Subscribe | Archive Trouble Reading? Online Version UTSA College of Education and Human Development COEHDnews -- Week of Fri, January 22, 2016 Follow on Facebook Follow on Twitter Follow on YouTube Follow on RSS   Spotlight:  2015 Spectrum Now Available Copies of the 2015 Spectrum magazine are now available and being distributed.  The magazine highlights COEHD accomplishments in a year-in-review style.  Copies are also available through COEHD Communication (MB 3.474). Share:       COEHDnews   UTSA Sarabia Family Counseling Center provides top quality counseling services to S.A. community  by  JESUS CHAVEZ, UNIVERSITY COMMUNICATIONSPublished: 01/20 Every day, the UTSA Sarabia Family Counseling Center provides top-tier mental health and counseling services to the San Antonio community – free-of-charge. Share:       Awards & Announcements   University Life Awards  Janis M. Harmon, Ph.D.  |  Associate Dean for Undergraduate Student Success  The University Life Awards, sponsored by the UTSA Student Government Association, is a UTSA tradition that honors the most outstanding students, student organizations, faculty, and staff members on our campus.  From the colleges, the Student Government Association will recognize an outstanding undergraduate and graduate student. Finalists and winners will be announced at the University Life Awards Banquet on Thursday, April 7th.   COEHD is seeking nominations for outstanding undergraduate and graduate students. In order to be eligible for the award, a student must be an undergraduate or graduate student majoring in the COEHD and currently enrolled at UTSA. The award is based upon academic achievement and involvement in the UTSA community.  Completed nomination forms should be submitted to me via email or campus mail no later than close of business Friday, February 12, 2016. 2016 AERA Division G Graduate Student Travel Award  AERA Dr. Rosalind Horowitz  |    Division G is pleased to announce travel stipends available for the 2016 Annual Meeting. If you are a graduate student in the area of social contexts of education, you may apply for one of the Division G travel stipends for the 2016 Annual Meeting in Washington, DC.  Application deadline: Monday, February 8, 2016 at 11:59 pm EST.  Please direct all inquiries to the Graduate Student Committee Representatives, Ms. Adeyanju Odutola (aodutol@clemson.edu) or Mr. Eric Felix (eric.felix@usc.edu). To apply, fill out an application at the link https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1MJxpBhy3LCIzkvw-cON2CMR6rbXoUsolORP-uYJazqs/viewform.  Crisp invited to U.S. White House  Gloria Crisp  |  Educational Leadership and Policy Studies  Dr. Gloria Crisp, associate professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, was invited to the United States White House this week to discuss America's College Promise. Events Calendar   JAN 28 Mexican American Studies Feria: Toolkit for Success  11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.    Main Campus - University Center, Denman Room 2.01.28 JAN 30 Bilingual Core Subjects Supplemental Test Review  9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.    Main Campus - University Center, Ash Room, 2.03.06 FEB 06 10th Annual SAWP Teachers’ Conference and Spring SAACTE Event  9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.    Downtown Campus - Frio Street Building, Riklin Auditorium, 1.406 FEB 17 Effective School Board Superintendent Relations: Staying in Your Lane  10:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.    UTSA Downtown Campus - Buena Vista Building, Room 1.338 FEB 19 17th Texas Language Education Research Conference  TBD    The University of Texas at San Antonio - TBD FEB 28 Honoring Texas Military Members Exhibit - Ongoing  9 a.m. - 5 p.m. Mon - Sat; Noon - 5 p.m. Sun.    Institute of Texan Cultures - 801 E. Cesar E. Chavez Blvd., San Antonio, TX 78205 External News   America’s First School District to Serve 100% Organic Meals  by Staff Writer, OffGridQuest.com  |  01/21  When schools in California’s Sausalito Marin City District return to session this August, they were the first in the nation to serve their students 100 percent organic meals, sustainable sourced and free of genetically modified organisms (GMOs). Nutrition program for low-income mothers, babies go digital  by Saerom Yoo, Statesman Journal  |  01/21  The switch, which began Tuesday, is expected to make lives easier for the 11,000 local participants as well as store clerks, as the voucher system could require a shopper to make multiple transactions in one trip. Feeding the Teacher’s Brain: Nutrition Tips for Busy Educators  by Dr. Donna Wilson and Marcus Conyers, Edutopia  |  01/21  Teaching is a cognitively complex profession. In the course of a single school day, an educator must make hundreds of decisions and respond quickly to the myriad unexpected turns that life in the classroom may take. You have a high-energy job, so it's essential to prime your brain and body with the right fuel. Why the SAT is getting another makeover  by Adriene Hill, NPR Marketplace  |  01/21  This March, students will sit for a new SAT. Boosting Pell Grants to help students graduate on time  by Adriene Hill, NPR Marketplace  |  01/21  The Obama administration wants to increase financial aid for full-time students A fraction of community college students get their BA  by Tony Wagner, NPR Marketplace  |  01/21  A new study says while most students hope to transfer and finish their degree, very few do. Foreign students with extended visas may have to leave  by Amy Scott, NPR Marketplace  |  01/21  Government rules that let them stay in the U.S. to work are in flux. To Be Young, ‘Gifted’ And Black, It Helps To Have A Black Teacher  by ANYA KAMENETZ, NPR Ed  |  01/21  A new study finds black students are half as likely as white students to be assigned to a gifted program. Unless their teacher looks like them. Tiny School District to Offer First Four-Day Schedule in Texas  by Madlin Mekelburg, The Texas Tribune  |  01/21  Olfen Independent School District, one of the smallest districts in Texas, will transition to a four-day school week in August — the first of its kind in the state. As Texas Schools Go Digital, Parents Say They Need to Be Educated Too  by Kate McGee, KUT News  |  01/21  Across Texas, schools are replacing hardcover textbooks with other resources: digital textbooks, printed worksheets and online tutorials. As schools phase out hard textbooks that students can bring home, some parents are finding it more difficult to understand what their students are learning, or how to help them with homework. Read the full story at KUT News. Standing Desks in the School Environment May Improve Cognitive Function  by BECKY FOGEL , Texas Public Radio (TPR)  |  01/21  Who would have thought that in the annals of the dull, ordinary and all-too-predictable layout of the modern office cubicle, there’d be a development that captured pretty much everyone’s imagination? Standing desks – it seems like everyone glued to a cubicle wants one. In many office settings, people while away their days sitting and, let’s face it, snacking. UTSA offering free counseling services  by Josie Garcia, News 4 San Antonio  |  01/21  If money is keeping you from seeking counseling, The University of Texas at San Antonio can help. UTSA is providing free counseling services with trained and in-training mental health professionals free of charge at the UTSA Sarabia Family Counseling Center at its campus downtown. The center offers counseling for all kinds of issues. Publications   Mexicanness and Social Order in Digital Spaces: Contention among Members of a Multigenerational Tran  Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences M. Sidury Christiansen  |  Bicultural-Bilingual Studies  Christiansen, M. S. (2015). Mexicanness and Social Order in Digital Spaces: Contention among Members of a Multigenerational Transnational Network. Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 37(1), 3-22. Appearances can be deceiving: Risks interpreting data in online ethnographic research  Perspectives on Qualitative Research M. Sidury Christiansen  |  Bicultural-Bilingual Studies  Christiansen, M. S. (2015). Appearances can be deceiving: Risks interpreting data in online ethnographic research (pp. 437-456). In M. Lengeling & I. Mora Pablo (eds.), Perspectives on Qualitative Research. Guanajuato, Mexico: Universidad de Guanajuato Press. ‘A ondi queras’: Ranchero Identity Construction by US Born Mexicans on Facebook  Journal of Sociolinguistics M. Sidury Christiansen  |  Bicultural-Bilingual Studies  Christiansen, M. S. (2015) ‘A ondi queras’: Ranchero Identity Construction by US Born Mexicans on Facebook. Journal of Sociolinguistics, 19(5), 688-702. Mapping Hispanic-Serving Institutions: A typology of institutional diversity  Journal of Higher Education Anne-Marie Nuñez, Gloria Crisp  |  Educational Leadership and Policy Studies  Nuñez, A.-M., Crisp, G., & Elizondo, D. (2016). Mapping Hispanic-Serving Institutions: A typology of institutional diversity. Journal of Higher Education, 87(1), 55-83. Research Awards & Submittals   Effects of Truck Fatigue on pitching biomechanics in high school baseball players  American College of Sports Medicine Foundation Submitted:  $4,985   Kinesiology, Health and Nutrition PI:  Sakiko Oyama  Kinesiology, Health and Nutrition CI:      Improving reading achievement with Tier II students using inquiry-based and intentional comp…  Institute of Education Sciences (IES) Submitted:  $247,819   Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching PI:  Misty Sailors  Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching CI:      Farm to Church  Allen Foundation Submitted:  $178,448   Kinesiology, Health and Nutrition PI:  Meizi He  Kinesiology, Health and Nutrition CI:      Eat Lite Eat Right: A Reward Program to Increase College Student Fruit and Vegetable Intake  Allen Foundation Submitted:  $41,202   Kinesiology, Health and Nutrition PI:  Sarah Ullevig  Kinesiology, Health and Nutrition CI:  Erica T. Sosa  Kinesiology, Health and Nutrition  Neighborhood Project Evaluation  City of San Antonio Metropolitan Health District Submitted:  $46,027   Kinesiology, Health and Nutrition PI:  Erica Sosa  Kinesiology, Health and Nutrition CI:      Teen Project Evaluation  City of San Antonio Metropolitan Health District Submitted:  $44,611   Kinesiology, Health and Nutrition PI:  Erica Sosa  Kinesiology, Health and Nutrition CI:  Sara Oswalt  Kinesiology, Health and Nutrition  CONTACT US College of Education and Human Development  One UTSA Circle  San Antonio, TX 78249 education.utsa.edu Jo Ann Jones COEHDnews Editor/Writer T:   210.458.4486  Byron Spencer COEHDnews Editor T:   210.458.7396  Jesus Chavez University Communications Media Relations T:   210.458.4937

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