Jennifer Strange

Ana Herrera, second-year M.Ed. candidate, presented her global action project at the 2022 SXSW EDU Conference in Austin, Texas.

Vernon, a 28-year veteran educator with Alamance-Burlington Schools, was named the 2022 North Carolina Middle School Social Studies Teacher of the Year by the North Carolina Council for the Social Studies at their annual meeting on Thursday, March 3.

Lane, assistant professor in the Dr. Jo Watts Williams School of Education, disseminates three projects centered around inclusion.

Justin Seifts '09 is a Spanish teacher at East Chapel Hill High School and was awarded the Reckford Teaching Prize by the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Public School Foundation.

Lisa Buchanan, associate professor in the Dr. Jo Watts Williams School of Education, has co-authored a research study in The Social Studies aimed at understanding elementary teacher candidates' knowledge of religious freedom and the Establishment Clause in public school settings.

Lucy Callicott '22 has been named a Provost Scholar for her research in examining elementary educators' awareness and perceptions of trauma-informed teaching approaches.

Dani Lane, assistant professor in the Dr. Jo Watts Williams School of Education, has published a book that looks at the instructional collaboration between special education and general education in international educational contexts and the role this plays in enabling inclusive education.

Allison Bryan and Lisa Buchanan, both in the Dr. Jo Watts Williams School of Education, partnered with Alamance Burlington School System to offer a book club for educators that reflects on the role of identify in their work with students through literature.

Lisa Buchanan, associate professor of education in the Dr. Jo Watts Williams School of Education, presented two research papers and two collaborative sessions at the Annual Meeting of College and University Faculty Assembly in November.

Lisa Buchanan, associate professor of education in the Dr. Jo Watts Williams School of Education, collaborated with UNC Chapel Hill's Carolina K-12 Programming to develop a 5-part hybrid professional development series for 28 classroom teachers in North Carolina.