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Karla and Sahana at Meetup Night.

Be a Friend... a Community Friend!

Our Community Friends Program matches international students with local resident volunteers to help them feel welcome and at home during their time at Lewis & Clark College.
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Kate Fisher Hedeen

MAT Alumna, Kate Fisher Hedeen, named 2021 Regional Teacher of the Year by Clackamas ESD

Fisher Hedeen is among 15 other 2021 regional teachers who were nominated by Oregon’s 19 Education Service Districts throughout the state to receive this regional honor.

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Alumna Christy Hale, MAT ’80, illustrates Ansel Adam’s life

You may be familiar with Adams’s iconic black-and-white nature photographs. But do you know about the artist who created these images?
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Alumna Vicky Allen (Zander), MEd ’73, publishes American Sign Language as a Bridge to English

American Sign Language as a Bridge to English is a guide for hearing teachers of hearing students to use ASL as a ‘bridge’ to learning English as a foreign language.
Judge Jane Levy JD '04, MA '11 with her mother Susan Conway

Judge Jane Levy JD ’04 MA ’11 follows her mother to Family Court

Judge Jane Levy JD ’04 MA ’11 follows her mother to Family Court
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Alumnus Matt Utterback named Oregon Superintendent of the Year

Matt Utterback, superintendent of the North Clackamas School District, is being hailed as the best in the state.
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Sharon Chinn

Sharon Chinn, Director of Educational Career, Licensing, and Accreditation Services, recognized by OWHE

Sharon Chinn is the director of Educational Career, Licensing, and Accreditation Services and the Commencement Coordinator at the Graduate School of Education and Counseling, Lewis & Clark College. With 25-years in the field, Sharon brings to her work decades of experience networking, advocating, and supporting students, faculty, and staff as they grow in their professions.
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Jennie Knapp

Alumna Jennie Knapp named one of two new assistant principals for Lake Oswego

Lake Oswego School District announced Wednesday that it has filled the open assistant principal slots at its two junior high schools.
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Alumna Melissa Wilk Named 2016 Fulbright Scholar

Wilk’s nine-month Assistantship will take her to La Rioja, Spain, an autonomous community and province, where she will be studying the process of second language acquisition.
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Alumna Holly Thompson Named School Counselor of the Year

Holly Thompson, who received her Master’s of Education at Lewis & Clark Graduate School, and is currently the counselor at Rowe Middle School.
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Alumna named School Psychologist of the Year

Kate Grieve Ed.S. ’09 has been named New Hampshire’s School Psychologist of the Year in recognition of outstanding service to the profession.
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Alumnus chosen for National Geographic expedition to Galapagos Islands

Jesse Lowes M.A.T. ’11 will travel with 34 other teachers to the Galapagos Islands in September 2015.
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Teaching Climate Change

Alumnus and adjunct professor Tim Swinehart takes on climate change in a new book for teachers.

Amanda Isberg M.A.T. ’10 shares tips for international teaching

In a blog about her passion for international teaching, Amanda Isberg MAT ’10 helps others navigate the profession.
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Grades & Grapes

Andrew Beckham BA ’98, MAT ’01 balances teaching with winemaking.
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Global Achiever

Sara McGowan M.A.T. ’01 combines her love of language and learning in the Spanish/English community school she founded in Costa Rica.
Mollie Dickson M.A.T. '09

Getting to the Heart of Nutrition

Mollie Dickson M.A.T. ’09 remembers relaxing at the kitchen table in her childhood home, talking with her father as he cooked tasty and nutritious meals for their family.
Graduate School of Education and Psychology

Turning 30

The graduate school celebrates 30 years of preparing teachers and counselors for lives of service.

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PorchLight Custom Counseling gathers new ideas through Lewis & Clark's Incubator+Launch program. Photo by Lacey Jacoby '16.

Alumni break down barriers to counseling with innovative approach

After discussing counseling services that were missing in the Portland area, the founders of PorchLight Custom Counseling—Justin Cox M.A. ’12, Llew Richards M.A. ’13, Mica Richards, Holly Roland M.A. ’12, and Siddarth Venkatachalam M.A. ’12 —had an idea to offer their many counseling specialties at affordable rates, around the clock.

Alumna named principal of Oregon middle school

Karen Pugsley M.Ed. ’03 has been named principal at Newberg’s Chehalem Valley Middle School.
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Alumni Profile: Ian Alistair Lake B.A. ’13, M.A.T. ’14

Get to know Ian Alistair Lake B.A. ’13, M.A.T. ’14, a recent graduate of Lewis & Clark’s master of arts in teaching program.

Iowa’s new head of deaf and blind schools is Lewis & Clark alum

The Iowa Board of Regents has named alumnus Steve Gettel M.Ed. ’81 as head of the state’s deaf and blind schools.
Japanese Peruvians en route to U.S. Internment Camps. April 2, 1942. U.S. Army Signal Corps Photo. National Archive.

Internment of Japanese Latin Americans subject of alumna’s teaching

In a recent commentary for the Huffington Post, Moé Yonamine M.A.T. ’10 revealed an untold story behind Japanese internment during World War II.

Alumnus uses blogging to explore war on drugs, mass incarceration

Michael Durfee M.A.T. ’07 is a historian and contributing editor to Points: The Blog of the Alcohol and Drugs History Society.

30 Years of Service to Others

In 2014, the Graduate School celebrates its 30-year history of working in the community
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Don Grotting

Oregon’s 2014 Superintendent of the Year

Growing up in southwest Oregon, Don Grotting Ed. Ad. ’00 and his four siblings lived in a house with no indoor plumbing until he was a sophomore at Coquille High School.

Alumnus named superintendent of Scarsdale, New York schools

Alumnus Thomas Hagerman has been named superintendent of schools in Scarsdale, New York.

Alumnus critiques new science standards

Retired educator Ford Morishita (’78, M.A.T. ’81) comments on the new Oregon State Board of Education’s Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS).

Alumna debuts new photography collection highlighting role of grandmothers

Linnea Osterberg, M.A. ’02, is an award-winning Portland-area photographer known for her portraits of children and families. The graduate of the addiction counseling program debuted “Grandma” in spring 2014, an exhibit that honors the bond between grandmothers and their grandchildren. Her collection, displayed at some Portland businesses and scheduled for display in the fall at Smith College in Massachusetts, includes photographs of more than 50 subjects.

Rebecca Taplin is the 2014 student commencement speaker

Student commencement speaker Rebecca Taplin, M.A ’14, looks ahead to a career serving clients and working for system change in the mental health care landscape.
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