Dr. Jo Watts Williams School of Education

The Alamance-Burlington School System named Tyronna McKoy Hooker, a 2009 graduate of Elon's master of education program, its 2010 Teacher of the Year at a banquet on Wednesday, Sept. 8. Five other Elon alums, all chosen as their respective school's teacher of the year, were also considered for the system-wide recognition.

Elon University associate professor Bird Stasz has received a Fulbright Senior Specialist Award and will travel to Tajikistan this fall to work with colleagues there in the Ministry of Education to help modernize the nation’s teacher education programs.

Lindsay Travis Bedford '05, who received the Autism Society of North Carolina's Teacher of the Year Award in April, was recently profiled by the Chapel Hill News.

The Elon Teaching Fellows program will host an informational Prospective Teacher Event for high school juniors and seniors interested in teacher education.

Elon University leaders conferred degrees Saturday morning to students in the Master of Education program during a Commencement ceremony in Whitley Auditorium attended by faculty, staff, family and friends of the graduate students.

Darris Means, assistant director of the Elon Academy, was one of five keynote speakers at the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi Convention on August 6 in Kansas City, Mo.

Michele Woodson, a 2001 graduate of Elon's master of education program, has been named principal of Pleasant Grove Elementary School in Burlington, N.C.

Elon's Department of Mathematics is hosting the third summer institute titled TEAMS (Teachers Empowering all Students in Mathematics and Science), Aug. 2-6. About 60 elementary and middle school teachers from Alamance-Burlington, Vance and Orange counties are on campus for the institute.

Amy Stringer, assistant professor in the Department of Health and Human Performance, recently participated in The World Forum on Physical Education and School Sport on July 10 in Havana, Cuba.

Children’s book author Jane Belk Moncure made a visit to campus Tuesday as part of the Summer Learning & Enrichment Academy. Moncure, who earlier this year seeded an early childhood collection for the School of Education with a substantial donation of her books, spent time reading to children enrolled in the enrichment program for students with special classroom needs.