AACTE announced that Cheryl Holcomb-McCoy, Ph.D., will become the new president and CEO, beginning Jan. 6, 2025. Holcomb-McCoy joins AACTE after serving as a distinguished professor and dean of the School of Education at American University in Washington, D.C., for over eight years.
For Dr. Edna Tan, the Hooks Distinguished Professor of STEM Education in the Department of Teacher Education and Higher Education at UNC Greensboro, reaching children and families of historically minoritized communities to encourage participation in STEM fields has become part of her everyday life.
TUTORING! What do you think of when you hear the word tutoring? The term is common and many of us have some experience with tutoring, whether it be personal experiences in school, outside of school in informal spaces, or with our own children. When you think of those experiences, you… Continue reading…
September 27 – 28, 2024 marked the Annual Color of Education Summit, hosted by the Dudley Flood Center for Educational Equity and Opportunity. The summit brought together educators, policymakers, researchers, students, parents, community members, and other key stakeholders focused on achieving racial equity and eliminating racial disparities in education. Building… Continue reading…
Dr. Rebecca Mathews, a clinical assistant professor in the Department of Counseling and Educational Development, spent 18 years as a counselor, supervisor, consultant, and educator in the community and hospitals. She then decided that she wanted to help train the next generation of counselors and joined the faculty of the nation’s third-rated program at UNCG in 2020.
Dr. Tiffanie Lewis-Durham, an assistant professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Cultural Foundations, came to UNC Greensboro in 2018 after working for a non-profit in New York City.
In February 2024, alumnus Mohammed Alshuayl ’18 received a call from the Saudi Arabian Ministry of Education. The Ministry of Education nominated him to join a group of experts tasked with updating the Kingdom’s special education regulations.
In today’s rapidly evolving educational landscape, the urgency to address mental health needs in underserved communities has never been more critical. The Extending the Trauma-Informed Professional Pipeline (ETIPP) project is not just a program; it’s a transformative initiative that’s changing lives, one trained counselor at a time. Dr. Jennifer Deaton (Principle Investigator) and Dr. L. DiAnne Borders, faculty within the Department of Counseling and Educational Development developed ETIPP to tackle the pressing challenges of mental health care in high-need areas and fostering a new generation of trauma-informed professionals.
In an era where the mental well-being of our students has never been more critical, the SCALE UP initiative is making transformative strides to address these pressing needs.
Holly Kolarova, an ESL and Special Needs Teacher at Clear Creek Elementary, has received a Fulbright Teacher Exchange award for the 2024-2025 cycle from the U.S. Department of State and the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. Kolarova participated in UNC Greensboro’s Project IGNITE as a PLC faciliator from the spring of 2023 through the summer of 2024.
