Wester Recipient of NBCC Innovations in Counseling Award
Dr. Kelly Wester, chair of the Department of Counseling and Educational Development at UNC Greensboro, is using her passion for counseling to fuel her research endeavors.
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SOE Dean Penfield Named to UNC System’s Executive Leadership Institute
The University of North Carolina System has named a group of 33 participants to the fifth cohort of the System’s Executive Leadership Institute.
School of Education Accepting Nominations for Next Class of Inspirational Educators
Following a successful return of its Inspirational Educators program this year, the UNC Greensboro School of Education has opened nominations for the Class of 2025.
UNCG Encourages STEM Education in Girls Who Game
Although the UNC Greensboro campus is typically quiet between sessions in mid-May, the Esports Arena and Learning Lab in Moran Commons was bustling like a typical Friday night in September. But on this evening, the gamers didn’t fit the typical collegiate profile. Instead, middle and high school girls from across Guilford County… Continue reading…
UNCG Encourages STEM Education in Girls Who Game
Innovate UNCG and the Institute for Partnerships in Education pair up to offer a Girls Who Game club at Guilford County Schools.
Real-World Research Allows Leck, Huff to Represent UNCG at Graduate Education Day
Research that is having a direct impact on North Carolinians led to UNC Greensboro students Sarah Leck and Stacy Huff representing the university, and the School of Education’s Department of Information, Library, and Research Sciences, at the annual Graduate Education Day hosted by the North Carolina Council of Graduate Schools.
Sellers Named UNCG Student Teacher of the Year
Melanie Sellers, enrolled in the Birth-Kindergarten licensure program, was selected as the 2024 UNCG Student Teacher of the Year. Sellers completed her student teaching at WNCSource Children’s Center in Hendersonville, N.C.
SES Works to Build Community Among Doctoral Students, Faculty
The 2023-2024 Belonging Project Grants, led by Dr. Heather Coleman and alongside three Ph.D. students in the Department of Specialized Education Services (SES) – Kyle Dunlap, Rahaf Alsaidalani, and Faris Alshahrani – aim to engage a sense of belonging among the department’s doctoral students at UNC Greensboro. This initiative seeks to hold more events to meet the needs of doctoral students and faculty members in the SES department to build an interactive community.
Project IGNITE Leader Chosen for English Language Specialist Project
An accomplished TESOL educator who boasts over 25 years of experience around the world, Analia Wells was selected by the U.S. Department of State to participate in a four-week English Language Specialist project that focuses on Teacher Training for SEL in Albania.
McCaskill, Ho Selected as 2024 Smiley Award Recipients
The Smiley Award, which supports global educational opportunities for current School of Education (SOE) undergraduate and graduate students, has been presented to undergraduate student Mary Beth McCaskill (Department of Teacher Education and Higher Education) and graduate student Youn Jung Ho (Department of Counseling and Educational Development). These students will represent the SOE as Global Education Ambassadors through international or local engagement.