Around the College: March 15, 2017

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Bernard Badiali, associate professor of education and professor-in-charge of the Curriculum and Supervision Program, has been elected to the Board of Directors of the National Association for Professional Development Schools (NAPDS). Badiali is a past-president of the association. He has been involved in PDS work for many years, contributing to the field as a professor, author, researcher and consultant. The association advocates for and supports the creation and sustainability of collaborative partnerships between public schools and colleges/universities with the goal of shaping educator practice and leadership.

— Kevin Duquette, a doctoral student studying counselor education, won first place in the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs’ (CACREP) Advocacy Week Video Contest. Fellow doctoral students Taylor Bigelow, Aubrey Daniels, Bagmi Das, Beth Gilfillan and SoRin Kim received honorable mention for their entries.

Erica Frankenberg, associate professor of educational leadership and demography, recently spoke with The Washington Post about her work to help desegregate schools in Jefferson County, Kentucky, and how new legislation may undo that progress. 

Education Policy Analysis Archives, a peer-reviewed, independent, open access, multilingual journal, published "Exploring school choice and the consequences for student racial segregation within Pennsylvania's charter school transfers," by Erica Frankenberg, Stephen Kotok, Kai Schafft, Bryan Mann. The article can be found at http://epaa.asu.edu/ojs/article/view/2601/1883 and a video featuring Frankenberg talking about the article can be viewed at https://youtu.be/meHfa1R4-lU?list=PLyqEQ4rd-UV4fs3rN1VM49pVwGHfzKVoL.

— “Science Achievement Gaps Begin Very Early, Persist, and Are Largely Explained by Modifiable Factors,” a research article led by Paul Morgan, professor of educational theory and policy, has been identified as a highly cited paper Web Science for having “… received enough citations to place it in the top 1% of the academic field of Social Sciences …”

David Passmore, distinguished professor of workforce education and development, recently gave several invited and national presentations. Invited presentations are: Passmore, D. L. (2017, February). Linking production, consumption, employment, and skills — Over 25 years of economic and demographic policy research at Penn State. Invited Discovery Series Lecture, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas; Passmore, D. L., Chae, C., You, J., & Baker, R. M. (2017, March). Social network analysis for human resource development/organization development professionals. Invited pre-conference workshop at the 2017 Academy of Human Resource Development International Research Conference in the Americas, San Antonio, Texas; and Passmore, D. L. (2017, March). Starting with R — An interactive demonstration. Invited presentation to the College of Information, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, 2017. National presentations are: Passmore, D. L., Baker, R. M., Baker, F., & Chae, C. (2017, March). Mixed methods models and use in Academy of Human Resource Development publications. Paper presented at the 2017 Academy of Human Resource Development International Research Conference in the Americas, San Antonio, Texas; and Passmore, D. L., Chae, C., Al-Khadhuri, J., Baker, R. M., & J. Turner, J. (2017, March). Structural model of topics in Academy of Human Resource Development journals, 1990-2015. Paper presented at the 2017 Academy of Human Resource Development International Research Conference in the Americas, San Antonio, Texas.

— “Using Virtual Roleplay Modules to Develop Teacher Candidates' Competence in Communicating About Bullying," a research paper by Deborah Schussler, associate professor of education; Jennifer Frank, assistant professor in educational psychology, counseling and special education; Michelle Wright, psychology research associate in the College of the Liberal Arts; and TK Lee, research and development engineer in Teaching and Learning with Technology (TLT.psu.edu), was one of seven that won an "Outstanding Paper" award at the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education conference in Austin, Texas. The research was made possible by two COIL grants.

Jeanine Staples, associate professor of education, African-American and women’s studies, will present a lecture titled "The Scope and Sequence of White Oblivion (and How It Hurts and Kills People): Identifying & Dismantling White Supremacy Through an Endarkened Feminist Epistemological and Ontological Framework,” from noon to 1 p.m. Monday, March 27, in 217 Willard Building. For more information, visit http://bit.ly/2m3prTt.

Last Updated March 15, 2017