Jennifer Strange

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.

Ferrell was sworn in as superintendent of Richmond County Schools, North Carolina on Feb. 13.

Buchanan co-presented an interdisciplinary session that explores teaching racial violence in grades 4-12 using primary and secondary sources about the Wilmington Race Massacre and grounded in Muhammad’s historically responsive literacy and King’s Black historical consciousness framework at the SOURCES Conference on Jan. 21.

Kayla Mead '23, elementary education major and Teaching Fellow, and Katie Baker, assistant professor of education, presented at the International Academic Forum’s International Conference on Education in Honolulu, Hawaii.

In their session at the Library of Congress Sources Conference, Leveraging Historical Sources and Sites in Place based Education, Meghan Malone '24 and Sam Martin '24 bridged their course-embedded research to a second experiential learning opportunity.