Smagorinsky

Peter Smagorinsky, a Distinguished Research Professor of language and literacy education in the College of Education, has been named recipient of the 2013 David H. Russell Research Award from the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE).

The award honors an outstanding work of scholarship or research in language, literature, rhetoric or learning, published during the past five years. Smagorinsky is being recognized for his book titled, Vygotsky and Literacy Research: A Methodological Framework. He will receive the award at the NCET annual convention Nov. 21-24 in Boston.

Smagorinsky was named the 2013 Outstanding Reviewer for Review of Education Research, the journal of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), and Outstanding Reviewer for 2013 by the editors of the American Educational Research Journal - Teaching, Learning, and Human Development. He was named an AERA Fellow in 2010.

Alvermann

Spangler

Two College of Education professors, Donna E. Alvermann and Denise A. Spangler, have been appointed to endowed faculty positions in the College. The endowed positions are named for the late UGA President O.C. Aderhold and his late daughter, Elizabeth (BeBe) Aderhold, who served as a faculty member in childhood education.

Alvermann, a Distinguished Research Professor of Language and Literacy Education, was named the Omer Clyde and Elizabeth Parr Aderhold Professor in Education.

Alvermann is also a Fellow in the Owens Institute for Behavioral Research and an Affiliate Faculty member of the Institute for African American Studies. She is currently the principal investigator on a grant funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to develop and test a Web tool for improving young adolescents’ literacy skills.

Previously, she was principal investigator and co-director of the National Reading Research Center, a $7.8 million dollar grant collaboration with the University of Maryland and funded by the U.S. Department of Education. Her research has also been supported by the Spencer Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the National Council of Teachers of English and the International Reading Association. Alvermann was elected a Fellow in the American Educational Research Association.

Spangler, professor and head of the department of mathematics and science education, was named the Bebe Aderhold Professor in Early Childhood Education.

Spangler’s research focuses on the development of pre-service elementary school teachers’ mathematical knowledge for teaching. She has published her work in the Journal for Research in Mathematics Education and the Teachers College Record. She has garnered grants from both the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Spencer Foundation. She is currently the principal investigator of a $1 million NSF grant designed to increase the number of high-quality mathematics and science teachers in high-needs school districts.

Spangler, a member of the UGA Teaching Academy, has been recognized for her work with UGA’s Richard B. Russell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching and a Lilly Teaching Fellowship.

Spangler has been involved with several national policy efforts focusing on mathematics assessment and teacher preparation standards in association with the American Statistical Association, National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators and the Conference Board of Mathematical Sciences.

In addition to her work at UGA, Spangler is in her third term as a member of the Clarke County School District Board of Education, where she has served as vice president.

The special appointments, approved by the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia earlier this year, are among three positions established with funds in a gift bequest from the estate of O.C. Aderhold, former UGA President (1950-67) and dean of the College of Education (1947-50).   The third appointment is held by Allan S. Cohen, professor of educational psychology and director of two major assessment and research centers in the College of Education, who was named the Omer Clyde and Elizabeth Parr Aderhold Professor in Research Methodology in 2011.

Adams

Williamson

College of Education faculty members Elaine Adams and Jimmy Williamson were named 2013 Educators of the Year for their respective divisions at the Georgia Association for Career & Technical Education Annual Summer Conference.

University of Georgia College of Education faculty members Elaine Adams and Jimmy Williamson were named 2013 Educators of the Year for their respective divisions at the Georgia Association for Career & Technical Education Annual Summer Conference.

Adams, an associate professor in the department of career and information studies, was recognized as Georgia Marketing Education Association’s Educator of the Year.

Adams teaches instructional strategies, assessment, human resource applications, and community and work-based learning. Her research focuses on pre-service and in-service teacher development, instructional strategies and academic community learning. Adams received her Ph.D. in vocational and technical education from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. She joined the UGA faculty in 1996.

Williamson (BS ‘86, MEd ‘90, PhD ‘99), an academic professional associate in the department of career and information studies, was recognized as the Georgia Health Science Technology Association’s Educator of the Year.

Williamson teaches and administers the College’s alternative teacher certification program. This program serves career professionals that are transitioning to teaching Career and Technical Education in grades 7-12. Williamson received his Ph.D. in instructional technology from UGA. He joined the UGA faculty in 2001.

The awards recognize career and technical educators who provide significant contributions to professional associations and career and technical education programs for youth and adults.

The two UGA faculty members were among 23 career and technical educators honored during the July 2013 conference in Atlanta.

Reeves

A book co-authored by University of Georgia College of Education professor emeritus Thomas C. Reeves has received the Outstanding Book Award from the Research and Theory Division of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT).

Conducting Educational Design Research, co-authored by Reeves and Susanne McKenney of the University of Twente in The Netherlands, is beneficial to faculty and students in university graduate programs in which exposure to innovative design research methodologies is limited. It is an invaluable resource for anyone interested in educational design research and fosters dialogue on how to best prepare the next generation of educational researchers.

Reeves and McKenney will receive the award at AECT’s annual international convention in Anaheim, Calif., in October 2013. Reeves will also be a keynote speaker at the convention.

During his career, Reeves has developed and evaluated numerous interactive learning programs for education and training. He has been an invited speaker in 30 countries around the world. He is a former Fulbright Lecturer and a former editor of the Journal of Interactive Learning Research.

Reeves is a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE) and he became the first American to be named an Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education (ASCILITE) Fellow in 2011.

He also co-authored A Guide to Authentic E-Learning, which won the 2010 Association for Educational Communications and Technology Design and Development Outstanding Book Award. The book was co-written with two Australian colleagues, Jan Herrington from Murdoch University and Ron Oliver of Edith Cowan University.

Delgado-Romero

University of Georgia College of Education professor Edward Delgado-Romero has been named recipient of the 2013 Distinguished Career Contributions to Research Award from a division of the American Psychological Association (APA).

Delgado-Romero, a professor in the department of counseling and human development services, is being recognized by the Society for the Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority Issues (Division 45) for scholarly contributions on ethnic minority populations and issues as well as mentoring young students and professionals in the field. Awardees must be in the field 15 or more years.

Delgado-Romero, who researches racial/ethnic issues in psychology and has applied multicultural psychology to clinical practice, has been recognized numerous times in his career.

He received the APA’s 2011 Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest. He has been named a fellow of the APA in two divisions (Society of Counseling Psychology and Society for the Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority Issues). He was elected president of the National Latino Psychological Association and twice named Faculty Member of the Year by the Counseling Psychology Student Association from 2006-08. He received the Distinguished Early Career Award from the National Latino Psychological Association in 2006 and the Emerging Professional Award from Division 45 in 2006.

In addition, Delgado-Romero was recently elected to a three-year term as APA Council Representative for the Society of Counseling Psychology (Division 17), effective in January 2014.
Delgado-Romero, who joined the UGA faculty in 2005, received his Ph.D. in counseling psychology from the University of Notre Dame.

He will receive this award at the 121st APA Annual Convention July 31 in Honolulu.

Horne

Arthur M. (Andy) Horne, dean emeritus and former Distinguished Research Professor  in counseling psychology at the University of Georgia College of Education, has received the 2013 University of Florida Distinguished Alumnus Award.

Horne, who earned bachelor’s degrees in English education and journalism in 1965 and a master’s in counselor education at UF in 1967, received the award May 4 at UF’s spring commencement ceremony.

For the past five years, Horne was the dean of UGA’s nationally ranked College of Education where he led the improvement of faculty productivity in outreach and research before retiring in December.

Horne is widely known for his nearly three decades of research on troubled families and ways to prevent and deal with male bullying and aggressive behavior in schools. He received more than $7 million in grants from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention since 1999 as principal investigator of a program designed to reduce violence and bullying in middle schools called the Bully Busters Project.  He conducted this project for more than a decade, working with schools in several states. His popular 2006 book, Bully Prevention: Creating a Positive School Climate, resulted from that project.

Horne also received more than $1.5 million in federal grants to train teachers how to identify children at risk for academic, emotional and behavioral problems, as well as how to direct them to a healthier development.

Horne was on the faculty and directed training in counseling psychology at Indiana State University from 1971-89 before joining the Georgia faculty, where he headed the counseling psychology department and training program before becoming dean.

Among numerous leadership posts, Horne is past president of the American Psychological Association’s division of group psychology and group psychotherapy and is the current president of the Society of Counseling Psychology. He is a fellow in numerous divisions of the APA and the American Counseling Association.

Despite his retirement, Horne remains active with the Safe and Welcoming Schools program, a project developed to increase school safety in order to create an engaging culture for all students.

Smagorinsky

Three faculty members, an alumna and a graduate student from the University of Georgia College of Education were nationally recognized for their work by the American Educational Research Association (AERA) at its annual meeting in San Francisco April 26-May 1.

Peter Smagorinsky, Distinguished Research Professor of English Education, was selected as the 2013 Outstanding Reviewer for Review of Education Research, the AERA journal, and as an Outstanding Reviewer for 2013 by the editors of the American Educational Research Journal - Teaching, Learning, and Human Development. Smagorinsky was named an AERA Fellow in 2010.

Tobin

Bradshaw

Joseph Tobin, the Elizabeth Garrard Hall Professor in Early Childhood Education, received the 2013 Mentoring Award from the AERA Division G. Tobin was named an AERA Fellow in 2010.

Laine Bradshaw, an assistant professor of educational psychology, has been awarded the 2013 Outstanding Dissertation Award for the Cognition and Assessment Special Interest Group. Her dissertation, which she completed as a UGA doctoral student, was titled “Combining Item Response Theory and Diagnostic Classification Models: A Psychometric Model for Scaling Ability and Diagnosing Misconceptions.”

Jacobson

Van Cleave

Erik Jacobson, a doctoral candidate in mathematics education, won a prestigious $20,000 dissertation grant from the Grants Board of AERA. His dissertation was titled “Professional Experience and the Development of Mathematical Proficiency for Teaching.”

Jessica Van Cleave, who earned a B.A. in English, M.Ed. in English Education and a Ph.D. in language and literacy education from UGA, won the 2013 Outstanding Dissertation Award from the Qualitative Research Special Interest Group. Her dissertation was titled “Scientifically Based Research in Education as a Regime of Truth: An Analysis Using Foucault’s Genealogy and Governmentality.” She is currently an assistant professor of education and director of assessment at Mars Hill College in North Carolina.

Fecho

Aderhold Distinguished Professor
Robert Fecho, a professor and head of the department of language and literacy education, received the college’s highest honor when he was named the Aderhold Distinguished Professor for exemplary contributions in teaching, research and service.

Fecho, an internationally recognized expert on adolescent literacy, founded and co-directs the Red Clay Writing Project with colleague JoBeth Allen. Begun in 2003, Red Clay has created a cadre of over 180 area teachers committed to teaching writing and promoting social justice.

The Aderhold Distinguished Professor holds the title for one academic year and receives discretionary funds for one year, a one-time cash award, or a combination of the two. Only professors with five years or more on the UGA faculty are eligible.

Neuharth-Pritchett

Ira Aaron Award for Teaching Excellence
Stacey Neuharth-Pritchett, a professor in the department of educational psychology, received the Ira E. Aaron Award for Teaching Excellence and Collegiality. Only full-time tenured faculty members are eligible for this award. The awardee receives an instructional grant.

Thompson

Carl Glickman Faculty Fellow
Katherine Thompson, a clinical associate professor in the department of educational theory and practice, received the Carl Glickman Faculty Fellow Award, which recognizes distinguished accomplishments and potential for future contributions of faculty in fulfilling the mission of the university through teaching, research and service. Awardees receive a cash award and a grant for professional development.

Cahnmann-Taylor

Russell H. Yeany, Jr., Research Award
Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor, a professor in the department of language and literacy education, received the Russell H. Yeany, Jr., Research Award, which recognizes a tenure-track faculty member’s outstanding cumulative research. It includes a cash award and a grant for professional development.

Oliver

Faculty Diversity Award
Jenny Penney Oliver, a senior academic professional in the department of counseling and human development services, received the Faculty Diversity Award.  This award recognizes faculty members whose research, teaching and/or service promotes a more diverse local, university and/or global community.  It includes a cash award.

The award has recently been renamed the Jenny Penny Oliver Diversity Award in honor of her commitment and record of accomplishment in creating and facilitating partnerships to bridge diversity in Georgia and beyond.

Harman

D. Keith Osborn Award for Teaching Excellence
Ruth Harman, an assistant professor in the department of language and literacy education, and Stephanie Jones, an associate professor in the department of educational theory and practice, received the Faculty Senate D. Keith Osborn Award for Teaching Excellence. Awardees receive an instructional grant.

Butchart

Distinguished Research Professor
Ronald Butchart, professor and head of the department of educational theory and practice, has been named a UGA Distinguished Research Professor. The title is awarded to faculty who are internationally recognized for their original contributions to knowledge and whose work promises to foster continued creativity in their discipline.

Awardees receive a one-time permanent increase in base salary of $7,000 in addition to a $5,000 account each year for a 5-year period to be used in any appropriate way to support scholarship and a framed certificate. Butchart was recognized at the UGA Research Foundation’s 34th annual Research Awards Banquet on April 18.

Johnson

Thompson

Service-Learning Teaching Excellence Award
Corey Johnson, an associate professor in the department of counseling and human development services, and Katherine Thompson, a clinical associate professor in the department of educational theory and practice, received UGA’s Service-Learning Teaching Excellence Award which recognizes UGA faculty for excellence in developing, implementing, and sustaining academic service-learning opportunities for UGA students in domestic and/or international settings. This award, established in 2011, carries a $2,500 faculty development award.

Brown-Crowell

Outstanding Teaching Award
Cathleen Brown-Crowell, an associate professor in the department of kinesiology, received the UGA Outstanding Teaching Award during the Faculty Recognition Banquet on April 15.

Weatherford

College of Education Outstanding Undergraduate Academic Advisor
Kate Weatherford, an academic advisor II in the department of educational theory and practice, was named the college’s Outstanding Undergraduate Academic Advisor. The awardee receives a cash award.

Cohen

College of Education Outstanding Honors Student
Stephanie Cohen, of the department of communication sciences and special education, received the Outstanding Honors Student in the College of Education Award. The award includes a membership to a professional organization or a journal subscription. Cohen was honored at the Honors Program Graduation Banquet on April 17.

Thomas Baker (R), assistant professor of sport management receives 2013 Young Professional Award

University of Georgia College of Education faculty member Thomas A. Baker has received the 2013 Young Professional Award from the Sport & Recreation Law Association (SRLA).

Baker, an assistant professor in the sport management and policy program in the department of kinesiology, was a commercial litigator before earning his Ph.D. and joining the UGA faculty in 2007.

He conducts research in sport management that focuses on the application of the law to sport. Within that focus, he specializes in how commercial laws influence and affect sport marketing. Additionally, he conducts risk management research focused on both preventing sexual abuse in youth sports and terrorism management at sports facilities.

Baker received doctorate in sport management from the University of Florida where he was a Dr. Charles W. LaPradd Ph.D. Fellow, earned the Clifford A. Boyd Graduate Scholarship Award and the Norma M. Leavitt Scholarship. He earned his J.D. from Loyola University School of Law in New Orleans.

Thompson

Kathy Thompson, a clinical associate professor in the University of Georgia’s College of Education, has received the 2013 Gulf-South Summit Award for Outstanding Practitioner Contributions to Service-Learning in Higher Education.

Service-Learning is a teaching and learning strategy that integrates meaningful community service with instruction and reflection to enrich the learning experience, teach civic responsibility and strengthen communities. Through service-learning, young people—from kindergarteners to college students—use what they learn in the classroom to solve real-life problems.

Over the past eight years, Thompson has incorporated service-learning into the middle-school education program through four courses at the graduate and undergraduate level, including her “Theory and Practice of Service-Learning in P-12 Settings” class. She is also the service-learning coordinator for the COE’s Office of School Engagement and a professor-in-residence for Hilsman Middle School’s professional development school collaboration with Clarke County Schools. In addition, she is the lead faculty member for the UGA Office of Service-Learning’s P-12 initiatives, which include providing professional development to teachers interested in service-learning.

Thompson has served on the Georgia Department of Education’s Learn & Serve Advisory Board, as a grant reviewer for Georgia Learn & Serve, and has led service-learning leadership institutes for Georgia Learn & Serve Title I schools.

Thompson has received more than $70,000 in grant support over the past decade as co-principal investigator for research and outreach relating to service-learning. She also serves as the principal investigator and program officer for the state in the Improving Teacher Quality program, a multi-million dollar initiative funded by the United States Department of Education.

The award was presented at the summit’s annual meeting on Feb. 28 in Louisville, Ky.