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COEHDnews -- Week of Fri, August 12, 2016

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COEHD participates in higher education symposium

Faculty and students from COEHD particpated in the 7th Annual Texas Higher Education Symposium August 4-5, 2016, which was hosted by The University of Texas at Austin. The conference included professional development and networking opportunties, in addition to lectures and seminars. Co-sponsors of the conference included UTSA, Texas Tech University, the University of North Texas, Southern Methodist University, Baylor University, and the University of Houston. To view photos from the event, click HERE.
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COEHDnews

UTSA professor’s STEM education program making massive gains in Mexico schools
by JESUS CHAVEZ, UNIVERSITY COMMUNICATIONS| Pub: 08/11
Cv2Guadalupe Carmona, UTSA associate professor of interdisciplinary learning and teaching, and her research team are providing schools across Mexico with a low-cost, revolutionary approach to teaching science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) concepts, and it’s paying off big-time.
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COEHD names new director of AAS program
by JO ANN JONES, COEHD| Pub: 08/11
Dsc 1698The UTSA College of Education and Human Development (COEHD) recently named Karla Broadus, senior lecturer in the Department of Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching, as the new director of the African American Studies (AAS) program. She began her role as director in July.
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UTSA doctoral program in counseling ranks among nation’s most affordable
by UNIVERSITY COMMUNICATIONS| Pub: 08/08
Dsc 2277The UTSA doctoral program in Counselor Education and Supervision program is ranked No. 6 in Texas and No. 30 in the nation for affordability, according to BestCounselingDegrees.net. UTSA’s estimated full-time cost of attendance for graduate programs for in-state residents is $3,298 per semester, per UTSA’s Graduate School.
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Announcements

Work-study Student Needed Immediately
Office of Senior VP for Downtown and Academic and Faculty Support    

If you are looking for a great learning experience and needing a solid Letter of Recommendation, then we are the place for you. Stop by the UTSA Downtown Campus (Frio Street 4.450) or call 210-458-2709 or send your resume to judith.quiroz@utsa.edu to apply. You must be Financial Aid Work Study Eligible. Undergraduate and graduate students are welcome to apply
 

Events Calendar

AUG
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Welcome Back Reception
 7:00 - 9:00pm
 Main Campus - University Center Paseo
AUG
20
UTSA Volleyball Alumni Match, Meet & Greet
 11:00am - 1:00pm
 Main Campus - Convocation Center
AUG
20
Library Survival Adventure (with Ice Cream!)
 2:00 - 4:00pm
 Main Campus - John Peace Library 2nd Floor
AUG
20
Late Night at the Rec
 9:00pm-12:00am
 Main Campus - Recreation and Wellness Center
AUG
22
Roadrunner Days: Explore Your Major
 3:00 - 4:30 pm
 Main Campus - Main Building, Ground Floor
AUG
23
UTSA Midnight Light
 11:30 pm
 Main Campus - John Peace Boulevard Entrance

 

External News

Meet the coach who helps Simone Biles, Laurie Hernandez stay mentally strong
by  ALYSSA ROENIGK - ESPNW | Pub: 08/11
As the U.S. women's gymnastics team prepares to take the floor in Tuesday's team all-around final in Rio de Janeiro, 5,000 miles away Robert Andrews will be triple-checking the Wi-Fi connection in his Houston home. A sports psychology coach who works with U.S. gymnasts Simone Biles and Laurie Hernandez, as well as a handful of other athletes competing in Rio, Andrews made the unforgivable mistake of waiting for the prime-time broadcast of Sunday's women's gymnastics qualification. 
Negative attention from teachers can lead to more negative student behaviors
by  UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-COLUMBIA - ScienceDaily | Pub: 08/11
Researchers have developed a new method for observing and measuring teacher interaction with every child in a classroom. As a result of testing this method within K-3 classrooms, they found that students who receive more negative attention from teachers experience increases in problems with emotional regulation, concentration and disruptive behaviors. 
15 innovations pushing human performance to the limit
by  JAMIE MILLAR - Wired | Pub: 08/11
Sport science and technology are helping athletes – professional and amateur – to optimise their physical output. WIRED explains how 
Dual-Language Education Is Becoming a Norm in American High Schools
by  NATALIE GROSS - The Atlantic | Pub: 08/11
Graduates in white and purple robes exited the auditorium, their newly turned tassels bouncing as they sang and danced to a recording of the popular Latin salsa tune, “Vivir Mi Vida.” 
How Many Calories Do Olympic Athletes Need?
by  ELIZA - nprEd (National Public Radio Education) | Pub: 08/11
Food, as we so often note on this blog, means a lot of different things to different people. To Olympic athletes, food is fuel for exceptional athletic performance. But there's a surprising amount of variety in just how much fuel elite athletes need. 
12-year-old to attend Cornell University this fall
by  NICK REYNOLDS - The Ithaca (N.Y.) Journal  | Pub: 08/11
If Jeremy Shuler finishes college on time, he could be the youngest Cornell University graduate ever. Shuler, the 12-year-old son of two aerospace engineers, will be heading to Ithaca this fall by way of Lubbock, Texas, as a member of the class of 2020. He will major in engineering, the same degree his father and Lockheed Martin employee Andy did when he attended Cornell in the 1980s. 
At These Museums, Tragedy Is A History Lesson
by  KENDRA YOSHINAGA - NPR | Pub: 08/11
Last week, NPR Ed rounded up our favorite children's museums — places dedicated to letting kids learn in kid-friendly exhibits. That got us thinking about a different kind of museum: the ones that teach about the toughest episodes of history. How do you explain what happened during the Sept. 11 attacks to a child? What about the Holocaust, or the Oklahoma City bombing? We asked leaders from three memorial museums around the U.S. how they approach teaching their youngest visitors about tragic episodes in history. 
Back to school nutrition: How to avoid the dreaded ‘freshman 15’
by  ASHLY CUSTER - KSAT 12 | Pub: 08/11
Getting good grades and making new friends are among the top priorities for college freshmen, but what about eating healthy meals? Here are some tips on how to avoid gaining the "freshman 15." Independence can come with challenges when a person makes the transition to college from a life at home with parents. "Parents would kind of make sure that they eat the right thing and the right amount. Now, they are on their own so they have control and they don't have the willpower so they are faced with temptations," said UTSA professor of health and kinesiology Meizi He. 

 

External News

Meet the coach who helps Simone Biles, Laurie Hernandez stay mentally strong
by  ALYSSA ROENIGK - ESPNW | Pub: 08/11
As the U.S. women's gymnastics team prepares to take the floor in Tuesday's team all-around final in Rio de Janeiro, 5,000 miles away Robert Andrews will be triple-checking the Wi-Fi connection in his Houston home. A sports psychology coach who works with U.S. gymnasts Simone Biles and Laurie Hernandez, as well as a handful of other athletes competing in Rio, Andrews made the unforgivable mistake of waiting for the prime-time broadcast of Sunday's women's gymnastics qualification. 
Negative attention from teachers can lead to more negative student behaviors
by  UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-COLUMBIA - ScienceDaily | Pub: 08/11
Researchers have developed a new method for observing and measuring teacher interaction with every child in a classroom. As a result of testing this method within K-3 classrooms, they found that students who receive more negative attention from teachers experience increases in problems with emotional regulation, concentration and disruptive behaviors. 
15 innovations pushing human performance to the limit
by  JAMIE MILLAR - Wired | Pub: 08/11
Sport science and technology are helping athletes – professional and amateur – to optimise their physical output. WIRED explains how 
Dual-Language Education Is Becoming a Norm in American High Schools
by  NATALIE GROSS - The Atlantic | Pub: 08/11
Graduates in white and purple robes exited the auditorium, their newly turned tassels bouncing as they sang and danced to a recording of the popular Latin salsa tune, “Vivir Mi Vida.” 
How Many Calories Do Olympic Athletes Need?
by  ELIZA - nprEd (National Public Radio Education) | Pub: 08/11
Food, as we so often note on this blog, means a lot of different things to different people. To Olympic athletes, food is fuel for exceptional athletic performance. But there's a surprising amount of variety in just how much fuel elite athletes need. 
12-year-old to attend Cornell University this fall
by  NICK REYNOLDS - The Ithaca (N.Y.) Journal  | Pub: 08/11
If Jeremy Shuler finishes college on time, he could be the youngest Cornell University graduate ever. Shuler, the 12-year-old son of two aerospace engineers, will be heading to Ithaca this fall by way of Lubbock, Texas, as a member of the class of 2020. He will major in engineering, the same degree his father and Lockheed Martin employee Andy did when he attended Cornell in the 1980s. 
At These Museums, Tragedy Is A History Lesson
by  KENDRA YOSHINAGA - NPR | Pub: 08/11
Last week, NPR Ed rounded up our favorite children's museums — places dedicated to letting kids learn in kid-friendly exhibits. That got us thinking about a different kind of museum: the ones that teach about the toughest episodes of history. How do you explain what happened during the Sept. 11 attacks to a child? What about the Holocaust, or the Oklahoma City bombing? We asked leaders from three memorial museums around the U.S. how they approach teaching their youngest visitors about tragic episodes in history. 
Back to school nutrition: How to avoid the dreaded ‘freshman 15’
by  ASHLY CUSTER - KSAT 12 | Pub: 08/11
Getting good grades and making new friends are among the top priorities for college freshmen, but what about eating healthy meals? Here are some tips on how to avoid gaining the "freshman 15." Independence can come with challenges when a person makes the transition to college from a life at home with parents. "Parents would kind of make sure that they eat the right thing and the right amount. Now, they are on their own so they have control and they don't have the willpower so they are faced with temptations," said UTSA professor of health and kinesiology Meizi He. 

 

Publications

Targeting conversational skills with digital storytelling in EFL
M. Sidury Christiansen  - Bicultural-Bilingual Studies |  CIEX Journ@l: 05/05

Koelzer, M. & Christiansen, M. S. (2016). Targeting conversational skills with digital storytelling in EFL. CIEX Journ@l, 2(2), 5-11.
Digital Storytelling: Using Different Technologies for EFL
M. Sidury Christiansen  - Bicultural-Bilingual Studies |  MEXTESOL Journal: 05/05

Christiansen, M.S. & Koezler, M. (2016). Digital Storytelling: Using Different Technologies for EFL. MEXTESOL Journal, 40(1).
Papers are never finished, just abandoned: The role of written teacher comments in the revision…
M. Sidury Christiansen  - Bicultural-Bilingual Studies |  Journal of Response to Writing: 05/05

Christiansen, M. S. & Bloch, J. (2016). Papers are never finished, just abandoned: The role of written teacher comments in the revision process. Journal of Response to Writing, 2(1), 6-42.  http://journalrw.org/index.php/jrw/article/view/32
‘ˇHable bien m’ijo o gringo o mx!’: Language ideologies in the digital…
M. Sidury Christiansen  - Bicultural-Bilingual Studies |  International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism: 05/05

Christiansen, M. S. (2016) ‘ˇHable bien m’ijo o gringo o mx!’: Language ideologies in the digital communication practices of transnational Mexican bilinguals. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism. doi: 10.1080/13670050.2016.1181603  http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/tFNCiPeeXqNSBAPdXYUx/full

 

Research

Roadrunner Diabetes Screening and Education Project
San Antonio Area Foundation
Awarded:   $30,000    Kinesiology, Health and Nutrition
PI:   Zenong Yin  Kinesiology, Health and Nutrition
CI:      
Applied Behavior Analysis Clinic (ABA Clinic)
San Antonio Area Foundation
Awarded:   $25,760    Educational Psychology
PI:   Neely, Leslie   Educational Psychology
CI:      
Subaward for NASA proposal by Space Telescope Science Institute
Space Telescope Science Institute
Awarded:   $163,921    Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching
PI:   Fies, Carmen  Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching
CI:      
Madison Writing Project
San Antonio Area Foundation
Submitted:   $15,000    Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching
PI:   Henkin, Roxanne   Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching
CI:      
Raising the reading achievement of Newcomers through family participation: The Literacy Education…
Northside ISD
Submitted:   $11,994    Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching
PI:   Sailors, Misty   Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching
CI:   Villarreal, Alicia   Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching 
Sarabia Family Counseling Center Operationss
San Antonio Area Foundation
Submitted:   $60,800    Counselling
PI:   Somody, Catherine   Counselling
CI:      
Combining isoflavones and quality proteins as a dietary strategy to prevent abdominal obesity…
US Dept of Agriculture
Submitted:   $499,363    Kinesiology, Health and Nutrition
PI:   He, Meizi   Kinesiology, Health and Nutrition
CI:   Zhang, John  Kinesiology, Health and Nutrition 
CAREER: STEM MUSE (STEM & Music United for Socially Just Education)
National Science Foundation
Submitted:   $648,730    Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching
PI:   Marone, Vittorio   Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching
CI:      
Externships for Teacher
TX Workforce Comm 320
Submitted:   $5,200    Other Academics
PI:   Claeys, Lorena   Other Academics
CI:      
SAWP Writing Workshop South San ISD
Harlandale Independent School District
Submitted:   $9,000    Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching
PI:   Henkin, Roxanne   Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching
CI:      
EBH-BCBA Internships
Empower Behavorial Health
Submitted:   $36,378    Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching
PI:   Gann, Candace  Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching
CI:   Neely, Leslie   Educational Psychology 
Project PREP (Paraeducators Ready to implement Evidence-based Practices)
US Dept of Educ- Institute of Education Sciences
Submitted:   $399,668    Educational Psychology
PI:   Neely, Leslie   Educational Psychology
CI:      

 
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