Jennifer Strange

M.Ed. alumna and faculty mentor recently published an article that advances equity in mathematics education through a learning unit.

In a forthcoming book chapter, Vehabovic considers the ways in which K-12 educators and students might use children’s literature in classrooms and out-of-school spaces and places to engage with sociophobic situations.

Lisa Buchanan, associate professor in the Dr. Jo Watts Williams School of Education, recently published an article in the peer-reviewed Social Studies Research and Practice journal that outlines theoretical and pedagogical approaches to investigating racial violence with learners in grades 3-12 and K-12 teacher candidates.

Lynda Butler-Storsved is the lead author on an article recently published in The Physical Educator. Studies suggest there is a high rate of dysfunctional movement among ninth-grade adolescents and an intentionally designed functional movement warm-up is an efficient method of addressing movement quality in physical education.

Candidates in the first graduating cohort of the revised M.Ed. program presented their capstone projects on May 6.

Joan Barnatt, Lisa Buchanan, Cherrel Miller Dyce and Marna Winter were recognized on May 16 for faculty excellence in teaching, scholarship, service and leadership at the annual school awards banquet.

The Dr. Jo Watts Williams School of Education hosted its annual Celebration of Student Excellence on May 2 to recognize the Class of 2023 and the students who demonstrate exceptional contributions in and out of the classroom.

Waters, Master of Education graduate candidate, was awarded the Phillips-Perry Black Excellence Award for Academic Achievement.

Dyce, associate professor and executive director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Dr. Jo Watts Williams School of Education, served as a panel moderator and co-facilitated a workshop at the 2023 Guilford Dialogues Conference in March 2023.

This spring, more than 20 Teaching Fellows and one education major departed for New Zealand in February to restart this unique program.