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A chapter by Kathryn Dawson and Stephanie W. Cawthon, Accessible for all: Drama-based pedagogy in an inclusive primary school, publishes today in the book The Routledge Companion to Drama in Education.Inclusive teaching practices are only as effective as their capacity to provide opportunities for all students to learn. Drama-based pedagogy,…

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A 2022-2023 Instructor Learning Community Grant has been awarded to Dr. Stephanie Cawthon and doctoral students Ana Guadalupe Vielma, Taylor Payne, and Henry Enrique Aguayo for their team project, Graduate Student Resources for Instructional Pedagogy. Designed to build instructor capacity for supporting an inclusive campus climate, ILC grants are awarded by…

Throughout my research, teaching, and thought leadership, I think about accessibility from a systems perspective. Where are the barriers to equity and access in education and employment? And how can we dismantle them? My professional experiences have long been shaped by educational assessment as an anchor. Educational assessment was the entry…

Dr. Stephanie Cawthon has been announced as a featured co-presenter at the Council of State Administrators of Vocational Rehabilitation’s Deaf Professionals Network Summit on April 27-28, along with DPN Standing Committee leadership Duane Mayes, Bedarius Bell, David Hankinson, and Kathy West-Evans. The newly launched CSAVR Deaf Professionals Network (DPN) is a…

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Dr. Stephanie Cawthon will present her paper, "Myth Busting With Data: Longitudinal Models of Reading and Mathematics Achievement in Deaf Students," at the 2022 American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting in San Diego on April 21-26 — the world's largest gathering of education researchers and a showcase for groundbreaking,…

Dr. Stephanie Cawthon is scheduled to present at the ITLC Lilly Online Conference, which in 2022 is dedicated to enhancing and sharing scholarly approaches to online, onsite, and hybrid teaching and learning. Dr. Stephanie Cawthon announces her 2022 ITLC Lilly Online Conference presentations. (English translation: Amanda Katz) The online conference…

Dr. Stephanie Cawthon has long served as the Director of Research and Evaluation for Drama for Schools, an arts integration professional development program housed in the Department of Theater and Dance at The University of Texas at Austin. Her collaboration with Associate Professor Katie Dawson has taken them both across…

This is part of a series of HDCLS area chair updates by Dr. Stephanie Cawthon, written for Human Development, Culture and Learning Sciences (HDCLS) students, faculty, and staff in the Department of Educational Psychology at the College of Education at The University of Texas at Austin.Author’s Note: At the time…