Dr. Jo Watts Williams School of Education

Elon Teacher Education students co-lead a week-long STEM enrichment program at a local elementary school during the school system's spring break.

The state teaching fellows program is specifically designed to attract high-quality teachers to low-performing schools by offering an accelerated loan forgiveness schedules for Fellows who agree to teach in a low-performing school in North Carolina.

Duckworth, a University of Pennsylvania professor, co-founder of the Character Lab and 2013 MacArthur Fellow headlined Elon's annual Spring Convocation on April 5. She's the best-selling author of "Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance."

Elon Academy Kappa Scholar Jenny Te Vazquez has made history by becoming the first of the program's students to be awarded the prestigious Morehead-Cain Scholarship at UNC-Chapel Hill.

Research from three School of Education faculty, four current students and one alum was presented at the Society for Information Technology in Teacher Education Annual Conference in Washington, D.C.

Jeffrey Carpenter, associate professor of education and director of the Teaching Fellows program, co-authored the article in the peer-reviewed journal Teaching and Teacher Education.

The School of Education will be accepting scholarship applications for the 2018-19 academic year through April 19. All undergraduate and graduate students are encouraged to apply. Merit-based and need-based scholarships are available.

School of Education alumna Amanda Gardner Jones ’98 reflects on her experience as a teacher candidate while sitting on the other side of the interview table at the Elon Teacher Fair held on March 15, 2018.

On Monday, May 14, the School of Education will recognize faculty for their excellence in teaching, service, and scholarship at the annual school awards banquet beginning at 5 p.m.

On April 26 at 5 p.m., the School of Education will hold a discussion and authentic cultural food tied to the characters' stories in this year's book selection, "Refugee," by Alan Gratz, in Mooney 111.