Dr. Kim Gangwish

Biography

Dr. Kim Gangwish is the IDEAS Room and LiveText Coordinator for the College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences. She teaches courses for Teacher Education in the Instructional Technology Leadership program.

Teaching Interests

School LibrariesCultural CompetenceEducational Technology

Research Interests

School LibrariesCultural CompetenceEducational Technology

Education

EDD, University of Nebraska Omaha, Omaha, NE, Educational Leadership, 2017

MA, University of Nebraska Omaha, Omaha, NE, Communications, 1996

BA, Kearney State College, Kearney, NE, Education, English, Speech and Theater, 1987

Selected Publications

Gangwish, Kimberly. 2018. Doing More With Less, School Library Connection, 24.

Gangwish, Kimberly. 2018. Finding Balance This Summer, School Library Connection.

Gangwish, Kimberly. 2015. Deaf ≠ Silenced: Serving the Needs of Deaf/Hard-of-Hearing Students in School Libraries, School Library Connection, 1, 2, 49-51.

Gangwish, Kimberly. 2016. Cultural Diversity and Library Collections.

Gangwish, Kimberly, Churchill, Sara, Schnabel, Stephanie. 2014. Banding Together: A Look Back at Collaboration Between Public and School Libraries, Nebraska Libraries, 2, 2, 11-12.

Department, College, and University

CACREP Accreditation, Other, I met with a member of the CACREP accreditation team to discuss the role of LiveText in the counseling department., 09/15/2015 - present

Formal Admissions Key Assessment committee, Committee Member, Work on developing the new assessment for formal admissions into the graduate program., 01/01/2016 - 01/31/2016

Professional

AASL CAEP Coordinating Committee, Committee Member, To work with AASL and the ALA Office of Accreditation (OA) staff to coordinate the responsibilities associated with ALA’s participation in the CAEP accreditation process., 07/01/2017 - present

American Association of School Libraries, Reviewer, Grant Proposal, Member of the AASL Beyond Words Grant Jury, 05/01/2016 - 05/31/2016

Partners And Donors committee, NLA/NSLA Conference, Committee Chair, Worked on gaining partners and donors for the annual state conference., 01/01/2016 - 01/31/2016

School Library Journal Leadership Summit, Other, Served as ESSA translator for the School Library Journal Leadership Summit. The position involved taking discussion results and wording them into a format consistent with ESSA language and goals., 10/15/2016 - present

Nebraska School Librarians Association, Officer, Other Officer, 08/01/2010 - 08/31/2010

Community

Nebraska Talking Books, Other, 08/01/2015 - present