Kudos: Love appointed to Economic Security Task Force; Fiorella awarded National Academy of Education/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship; Dotts receives Outstanding Book Award

Love appointed to Economic Security Task Force

Bettina Love, an associate professor in the Department of Educational Theory and Practice, was recently appointed to serve on the Old Fourth Ward Economic Security Task Force.

“I was very honored to be appointed to the Task Force, and I was even more honored to be appointed because they knew who I am as a person,” said Love. “They know I’m an abolitionist. They know I’m about looking at structures and trying to unroot them. I was happy to be appointed to the committee because that showed me they wanted to be bold and to do things differently.”

As a member of the Task Force, Love will use her expertise in K-12 education to lend an educational perspective to the committee’s framework and solutions. The goal of the Task Force is to advance dialogue and tangible solutions toward guaranteed income and the Earned Income Tax Credit, the largest antipoverty program in the United States, while examining the future of workers.

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Fiorella awarded National Academy of Education/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship

Logan Fiorella, an assistant professor in the Department of Educational Psychology, received a 2020 National Academy of Education/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship to support his research on effective learning strategies. The fellowship begins on Sept. 1 and lasts two years.

Founded in 1965, the National Academy of Education recognizes outstanding scholars who address pressing educational issues, administer professional development, and seek to prepare the next generation of scholars. Fiorella’s research explores the cognitive science of student learning and its implications for instruction.

“I’m very excited to receive this fellowship,” Fiorella said. “It funds a project that will explore how to improve the effectiveness of learning by teaching. In particular, we are interested in how creating drawings influences the quality of students’ verbal explanations when teaching their peers.”

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Dotts receives Outstanding Book Award by the Society of Professors of Education

Brian Dotts, a clinical professor in the Department of Educational Theory and Practice, received the 2020 Outstanding Book Award from the Society of Professors of Education.

Published by Cambridge University Press, his book, “Educational Foundations: Philosophical and Historical Perspectives,” offers a comprehensive overview of American education history and a variety of classical, Enlightenment, and contemporary educational philosophers.

“While ‘Educational Foundations’ includes a history of American education, it also looks at numerous policies, constitutional law cases, events, and political, religious, and social conflicts for students to consider while learning their subject matter,” he said.