With a new $1,463,636
National Science Foundation
grant,
Amanda Jansen
and her colleague James Middleton of Arizona State University will examine teaching practices and student motivation to learn in the ninth- and tenth-grade mathematics classroom.
Learn more
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Stephanie K. Kerschbaum,
Laura Eisenman
, and James M. Jones published an edited collection,
Negotiating Disability: Disclosure and Higher Education
, organized around themes of identity, intersectionality, representation, and policy.
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Ralph P. Ferretti
and
James Hiebert
have published an edited collection,
Teachers, Teaching, and Reform: Perspectives on Efforts to Improve Educational Outcomes
, which offers articles about systemic efforts to improve outcomes for students.
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Roberta Golinkoff
delivered a
congressional briefing
on language development, organized by House members Rosa DiLauro and Chuck Fleishmann, and the organization Zero to Three. She spoke about the "30 million word gap," which describes findings that children from low income families hear far fewer words addressed to them than children from higher income families. She emphasized that the quality of the exchange matters as much as the quantity of words.
Learn about her work
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Jenifer Hummer
, a PhD in Education student, has been awarded one of ten highly competitive
Community for Advancing Discovery in Research in Education
Fellowships, funded by the
National Science Foundation
.
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Kadisha Mack
, a school psychology graduate student and UD alumna, has received the Wayne Gressett Memorial Minority Scholarship Award from the
National Association of School Psychologists
’ Education Research Trust.
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Sydney Morales
, a school psychology grad student, has received the Pearson Minority Scholarship Award from the
National Association of School Psychologists
’ Education Research Trust. Mack and Morales received two of the five awards.
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Twelve UD education alumni
, all of whom were nominated for
Delaware's Teacher of the Year Award
, shared their experiences with the community at UD's appreciation event. Administered by the Delaware Department of Education, the award honors a teacher who exemplifies fine teaching in the state and represents the positive contributions of all teachers statewide.
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Aubrey Bennett
expected to pursue her first teaching position in Delaware or the surrounding region. But, she surprised her family and friends by accepting a position as a first-grade teacher in Unalaska City School District in
Unalaska, Alaska
. She now works with a diverse population of students and families, who collectively speak over 18 different languages.
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We're looking forward to seeing you in New York! Enjoy hors d’oeuvres, cocktails, and conversation with the UD College of Education and Human Development.
April 15
7-9 pm
Bowery Room
Sheraton NY Times Square Hotel
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