The award recognizes Dr. Calabrese Barton and Dr. Tan for their work to reframe research on STEM teaching and teacher education and its implications for practice in both classrooms and communities.
Dr. Wayne Journell (TEHE) was recently interviewed by UNCG about his recent publication and perspective on how the pandemic has affected the way we should teach. See below an insert from that interview and check out the full write-up, available from this UNCG News Article. Once we get back to a post-pandemic “new … Continued
Sadandre’ (Dre’) Jackson (’22) and Destiny Talley (’22), current 2nd-year graduate students in the Student Affairs Administration in Higher Education (SAAHE) program, who have been Selected to present at this year’s Diversity & Inclusion Conference at the University of South Florida’s. Their presentation, entitled “Leave The Door Open: Analyzing leadership … Continued
Event Recap Thank you to all that were able to attend this event. The 2021-22 UNCG Ashby Dialogue Series on Belonging at UNCG celebrated their work with a keynote address on Eradicating Barriers to Belonging: From “Fitting in” to Social Justice. In her address, Dr. Elan Hope, a nationally recognized scholar, speaker and … Continued
Congratulations to Dr. Wayne Journell (TEHE) who recently published an edited volume for Teachers College Press titled Post-Pandemic Social Studies, “How COVID-19 Has Changed the World and How We Teach”. “The authors in this volume—leading voices in social studies education—make the case that COVID-19 has exposed deficiencies in much of … Continued
Dr. Edna Tan (TEHE) was elected as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. For a young person, it’s hard to imagine growing up to be a scientist or an engineer if you don’t see scientists or engineers that look like you. Dr. Edna Tan is … Continued
Candace Heckstall graduated from our TESOL program in 2010 and was one of the participants who went with Dr. Ye He to China as part of the Fulbright-Hays group projects abroad program. She’s now working as a Newcomer specialist at Denver Public Schools and has created some great resources for … Continued
Beverly Faircloth and Laura Gonzalez, both faculty in the UNC Greensboro Department of Teacher Education and Higher Education, have co-edited a book with Katherine Ramos, a colleague at Duke University. Resisting Barriers to Belonging was released last month by Rowan and Littlefield Publishers. More information can be found in this … Continued
Dr. Laura Gonzalez in the Department of Teacher Education and Higher Education has a passion for helping Latinx youth make it to college. This led her to develop the So Much Potential: Tools for College Planning initiative. Her goal was to create supports for school counselors and other school personnel … Continued
Dr. Melody Zoch, along with Drs. Jamie Schissel and Ye He in the Teacher Education and Higher Education Department (TEHE), recently received a National Professional Development grant through the US Department of Education Office of English Language Acquisition (OELA). OELA provides national leadership to help ensure that English Learners and … Continued