Commencement 2013 GSE Student Achiever: Andrea Gervais

As part of Inside Fordham's Special Commencement Edition, graduating students from each of the undergraduate and graduate schools at Fordham are profiled in "Faces in the Class of 2013." This year, the Graduate School of Education chose Andrea Gervais, who received her M.S.T. in Adolescence Biology (Grades 7-12) with an additional certification in Special Education, at this past weekend's Commencement ceremony.

Gervais originally aimed for a career in health and medicine, majoring in genetics at the University of Minnesota, and coming to New York to work as a public health researcher, studying the impact of prenatal care and pregnancy education on the lives of pregnant teens in Brooklyn and the Bronx.  However, after seeing the difference that the right information and support made for vulnerable young women, she was turned on to something new—in her words, “working with young people and being involved in education, and someone’s well-being.” She decided to become a teacher, an ambition she pursed through GSE over the past several years.

Click here to read Gervais's profile, "GSE Grad Launches New Career as Science Educator." 

Congratulations, Class of 2013!

GSE is proud to congratulate the Graduate School of Education Class of 2013, who will receive their degrees at Fordham's 168th Commencement this Saturday, May 18th.  

Best of luck to all of our graduates, families and friends!

GSE Honors Catholic Leaders Who Guided Schools Through Sandy

At its 19th annual celebration of New York City Catholic school leaders, the Graduate School of Education honored ten principals who, in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, established their schools as places of recovery and healing for their communities.

The annual Catholic School Executive Leadership Dinner on May 14 brought together school leaders from throughout the Archdiocese of New York, the Diocese of Brooklyn, and the Diocese of Rockville Centre to recognize all those who worked to help restore local communities.

"We honor the leaders of those schools who, despite obstacles, helped to re establish their neighborhoods for families who were devastated by the loss of homes, possessions, and in some cases, as in the Diocese of Brooklyn, the loss of life," said Gerald Cattaro, Ed.D., executive director of GSE's Center for Catholic School Leadership and Faith-Based Education.

Click here to read the full article in Inside Fordham. 

GSE Hosts Fifth Annual Betty Finn Psychoeducational Assessment Conference

The Fifth Annual Betty Finn Psychoeducational Assessment Conference, hosted by GSE on May 10th, drew dozens of area psychologists and educational professionals for a daylong discourse on understanding the complexities of writing disabilities.

Virginia Wise Berninger, Ph.D., a licensed psychologist and professor of educational psychology at the University of Washington, offered the keynote address, “Assessment-Instruction Links within Interdisciplinary Frameworks" and was presented with the Alan S. Kaufman Excellence in Assessment award that morning.

The annual conference is named for the late Elizabeth “Betty” Ann Finn, Ph.D., former clinical associate professor in GSE.

Click here to read more on the Fordham Newsblog.

Division of Psychological and Educational Services Student and Faculty Updates: Spring 2013

GSE is pleased to celebrate the recent achievements of the students and faculty in our Division of Psychological and Educational Services!  We look forward to sharing many more exciting successes and accomplishments with you in Fall 2013.

Alumni Award:

Counseling Psychology alum Danielle Magaldi-Dopman, Ph.D. received a distinguished new faculty award (nominated by Lehman College) through the International Conference of Teaching and Learning.  As part of that award, she had the opportunity to share her research and meet Dr. Philip Zimbardo of the Stanford Prison Experiment.  Dr. Magaldi-Dopman extends special thanks to her former mentors at Fordham University, Dr. Jennie Park-Taylor and Dr. Joe Ponterotto

Student Awards:

Counseling Psychology doctoral student Aziza Platt was selected as a recipient of The Roothbert Fund, Inc. Scholarship and received an additional designation as a Bloom-Feshbach Fellow in honor of psychiatrist Jonathan Bloom-Feshback. She was also selected as a recipient of the 2013 J.W. Saxe Memorial Fund. 

Student and Faculty Publication:

Counseling Psychology faculty member Dr. Joseph Ponterotto and doctoral student Jason Reynolds co-authored a biographical profile of Bobby Fischer in Oxford University Press's prestigious "American National Biography On-Line."  Click here to read the full biography. 

Student and Faculty Presentations:

Last month, various PES faculty members and students presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) held in San Francisco, CA:  

• H.B. Matos-Elefonte, Dr. John Houtz, Dr. Thanos Patelis, and E. Selby presented a poster entitled Problem-Solving Styles, Learning Behaviors and Attitudes, and Mathematics Performance. 
• Dr. Akane Zusho presented a roundtable session entitled Achievement Goals in Context.
• Drs. Rhonda Bondie, Akane Zusho, Marshall George and S. Turco presented a poster entitled Making Differentiated Instruction Sustainable Through Online Self-Regulated Learning and Structured Choice. 

Dr. Mitchell Rabinowitz will give the following presentations, including one with co-presenter and Educational Psychology alum Dr. Lindsay Blau Portnoy, at the upcoming Association for Psychological Science and European Association for Research and Learning conferences:

• Drs. Mitchell Rabinowitz and Lindsay Blau Portnoy will present a poster entitled What's in a Domain: Understanding How Students Approach Questioning in History and Science at the 25th Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science to be held in Washington, DC in May 2013.
• Drs. Mitchell Rabinowitz and William B. Whitten will present a poster entitled Correspondence of Cognitive Events and Cognitive Processes in Guided Cognition Tasks at the 25th Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science held in Washington, DC in May 2013.
• Drs. Mitchell Rabinowitz and William B. Whitten will present a poster entitled Research to application: Using Frames to Create Guided Cognition Homework for Unsupervised Learning at the Annual Convention of the European Association for Research and Learning in Munich, Germany in August 2013.