Dr. Jo Watts Williams School of Education

Marilyn Cochran-Smith, a national expert on teacher education research, comes to Elon University on March 10 for an evening lecture that explores a current school focus on testing, and how educators can use their teaching in the service of social justice.

Children’s book author Jane Belk Moncure is seeding an early childhood collection for the School of Education at Elon University with a substantial donation of her popular books for preschoolers, which will be housed in the Curriculum Resources Center to support a future degree program in early childhood education.

An Alamance County family has donated to Elon a quarter acre next to the northern edge of campus near Rhodes Stadium, where a two-room wooden building first opened before the Civil War still stands as one of North Carolina’s original public school facilities.

Due to local school system closings in Alamance, Guilford, and Orange Counties, Spring Semester 2010 Cooperating Teachers will not be expected to attend the Student Teaching Orientation on Monday, February 1.

A paper co-authored by School of Education associate professor Jean Rattigan-Rohr was published in the current issue of The Journal of Teacher Education.

With their Elon University tutors in tow, 22 children made beelines Wednesday evening for such titles as “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” and “Just Grace and the Snack Attack,” books at a local retailer that would, hopefully, foster a deeper love of the written word while rewarding their progress in a reading program organized by an upper level education course.

Three faculty members in the School of Education have been awarded Re-Assigned Time for 2010-11 to pursue professional activities.