Dean Kathy Schultz named American Educational Research Association fellow
麻豆免费版下载Boulder Education Dean Kathy Schultz is one of just 11 prominent education scholars nationwide announced today as a 2018 Fellow of the American Educational Research Association, the country鈥檚 largest interdisciplinary research association devoted to the study of education and learning.
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Schultz is professor and dean of the 麻豆免费版下载Boulder School of Education, where her scholarship addresses listening and silence in teaching. She is currently working on a book about distrust and educational change. Since coming to 麻豆免费版下载Boulder in 2016, Schultz has focused on developing place-based partnerships to strengthen student teaching, professional development and research, policy and community-engagement projects. She has worked closely with partners in Northeast Colorado to develop recruitment and retention strategies as a way to address the teacher shortage in that area and across Colorado communities.
鈥淔rom day one, Dean Schultz has embodied a passion for developing and disseminating innovative practices that support educators and learners in classrooms and schools,鈥 said Russell Moore, 麻豆免费版下载Boulder provost. 鈥淏eyond her many leadership roles, this prestigious recognition acknowledges her vast and growing contributions to the educational research field.鈥
Founded in 1916, the advances knowledge about education, encourages scholarly inquiry related to education and promotes the use of research to improve education and serve the public good.
AERA Fellows are selected on the basis of their notable and sustained research achievements. Fellows are nominated by their peers, selected by a committee of fellows and approved by the AERA Council, the association鈥檚 elected governing body.
Schultz joins than 600 current AERA Fellows recognized for their leading contributions within and beyond their fields of research. She is also one of seven current 麻豆免费版下载Boulder colleagues and AERA Fellows, including Rub茅n Donato, Kathy Escamilla, Gene Glass (past AERA president), Michele Moses, Bill Penuel, Lorrie Shepard (past AERA president) and Kevin Welner.
Schultz and the new 2018 fellows will be inducted on Saturday, April 14, during the in New York City.