The College of Education's department of early childhood, multilingual, and special education attended the Council for Exceptional Children's 2023 Convention March 1-3 in Louisville, Kentucky. Across faculty and graduate students, they presented eight sessions about supporting students with disabilities and their families. Presenters included…

Monica R. Brown, Pricella Morris (both Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education), M. Matute-Chavarra (NMSU), and E. House (NMSU) recently published a book chapter titled, "You Must Learn”: Remixing the Rhythm in the Classroom," in W. Hunter, J. Taylor, & L. Scott (Eds.), The Mixtape Volume 1: Culturally Sustaining…

Steven W. Payne (Early Childhood, Multicultural, and Special Education) published an article, "Cross-Species Replication of Functional Analysis Methodology," in Applied Animal Behaviour Science. This article reviews the literature trends in the burgeoning area of the functional analysis of problem behavior of non-human animals…

Alain Bengochea (Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education) co-authored an article in Review of Education, titled, “A review of the methodological characteristics of vocabulary interventions for emergent bilinguals in preschool to sixth grade.“

Gerilyn Slicker (Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education) received the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Early Education and Child Development (EE/CD) Special Interest Group (SIG) Outstanding Dissertation Award for her dissertation titled, "Provider Participation in the Child Care Subsidy System: A Mixed Methods Study…

Alain Bengochea (Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education) co-authored "Sustainable translanguaging pedagogy in support of the vulnerable language: honoring children’s ways of ‘Showing’ and ‘Telling’ in an early childhood dual language bilingual education program" in the International Journal of Bilingual Education & Bilingualism.…

Pricella Morris (Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education) and Monique Matute-Chavarria (New Mexico State University) co-authored an article titled, "Black mother scholars matter: Navigating anti-Black educational spaces for our Black boys," for a special issue of the Journal of Multicultural Affairs. 

Monica R. Brown (Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education) published "A content analysis of educators' perceptions of anti-Black bias: Implications for Black Students" in the Journal of Multicultural Affairs, 7(2). 

LeAnne Salazar-Montoya (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) and Ramona Esparza will present at the Learning and Justice for all Conference, hosted by Nevada Association of School Administrators (NASA). Invited Lecture: "Coloring Outside the Lines: Diversfying the Educational Pipeline" The session discussed…

Gerilyn Slicker (Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education) published an article, "Meeting quality benchmarks in center-based early care and education: A latent class analysis," in Early Childhood Research Quarterly. This paper identifies five subgroups of child care and early education centers on the basis of the combinations of…

Dos Mujeres, Un Camino-Our Ascension to Careers in Higher Education through PhotoVoice LeAnne Salazar Montoya (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education), University of Nevada Las Vegas Gina Delgado (Teaching and Learning), University of Nevada Las Vegas As two Latina's working in an R1 institution…

Associate professor Alain Bengochea (Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education) published a manuscript in Journal of Early Childhood Literacy titled, “Morning circle as a community of practice: Co-teachers’ transmodality in a dual language bilingual education preschool classroom.” This study explores the nature of…