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Andy Van Fleet, Initial Administrator License ’09, has been named principal of Tigard High School and begins work in July, 2015. -
Karen Pugsley M.Ed. ’03 has been named principal at Newberg’s Chehalem Valley Middle School. -
Students in our doctor of education leadership program are changing schools from the inside out. Meet some of them. -
An alumnus of the Lewis & Clark educational administration program, Don Grotting, has been named Oregon’s 2014 Superintendent of the Year. -
Doctoral student Karen Perez helps Latino families envision the future. -
Verna Bailey M.Ed. ‘79 was the first African American woman to graduate from the University of Mississippi in 1968. She worked in the Beaverton School District for 39 years before retiring as principal of Montclair Elementary. -
Student commencement speaker Kimberly Schiewe, M.Ed. ’13, is motivated by family and a commitment to serving others. -
Effective April 1, 2013, TSPC will no longer mail out paper licenses. -
Oregon’s new statewide schools chief, Rudy Crew, recently visited Lewis & Clark to meet with Latino principals and other education leaders. On the agenda were issues of diversity facing the schools. -
Sweeping changes may be coming to Oregon’s PK-12 education system in the coming years. Helping lead the effort will Heidi Sipe Ed.S. ‘11, who recently joined the Oregon Department of Education as the assistant superintended for the Office of Educational Improvement and Innovation (EII). Sipe completed her administrative credentials at Lewis & Clark.
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Lewis & Clark graduate school faculty, students, and alumni—particularly those associated with the Doctor of Education in Leadership program, including doctoral candidates Perez-DaSilva and Swingen—are playing key roles in envisioning greater equity in Oregon’s schools -
Recent research from professor Mollie Galloway on the extreme prevalence of cheating among privileged high schoolers may point to some of the causes of a recent Harvard cheating scandal. -
David Parker MAT ‘00 has been named the assistant superintendent for Oregon’s Newberg School District. Parker began his education career as a science teacher and has since served as principal for numerous schools. He earned a masters degree and obtained his administrative credentials from Lewis & Clark. -
A New York Times story about the efforts of the Gervis School District to save money highlights the financial challenges facing rural schools and demographic changes in Oregon. Rick Hensel, the district’s superintendent and an alumnus of the continuing administrator license program, helped lead the district to a solution involving the sale of school buildings and green design.
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Jennifer Schiele, a current doctoral student at Lewis & Clark, has been named the new principal of Waluga Junior High School in Lake Oswego, Oregon. She will step into the role after teh current principal retires in 2012.
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In the next few years, graduation requirements in Eastern Oregon will grow more difficult; students will have to pass a series of state and national tests in addition to accruing credits to graduate. Heidi Sipe, superintendent of the Umatilla School District and an adjunct profession of educational administration at Lewis & Clark, comments on the new standards in an article from the East Oregonian.
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Deborah Peterson, Ed.D. ‘11, talks about the challenges facing teachers, students of color, and the politics of education.