Accomplishments: Department of Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education
Gerilyn Slicker (Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education) received the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Early Education and Child Development (EE/CD) Special Interest Group (SIG) Outstanding Dissertation Award for her dissertation titled, "Provider Participation in the Child Care Subsidy System: A Mixed Methods Study…
Alain Bengochea (Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education) co-authored "Sustainable translanguaging pedagogy in support of the vulnerable language: honoring children’s ways of ‘Showing’ and ‘Telling’ in an early childhood dual language bilingual education program" in the International Journal of Bilingual Education & Bilingualism.…
Pricella Morris (Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education) and Monique Matute-Chavarria (New Mexico State University) co-authored an article titled, "Black mother scholars matter: Navigating anti-Black educational spaces for our Black boys," for a special issue of the Journal of Multicultural Affairs.
Monica R. Brown (Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education) published "A content analysis of educators' perceptions of anti-Black bias: Implications for Black Students" in the Journal of Multicultural Affairs, 7(2).
LeAnne Salazar-Montoya (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) and Ramona Esparza will present at the Learning and Justice for all Conference, hosted by Nevada Association of School Administrators (NASA).
Invited Lecture: "Coloring Outside the Lines: Diversfying the Educational Pipeline"
The session discussed…
Gerilyn Slicker (Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education) published an article, "Meeting quality benchmarks in center-based early care and education: A latent class analysis," in Early Childhood Research Quarterly. This paper identifies five subgroups of child care and early education centers on the basis of the combinations of…
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LeAnne Salazar Montoya (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education), University of Nevada Las Vegas
Gina Delgado (Teaching and Learning), University of Nevada Las Vegas
As two Latina's working in an R1 institution…
Associate professor Alain Bengochea (Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education) published a manuscript in Journal of Early Childhood Literacy titled, “Morning circle as a community of practice: Co-teachers’ transmodality in a dual language bilingual education preschool classroom.”
This study explores the nature of…
College of Education faculty and doctoral students presented at the Council for Exceptional Children — Teacher Education Division (TED)'s annual conference November 8-11 in Richmond, VA. Associate professor Jenna Weglarz-Ward (Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education); doctoral student/visiting lecturer Scotia Hammond (Education);…
Gerilyn Slicker (Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education), with co-authors Cara Kelly and Jason Hustedt from the University of Delaware, published an article, "Family Experiences, Parenting Behaviors, and Infants’ and Toddlers’ Social-Emotional Skills," in the Early Childhood Education Journal. Results suggest that certain family…
Monica R. Brown, Heather B. Van Ness (both Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education), and Robbie Marsh (Mercer) presented a paper titled, “Project PRAISER: Exploring the perceived value of an interdisciplinary personnel preparation program to support students with EBD,” at the Teacher Educators for Children with Behavioral…
Monica R. Brown (Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education) and Ayo Aborishade (Education) co-authored a recently published (online) article titled, "Using technology to coach culturally and linguistically diverse families in the behavior intervention plan process: Embedding funds of knowledge," in a special issue of the Journal of…