Education Eclipse

At Color Cheney Crimson, we saw Jennifer Lee wearing Cougs gear so we just went up to her and started talking. She is an early-intervention teacher in the Enumclaw School District. She's a proud Wazzu alumna and we're so pleased she talked to us while watching the greatest sport ever.

As published recently in WSU Insider, a recent study indicates that just the facts may not be enough to overcome misinformation. Far more effective would be a refutation format.

Robert Danielson breaks down what that means. He's an associate professor of Educational Psychology at Washington State University's College of Education and likes the puzzle of how people think, including deciphering information and whether it's true or false; fact or fiction.

Full news article: https://news.wsu.edu/press-release/2024/08/21/facts-alone-fall-short-in-correcting-science-misinformation/

Colin Connolly has a cool job. He watches baseball every night. OK, obviously, he has to work while doing, but it's still a cool job. Colin is the is the Director of Media Relations and Baseball Information for the Tacoma Rainiers (Triple-A for the Seattle Mariners). In conjunction with this year's Color Cheney Crimson, we chatted with Colin about his work now, and his time at WSU in the College of Education's Sport Management program.

Dr. Holly Whittenburg is an assistant professor of Special Education in Washington State University's College of Education. She's taken an active role in research dedicated to students with intellectual or developmental disabilities. More specifically, her research focuses on improving employment outcomes for transition-aged students with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and intellectual disability. Work is an important part of growing up for most young adults, but students with disabilities often face significant barriers to employment. In her work, Holly examines interventions to teach employment-related skills, investigates approaches to creating more opportunities for inclusive work experiences, and considers how special education and vocational rehabilitation law and policies affect the transition experiences of students with disabilities.

More about Holly: https://education.wsu.edu/holly-whittenburg/

She grew up in Spokane's working-class neighborhood of Hillyard, and was once a Lilace Princess. Fast forward to today, and Kaysha Reinhart has worked diligently in the WSU College of Education's principal certification program and, this next year, will be an assistant principal in the Nine Mile Falls School District. We caught up with her at a reception for past, current, and future principals and other public educational leaders.

Johanna Thomas Zapata is AWESOME. She has a smile that lights up the room. And, she’s a dynamite individual who previously won the College of Education’s Three Minute Thesis. She’s a Fulbright scholar from Honduras, and pretty soon, she won’t be a doctoral student because she’ll be a doctor and will leave WSU and embark on her career. We chat with Johana about her time at WSU, a recent scholarship she received, and what the future has in store for her.

We chat with Lane Salvig (Backstrom), one of our Secondary Education alumni who is changing the way our students look at the world around them. And now, thanks to a Fulbright award, she'll spend six weeks in Morocco learning addition skills to prepare students for a competitive global economy. The Fulbright program equips educators to bring an international perspective to their schools through targeted training, experience abroad, and global collaboration. Lane talks about this, as well as why she wanted to be a teacher.

On this episode of Education Eclipse, we talk to Mathematics Education Professor Amy Roth McDuffie who, along with her husband Steve, has started an endowment that supports doctoral students. It's named for Mike and Fran Trevisan, who have played an integral role in the College of Education for 30-plus years, the last 10+ of which include Mike as the college dean.

Each year, soon-to-graduate seniors in the Sport Management program complete their capstones. These are group fundraiser projects where a student’s knowledge of marketing, finance, legal, event planning, etc., is all put to the test.

We sat down with faculty member Chris Lebens who has helped oversee the program for years, to discuss this year’s capstones and some of his best memories from days of yore.

This was a video podcast series the College of Education hosted during COVID when all employees were working off-site. It was called ZoomED In but we include the full episodes here in Education Eclipse in the same chronology.