 19th at Papé Field (9:00 – 12:00pm) then in the Moshofsky Center (12:00 – 3:30pm). Check out their website that gives context for the event and the broader organization it is a part of: https://www.ym7.org/. You can also watch the video from the 2019 Youth Movement event: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JM1KwRPT9Y. Thank you Leilani Sabzalian for being a faculty sponsor and for contributing your energy and passion to Indigenous youth’s wellness, sense of belongingness, and community.

  *   Doctoral Student Graduation Reception: Please join us to say farewell to some of our graduates as we host a reception for doctoral students and their families from 11:30 am – 12:30 pm in the HEDCO Courtyard on Tuesday, June 20th. All faculty and staff are invited to attend. Please click here to RSVP.<https://oregon.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_7PAzUaXG1xA3JSS>  For any questions, contact Lisa at lfortin at uoregon.edu<mailto:lfortin at uoregon.edu>.

  *   COE Faculty and Staff Awards: Please take a moment to reflect on the great work your colleagues do and submit a nomination to share their outstanding work with others. The College of Education recognizes outstanding faculty, officers of administration, and staff in the areas of teaching, service to students, administration, research or outreach, and diversity. Nominations are accepted from students, faculty, officers of administration, and staff connected to the COE. To nominate, simply submit the online nomination form<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/oregon.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_ekr5E9ixqIhW0mO__;!!C5qS4YX3!BtotlFRpHsEMRvw3Mp_TneQdQUEiT9511fwlaMTU9xswkg9HW2u8lxZh-PC6B6IlLFYE9cFBE5ULug_Zn5staQ$> along with a brief letter (3-5 bullet points) in support of your nomination. The online nomination form asks for your name and the name of at least one other person supporting the nomination.  The nomination letter can be bullet points and can be emailed directly to lfortin at uoregon.edu<mailto:lfortin at uoregon.edu?subject=Letter%20of%20Support> or attached to the bottom of the nomination form. Please be as specific as possible in your submission materials. The awards committee can only consider the information you provide in their decisions as they do not rely on any personal knowledge committee members may have about a nominee, so please be detailed in your nomination. Nominations are due by May 30, 2023. Recipients will be announced June 9, 2023.

  *   End-of-Year Student Wellbeing Check-in: Part of student success at the UO means students have a positive experience. Measuring wellbeing factors, especially belonging, throughout students’ trajectories at the UO is critical to understanding whether they have a positive experience. Please see the attached flyer and consider asking your students to complete an End-of-Year Wellbeing Check. There are many ways to do this:
     *   Email, Canvas, or Other Message: Here’s some text. Feel free to use it, edit it, or write your own entirely. And here’s this year’s URL if you want to insert it somewhere else: https://oregon.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8wvaMUjheUPygES?Source=iaca2c.
     *   In-Class or Other Announcement: Here are some slides. Feel free to use them, edit them, or make your own entirely. And here’s this year’s QR code if you want to insert it somewhere else.
     *   Get Creative: If there’s some other way you want to communicate or if you want to offer extra credit, go for it.

Accolades:

  *   Jessica Turtura (PI) and Ben Clarke (Co-PI) along with partners at the University of Texas and Rand Corporation were awarded a five year 4 million dollar US Department of Education “Education Innovation and Research (EIR) Early-Phase award” for their project Math Ready-Supporting Early Number Sense (M-SENS). The purpose of the project is to develop, implement, and test an innovative, integrated program to improve student mathematics achievement while developing student behaviors that support success and accessing academic content. Working with participating kindergarten teachers, the project will use an iterative design science approach to develop and test the feasibility of the program. The project will conclude with a pilot study in 60 kindergarten classrooms designed to test the promise of the program to improve student math and behavior outcomes, and teacher capacity to support early mathematics and behavioral needs of students.

  *   Check out this student spotlight of Brittany Spinner, a MS student in Prevention Science with a Specialization in Educational Data Science: https://education.uoregon.edu/brittany-spinner-prevsci.

  *   A shout out to the student workers who prepared 275 tote bags with books and a gift for our Teacher Appreciation and New Teacher Send Off Event to be held on Friday. Thanks to Karielle Schnapp, Sora Thompson, Alex Pagnucco, Audrey Schlemmer, Sara Barth and Thomas Grigsby.  It was definitely a team effort!

  *   Congratulations to Samantha Shune who was just awarded funding for an R21 through the National Institute on Aging entitled “Influence of swallowing impairment on burden among caregivers of persons with Alzheimer’s Disease and related dementias”.
     *   Brief Abstract: Providing care for persons with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD) comes with significant physical and psychosocial costs, necessitating interventions to support caregivers’ health and quality of life. Yet, effective intervention requires a nuanced understanding of the factors that impact the burden along the care trajectory. Crucially underexplored in its contribution to caregiver burden is dysphagia (swallowing impairment), which occurs in up to 93% of persons with ADRD. With the goal of integrating proactive dysphagia-related caregiver burden reduction into standard clinical practices, this proposed Phase 0 research study will address the critical when (timing) and what (targets) needed for intervention design. Successful completion of this work will identify additional modifiable contributors to ADRD-related caregiver burden and potential mechanisms of action. The results will directly inform the development of a new, evidence-based intervention for reducing aspects of caregiver burden related to dysphagia management in ADRD and thus offer a unique opportunity to intervene with families earlier and proactively, ameliorating, and potentially even preventing, the development of these aspects of burden over time.

  *   Jeffrey Todahl and the Center for the Prevention of Abuse and Neglect is featured in this Around the O article<https://around.uoregon.edu/content/report-sees-progress-battle-prevent-child-sex-abuse?utm_source=ato05-17-23> about the seven-year impact report which demonstrates overwhelmingly positive findings for Protect Our Children, the Ford Family Foundation’s child sexual abuse prevention project.

Job Postings:

  *   Executive Assistant to the Deans<https://careers.uoregon.edu/en-us/job/531766/executive-assistant-to-the-deans>: The College of Education (COE) is hiring an Executive Assistant to the Deans. This position provides day-to-day support to 4 members of the College’s leadership team and interacts with faculty, staff, and students across the college as part of a supporting role.  Work of the Executive Assistant to the Dean occurs in a fast-paced, collaborative environment with opportunities to create systems of support related to scheduling, minute-taking, website management, and engaging with committees! The Executive Assistant to the Deans works within a community of talented, committed, and supportive colleagues and plays an essential role in the smooth running of the College of Education.
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