Chen An, Ph.D. 鈥�15 (Educational Research, Measurement, and Evaluation), is senior director of Research, Accountability & Grants at Orange County Public Schools in Orlando, Florida.
Michelle Sterk Barrett, M.A. 鈥�96听(Higher Education), director of the Donelan Office of Community-Based Learning at the College of the Holy Cross, and Associate Professor Heather Rowan-Kenyon participated with other Boston College alumni and faculty in a panel discussion on the crisis facing the Catholic Church. The event took place in September at Merrimack College.听Read more in BC News 禄
Courtney Castle, Ph.D. 鈥�18 (Measurement, Evaluation, Statistics, and Assessment), is the senior assessment designer at the Woodrow Wilson Academy of Teaching and Learning in Cambridge, Mass., where she creates and oversees assessment systems that track teacher candidates鈥� development of competency.
Ph.D. student Matias Placencio Castro (Measurement, Evaluation, Statistics, and Assessment) was an Education Pioneers Fellow in summer 2018. He was placed in the Office of Data and Accountability at the Boston Public Schools working on the Opportunity Index, a composite measure designed and developed to identify and measure schools that serve the highest concentrations of students in need.
Wenjun Chi, M.Ed. 鈥�07 (Educational Research, Measurement, and Evaluation), is director for Institutional Effectiveness at Saint Joseph鈥檚 University in Philadelphia, responsible for campus-wide planning, resource reallocation, accreditation, and student learning. She is enrolled in the Intelligence & Analytics M.S. Program at Saint Joseph鈥檚 Haub School of Business.
Ramon De Jesus, M.A. 鈥�12 (Higher Education) is director of Diversity Development at the Cambridge Public Schools.
Ramon De Jesus, M.A. 鈥�12 (Higher Education) and听former Donovan Scholars听Alison Mann, M.Ed. 鈥�09 (Curriculum and Instruction); Donkor Minors, M.Ed. 鈥�10 (Secondary Education) and M.Ed. 鈥�15 (Moderate Special Needs); Marcus Penny, M.Ed. 鈥�13 (Curriculum and Instruction); Sam Texeira, M.Ed. 鈥�14 (Curriculum and Instruction); and Catherine Wong, director of听Urban Outreach Initiatives, were featured on a听WCVB-TV CityLine听feature on diversity in Boston Public Schools. The show highlighted the program鈥檚 work to recruit, retain, and support educators of color.听 and view videos 禄
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Julia DeVoy,听Ph.D. 鈥�06听(Applied Development and Educational Psychology), was named associate dean of undergraduate students in the Lynch School. DeVoy was selected as the Global Opportunities and Threats: Oxford University awardee for research addressing complex issues of fresh water scarcity using stochastic network modeling technology in 2018.
Kevin Dua, M.Ed. 鈥�12 (Curriculum and Instruction, Donovan Scholar), was named the 2018 Massachusetts Teachers Association / Red Sox Most Valuable Educator and was honored in a pre-game ceremony in September听at Fenway Park. Dua, who was the 2017 Massachusetts History Teacher of the Year, teaches history and social studies at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School and is a commissioner for the Wakefield, Mass., Human Rights Commission.听
Ph.D. student Gulsah Gurkan (Measurement, Evaluation, Statistics, and Assessment) was an Education Pioneers Summer Fellow. She worked with the Showcase Schools team at the New York City Department of Education, where she built a data model that allows customized reports to be shared with all school superintendents and borough field support centers.
Kevin Holbrook 鈥�15 (Secondary Education), a Ph.D. candidate in Measurement, Evaluation, Statistics, and Assessment, and Christine Power, director of Practicum Partnerships and Professional Development, had a paper accepted for the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education Annual Meeting in Louisville, Ky, in February 2019. The title of the presentation will be 鈥淩eaffirming and elevating the soul of education preparation: A reflection on innovation, accreditation, and institutional identity.鈥�
Alison Mann, M.Ed. 鈥�09 (Curriculum and Instruction, Donovan Scholar), is a kindergarten and first grade teacher at Gardner Pilot Academy in Boston.
Liz McCartney 鈥�94听(Elementary Education), co-founder and chief operating officer of the St. Bernard Project, was selected to be one of the 鈥�300 for 300鈥� people and moments to mark New Orleans鈥檚听tricentennial. Her non-profit鈥攖he St. Bernard Project, now called SBP鈥攈as gone national, helping to restore family homes in Louisiana as well as responding to the recent hurricanes in the Carolinas and Florida, turning McCartney into an emblem of the power of volunteerism.听Read more about and McCartney in the .
Former Donovan Scholar Donkor Minors, M.Ed. 鈥�10 (Secondary Education) and M.Ed. 鈥�15 (Moderate Special Needs), is the Boston Public Schools鈥� coordinator of Targeted Programs听in the Office of Opportunity & Achievement Gaps.
Michael T. O鈥機onnor, Ph.D. 鈥�17 (Curriculum and Instruction), co-authored Collaborative Professionalism: When Teaching Together Means Learning for All (Corwin, 2018) with retired Professor Andy Hargreaves, where they highlighted how collaboration can be a powerful educational tool and the next step in a worldwide effort to improve education.听
Elie Ohana, M.S. 鈥�17 (Applied Statistics and Psychometrics), co-authored an article published in MIT Sloan Management Review on the importance of psychometrics in the fields of business and marketing.
Marcus Penny, M.Ed. 鈥�13 (Curriculum and Instruction, Donovan Scholar),听a middle school science teacher at Boston鈥檚 Gardner Pilot Academy, is on an educational leave of absence during which he is traveling, writing grants, and exploring computational learning and access within underserved communities in the US and abroad.
Todd Reeves, Ph.D. 鈥�14 (Educational Research, Measurement, and Evaluation), co-authored two articles in CBE鈥擫ife Sciences Education with Professor Larry Ludlow: 鈥淧athways over Time: Functional Genomics Research in an Introductory Laboratory Course鈥� and 鈥淒oes Context Matter? Convergent and Divergent Findings in the Cross-Institutional Evaluation of Graduate Teaching Assistant Professional Development Programs,鈥� both in spring 2018.
Ph.D. student Katherine Reynolds (Measurement, Evaluation, Statistics, and Assessment) spent two months at the Centre for Assessment Research, Policy and Practice in Education at Dublin (Ireland) City University. She worked on a literature review that sought to synthesize existing research addressing various forms of 鈥渟hort assessments,鈥� and worked to replicate initial validity analyses from the US of the ETS HEIghten鈩� critical thinking test with an Irish sample.
Mandy Savitz-Romer, Ph.D. 鈥�04 (Higher Education), Associate Dean Ana M. Martinez Alem谩n, and Associate Professor Heather Rowan-Kenyon co-authored Technology and Engagement: Making Technology Work for First Generation College Students听(Rutgers University Press, 2018), in which they discussed how digital tools help ensure the academic success of students who are first in their families to go to college.听听and听
Roland Stark, M.Ed. 鈥�02 (Educational Research, Measurement, and Evaluation), presented 鈥淎pplying Behavioral Economics to the Business of Higher Education鈥� at the Analytics Without Borders conference at Bentley University and has been conducting an evaluation of technologies to improve school bus safety in the Southwest.
Sam Texeira, M.Ed. 鈥�14 (Curriculum and Instruction, Donovan Scholar), teaches 10th to 12th grade history at the Henderson K鈥�12 Inclusion School in Boston.
Doctoral student听Kaitlyn Tuthill听(Measurement, Evaluation, Statistics, and Assessment) was named director of Assessment and Accreditation at Boston College鈥檚 Lynch School.听
Lynch School undergraduates joined their Boston College counterparts from other schools gaining valuable experience abroad this summer, courtesy of the myriad summer study opportunities available through the听Office of International Programs. Read more in听BC News听禄
More than 1,000 runners raised more than $180,000 in the听8th Annual BC Race to Educate听to benefit Saint Columbkille Partnership School, the Lynch School鈥檚 designated laboratory school. Read more in听BC News 禄
Members of the Boston College Police Department enthusiastically greeted students from the听Campus School at Boston College听upon their arrival for a new school year, delivering a 鈥淗igh Five Friday鈥� start for the 42 enrollees. View video on BC News; learn more about Campus School 禄