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Lauded Tutoring Program Helps Students Affected by Pandemic

A UNCG tutor helps a student in Guilford County Schools.

UNCG has received national attention for its tutoring program in partnership with Guilford County Schools, an effort to support families, community, and young students most affected by the pandemic. The Biden Administration named Guilford County as one of 15 school systems nationwide using funds from the American Rescue Plan to their best advantage.


A New Look at School Policing: CED Alumna Leading the Change

Dr. Amy Grosso, CED alumna, holds a book

The Round Rock Independent School District, just north of Austin, Texas, serves about 45,000 students and is where Dr. Amy Grosso, a 2008 Ph.D. graduate of UNC Greensboro’s Department of Counseling and Educational Development (CED), has helped to implement what may be the future of the relationship between schools and the police.


Taking the Lead on Trauma Training for Professionals

Dr. Jennifer Deaton and Matt Fisher from the SELF Design Center.

Trauma-based care is a topic that has become ubiquitous within the mental health community in response to the many stressors people endure today – the pandemic and myriad other inflictions – isolation, fear, poverty, health problems, crime, accidents, and abuse.


UNCG Alumna Named Superintendent of Guilford County Schools

Dr. Whitney Oakley, right, speaks with a Guilford County student in a classroom

When searching for its next superintendent, Guilford County Schools (GCS) did not need to look far for its new leader. Dr. Whitney Oakley, who earned her doctoral degree in educational leadership from UNC Greensboro’s School of Education in 2011 and was serving as the district’s interim superintendent, was recently selected to guide North Carolina’s third-largest public school district. 


CED Partners With Rockingham County Schools to Enhance Trauma-Informed Approach

Arionna Wilkerson CED alum

With mental health issues on the rise, it is important for counselors and teachers to enter the school with a trauma-informed lens. Trauma impacts so many individuals, including students, teachers, parents and legal guardians, and other school personnel. A trauma-informed approach helps teachers and school personnel consider how trauma impacts learning and behaviors of the children and adolescents in their classroom.


Fulbright Grant Brings International Fellows to Teach in Local Schools

A group of international teachers at the UNCG School of Education

Each year, UNC Greensboro professors and students journey abroad for scholarship and service. But the International Programs Center (IPC) also pursues opportunities to make our campus – and the surrounding community – a hub for international scholarship and a training ground for international teachers, and scholars.


Karena Zhang (MAT TESOL) Active in Growth of State’s Mandarin Teaching

headshot of Karena Zhang

As the number of students interested in learning Chinese as a heritage language or foreign language continues to grow, the number of Mandarin dual language/immersion (DL/I) programs across the state of North Carolina has also increased. According to the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, there are now 22 Mandarin … Continued


We Can, She Can, Deaf Can!

Deaf Women Can painted rock

Funded by a We Can She Can grant, the Interpreting, Deaf Education, and Advocacy (IDEA) faculty and students sponsored multiple events that allowed K-12 Deaf and Hard of Hearing (DHH) students to learn about famous Deaf women […]