Recent News
April 2022Dr. Allison Roda, Associate Professor, contributed to an article with The 74 titled "Time to End the Zero-Sum Mindset and Adopt Inclusive, Gifted-for-All Programs in Public Schools" with co-authors Yvette Jackson and Halley Potter. |
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April 2022Dr. Allison Roda and Kfir Mordechay explore "Gentrifying Neighborhoods Open Opportunities for School Integration" featured in School Administrator Magazine. |
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March 2022Dr. Allison Roda contributed to a study for the Arts Education Policy Review titled "The Lost Art: Teachers' Perceptions of the Connections Between the Arts and Social-Emotional Learning" with Ed.D. Alumna, Kelley Cordeiro and Ed.D. Student ,Thomas Rizzuto. Social-emotional learning (SEL) has become one of the fastest growing movements in education. However, while many teachers acknowledge the value of SEL, research shows that comparatively few educators feel prepared to incorporate it into their classrooms, and that current school culture emphasizes academics over SEL. This qualitative study examined the perceptions and lived experiences of K-16 visual art, theater, and music teachers in the arts classroom. We describe three art constructs aligned with SEL that emerged from our interview data with educators: identity, interactions, and independence. Our findings provide illustrative examples of teaching practices that support these connections and illuminate a need to expand the role of SEL in educational policy through the use of the arts. |
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December 2021Congratulations to Dr. Allison Roda for being a speaker on the Brilliant NYC Citywide Expert Panel discussing the science behind accelerated learning and project-based instruction. View the panel discussion here: |
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November 2021Congratulations to Dr. Andrea Honigsfeld, Dr. Maria G. Dove, Dr. Audrey Cohan and Dr. Carrie McDermott Goldman on the publication of their recent books,
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October 2021 |
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"Even in districts that use universal screening and multiple measures, such as test scores and teacher recommendations, programs still often aren't representative of the larger school system," said Allison Roda, an assistant professor at Molloy College who has studied New York City's gifted programs. She doesn't believe students need to be served separately. Roda said other attempts to expand programs or prepare students for admission to selective programs haven't worked. Just look at the city's coveted specialized high schools, she said. Despite expanding the number of specialized high schools and offering test prep, and other opportunities to disadvantaged students to secure seats, the schools enroll few Black and Latino students. Roda said segregation makes it a challenge to bring students up to speed in schools with concentrated levels of poverty. New York City is home to one of the most segregated school systems in the country. She pointed to the uneven resources she has seen in the gifted programs she has studied in the city. "The G&T classes had the fancy printers and the nice rugs. And whatever the teachers needed, the parents donated," she said. "It seems more equitable to have mixed-ability classes... in terms of resources and parent involvement and what parents can donate." She said teachers need more credit for implementing differentiation strategies, arguing that even gifted classrooms are full of students at different performance levels. There are promising practices, she said, like cooperative learning groups, where students at different academic levels work together. "A lot of times this gets framed as you're taking something away from me and my child, and to expand it, to provide these opportunities to more students, that feels like losing something. But that's just a zero sum ideology. I don't think that's real," she said. "Your child will still have an advantage in the system, and your child will still have access to opportunities - but other children will too now. And it won't be so exclusive, and there won't be such a small number of opportunities." |
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Ed.D. graduate, Robert Windorf recently presented at the biennial ANGEL Early Career Researchers' Conference. "This special conference was hosted by Oulu University (Finland) and supported by its European higher education Conference link |
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November 2019 |
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Ed.D. Student, Carrie Sollin presented on her dissertation topic, and shared how gatekeeper training programs can be implemented in the K-12 environment at Long Island Student Support Team (LISST) Conference that was held on November 5. |
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October 2019 |
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April 2019 |
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Dr. Andrea Honigsfeld was nominated by St. John's University's School of Education Alumni Nominating Committee as an honoree at the Eleventh Annual Leaders in Education Dinner [LEAD]. |
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February 2019 |
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November 2018 |
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Ed.D. Student, Elizabeth Stein was part of an expert panel that presented at the 2018 Education and Law Conference, SHIFTING PERSPECTIVES: Reshaping Challenges Into Educational Opportunities Hosted by: Long Island Advocacy ![]() Race in Education: It's not black or white Expert Panel Sergio Argueta, STRONG Youth, Inc, Abja Midha, The Education Trust, Elizabeth Stein, Smithtown SD, Glen Stewart, PPS, Freeport SD |
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October 2018 |
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Cohort 2 Ed.D. Student Karen Buechner and Nicolette James presented at the LIASCD Conference, October 5, 2018, "Reimagining Writing Instruction in the 21st Century Classroom: Dialogue that Promotes Equity Literacy for All Learners. |
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Congratulations to Dr. Allison Roda whose article "School Choice and the Politics of Parenthood: Exploring Parent Mobilization as a Catalyst for the Common Good" was just published by the Peabody Journal of Education. The research for this article was funded by a Molloy College faculty research grant. Also published online in the Educational Policy Journal: "Opportunity hoarding in school choice contexts: The role of policy design in promoting middle-class parents' exclusionary behaviors" with Carolyn Sattin-Bajaj, coauthor. |
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August 2018 |
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Ed.D. Student, Dorothy Drexel, Assistant Principal - Plainview-Old Bethpage announced as a winner of the CTAUN Excellence in Education Award for her project - Become A Voice To Change The World, Not An Echo |
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Book Review by Ed.D. faculty member Dr. Audrey Cohan and Ed.D. student, Elizabeth Stein Leadership Matters in the Education of Students with Special Needs in the 21st Century Author(s) (PDF): Festus E. Obiakor, Tachelle Banks, & Anthony F. Rotatori (Eds.) |
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June 2018 |
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Dr. Allison Roda quoted in City Limits her research surrounds the assessment of gifted and talented students. |
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February 2018
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![]() Congratulations to Dr. Andrea Honigsfeld and Dr.Maria Dove, winners of the Textbook Excellence Award from the Textbook and Academic Authors Association. |
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December 2017 |
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Cohort One Ed.D. student, Dorothy Drexel, presented at a Leadership Conference in Cape Town, South Africa "Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?" Day 4 in Cape Town |
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November 2017 |
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Kelley Cordeiro and Mariola Krol, both Ed.D. Cohort 2 students, presented at the NYSTESOL Conference, November 3-4, 2017; "The Peaceful Classroom" and "Grade Placement for English Language Learners" |
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October 2017 |
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Ed.D. faculty member, Dr. Allison Roda's research was cited in an article on Chalkbeat.org: Do 'good' parents prep their kids for gifted exams? The answer varies by race, study finds. Click here for article. |
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Ed.D. Director, Dr. Andrea Honigsfeld presented at the 2017 Annual WIDA Conference, Oct. 16-19, 2017 Co-assessment as, for, and of Learning: The Power of Collaboration. |
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