HAPPENINGS Anand R. Marri became dean of the Warner School on January 1, 2019. He is the former vice president and head of outreach and education at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and was a professor of social studies and education at Teachers College, Columbia University. In this introduction, Dean Marri shares his background and thoughts on the strengths of and opportunities for the Warner School, with a focus on equity and excellence. Watch the video. ANNOUNCEMENTS Warner Offers New Program in Mind/Body Healing and Wellness The Warner School is offering a new 13-credit advanced certificate in Mind/Body Healing and Wellness in collaboration with URMC’s Marriage and Family Therapy Program. The program is available to graduate students and licensed healthcare professionals who are interested in learning about mind/body approaches to healing and wellness and integrating these approaches into their practice. Learn more. CUES to Host Forum on Community Schooling Saturday, May 4, 2019 9 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. East High School 1801 East Main St., Rochester, N.Y. The Center for Urban Education Success (CUES) at the Warner School will host a forum on the role community schools play in addressing the academic, social, and emotional needs of students and families. Attendees will choose among different sessions where community leaders will discuss developing partnerships with schools and communities. East High School will highlight its partner agencies that are seeking to expand into additional school settings in Rochester. Sessions are designed to encourage dialogue and to share best practices across the region. Coffee and light refreshments will be provided. For more information or to request special accommodations, please visit here or email [email protected] . Swanson Accepts Leadership Position at UNC Greensboro Dena Swanson, associate professor of counseling and human development, has accepted a leadership position at the UNC Greensboro School of Health and Human Sciences as Professor and Chair of the Department of Human Development and Family Studies. She begins her appointment on August 1, 2019. Swanson, an applied behavior psychologist, has been involved in many research and community initiatives and is a well-respected leader in promoting equity and mentoring faculty across the University. We thank her for her dedicated service and wish her all the best. NYS TESOL April Webinar to Feature Curry Register now for the NYS TESOL Webinar for April! The webinar, titled "Academic Literacy/ies for English Learners at the Higher Education Level," will feature Mary Jane Curry, associate professor, from 3-4 p.m. on Tues., April 30. This month's webinar will discuss: Understanding literacy as a set of social practices, rather than skills Disciplinary aspects of academic literacy: genre and register The role of reading in academic writing Strategies for supporting academic literacy Register here. Warner Alumnae Named 2019 RBJ Women of Excellence Honorees Congratulations to Lesli C. Myers-Small ‘92 (BA), ‘93W (MS), superintendent of Brockport Central School District, and Mary Ellen Burris ‘68W (Mas), senior vice president of consumer affairs for Wegmans Food Markets, Inc., on being named 2019 Rochester Business Journal (RBJ) Women of Excellence and Circle of Excellence honorees, respectively. Read more. NEWS New Study Lays Out the Benefits of Using Sarcasm in Urban High School Classrooms Should Higher Education Go Digital? University of Rochester Reading Program Showing Promise in RCSD Teaching in the South Bronx Literacy Program in RCSD Doubles Literacy Results for Students, According to a Study by Carol St. George FACULTY/STUDENT NOTES CUNY Disability Programs Honor Mock Martha Mock, professor and director of the Center on Disability and Education at Warner, was honored by The City University of New York (CUNY) for her leadership, vision, and partnership in empowering students with intellectual disabilities through the inclusive higher education movement. The award was presented by Christopher Rosa, vice chancellor for student affairs at CUNY, and Barbara Bookman, university director of Disability Programs at CUNY, at the 2019 CUNY Neurodiversity Conference in New York City in March. Rubenstein and Saiff Receive School Administrators Awards Bonnie Rubenstein, professor and former director of counseling for the Rochester City School District, and Warner alumna Rebecca Saiff ‘12W (CAS), director of the Growth and Opportunity Through Alternative Learning (GOAL) program at Webster Central Schools, have been named 2019 Region 11 School Administrators Association of NYS (SAANYS) Award winners! Rubenstein was recognized as the SAANYS Region 11 Retiree of the Year and Saiff was recognized as the SAANYS Region 11 Administrator of the Year (Secondary Level). They will be honored along with other 2019 winners during the Region 11 awards ceremony on April 25 at Midvale Country Club. Learn more. Magee Wins Excellence in Volunteer Service Award Doctoral student Brian Magee, associate director of UR student activities, has received the Excellence in Volunteer Service Award from the Association of College Unions International (ACUI). The award acknowledges individuals annually for their success and loyalty to ACUI during the previous 12 months in a volunteer role. Finnigan Shares Research Kara Finnigan, professor, was a discussant for the session "Seeking Advice in Schools: Understanding Social Network Ties Among Educators" at the Society for Research in Child Development Annual Conference in Baltimore, Md. in March. Additionally, she was invited to give a plenary talk at the William T. Grant Foundation's March meeting, "Advancing the Use of Research Evidence in Ways that Benefit Youth" in Washington, D.C. Her talk was titled "Properties of Social Networks that Matter for Improving the Use of Research." She also co-presented a methodology workshop called “An In-the-Weeds Examination of Network Analysis and Research Use: Confronting Challenges in the Work.” Her work was featured in the recent William T. Grant report about the use of research evidence. Learn more. Skyer Wins Disability Studies Award Doctoral student Michael Skyer won the 2018 Irving K. Zola Award for Emerging Scholars in Disability Studies from the Society for Disability Studies. The paper that led to the award was titled "Bodies in Dependence: A Foucauldian Genealogy of the Americans with Disabilities Acts." Skyer is a senior lecturer at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, a college of Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). Learn more. Fredericksen Publishes on Online Learning, Gives Talk on Online Learning Leadership Groundbreaking work in the area of online learning, led by Eric Fredericksen, associate vice president for online learning and associate professor in educational leadership, and other leading experts in online education, is featured on Inside Higher Ed. Their latest “Changing Landscape of Online Education” (nicknamed CHLOE 3) report is based on a survey of online learning administrators that categorizes colleges by online intensity and examines issues such as governance, student outcomes, and instructor interaction. Learn more. Additionally, Fredericksen gave the talk "What We Know About Online Learning Leadership" at the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) Annual Meeting in Anaheim, Calif. in February. Learn more. Manaseri Publishes Article Holly Manaseri, associate professor and associate director of the K-12 school leadership program, coauthored the article "Pono Choices: Lessons for School Leaders From the Evaluation of a Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program" in the February 2019 issue of the Journal of School Health. In the article, Manaseri reports on the results of a five year study conducted across 34 middle schools in the state of Hawaii with 1783 student participants in pre‐, post‐, and 1‐year follow‐up surveys to determine effectiveness of an original, culturally responsive middle school health curriculum with high rates of knowledge gains for students and high rates of teacher adherence to fidelity making this a model for implementation. Learn more. Lammers and Han Present at Conferences Jayne Lammers, associate professor, and doctoral student Yu Jung Han presented at the American Association for Applied Linguistics Annual Conference in Atlanta, Ga. in March. Lammers co-presented "Looking Back and Thinking Ahead: Charting New Directions in Online Fanfiction Research," where she and her colleagues looked back on how their work as English teachers and teacher educators led them to rely on classroom-based tools for making sense of reviewing and feedback in the online environments they study, and to argue a need to interrogate, innovate, and explicate the methods used to study online fanfiction practices. Han presented "Extramural English: Transcultural and Transmedia Literacy Development of ELLs in Online Fan Practices." Han also presented "Transcultural and Intertextual Meme Analysis/Creation in ELT Classroom" at the TESOL 2019 International Convention & English Language Expo, also in Atlanta, Ga. in March. Curry Presents on Chilean Higher Education, Featured in Podcast Mary Jane Curry, associate professor, presented "Chilean Scholars Navigating Neoliberal Pressures for Multilingual Publishing" in the symposium, "Participating in Academic Literate Worlds: Conceptions, Experiences, and Tensions of Writing in Chilean Higher Education" at the Transnational Writing SIG, Conference on College Composition and Communications, in Pittsburgh, Pa. in March. Additionally, Curry was a guest on Oregon State University's "Research in Action" Podcast on the subject of multilingual scholars. Listen to the podcast episode. Rubenstein Co-Presents on Mental Health in Admissions Bonnie Rubenstein, professor, co-presented “Mental Health in Admissions” as part of the New York State Association for College Admission Counseling's (NYSACAC) Spring 2019 Professional Development Forum in Rochester in March. Shalka Publishes Book Chapter Tricia Shalka, assistant professor, published the book chapter "Navigating the Complex Space of Supporting Student Survivors of Trauma" in P. M. Magolda, M. B. Baxter Magolda, & R. Carducci, (Eds.), Contested Issues in Troubled Times: Student Affairs Dialogues on Equity, Civility, and Safety (Stylus, 2019). Cui Presents at Conference, Selected for Consortium Cohort Doctoral student Shasha Cui (above left) co-presented "International Student Mental Health: Creating Support Networks Across Campus" at the 2019 Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education (NASPA) Conference in Las Angeles, Calif. in March. Cui was selected as a 2019 NASPA New Professional and Graduate Student (NPGS) Consortium Cohort Member. Learn more. EVENTS April 4, 2019 LiDA Colloquium Series - Inclusivity Matters: A Conversation With Digital Learning Designers April 5, 2019 AERA Reception for Warner Community April 5, 2019 Dignity for All Students Act (DASA) Training April 8, 2019 University of Rochester's 10th Annual Diversity Conference: Finding the Courage to Lead April 10, 2019 Wednesday Lunch Hour - Creativity in Counselor Education April 16, 2019 Student Open Sessions with Dean Marri April 17, 2019 Wednesday Lunch Hour - Developing a K-12 Research Collaboration Across Computer Science, Data Science and Warner April 18, 2019 LiDA Colloquium Series - How Do They Do It? K-12 Teachers′ Stories of Digitally-Rich Instruction May 2, 2019 LiDA Colloquium Series - Studying Leadership for Online Teaching and Learning in Higher Education May 18, 2019 Warner School Commencement See All Upcoming Events IN THE NEWS Joanne Larson on the Use of Sarcasm in the Classroom Rochester Teachers Care Video Highlights Warner Alumnus Mark Foster ‘13W (MS) Eric Fredericksen's Work in Online Education Featured in Inside Higher Ed Carol St. George on Literacy Learning in the Democrat & Chronicle Kevin Meuwissen on Helping Students to Bridge the Political Divide on WXXI Connections Anand R. Marri on Financial Education Mandate in MONEY Magazine [email protected]