April

April 2021 (43 Articles)

• A Year Later, Their Views Continue to Resonate: During Convocation Week, TC’s 2020 medalists discuss gun violence, bias and growth mindset

• Sustaining the Momentum: After the conference, an ongoing focus on decolonization

• Important Update on Vaccination Policy

  Friday, April 30, 2021

• The Bells and Whistles: The Music — and other effects — at TC’s Convocation 2021

• ‘Believe in Those You Serve’: Stacey Abrams urges Teachers College’s 2021 graduates to heed ‘the deeper calling of obligation’ 

• From Determination to Joy: TC’s 2021 graduates are celebrated for their perseverance, excellence and leadership

• ‘All Research Is Political’

• Reconceiving Mentorship

• Challenging the Status Quo in Supervision

• Revolution from Within: A conference on Decolonizing School Psychology could stand as a watershed moment in the field

• Growth Mindset: In a Convocation Week conversation, psychologist Carol Dweck urges education to permit learning from mistakes

• ‘Expanding Our Global Footprint’

  Portia Williams has been the constant in TC’s international work. Now she’ll take it to the next level

• Beyond the Bloodshed: With TC’s Sonali Rajan, John Woodrow Cox, author of Children Under Fire, discusses gun violence’s ripple effects

• Taking the Long View: The mind sciences can help us face our own biases, says Mahzarin Banaji in a Convocation Week conversation

• Following Her Speech Path: Brooke Hayman discovered her field on the internet in seventh grade. Now she wants to shape its future

• The Long Road Home: Carolyn Swen’s family fled war-torn Liberia. Using her TC degree, she wants to start a school back on the continent

• Telling Himself Yes: Against steep odds, Armando Lizarraga learned to embrace possibility. He wants to pass that lesson on

• No Silver Bullet: Opening Convocation Week, activist Shannon Watts urges a ‘safety net of solutions’ to prevent gun violence

• Voices of Experience: Team OIA

• Round-the-World Roundup: New projects facilitated by the Office of International Affairs

• Preaching Gospel: Darryl Jordan is passionate about honoring a musical form rooted in an oral tradition

• Flame On! From providing tech support to aiding survivors of domestic abuse Sitara Maria wants to light a fire under others

• Important Update on Our Fall 2021 Plans

  Friday, April 23, 2021

• Debunking the Myth of ‘Education as Equalizer’: Esther Cyna’s prize-winning paper on the ‘kleptocracy’ of school financing

• Off and Running: Alumnus John King, former U.S. Education Secretary, is a candidate for governor in Maryland

• TC Is the Source: New policy briefs for English teachers are authored by TC faculty and alumni

• Channeling Spirits that ‘Refuse to Capitulate’: Alumnus Hakim Williams is Creating ‘Decolonial Peace and Justice Education’

• Responding to the Conviction of Derek Chauvin

  Tuesday, April 20, 2021

• Right Topic, Right Time: 5,100 people signed up for TC conference on Decolonizing Psychology

• TC’s Edmund W. Gordon is Named the First Honorary President of the American Educational Research Association

• Summer Campus Access and Vaccine Updates

  Thursday, April 15, 2021

• Seal the Deal: New York State needs to back its pledge to restore overdue funds for New York City schools, argues TC’s Michael Rebell

• Our Side of the River: A Sampler

• Their Side of the River: Working with TC’s Student Press Initiative, students in Benton Harbor, Michigan, do their community proud

• Convocation 2021: Honoring the unique journey of TC’s determined students

• Applying a New Lens to Scholarship: Sachs Lecturer John L. Jackson, Jr., calls for academia to embrace a multi-modal world

• A Ramadan Holiday Message

  Friday, April 9, 2021

• Proof of Concept: A study co-authored by TC’s George Bonanno finds a genetic basis for why most people are resilient to life’s worst events

• Show Him the Money: Michael Rebell is glad the state will begin paying New York City long-owed school funding, but he’s not celebrating yet

• Making Conflict Work: Remember that issues don’t wholly define us, TC’s Peter Coleman says on CBS Sunday Morning

• There’s Plenty of Fish in the Sea – But Not Like This One

  From a Hollingworth Science Camp student, a plaudit-winning plan for cleaning up the world’s oceans

• When Good People Must Act: In Scientific American, Derald Wing Sue makes the case for ‘microinterventions’

• Honoring Long-Overlooked Key Contributors to the Queer Rights Movement: The history behind Transgender Day of Visibility