Getting kids reading takes more than a little doing—it requires making the library somewhere students want to be.
Convening with the American Psychological Association
“Psychology is everywhere.” was the noted slogan of the 2022 American Psychological Association’s Convention website, and in August of this year, an assorted selection of offerings by the APA were…
Health Psychology Fosters Wellness for the Body and Mind
Health Psychology is a way of looking at wellness in a whole new way that involves fulfilling the needs of both the mind and body.
Cool Course: Helping Counselors Treat Clients’ Cultural Needs in “Global Mental Health”
“Education needs to have different stories,” Mariameé Gonzalez says. And she’s working to do exactly that, to bring those different stories to the Antioch Seattle classroom and to expand the…
Big Idea: Destigmatizing Sex
We’re getting ready to launch Season Four of the Seed Field Podcast and we’re putting together two mini-episodes that revisit interviews from Season Three and pull out the themes that consistently run through them. When discussing sexuality, sex therapy, and sex education there is the only thing we can count on- variation. When we allow individuals to know that variation is the only “normative” part of sexuality, then we get to live with less shame and more joy.
Jazmine Casey, MA in Teaching
I was a preschool teacher for seven years and then I decided to take myself to the next level and get into elementary school. I chose Antioch because I really…
Promoting Literacy Education as a Key for Social Justice
“Students come to Antioch to be justice educators,” says Heather Cheney, a core faculty member and chair of the MA in Teaching program at Antioch Seattle. “I mean, it’s part…
Khavin Debbs ’18
Khavin Debbs ’18 (Seattle, MA in Education with Urban Environmental Education) was appointed to Executive Director position of Tiny Trees, a nationally recognized innovator of outdoor preschool education. “Tiny Trees…
Cool Courses: “Sacred Botany: Re-Seeing the Plant Kingdom”
KATYA APEKINA You’ve heard of the World Wide Web, but have you heard of the Wood Wide Web? It’s nature’s social network. An underground system of roots, fungi, and bacteria…
Kristin Leong ’10
Kristin Leong ’10 (Seattle, MA Education) has been named Executive Director for The Bureau of Fearless Ideas (BFI). BFI is an award-winning writing and tutoring organization serving diverse youth in…
Antioch Discusses How the Fear of Deportation Effects the Mental Health of Latinx Populations
Antioch’s Latinx Mental Health & Social Justice Institute hosted a webinar on “Fear of Deportation: Triggering Anxiety & Depression in the Latinx Population” on June 30th, 2022. Guest speaker Olga…
PsyD Chair Jude Bergkamp Joins APA Competencies Task Force to Address Historical Injustices
Jude Bergkamp, the Chair of the PsyD in Clinical Psychology at Antioch Seattle, was recently chosen for the prestigious Competencies Task Force of the American Psychological Association. Bergkamp sees this…