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Cheryl Bolick, Ph.D., associate professor, is part of a project funded with a $500,000 Oak Foundation grant to produce learning resources about contemporary Africa for K-5 classrooms in the U.S.
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The project team is creating lesson plans and user guides and other content to be used by elementary school teachers. Bolick is collaborating with Carolina’s African Studies Center, guiding teams of scholars and educators to identify and curate content for an online repository and then working with teams to develop curricular materials to accompany the resources in the repository. The University Council for Educational Administration has named a new award after Linda C. Tillman, Ph.D., a former member of the faculty at the School of Education.
The Linda C. Tillman Social & Racial Justice Award recognizes an educational leadership faculty member who demonstrates outstanding leadership in furthering the values of UCEA to foster diversity, equity, and social justice in PK-20 educational organizations.
Tillman, who retired from the School in 2014, was also named the inaugural recipient of the award, announced by the UCEA ahead of its annual convention in November 2021.
Helyne Frederick, Ph.D., Human Development and Family Science program director, was named to the Carolina Center for Public Service’s 2021-2023 cohort of Thorp Faculty Engaged Scholars.
As a Thorp Faculty Engaged Scholar, Frederick will collaborate with and support fellow cohort members in scholarship that engages with UNC-Chapel Hill and the surrounding community.
In addition to leading the HDFS program, which boasts approximately 300 undergraduate majors, Frederick researches ways to improve sexual health care for Black women and adolescents in the region by addressing issues related to higher rates of sexually transmitted infections and reproductive health challenges.
Cizek wins AERA award
Gregory Cizek, Ph.D., Guy B. Phillips Professor, received the 2022 Test Validation Research and Evaluation Award for a Senior Scholar — an honor bestowed by the American Educational Research Association’s Test Validity Research and Evaluation special interest group.
Cizek is a national authority on educational measurement and evaluation, having conducted research for over 30 years in the field of applied assessment with specializations in validity, standard setting, and test security. He has served as chair of the National Assessment Governing Board’s Committee on Standards, Design, and Methodology and has helped the NAGB set policies guiding the use of data to measure U.S. student achievement since 2017. Cizek also has served as president of the National Council on Measurement in Education.
UNC School of Education Staff Excellence Awards
The School awarded its annual Staff Excellence Awards to Alan Brown, coordinator of information technology, and Laurie Norman, director of alumni relations. They were nominated by faculty and staff, and then selected for the award by a committee made up of fellow staff members. Brown’s nominators noted his tireless and creative efforts to help faculty and staff with technology needs, particularly when people worked and taught remotely during the pandemic. Norman’s nominators spoke of her ambassadorship and her outreach to alumni, creating strong ties to the School and creating strong networks between members of the School community.
