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Latest points of pride from the College of Education and Human Ecology

• Serving children with special needs
• Language and literacy education in the School of Teaching and Learning
• Math and science education in the School of Teaching and Learning
• School of Educational Policy and Leadership
• Serving populations at risk

Serving children with special needs

• Laura Justice has a newly funded, four-year study with Steve Petrill to help speech-language pathologists make more informed decisions about interventions to help early elementary children overcome language impairment. [$2 million, IES]

• Steve Petrill's newest grant works to illuminate the link between genetics and mathematical ability and disability so children receive appropriate interventions. [$2 million, NIH]

• Dennis Sykes, Center for Special Needs Populations, is developing resources over 18 months to help pre-K-12 children with disabilities progress toward meeting Ohio's academic standards. [$1.6 million, Ohio Department of Education]

Language and literacy education in the School of Teaching and Learning

• Laura Justice and Steve Petrill received year-two funding for "Sit Together and Read," a four-year, $3.8 million project awarded in 2009 to study the effectiveness of an intervention called print referencing, used with preschool children at risk due to poverty or disability.

• Gay Su Pinnell and Patricia Scharer completed the only study conducted on education coaching to gather extensive data about student literacy achievement (K-2), teacher expertise and frequency and quality of coaching. It was conducted with Anthony Bryk, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. The first journal article will be in the Elementary School Journal.

• Steve Petrill received $118,657 in stimulus funds to augment his existing $2.1 million twins study, now in year three, that examines environment and genetic influences on the development of early math and reading.

• Our faculty members edit five of the leading language and literacy journals: American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology: A Journal of Clinical Practice; Disability Studies Quarterly; Language Arts; Reading Research Quarterly; and TESOL Quarterly.

• Brian Edmiston leads the college's new Graduate Certificate Program in Dramatic Inquiry for Teacher-Leaders, a critical part of a partnership between Ohio State, the Royal Shakespeare Company and its acclaimed Stand Up for Shakespeare education program. The partnership, the only one of its kind in the U.S., launched this past summer with 20 teachers training in England.

• Barbara Lehman received the prestigious Arbuthnot Award from the International Reading Association, bringing our total faculty recipients to five in the last 20 years, more than any other university.

• Kathy Cabe Trundle was one of four science educators nationwide invited to develop National Geographic's first core science curriculum for K-2. She is currently working on NG's next curriculum in this series for grades 3-5.

Math and science education in the School of Teaching and Learning

• Patricia Brosnan, Diana Erchick, and Azita Manouchehri began year five of the Mathematics Coaching Program in Ohio schools experiencing academic emergency. In four years, the initiative has provided intensive coaching to 2,560 teachers and helped 50,800 elementary students gain math skills. [$1.1 million, Ohio Department of Education]

• Ross Nehm is harnessing advances in computer technology to change the fundamental approach to science assessment. With a three-year grant, he is refining an online assessment cascade system and will pilot it with 1,700 college biology students. [$998,000, NSF]

• Kimberly Lightle creates innovative digital resources for teachers. With a new three-year grant, she is augmenting the Middle School Portal 2: Math and Science Pathways, offering standards-based resources as well as dynamic, collaborative experiences for educators and students online. [$2.3 million, NSF]

• Dean S. Cristol and partner universities will help students in underserved and rural Ohio and North Carolina explore STEM careers over three years as well as study how students and teachers acquire knowledge and attitudes about STEM careers. [$858,666, NSF]

• Shayne B. Piasta, working with Laura Justice and Steve Petrill in Justice's Preschool Language and Literacy Lab, received a two-year grant to examine the efficacy of the core knowledge approach to math and science preschool instruction. ($900,000, NIH)

School of Educational Policy and Leadership

• Eric Anderman is chair of the Social and Behavioral Panel of IES. He recently completed his tenure as president of the American Psychological Association's (APA) Division of Educational Psychology, garnering much news coverage with his keynote speech at the annual APA conference about how to stop academic cheating. He continues work on the APA Task Force on the Prevention of Violence against Teachers.

• Belinda Gimbert guides a collaborative working in four states to recruit, prepare, and support highly qualified, degreed professionals as teachers in high need schools. [$1.4 million received for year three, US Department of Education]

• Richard Lomax and Jacqueline Goodway will devote two years to examining how early motor skill in preschool children affects later obesity. [$414,000, NIH]

• William Loadman and Richard Lomax are evaluating Ohio's striving readers program for the fourth year. The program serves literacy needs of students in grades 6-12 within state juvenile corrections facilities. [$280,371, Ohio Department of Youth Services]

• Bryan Warnick is among the first to study in-depth how the special characteristics of schools should transform our thinking about student rights. A comprehensive account of these special characteristics has rarely been attempted in any detail. [$38,850, Spencer Foundation]

• The 2009 National Academy for Superintendents sold out this past summer, no doubt due to the relevance of the event theme: "Leadership in a Changing World: Expectations for our Schools in an Era of Accountability."

Serving populations at risk

• Julianne Serovich is joined by Natasha Slesnick and statistical expert Ann O'Connell in a new five-year grant to create an intervention that assists men who have sex with men to disclose their HIV status to casual sex partners, as required by law. [$2.9 million, SAMHSA]

• Natasha Slesnick has a new, three-year award to develop a novel substance abuse intervention for homeless women with young children ages 2 through 6 years. [$1.7 million, NIDA] She is also among the first to study the benefit of involving adolescents ages 11-15 in their single mothers' substance abuse treatment, a newly funded, five-year project. [$3 million, NIDA]

• James L. Moore III, counselor education, is partnering with two other universities for three years to study the extent to which online courses in STEM disciplines enhance African-American students' learning and engagement at historically Black colleges and universities. [$500,000, NSF]

• Peter V. Paul directs one of only 28 university U.S. programs that prepare teachers of the visually impaired, and the only such university program in Ohio. For the next nine months, he will continue the alternate route program for preparing teachers and develop an orientation and mobility program. [$300,000, School Study Council/Ohio Department of Education]

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