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Dr. Sara Kangas

Kangas Receives Prestigious Grant from the Spencer Foundation

Jan. 30, 2025

Sara Kangas, program director of COE's Special Education and ESL programs, has received a grant from the Spencer Foundation through its prestigious Large Grants program. Kangas and Jamie Schissel, an associate professor of Teacher Education and Higher Education at UNC Greensboro, are the principal investigators for the project titled, "Individualized Language Plans for Multilingual Learners with Disabilities: Investigating Implementation and Stakeholder Perspectives." 
 

The qualitative case study examines the development and implementation of Individualized Language Plans (ILPs) for multilingual learners with disabilities. ILPs are becoming increasingly popular in K-12 schools. These plans resemble IEPs used in special education, but their focus is on supporting the English language proficiency of multilingual learners. Kangas and Schissel will examine how teams of teachers develop and implement ILPs, and how stakeholders, including students and their parents, experience and perceive these plans.

    Raquel Sosa

    Sosa’s Research Leverages Identity to Inform Mental Health Strategies

    Raquel Sosa knew she wanted to pursue a career in psychology before she ever set foot on a college campus. “Looking at the differences between clinical and counseling psych, counseling psychology definitely attracted me a lot more because of the emphasis on social justice,” she said. Sosa was interested in working with Latinx and immigrant populations which made the COE’s Counseling Psychology doctoral program a good fit for her interests.

    Empty Elementary School Classroom

    Anglum's Work Cited in White House Report

    The work of Educational Leadership faculty member J. Cameron Anglum was cited in the White House's annual Economic Report of the President, which was released last week. His paper (cited on page 259) examines the federal school funding response to the Great Recession to draw lessons for federal pandemic relief funding in public schools nationwide.