Dr. Jo Watts Williams School of Education

A DVD created by Elon faculty members Brooke Barnett, Alexa Darby, Mary Knight-McKenna and Ken Calhoun has been accepted for distribution by First Light Video.

It can be tough for new teachers when their expectations of life in the classroom collide with reality. What if there were additional ways for education majors to better learn from first year teachers about the job? Kirby Sypek ’10 approaches that question with work that is the third in a series of E-net profiles to showcase Elon undergraduate research during CELEBRATE! 2010.

Lindsay Travis Bedford ‘05 will be named the Autism Society of North Carolina’s "Teacher of the Year" on April 24, 2010, during the organization’s annual conference.

Elon University alumnus Preston Williams Jr. ’09 was named one of four recipients of this year’s Diane Kent-Parker First Year Teacher Award in the Wake County Public School System, which serves more than 139,000 students in North Carolina’s second most populous county.

Mark Enfield, an assistant professor in the School of Education, presented findings from research supported by the Hultquist Award.

Marilyn Cochran-Smith, a national expert on teaching and educational research, shared wisdom gleaned from three decades in the field with students, faculty and staff in Elon's School of Education March 10-12.

Mark Enfield, assistant professor of education, coordinated a session at the 2010 National Science Teachers Association Research Dissemination Conference in Philadelphia. Melony Allen, adjunct instructor in the School of Education, co-presented in the session.

Anthropology students Clementine Wall and Sierra Raimondi and education student Erin Deans presented their research at the Appalachia Studies Assoication conference in Dahlonega, Ga., March 19-20.

Joan Barnatt's presentation, Inquiry on Inquiry: Practitioners' Research and Students' Learning, was part of a special session on teacher reflectivity in theory and research.

Bird Stasz, Sierra Ramondi (senior anthropology) and Erin Deans (senior Teaching Fellow elementary education) presented the results of their research, “A good idea but: Vanishing rural schools in Appalachia.” The research, funded through summer research funds and sponsored by PERCS, is an ethnographic study of two rural schools in Macon County N.C., one bound for consolidation and one not bound.