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PPEERS Receives Visit From Executive Director of Center for Safer Schools

PPEERS 4 cohort with Karen Fairly, Executive Director of the Center for Safer Schools

As part of PPEERS’s Thursday Seminar and ELC 675: Schools as Centers of Inquiry, North Carolina Department of Public Instruction (NCDPI) Executive Director of Center for Safer Schools (CFSS), Karen W. Fairley, J.D., recently presented to the PPEERS 4 Cohort. PPEERS Leadership Team members and UNC Greensboro School of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership and Cultural Foundations (ELC) members were also in attendance for her presentation.


UNCG’s Levin Scholarship Will Open Doors, Open Minds

Aerial photo of the UNCG School of Education Building

Before her 25-year tenure at UNCG’s School of Education and even prior to earning her PhD in educational psychology, Professor Emerita Dr. Barbara Barry Levin taught elementary school students for 17 years. Her experience in that realm formed the bedrock of her teaching, research, and publishing throughout her distinguished career.


Cracking the Code of Communication

Heather Coleman sits at her desk in the School of Education

Parents, each with a Bluetooth device in their ears, sit in a play-based early intervention therapy session with their autistic child. As they interact through a series of exercises, they receive instruction, feedback and encouragement audibly through their earbuds. The voice talking to them is a community-based early intervention professional trained by a team of coaches led by Heather Coleman, UNC Greensboro Assistant Professor in the Department of Specialized Education Services. The goal: support early intervention therapists, who work with families of autistic children to help them better understand and communicate with each other.


Ramos Tabbed as UNC System Faculty Fellow

Headshot of Dr. Delma Ramos next to the Department of Teacher Education and Higher Education logo, all on a blue background

An associate professor in the UNC Greensboro School of Education’s Department of Teacher Education and Higher Education, Dr. Delma Ramos has been selected to serve as one of three 2024 Faculty Fellows for the University of North Carolina System. 


Information Science Students Receive Real-World Experience in Class Project

Microchip Technologies logo on the left and UNCG ILRS logo on the right, all on a white background

Students in Dr. Izzet Lofca’s Information Organization 3 class in the UNC Greensboro School of Education’s Department of Information, Library, and Research Sciences recently had the opportunity for a hands-on learning experience by working with Microchip Technology to crawl the company’s website, produce a sentiment analysis, and develop FAQ documents. 


Nearly $1 Million Grant Awarded to Add to Trauma-Informed Clinical Supervisor Pipeline

Dr. Jennifer Deaton headshot next to Department of Counseling and Educational Development logo, all on a blue background

Looking to increase the number of trauma-informed clinical supervisors and expand and enhance the training opportunities for clinical mental health counseling students, Dr. Jennifer Deaton of UNC Greensboro’s Department of Counseling and Educational Development was recently awarded a nearly $1 million grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration. 


Global Perspectives for Productive Classrooms

Fulbright Teaching Excellence and Achievement students gather at the UNCG Alumni House

What makes a classroom work? How can you engage students through play and technology? How does culture play a role in learning? This year’s cohort in the Fulbright Teaching Excellence and Achievement (Fulbright TEA) Program came to UNC Greensboro to discover answers to these questions and more over their six-week residency. Fulbright TEA is a U.S. government program supported by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the United States Department of State, and administered by the International Research and Exchanges Board.


Cool Majors: Information Science

UNCG lecturer Lisa Barron stands at the front of the classroom, addressing a room of students

Information science addresses the needs of a world where we can feel overwhelmed by all the data at our fingertips. Dr. Lisa O’Connor, associate professor and chair of library and information science, developed the program within the School of Education to teach students how to organize information and make it accessible to people, communities, companies, and other organizations.